Research
Interests:
Discourses
surrounding disease in the contemporary United States;
queer theory, sexuality, and gender studies; the body
and disability; cultural studies; narrative and narratology.
Selection
of Recent & Reoccurring Courses:
American
Literature to the Present (ENG 268); Queer Theory and
Practice; Bad Bodies in Contemporary American Culture;
Gay and Lesbian Literature and Theory/ Reading Queer (ENG
311); Making a Useful Past: History, Memory, Identity
Selected
Publications:
"The
Geographies of Horror," forthcoming.
"Solving
Illness and the Prophylactic Body," forthcoming.
"So
Wrong It's Right: The Guilty Pleasures of Reality Television." Iris 47 (Fall/Winter 2003).
Co-author,
"Introduction." Is There Life After Identity
Politics?. Special issue of New Literary History 31.4 (Autumn 2000).
Co-editor, Is There Life After Identity Politics? Special
issue of New Literary History 31.4 (Autumn 2000). |