Bill Albertini Assistant Professor, English Ph.D., English, University of Virginia M.A., English & Modern Studies, University of Virginia B.A., English & Philosophy, University of Notre Dame Office: 424 East Hall Phone: 419-372-8668 E-mail: woalber Departmental Faculty Page Personal Website

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).