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
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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).