Research
Interests:
Contemporary
Critical Theories/21st Century Culture Studies (especially
feminist theory, theories of the avant garde, theories
of modernism and postmodernism, transcultural studies,
postcommunist cultural studies); 20th and 21st Century
Writers (especially women's writing and experimental forms
of writing); Narrative Forms (including modern and contemporary
fiction, narrative theory, history of the novel and cultural
narratives)
Recent
and Reoccurring Courses:
Theory
and Methods of American Culture Studies; Postmodern Textualities;
The History of the Avant Garde; The Politics and Poetics
of Postmodern American Fiction ; Transdisciplinary Seminar:
Cultural and Critical Spaces; Contemporary Critical Theory;
Women’s Experimental Writing; Contemporary Feminist
Theories; Modern British Poetry; Modern British Fiction;
Mapping the Postmodern
Modern American Novel; Foucault and Feminism; The Female
Body in the Postmodern Condition; The Rise of the Novel
1724-1850
Selected
Publications:
Co-Editor
and Founder of Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging
Knowledge (Rhizomes is a peer-reviewed online
bi-annual journal of cultural studies with an international
scholarly advisory board). Online at rhizomes.net
Co-Editor
of Genders, 1994-98 (international biannual anthology
of feminist cultural studies)
Transcultural
Experiments: Russian and American Models of Creative Communication,
co- authored with Mikhail Epstein (St. Martin's Press,
1999)
The
Gay Nineties: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Formations
in Queer Studies, co-editor with Carol Siegel and
Thomas Foster (New York University Press, 1997)
Sex
Positives?: The Cultural Politics of Dissident Sexualities,
co-editor with Carol Siegel and Thomas Foster (New York
University Press, 1997)
On
Your Left: Historical Materialism in the 90s, co-editor
with Carol Siegel and Thomas Foster (New York University
Press, 1996)
Bodies
of Writing, Bodies in Performance, co-editor with
Carol Siegel and Thomas Foster, (New York University Press,
1996)
Re-Entering
the Sign: Articulating New Russian Culture, co-editor
with Anesa Miller-Pogacar (University of Michigan Press,
1995)
Postcommunism
and the Body Politic, Editor, (New York University
Press, 1995)
Curved
Thought and Textual Wandering: Gertrude Stein's Postmodernism (University of Michigan Press, 1992)
Awards
and Honors:
1996-97
Senior Fulbright Lecturer, Charles University, Prague,
Czech Republic
1995
Ohio Humanities Council, for "Out of the Mouths of
Babes: The Politics and Power of Women's Humor" ($2000)
1995
John Domrose Foundation, Toledo, Ohio for "Out of
the Mouths of Babes: The Politics and Power of Women's
Humor," special programming for Women's History Month
($2000)
1993
John Domrose Foundation, Toledo, Ohio for "Recovering
and Celebrating Lesbian History and Culture," special
programming for Women's History Month ($1250)
1992
Ohio Arts and Humanities Joint Program Grant for "Russian
Necrorealism: Shock Therapy for a New Culture," $7,500
grant co-authored with Jacqueline Nathan curator Dorothy
Uber Bryan Gallery
1991
Needmor Foundation, Boulder Colorado for Re-entering
the Sign ($7,000)
1991
Stranahan Foundation for Re-entering the Sign ($1,000)
1991
Soros Foundation (Soviet Division) Research Exchange Grant
($3,500)
1989
Research Challenge Grant, Ohio Board of Regents for Re-entering
the Sign ($5000)
1990
Scholar in Residence, Kentucky Foundation for Women, for
"Local Struggles/Partial
Explanations: Producing Feminist Theory in the Classroom"
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