Bill Albertini, Assistant Professor

woalber@bgnet.bgsu.edu
http://personal.bgsu.edu/~woalber

424 East Hall
419-372-8668

Degrees and Institutions:

PhD English, University of Virginia
MA English, University of Virginia
BA English, University of Notre Dame

Courses Taught:

"Bad Bodies": Illness, Disability, and Bodily Difference (undergraduate and graduate)

Reading Queer:  Gay and Lesbian Literature and Criticism

Survey of American Literature 1865-1945

Queer Theory and Practice (graduate)

Making a Useful Past: Memory, Identity, History (undergraduate and graduate)

Area: 20th-Century American Literatures; American Literary and Cultural Studies; Queer and Gender theories; Disability studies.

Research Interests: Contagion, illness, and disability studies; queer theory, gender studies, and sexuality; cultural studies.

Recent Publications:

"Contagion and the Necessary Accident."  Forthcoming in the journal Discourse.

"How to Be Ill and Unhappy: Difficult Collaborations and Illness." Peter L. Twohig and Robert J. Perrins, eds., Social Studies of Health, Illness and Disease.  Netherlands: Rodopi, forthcoming.

"David Wojnarowciz's Avant-Garde Remaking of the World." Peter Twohig and Rob Fisher, eds., eBook proceedings from Sixth Annual Making Sense of: Health, Illness, and Disease conference. Oxford, UK: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2008.  ISBN: 978-1-904710-60-8

"Contagion Nation." VERB 5.1 (2007) http://verb.lib.lehigh.edu/index.php/verb/issue/view/13

"So Wrong It's Right: The Guilty Pleasures of Reality Television." Iris 47 (Fall 2003).

Co-editor of Is There Life After Identity Politics? Special issue of New Literary History 31.4 (Autumn 2000).

"Catching Discourse: Contagion, Narrative, and U.S. Cultures at the Century's Turn"

"So Wrong It's Right: The Guilty Pleasures of Reality Television." Iris 47 (Fall 2003)

Co-editor of Is There Life After Identity Politics? Special issue of New Literary History 31.4 (Autumn 2000)

Work In Progress:

"The Geographies of Contagion" (article)

"Shortbus and the Permeable Nation" (for MLA 2008)

"Mourning Privately in Public: Mainstreamed AIDS Literature" (article)