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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)
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