Bill Albertini

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Bill Albertini

  • Position: Associate Professor - Director, Literature Program - Undergraduate Coordinator
  • Phone: 419-372-8668
  • Email: woalber@bgsu.edu
  • Address: 340 East Hall

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Degrees and Institutions
  • Ph.D. English, University of Virginia, 2004
  • M.A. English, University of Virginia, 1999
  • B.A. English, University of Notre Dame, 1995

Area: 20th century and contemporary American literatures; 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.

Courses Taught

Undergraduate Courses

  • ENG 2010: Introduction to Literature
  • ENG 2740: Survey of American Literature to 1865
  • ENG 2750: Survey of American Literature since 1865
  • ENG 3110: Gay and Lesbian Literature and Criticism
  • ENG 4340: Sex and Other Difficult Topics
  • ENG 4340: Literary Secrets 1945-1960
  • ENG 4800: Literature, the Body, and Disability

Graduate Courses

  • ENG/ACS 6750: Undercurrents of the 1950s
  • ENG 6090: The Teaching of Literature
  • ENG/ACS 6750: Sexuality and Its Discontents
  • ENG/ACS 6750: Disability and Bodily Difference
  • ENG 6800: Disability in Literature
  • ENG 7070: Advanced Queer Theory
  • ENG 2010: Introduction to Literature
Works in Progress
  • “AIDS Memoir, Suffering, and the History of Queer Liberalism.”
  • “Shortbus and the Permeable Nation.” Article in progress.
Select Publications

“Epidemic Stories.” Rev. of Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative, by Priscilla Wald. Contemporary Literature 50.2 (Summer 2009): 424-435.
 
 “The Geographies of Contagion.” Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge 19 (Summer 2009). <http://www.rhizomes.net/issue19/albertini.html>.

“Contagion and the Necessary Accident.” Discourse 30.3 (Fall 2008): 443-467.
 
“Contagion Nation.” VERB 5.1 (2007).
 
Co-author, “Introduction.” Is There Life After Identity Politics? Special issue of New Literary History 31.4 (Autumn 2000).

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