Laura Brunner
Laura Brunner joins the University of Maryland from the Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in English Literature from NYU, with a minor in Economic Theory.
After her undergraduate degree, she worked for two years in the recruitment and human resources field in New York. Her primary areas of interest include gender, class, work, and organization. Her Master's Qualifying thesis, entitled Work Boundaries and Bodies: Sexual Harassment in the New Economy, is an applied study of sexual harassment across industries and workers representative of the Australian economy.
Laura is also the author of "How Big is Big enough?: Big, Steve and Phallic Masculinity in Sex and the City" to be published in March, 2009, in Feminist Media Studies. The article examines the ways in which the popular HBO comedy engages with and revises typical representations of masculinity in television. Laura has just returned home to Baltimore after seven years to live with her family.
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