December 2004
CURRICULUM VITAE
Katie King
Women's Studies Department and Program
University of Maryland, College Park MD 20742
office tel. 301.405.7294; fax 301.314.9190
email: katking@umd.edu
home page: http://www.womensstudies.umd.edu/wmstfac/kking/
EDUCATION
University of California, Santa Cruz, 1987 Ph.D., Program in the History of Consciousness
* Dissertation: "Canons Without Innocence: Academic Practices and Feminist Practices Making the Poem in the Work of Emily Dickinson and Audre Lorde" (director: Donna Haraway)
University of Chicago, 1975-1978 doctoral program, Committee on Social Thought
(worked in Classical and Medieval Studies)
University of California, Santa Cruz, 1975 B.A., Literature and Anthropology
EMPLOYMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Associate Professor, 1993--, Women's Studies, University of Maryland, College Park; Assistant Professor, 1987-1993, Instructor, 1986-1987
Mellon Fellow, 1988-90, Women's Studies, Cornell University
Visiting Lecturer, Spring, 1986, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz; Associate in Women's Studies, Summer, 1984 and 1985, UCSC; Visiting Lecturer, Winter, 1982, Stevenson College, UCSC
Lecturer, Spring, 1984, Cabrillo Community College, Aptos, California
Tutor for faculty and graduate students in UNIX and Bell Labs Text Editing and Formatting Systems, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1979-1986
OTHER EMPLOYMENT
Teacher English as a Foreign Language, American University Association, Bangkok, Thailand, 1974
PUBLICATIONS
Book Authored:
Theory in its Feminist Travels: Conversations in U.S. Women's Movements . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994
Chapters in Books:
"Women in the Web: teaching technology narratives." Chapter in The Politics of Information: the electronic mediation of social change . Edited by Marc Bousquet, Bruce Simon, and Katherine Wills. 2004. Available online at: http://www.altx.com/ebooks/infopol.html
"Globalization, TV Technologies, and the Re-production of Sexual Identities: Researching and Teaching Layers of Locals and Globals in Highlander and Xena ." Chapter in Encompassing Gender: Integrating International Studies and Women's Studies . Edited by Mary M. Lay, Janice Monk, and Deborah S. Rosenfelt. The Feminist Press, 2002.
"'There are No Lesbians Here': Feminisms, Lesbianisms and Global Gay Formations." Chapter in Queer Globalization/Local Homosexualities: Citizenship, Sexualities and the Afterlife of Colonialism . Edited by Analdo Cruz-Malave and Martin Manalansen IV. SUNY, 2002.
"Global Gay Formations and Local Homosexualities." Chapter in Companion to Postcolonial Studies . Edited by Sangeeta Ray. Blackwell, 2000.
"Local and Global: AIDS Activism and Feminist Theory." Chapter in Provoking Agents: Gender and Agency in Theory and Practice . Edited by Judith Kegan Gardiner. University of Illinois Press, 1995
"Producing Sex, Theory and Culture: Gay/Straight ReMappings in Contemporary Feminism." Chapter in Conflicts in Feminism . Edited by Marianne Hirsch and Evelyn Fox Keller. Routledge, 1990
"Audre Lorde's Lacquered Layerings: The Lesbian Bar as a Site of Literary Production." Chapter in New Lesbian Criticism . Edited by Sally Munt. Simon & Schuster, 1992. Reprinted in Feminist Cultural Studies . Edited by Terry Lovell. Edward Elgar, 1997
Articles:
"Historiography as Reenactment: metaphors and literalizations of TV documentaries." Forthcoming in Extreme and Sentimental History . Special issue of Criticism
"Productive agencies of feminist theory: the work it does." Feminist Theory 2/1 (2001): 94-98
"Everything You Wanted to Know About the World Wide Web as a Teaching and Learning Tool." (with David Silver) MITH Publications Series . The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (2000): http://www.mith.umd.edu/publications/king.html
"Feminism and Writing Technologies: Teaching Queerish Travels through Maps, Territories, and Pattern." Configurations 2 (Winter 1994): 89-106
"Local and Global: AIDS Activism and Feminist Theory." In Imaging Technologies, Inscribing Science . Special issue of camera obscura 28 (January 1992):78-99
"Bibliography and a Feminist Apparatus of Literary Production." TEXT 5: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship (1991): 91-103
"Audre Lorde's Lacquered Layerings: The Lesbian Bar as a Site of Literary Production." Cultural Studies 2 (October 1988): 321-342
"The Situation of Lesbianism as Feminism's Magical Sign: Contests for Meaning and the U.S. Women's Movement, 1968-1972." In Feminist Critiques of Popular Culture . Special issue of Communication 9 (Fall 1985): 65-91
Papers currently Online:
"Flexible Knowledges, Histories under Globalization: the Smithsonian's Science in American Life & commercial knowledge making practices" (2004). Available online at: http://www.womensstudies.umd.edu/wmstfac/kking/present/Colby04/colby1.html
" Demonstrations & Experiments in Epistemological Decorum: seventeenth-century Quaker writing technologies and the Scientific Revolution" (2004). Available online at: http://www.womensstudies.umd.edu/wmstfac/kking/present/Folger04.html
" Theorizing Structures in Women's Studies" (2002). Available online at: http://www.womensstudies.umd.edu/wmstfac/kking/present/interdis.html
WORK IN PROGRESS
Chapter for Book:
"Pastpresents: Knotted histories under globalization." Essay written for Haraway Festschrift , edited by Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi
Books in manuscript:
"Speaking with Things: an introduction to writing technologies" (under consideration at Routledge)
"Flexible Knowledges: histories under globalization" (being prepared to send out for publisher consideration)
Web Site under construction:
Writing Technology Ecologies
(To create an on-going intellectual community of researchers I have started my Writing Technologies Ecologies web anthology. This is only just now being put up on the web, in a dummy version for prospective participants to examine, although I have been conceptualizing it, gaining skills myself and putting together initial resources for several years now. Eleven scholars in a range of fields have agreed to contribute so far. I want this site to open onto the practice elements of research from the perspective of feminism and writing technologies, as well as to show concretely how critically important this apparatus of analysis is for the people and other animals, the devices, and the skills that "intra-act" [in Karen Barad's formulation of technical-social agency] as writing technology ecologies. My plan is to put up the first generation site, and then seek funding for resources for an on-going, professionally designed site with facilities for researchers. The site is already hosted by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities.)
PAPERS PRESENTED, INVITED TALKS
To the annual meetings of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, Durham, North Carolina, 15 October 2004. "Reenactment Historiographies"
To the Extreme and Sentimental History Conference, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 3 April 2004. "Historiography as Reenactment: metaphors and literalizations of TV documentaries"
To the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Colloquia Series, Colby College, Waterville, Maine, 4 March 2004. "Flexible Knowledges, Histories under Globalization"
To the "Imaging Nature: technologies of the literal and the Scientific Revolution" Colloquium, The Folger Library, Washington, DC, 27 February 2004. "Demonstrations and Experiments in Epistemological Decorum"
To the SEWSA Gender & Technology Conference, "Research, revisions, policies and consequences," plenary panel on "Feminist Contributions to Studying Technology," Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, 20 March 2003. " Uncommon Interdisciplines Connecting Gender & Technology: cyberculture studies and the history of the book"
To the National Library of Medicine Internet Film Series, in conjunction with the Exhibition "The Once and Future Web: worlds woven by the Telegraph and the Internet," Bethesda, Maryland, 15 May 2002. For the film "You've Got Mail," commentary
To the Cyberculture Working Group Conference "Critical Cyberculture Studies: Mapping an Evolving Discipline, panel on "Cyberculture @ University," University of Maryland, College Park, 27 April 2002. "Cyberculture & Women's Studies: perspectives, practices, critique, and forms of everyday life"
To the American Studies Association Annual Meetings, panel on "Reconfiguring American Studies: Contributions from Ethnic Studies, Women's Studies, LGBT Studies," 8 November 2001. "'Queering Infrastructure, Generations, (Inter)indisciplinarities"
To the Mini-Center for Teaching Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Maryland, College Park; 7 May 2001. "The Terrains of Cyberculture" (with David Silver)
To the Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology and the School of Literature, Communication and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology, 10 April 2001. "Feminist 'Writing' Technologies: Ecologies, narratives, categories"
To the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, Digital Dialogues, University of Maryland, College Park, 13 March 2001. "Feminist Space in the Wired Classroom: Women in the Web Course"
To the Women's Studies Department and Program, Spring 2001 Work-in-Progress Colloquium Series, University of Maryland, College Park; 14 February 2001. "Feminist technoscience uses of "work"--invisible work and articulation work"
To the Modern Language Association Annual Meetings and the Division on English Literature Other than British and American, panel on "Transgressive Sexualities in the Postcolony," 28 December 2000. "'There Are No Lesbians Here': Political Definitions in the Age of Human Rights Activisms"
To the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies Conference, "Attending to Early Modern Women: Gender, Culture, and Change," University of Maryland, College Park, 10 November 2000. " What Counts as an Archive? Women & Gender & Archivology "
To the Folger Library, Colloquium on "Puzzling Evidence: Literatures and Histories," Washington, DC; 2 November 2000. "Why Feminism and Writing Technologies? Doesn't this decenter the Humanities?"
To the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, Polyseminar: Terror and Possibilities: Search for Enlivened Technologies, University of Maryland, College Park, 25 April 2000. "Questioning Digital Divides: who benefits?"
To the Teaching with Technology Conference, University of Maryland, College Park, 12 April 2000. "MITH Fellowship Research on Writing Technologies"
To the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, Digital Dialogues, University of Maryland, College Park, 11 April 2000. " CounterIntuitive Interconnections: Taking apart teaching, research and information technology "
To the English Department, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 14 February 2000. "Writing technologies creating literary objects: is "technology" the right word?"
To The Art Gallery, exhibition "possiblefutures: science fiction art from the Frank Collection," University of Maryland, College Park, 3 February 2000. "Star Trek Media Art: The Search for Spock"
To the Modern Language Association Annual Meetings, roundtable on "Feminist Futures, Future Feminisms," 29 December 2000. "Alternative Models of Feminist Generations"
To the Modern Language Association Annual Meetings and the Division on Literature and the Other Arts, panel on "TV 2000: Sex and Sexuality," 28 December 2000. "Television's Global Gay Formations: European and US Strategies of Representation"
To the Classics Department, Conference on American Women and Classic Myth, panel on Popular Culture, University of Maryland, College Park, 25 September 1999. "Globally Mythic Xena: Niche Markets and Commercially Exuberant Feminism"
To the Institute for Instructional Technology, University of Maryland, College Park;10 June 1999. "Everything You Wanted to Know About the WWWeb as a Teaching and Learning Tool"
To the Mini-Center for Teaching Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Maryland, College Park; 10 May 1999. "Cyberculture Studies" (with David Silver)
To the Modern Language Association Annual Meetings and the Emily Dickinson International Society, San Francisco, 27 December, 1998. Panel on "Franklin's Variorum, Conceptualizing New Editions," moderator and introductions
To the Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies, Conference on "Queer Globalization / Local Homosexualites," Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, April 24, 1998. "Globalizations and Feminist Travels," commentary
To the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Staff and Faculty Association, University of Maryland, College Park; November 14, 1997. With Ronda Williams, "A Conversation on the Roots of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Theory, Critique, and Activism"
To the Midwest Modern Language Association and the Society for Critical Exchange, panel on "Cultures of Writing," Chicago, Illinois; November 8, 1997. "Book, Archive, Net: Layered Technologies Creating Seventeenth Century Quaker Women"
To the Conference on "Transforming Knowledge for a Changing World, Internationalizing Gender / Engendering the International," University of Maryland, College Park; October 17, 1997. "Theorizing, Representing, and Teaching Sexualities: Cross-Cultural Perspectives"
To the Corcoran Art Gallery, panel on "Mark Bennett: TV Sets, Fantasy Blueprints of Classic TV Homes," the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; June 14, 1997. "TV Fandoms: Positive Obsession"
To the Women's Studies Program at Georgia State University, Atlanta; May 16, 1997. "Thinking in Layers of Locals and Globals: Using Tools from 'Feminism and Writing Technologies'"
To the American Association of University Women; College Park, MD; April. 18, 1997. "Publishers of Truth: Writing Technologies and Seventeenth-Century Quaker Women"
To the Colloquium "Speaking in Tongues: The Sex of the Nation," University of Notre Dame; Apr. 5, 1997. "Nationalities, Sexualities and Global TV"
To the Women's Studies Research Forum, University of Maryland, College Park, February 28, 1997. "Case Studies from current research on Writing Technologies"
To the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies Conference, "Attending to Technology," University of Maryland, College Park, 8 Novemberr 1996. "Writing Technologies and Feminist Subjects"
To the Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series, University of California, Santa Cruz, 22 May 1996. "Seventeenth-Century Quaker Women: Lesbian Identities and Feminist Subjects"
To the History of Consciousness Colloquium Series, University of California, Santa Cruz, 8 May 1996. "Layers of Locals and Globals: Writing Technologies and the Globalization of Highlander "
To the English Department Symposium "Feminism and Science Fiction," University of Maryland, College Park, 13 April 1995. For the panel "Authors in SF," commentary
To the Women's Studies Program, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, 8 February 1995. "Materializing Feminist Theory"
To the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, New York City, 4 September 1994. For the panel "Stonewall 25: AIDS and Gay Politics," commentary
To the Department of English Visiting Scholars Series, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, 1 March 1994. "New Instabilities of the Book: Feminism and Writing Technologies"
To the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 19 November 1993. For the panel "Humanity at Its Boundaries: Gender/Culture/Technoscience," commentary
To The Art Gallery, exhibition "Anonymity and Identity" and discussion "Framing the Body Questions: An Interdisciplinary Panel," University of Maryland, College Park, 17 November 1993. "Producing Political Identities."
To the Comparative Literature Program Interdisciplinary Symposium "Technologies and the Transmission of Knowledge," University of Maryland, College Park, 3 November 1993. "Feminism and Writing Technologies: Research Agendas"
To the Southwestern Institute on Research on Women Conference "Making Worlds: Metaphor and Materiality in the Production of Feminist Texts," University of Arizona, Tucson, 14-16 October 1993. "Layering Locals and Globals--Techniques for Making Worlds"
To the University of California Humanities Institute Conference "Located Knowledges: Intersections of Gender, Science and Cultural Studies," Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles, 8-10 April 1993. "Feminism and Writing Technologies: Queer Travels Through Maps, Territories and Pattern; that is, a pattern which connects gender, science and cultural studies"
To the Symposium "Sexualities, Dissidence, and Cultural Change," Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, 10 April 1992. Comment, play "The Faustus Project"
To the American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, 1 November 1991. "Rights, Rites and Contemporary Cultural Politics: Global Gay Formations."
To the International Conference on Feminist Theory: An International Debate, Glasgow, Scotland, 14 July 1991. "Lesbianisms in Multinational Reception."
To the Humanities Center, Wesleyan University, 8 April 1991. "Migrating Texts: Global Gay Formations and International AIDS Art Activism."
To the lecture series Speakers of Words, Doers of Deeds: in honor of Rolf Hubbe, Classics Department, University of Maryland, College Park, 3 April 1991. "Feminism and Questions of Agency: A Response to 'Gender in the Homeric Epics' by Seth Schein."
To the Pembroke Center Research Seminar on Cultural Literacies and 'Difference,' Brown University, 21 March 1991. "Methods in Feminism and Writing Technologies."
To the Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 30 December 1990. "Global Gay Formations and Local Homosexualities."
To the Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 29 December 1990. "Women's Studies, Gay Studies, Transnational Cultural Studies."
To the Multicultural Teaching Methods Research Forum, Oberlin College, 22 October 1990. "'Marking' Research in the Academy 1990."
To the Gender and Education series, celebrating 20 years of coeducation, Princeton University, 12 April 1990. "Crafting a Field: Feminism and Writing Technologies."
To the Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Meetings, Toronto, Canada, 6 April 1990. "Feminism and Writing Technologies: The Subject In/Of Cultural Studies."
To the Sex: Gender: Representation series at Duke University, 5 October 1989. "Producing Sex, Theory and Culture."
To the Fifth International Interdisciplinary Conference of the Society for Textual Scholarship, The Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York, and the Pierpont Morgan Library, 6-8 April 1989. "Bibliographic Practice and a Feminist Apparatus of Literary Production."
To the Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 28 December 1988. "Feminism and Writing Technologies."
To the Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Meetings, University of Rhode Island & Rhode Island College, Providence, Rhode Island, 24-26 March 1988. "'The passing dreams of choice...at once before and after': Gay History as Biomythography, Reading the Lesbian Bar."
To the Third National Conference for College Student Leaders, Washington, D.C., 7 June 1987. "'Throwing Ourselves Into the Next Century' (a quotation from Bernice Reagon): Contemporary Feminist Issues and Strategies."
To the Conference on "Contemporary Dance as a Canon for Women's Studies," University of Maryland, College Park, 27-28 March 1987. Comment, on panel "Founding Mothers."
To the Research Forum in Women's Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, 14 November 1986. "Contesting Emily Dickinson," with Martha Nell Smith.
To the Program in Women's Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, 12 March 1986. "The Vocabulary of Cultural Production and the Creation of the Author: Feminist Strategies of Significance."
To the Conference on Gender: Literary and Cinematic Representation, The Florida State University at Tallahassee, 30 January-2 February 1986. "Exemplary Genres and Canons: The Construction of the Corpus of Emily Dickinson as 'Poetry.'"
To the Department of English, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 29 January 1986. "Literature and Artifact, the Unstable Text: An Introduction to Textual Theory and the Work of Emily Dickinson."
To the Departments of American Studies and English, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, 24 January 1986. "Making 'Poetry': The Proliferating Texts of Emily Dickinson."
To the Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, 27-31 December 1985. "Explicating Exemplary Genres and Canons: The Recovery of the Work of Rebecca Patterson on Emily Dickinson."
To the Department of English and Program in Women's Studies, California State University at Long Beach, 31 October 1985. "The Proliferating Texts of Emily Dickinson: the Limits of Identification and the Making of Poetry."
To the Conference on The Politics of Literary Adulation, West Chester University, 26-28 April 1985. "Questioning Tradition: Canon Formation and the Veiling of Power."
To the California American Studies Association Annual Meeting: Technology in Culture; Culture in Technology, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, 27-29 April 1984. "The Pleasures of Repetition and the Limits of Identification in Feminist Science Fiction: Reimaginations of the Body After
the Cyborg."
To the Center for Fantasy and Science Fiction Studies, Science Fiction Working Group, University of California, Riverside, 3-4 February 1984. Workshop participant.
REVIEWING ACTIVITIES
Evaluated book manuscript for MIT Press, 2004
Evaluated book proposal for Sage, 2004
Reviewed book for American Journal of Sociology , 1998
Evaluated book proposal for Mayfield Publishing, 1999
Evaluated book manuscript for Rutledge, 1999
Evaluated book manuscript for Cornell University Press, 1992
Evaluated book manuscript for SUNY Press, 1994
Evaluated article manuscript for Feminist Theory , 1999
Evaluated article manuscripts for Feminist Studies , 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995
Evaluated article manuscripts for Signs , 1992, 1994, 1996
Evaluated article manuscripts for Frontiers , 1993, 1995
Tenure review University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998
Security of Employment review University of Maryland, College Park, 1998
Tenure review Arizona State University, Tempe, 1994
Proposal reviewer for the Killiam Program of the Canada Council, 1990
Proposal reviewer for Committee on Research, Grants, Scholarships, York University, Ontario, Canada, 1992
HONORS, PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION
Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology (MITH team), University of Maryland, College Park, April 2000
Award for Outstanding Teaching Assistant, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1984-1985
National Merit Scholarship, 1970-1974
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS
Folger course release stipend for Folger Seminar, Peter Stallybrass & Roger Chartier's "Technologies of Writing," Spring 2005
Fellow at Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, project on "Feminism and Writing Technologies," University of Maryland, College Park, Spring 2000
Curriculum Transformation Project / Women's Studies Summer Institute, "Thinking About Women and Gender in Contemporary International Contexts," June-July, 1997
Fellow at University of California Humanities Research Institute on "Feminist Epistemologies," University of California, Irvine, Fall 1995
NEH grant for Folger Institute, "The Graphic Revolution in Early Modern Europe," 1994
Lilly Teaching Fellowship, University of Maryland, College Park, 1991-1992
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Women's Studies, Cornell University, 1988-1990
Summer Research Award, General Research Board, University of Maryland, College Park, 1988
Regent's Fellowship, University of California, Santa Cruz, Fall 1985
Finalist, Woodrow Wilson Women's Studies Fellowship, 1985
Patent Fund Research Award, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1984
Errington Fund Research Award, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1982
Tuition Awards, University of Chicago, 1975-1976; 1976-1977
COURSES TAUGHT
Women's Studies 200: Introduction to Women's Studies: Women and Society (USP and CORE course: distributive studies/social sciences; also required for Women's Studies certificate students. I taught this course several times a year from 1986-88, to from 40 to 80 students.)
Women's Studies 250: Introduction to Women's Studies: Women, Art and Culture (USP and CORE course: distributive studies/humanities; also required for Women's Studies certificate students. I taught this course several times a year from 1986-88, to from 40 to 80 students, and at least once a year since1990, to 40 students.)
Women's Studies 298/498X: Introduction to Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Studies (This course was offered for the first time Spring 1994. I was the first in a rotating series of teacher/coordinators facilitating this class which drew on the talents of a wide faculty currently engaged in research in Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Studies at UMCP.)
Women's Studies 300: Feminist Reconceptualizations. (Restructured as a "Portal" course to the Women's Studies major, this is a revision of the course formly a senior seminiar and capstone to the Certificate. See WMST 490 below. I taught a new version of this course Fall 1996, and a different new version Fall 2001.)
Women's Studies 350: Feminist Education Practicum
Women's Studies 351: Feminist Education Analysis (The above two classes were taught in tandem, in a seminar format, to selected undergraduate students, who were then permitted to facilitate the small group discussions for WMST 200 or 250. I taught this course almost every semester from 1986-88 and from 1990-97, to 4-8 students. Both parts of this experience are now consolidated as WMST 350: Feminist Pedagogy, from 1998 on.)
Women's Studies 400: Theories of Feminism (USP Advanced Studies "Development of Knowledge" course, and now CORE course; also required for Women's Studies Certificate students. I taught this course every semester during 1986-88 and once a year from 1990-93, to at least 30 students.)
Women's Studies 488K: Women in the Web: Ways of Writing in Historical Perspective (I designed this course as Feminism and Writing Technologies at Cornell University, where I taught it on both the graduate and the advanced undergraduate levels, teaching it first at UMCP Fall 1990, then cross-listed with Comparative Literature, Fall 1993, to 10 students. As of Fall 1994 it has become a regular offering as one of the Women's Studies senior seminars, now part of the major.) It has also been entitled The Politics of the Oral and the Written.
Women's Studies 490: Feminist Reconceptualizations (Senior seminar required for Women's Studies Certificate students. I designed the first version of this course to be taught in tandem with the Women's Studies Polyseminar in 1988, to 10 students. I redesigned it as the capstone course for certificate students in 1992, to 12 students, and gave independent study versions of it in 1993, to 2 students. The final version of this course was taught Fall 1993 as it was being phased out in the restructured Major curriculum, to 22 students.)
Women's Studies 494: Lesbian Communities: Lesbianisms in Multinational Reception (I taught a new version of this course Fall 1997, designed to incorporate materials and concerns drawn from the Curriculum Transformation Project / Women's Studies Summer Institute, "Thinking About Women and Gender in Contemporary International Contexts, June-July, 1997. It is now offered once a year to 15-20 students.)
Women's Studies 498K: Feminism and Cultural Studies: Nationalities, Sexualities and Global TV (I taught a new version of this course Spring 1997, designed to incorporate materials and concerns draw from the Curriculum Transformation Project / Women's Studies Summer Institute, "Thinking About Women and Gender in Contemporary International Contexts, June-July, 1997. There were 12 students.)
Women's Studies 498K: Feminism and Cultural Studies: Feminist Futures Across the Media (I taught a new version of this course Fall 1999. There were 13 students, graduate and undergraduate both.)
Women's Studies 498K: Feminism and Cultural Studies: Women and Spirituality (I taught a new version of this course Fall 2001. There were 28 students.)
Women's Studies 499: Independent Study (I've taught 1 or 2 students at a time in this format several times since 1986, permitting me and the Program to offer individualized tutorials to students. )
Women's Studies 601: Advanced Feminist Theory (Graduate Seminar; I taught a new version of this course as one of the required courses of the new Women's Studies Graduate Certificate in 1993, to 22 students. It is now offered every year and I teach it every other year.)
Women's Studies 602: Advanced Feminist Theory II (Graduate Seminar; when we began our WMST PhD we decided to create two Feminist Theory courses, one a historical one and one on the production of feminist theory. This new course was first taught in Spr 2001, to 12 students. I will be teaching it now instead of 601. It will be offered every year and I will be teaching it for the next year, and then alternating with others.)
Women's Studies 618: Feminist Pedagogy (Graduate Seminar; Master Teacher in seminar with Graduate Teaching Assistants teaching sections of WMST 250: Women,Art and Culture, to 4 students. Offered with each semester of WMST 250.)
Women's Studies 619: Teaching Practicum (Graduate Seminar; Master Teacher in supervision of Graduate Teaching Assistants teaching sections of WMST 250: Women,Art and Culture, to 4 students. Offered with each semester of WMST 250.)
Women's Studies 621: Transformations of Knowledge Across the Disciplines (Graduate Seminar; I taught a new version of this course as one of the required courses of the new Women's Studies Graduate Certificate in 1995, to 12 students. It is now offered every year and I teach it every other year.)
Women's Studies 699: Independent Study (I facilitated a core group of 5 graduate students in a self-directed seminar on "Research: The Internet," Spr. 1995. )
As part of my Mellon fellowship at Cornell University, I designed and taught three courses: Feminism and Writing Technologies (mentioned above, and taught twice: once at the undergraduate and once at the graduate level), Feminist Constructions of Science Fiction (an undergraduate course), and a combined Sciences/Social Sciences/Humanities interdisciplinary Introduction to Feminist Studies (another undergraduate course).
GRADUATE STUDENT ADVISEMENT
Women's Studies did not begin accepting students for course work for its new Ph.D. program until Fall 2000, so as of this date I have only just begun to be a director of theses. We have had a graduate certificate in Women's Studies since 1993, so I have taught and advised graduate students in the Certificate program, but we have no exams or thesis requirement for the Certificate. I am also an affiliate faculty member of American Studies, Comparative Literature and Performance Studies and serve regularly on exam, thesis and dissertation committees for those Programs and for several others, here and in Australia.
Students who have completed their graduate studies:
Lynne Christine Alice (94 Ph.D. Communications, Murdoch University, Australia), feminist theory, reader dissertation
Eric Spross (94 M.A. American Studies), online communities, on master's thesis committee
Stacy Gillett-Coyle (94 Ph.D. English), modernist literature, reader dissertation
Wendy L. Luke (94 Ph.D. Sociology), gender segregation medicine, reader dissertation
Ana Marie Kothe (96 Ph.D. Comparative Literature), female print culture, Ph. D. examiner, on dissertation committee
Virginia Bell (97 Ph.D. Comparative Literature), Americas literatures, Ph.D. examiner, on dissertation committee
Annette Debo (98 Ph.D. English), poetry by H.D., on dissertation committee
Adrienne McCormick (98 Ph.D. English), feminist poetry, on dissertation committee
Helen Merrik (98 Ph.D. History, University of Western Australia), history of science fiction, reader dissertation
Elissa Anne Auther (00 Ph.D. Art History), art and textiles, on dissertation committee
David Silver (00 Ph.D. American Studies), cyberculture, Ph.D. examiner, on dissertation committee
Brett Ashley Crawford (01 Ph.D. Theater), women producers, Ph.D. examiner, on dissertation committee
Kristen Comment (02 Ph.D. English), 19 th c. lesbian literature, on dissertation committee
Laura Vedder (03 Ph.D. English), popular science in work of H.D. and Myna Loi, on dissertation committee
Stephanie Burley (03 Ph.D. English), the racial politics of popular romance, on dissertation committee
Dana Lynn Walker (04 Ph.D. Journalism), feminist journalism history, Ph.D. examiner, on dissertation committee
Mary Jo Augerston (04 Ph.D. Art History ), international art activism, Ph.D. examiner, on dissertation committee
Ingrid Satelmayer (04 Ph.D. English), Emily Dickinson's periodical poems, on dissertation committee
Debbie Werrlein (04 Ph.D. English), childhood innocence, on dissertation committee
Current Students:
Kenyatta Albany (Comparative Literature), African-American diaspora, Ph.D. examiner, on dissertation committee
Lisa Corrigan (Communication), U.S. political culture, Ph.D. examiner, on dissertation committee
Beth Greybill (American Studies), women and religion, Ph.D. examiner, on dissertation committee
Elizabeth Hagovsky (American Studies), gay retirement communities, on dissertation committee
Jennifer Landon (English), American bodies & 19th c. literature, Ph.D. examiner, on dissertation committee
Gaetano R. Lotrecchiano (Ethnomusicology), gay musicology, on dissertation committee
Vrushali Patil (Sociology), nations and bodies, Ph.D. examiner, on dissertation committee
Claudia Rector (American Studies), disability studies, Ph.D. examiner, Director dissertation committee
Donna Rowe (American Studies), feminist theory, Ph.D. examiner, on dissertation committee
Joyleen Sapinoso (Women's Studies), drag kings and transgenders, Ph.D. advisor, Chair field committee
Tricia Slusser (English), celebrity and gender, Ph.D. examiner, on dissertation committee
Donald Synder (American Studies), cyberculture, Ph.D. examiner, on dissertation committee
Angela Stauch (Sociology), globalization activism, Ph.D. examiner, on dissertation committee
Deborah Taylor (English), activist art communities, on dissertation committee
Sarah Tillery (Women's Studies), fat bodies, Ph.D. advisor, field committee chair, on dissertation committee
Kimberley Williams (Women's Studies), re-representations of Russia, on dissertation committee
SERVICE
To the Profession:
Member Editorial Board for international journal Feminist Theory , 1999--
Delegate representing Lesbians and Gays in the Profession, Modern Languages Association Delegate Assembly, 1998-2001
To the Women's Studies Department:
Women's Studies Core Faculty Committee, 1986-87; 1987-88; 1990--
Women's Studies Salary Committee, 1992-93 (writing new salary document), 1993-95, Chair 1997-98, Chair 2002--
Women's Studies Graduate Committee, 2002--
Women's Studies Strategic Planning Committee, 2002--2003
Women's Studies PhD General Exam Committee, 2001, 2003
Women's Studies PhD Admissions Committee, 2001, 2004
Women's Studies Graduate Admission Committee, 1991--2001
Women's Studies Self-Study Committee, 1999
Women's Studies Search Committee, 1998-99
Women's Studies & College of Arts & Humanities New Technologies Representative, 1998-2000
Women's Studies Steering Committee, 1986-87; 1987-88; 1990-91
Women's Studies Research Committee, 1994-95
Women's Studies Curriculum Committee, 1987-88 (writing the Graduate Certificate Proposal);1990-93; Co-Chair 1993
Women's Studies Self-Study Committee, 1992-93 (writing section on undergraduates)
Women's Studies Ad Hoc Committee on Student Complaints, 1992
Women's Studies Interview Committee, 1988
Faculty Liaison with campus NRAL, 2000--
Faculty Liaison with Feminist Student Collective, 1986-87; 1987-88
To the University:
Affiliate Faculty Member, American Studies Program, 1995--
Affiliate Faculty Member, Comparative Literature Program, 1992--
Affiliate Faculty Member, Theater and Performance Studies, 1999--
Affiliate Faculty Member, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Studies, 2003--
Member Committee on New Technologies, College of Arts and Humanities, 1996-98, 2004--
Member search committee for Director of LGBT Studies, 2004
Member Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Studies Curriculum Project, College of Arts and Humanities, 1993--2003
Member, Collegiate Council, College of Arts and Humanities, 1996-99
Faculty Advisor to CyberCulture Working Group RIG, 1998--2003
College of Arts and Humanities, Internal Review Committee (Women's Studies Department), Fall 2000
Academic Senate Committee on CORE Diversity Working Group, Convener 1997-98
Board Member, Critical Theory Graduate Certificate, College of Arts and Humanities, 1996-97
Academic Senate Committee on CORE Review/Humanities Working Group, 1993-7; Chair 1994-95
Senior Summer Scholars Selection Committee, College of Arts and Humanities, 1993-95
Representative from Women's Studies and American Studies to Academic Senate, 1991-94
Member Women's Studies Chair Search Committee, College of Arts and Humanities, 1993
Undergraduate Summer Orientation group leader, 1992, 1994
Alternate on Collegiate Council, College of Arts and Humanities, 1990-91
Educational Policy Committee, College of Arts and Humanities, 1987-88
To the Metropolitan Area Community:
Mary Jane Simpson D.C. Scholarship Committee, Friends Meeting of Washington, 1993--