# overview
My areas of interest include Postmodernism, American Cultural Studies (including film and popular culture), Gender Studies, and Feminist Theory.

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University of Washington - (Seattle, Washington, United States)

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Smith College - (Northampton, Massachusetts, United States)

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University of Washington - (Seattle, Washington, United States)

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Authenticity Guaranteed Masculinity and the Rhetoric of Anti-consumerism in American Culture

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Deconstructive Discourse and Sexual Politics: The "Feminine" and/in Masculine Self-Representation

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"Unyoung, Unpoor, Unblack": John Updike and the Construction of Middle American Masculinity

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Feminized Men and Inauthentic Women: Fight Club and the Limits of Anti-Consumerist Critique

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What's Contemporary about Contemporary Women's Fiction?

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Mens Liberation, Mens Wounds Emotion, Sexuality, and the Reconstruction of Masculinity in the 1970s

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Pedagogy of the opaque: Teaching masculinity studies

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Masculine Protest in The catcher in the rye

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Shopping for the Real: Gender and Consumption in the Critical Reception of DeLillo's White Noise

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Reviewed Works: Constructing Masculinity by Maurice Berger, Brian Wallis, Simon Watson; White Guys: Studies in Postmodern Domination and Difference by Fred Pfeil

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The "Anti-Logos Weapon": Multiplicity in Women's Texts

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Male Sexuality under Surveillance: The Office in American Literature (review)

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Engendering the subject: gender and self-representation in contemporary women's fiction

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"Emotional Constipation" and the Power of Dammed Masculinity: Deliverance and the Paradoxes of Male Liberation

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Engendering the Subject Gender and Self-Representation in Contemporary Women's Fiction

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Texas A&M University; English; 4227 TAMU

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Wells, Kimberly Ann (2002-05). Screaming, flying, and laughing: magical feminism's witches in contemporary film, television, and novels. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Sallah, Asmahan (2010-08). Chasing the Trace of the Sacred: Postmodern Spiritualities in Contemporary American Fiction. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Bowers, Abigail Leigh (2009-12). "As Un-American as Rabies":  Addiction and Identity in American Postwar Junkie Literature. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Harris, Rebecca (2012-05). An Archive of Shame: Gender, Embodiment, and Citizenship in Contemporary American Culture. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Cothren, Claire Renae (2015-08). The Evolving Southern Gothic: Traditions of Racial, Gender, and Sexual Horror in the Imagined American South. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Yost, Brian Armstrong (2014-05). Cosmopolitan America: Affect, Attention, and the Nation in Post-Cold War Literature. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Song, Ho Rim (2010-08). Complex Feedback Loops of Technoscience, Literature, and Culture: Dynamics of the Complexity Paradigm in Scientific Fiction. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Van Meter, Larry Allan (2004-12). The officer fetish. Doctoral Dissertation.