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EDUCATION<\/strong><\/p>\n

M.A. \u00a0<\/strong>North American Studies \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a01996, Free University of Berlin, Germany<\/p>\n

Ph.D.<\/strong> Women’s Studies \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 2001, Clark University, Worcester, MA<\/p>\n

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alien Constructions: Science Fiction and Feminist Theory<\/em><\/p>\n

PUBLICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Books (monographs)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Death in the Shape of a Young Girl: Women’s Political Violence in the Red Army Faction. <\/em>New York University Press, 2015
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Alien Constructions: Science Fiction and Feminist Thought<\/em>. University of Texas Press, Austin. August 2006<\/p>\n

Articles (refereed journals)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201c\u2019Conversations with You, Places of Freedom\u2019: Writing, Desire and Prison Intimacies.\u201d German Studies Review.<\/em> 45:2 (2022): 243-262.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2019Women of Peace\u2019 We Are Not\u201d: Feminist Militants in the West German Autonomen<\/em> and the Women\u2019s Movement. German Studies Review <\/em>40:2 (2017): 313-332<\/p>\n

\u201cMaternal Ethics and Political Violence: The \u2018Betrayal\u2019 of Motherhood among the Women of the RAF and 2 June Movement.\u201d Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies <\/em>47:1 (February 2011): 81-102<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Death in the Shape of a Young Girl\u2019: Feminist Responses to Media Representations of Women Terrorists During the \u2018German Autumn\u2019 of 1977.\u201d International Feminist Journal of Politics<\/em> 11:1 (March 2009): 35-61<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Change my cultural \u201ccoloring\u201d again\u2018 \u2013 anti-colonial identities in Octavia Butler\u2019s feminist science fiction.\u201d Special Issue of International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics:<\/em> \u201cBlack Women\u2019s Politics\/Cultural Expression.\u201d 1:3 (2005): 247-261<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018There is no Spoon\u2019 \u2013 Concepts of Subjectivity in The Matrix.<\/em>\u201c Special issue of Femspec: an interdisciplinary feminist journal<\/em>: \u201cGender and Technology in Science Fiction Film\u201d 5:1 (2004): 67-94<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018All that you touch you change\u2019 \u2013 Utopian Desire and the Concept of Change in Octavia Butler\u2019s Parable of the Sower<\/em> and Parable of the Talents.<\/em>\u201c Femspec: an interdisciplinary feminist journal<\/em> 3:2 (Summer 2002): 31-52<\/p>\n

Book Chapters<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cCyberpunk and Cyborg Feminism.\u201d The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture<\/em>. Eds. Graham Murphy, Anna McFarlane, and Lars Schmeink. London and New York: Routledge, 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u201cBut what about our fury?\u201d: Political violence as feminist practice.\u201c Emancipation? Rethinking Gender, Violence and 1968<\/em>. Eds. Sarah Colvin and Katharina Karcher, London, New York: Routledge, 2018. 46-60.<\/p>\n

\u201cSexuality.\u201d The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction<\/em>. Ed. Rob Latham. Oxford UP: 2014. 395-407<\/p>\n

“\u2019Wir Frauen sind eh die bessere H\u00e4lfte der Menschheit\u2019: Revolution\u00e4re Politik und Feminismus in den Gef\u00e4ngnisbriefen einer Ex-Terroristin.\u201c [\u201c\u2019We women are anyway the better half of humanity\u2019: Revolutionary Politics and Feminism in the Prison Letters by a Former Female Terrorist.\u201c] Chapter in Der Linksterrorismus der 1970er-Jahre und die Ordnung der Geschlechter [Left-wing Terrorism and Gender Relations]. <\/em>Eds. Irene Bandhauer-Sch\u00f6ffmann and Dirk van Laak. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2012<\/p>\n

\u201eFrauen gegen Imperialismus und Patriarchat zerschlagen den Herrschaftsapparat\u201c: Autonome Frauen, feministischer Protest und Gewalt in Westdeutschland\u201c [\u201cWomen against Imperialism and Patriarchy Smash the Power Structure\u201d: Autonome Women, feminist protest and violence in West Germany.\u201d] Chapter in \u201cAll we Ever Wanted\u2026\u201d: Eine Kulturgeschichte europ\u00e4ischer Protestbewegungen der 1980er Jahre [\u201cAll we Ever Wanted\u2026\u201d: A Cultural History of European Protest Movements of the 1980s]<\/em>, eds. Hanno Balz and Jan-Henrik Friedrichs. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin, 2012. 157-177<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018And How Many Souls Do You Have?\u2019: Technologies of Perverse Desire and Queer Sex in Science Fiction Erotica.\u201d Chapter in Queer Universe: Sexualities in Science Fiction<\/em>. Eds. Wendy Gay Pearson, Veronica Hollinger, and Joan Gordon. Liverpool University Press, 2008. 161-179<\/p>\n

Edited Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n

Special issue of Femspec: an interdisciplinary feminist journal<\/em>: \u201cGender and Technology in Science Fiction Film.\u201d 5:1 (2004). Co-editor with Shelley Price.<\/p>\n

Gardening with Brains<\/em>: An Anthology of the \u201cLittle Magazines\u201d of the New York Avantgarde of the 1910s and 1920s<\/em>. Co-editor (with K. Goedde, S. Hoffmann, R. Loessl, E. Lopez, T. Richter, M. Scheele). Berlin, Germany: Free University of Berlin Press, 1996<\/p>\n

Invited Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Future Sex and Power? Lewis Call. BDSM in American Science Fiction and Fantasy<\/em>. New York: Palgrave, 2013.\u201d Science Fiction Studies <\/em>42:1 (March 2015). Lead review-essay. 158-62<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Coming Future.\u201d Symposium on Sexuality in SF. Science Fiction Studies<\/em>. 36:3 (November 2009). 385-403<\/p>\n

ACADEMIC POSITIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Department Chair, Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures<\/p>\n

Department Chair, French, German, Italian and Slavic, 2022-24<\/p>\n

Associate Professor, German and Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Department of French, German, Italian and Slavic, 2016-<\/p>\n

Assistant Professor, German and Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Department of French, German, Italian and Slavic, 2009-2016<\/p>\n

Senior Lecturer, Women\u2019s Studies Program, Temple University, 2006-09<\/p>\n

Director, Women’s Studies Program, Temple University, 2004-09<\/p>\n

Visiting Assistant Professor\/Lecturer, Women\u2019s Studies Program, Temple University, 2001-2006<\/p>\n

AWARDS<\/strong> (SELECTED)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sabbatical Research Leave. Temple University<\/b>. 2012-13, Fall 2020.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Faculty Fellowship. Center\u00a0 for the Humanities at Temple University (CHAT).<\/strong> AY 2019-20.<\/p>\n

College of Liberal Arts Research Award (CLARA)<\/strong>. Temple University. 2010, 2016.<\/p>\n

Mellon Regional Faculty Fellow. Penn Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania.<\/b> AY 2013-14<\/p>\n

Research Fellowship. The <\/strong>Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College<\/strong>. AY 2012-13<\/p>\n

Presidential Humanities and Arts Research Program. Temple University<\/strong> Funding Period: 2015-17<\/p>\n

Summer Research Award.<\/strong> Temple University. Summer 2011, 2014 and 2015.<\/p>\n

Faculty Fellowship. Center\u00a0 for the Humanities at Temple University (CHAT). <\/strong>AY 2010-11.<\/p>\n

College of Liberal Arts Research Award (CLARA)<\/strong>. Temple University. Summer 2010<\/p>\n

American Association of University Women.<\/strong> Alternate Recipient of American Fellowship. April 2010<\/p>\n

College of Liberal Arts Research Incentive Grant.<\/strong> Temple University. Summer 2007<\/p>\n

Research Associate. Five College Women\u2019s Studies Research Center.<\/strong> Mount Holyoke College, MA.\u00a0Fall Semester 2005<\/p>\n

College of Liberal Arts Research Incentive Grant.<\/strong> Temple University. Summer 2005<\/p>\n

2004 Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics.\u00a0<\/strong>Carrie Chapman Catt Center for\u00a0Women and Politics. Iowa State University. March 2005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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