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Ph.D., Department of English, University of California, Berkeley, May 1998
B.A., Department of English, University of California, Berkeley, May 1989 (graduated summa cum laude, with honors in the major)
When We Pretend That We're Dead: Monsters, Psychopaths, and the Economy in American Popular Culture
Committee: Prof. Richard Hutson, director (English); Prof. Susan Schweik (English); Prof. Carol Clover (Rhetoric and Scandinavian Studies)
The Bad Subjects Anthology. With the Bad Subjects Production Team (New York: New York University Press, forthcoming in fall 1997). An anthology of articles published in Bad Subjects, a free publication which deals with the politics of everyday life. I'm currently Co-director of Bad Subjects.
White Trash: Race and Class in America. Co-edited with Matthew Wray (New York: Routledge Press, 1997). An anthology of critical essays on poor whites in the United States. Order this book at lovely Amazon.com, the best bookstore online.
For a list of current articles I've published in the popular and alternative press, see my writing page.
"What Makes Things Cheesy? Satire, B-movies and Multinationalism," under consideration at Camera Obscura.
"The Police Are Rioting," forthcoming in New York City Police, edited by Andrea McArdle (New York: NYU Press, 1999).
"ER and the Work-Family Disaster," American Studies, summer/fall 1998.
"Murdering Mothers," in Bad Mothers in America, edited by Molly Ladd-Taylor and Lauri Umansky (New York: NYU Press, 1997).
"White Savagery and Humiliation, or a New Racial Consciousness in the Media," in White Trash, edited by Matthew Wray and Annalee Newitz (New York: Routledge Press, 1997).
With Matthew Wray, "What is White Trash? Stereotypes and Material Conditions of Poor Whites in America," the minnesota review, #47, May 1997.
"Abuse and Its Pleasures: Compensatory Fantasy in the Popular Fiction of Anne Rice," in Creating Safe Space: Violence and Women's Writing, edited by Julie Tharp and Tomoko Kuribayashi (New York: SUNY Press, 1997).
With Ana Marie Cox, Freya Johnson and Jillian Sandell, "Masculinity without Men: Women Reconciling Feminism and Male Identification," Third Wave Agenda, edited by Leslie Heywood and Jennifer Drake (Minnesota University Press, 1997).
"A Low-Class, Sexy Monster: American Liberalism in Rouben Mamoulian's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Bright Lights Film Journal, October 1995.
"Magical Girls and Atomic Bomb Sperm: Japanese Animation in America," Film Quarterly, Winter 1995.
"Serial Killers, True Crime, and Economic Performance Anxiety," Cineaction, September 1995.
Here's a list of articles I've published in Bad Subjects
"Leftist Tabloid," Annual Institute of the Marxist Literary Group, Chicago, Illinois, June, 1998.
"Race and Class," round-table discussion at the Annual Institute of the Marxist Literary Group, Corvallis, 21 June, 1997.
"The Winchester Mystery House and Other Ghost Stories of Industry in Silicon Valley," Annual Convention of the California American Studies Association, Berkeley, 2 May 1997.
"On the Whiteness of the Police," The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness Conference, Berkeley, 11 April, 1997.
"ER, Professionals and the Family Problem," Annual American Studies Association Convention, Kansas City, 31 October, 1996.
"Violence, Monsters, and Money: Economic Horror in American Pop Culture from the 50s to the 90s," invited lecture in the Pasadena City College "Social Science Forum," Pasadena, California, 19 September, 1996.
"White Trash Class Consciousness?" Annual Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, December 1995.
"White Trash and Media Violence," 31st Conference of the Canadian Association for American Studies, Vancouver, 21 October, 1995.
"Orange County Goes Bust: Economic Crisis, Exopolis, and the End of a California Dream," California Cultures Conference, California American Studies Association, Sacramento, 6 May, 1995.
"True Crime TV and 'Poor White Trash' in America," Representing White Trash, American Studies Working Group panel presentation, UC Berkeley, 10 October, 1994.
"Sexual Allegory in the Popular Fiction of Anne Rice," Boundaries in Question Conference, UC Berkeley, 6 March, 1994.
"Discussing Tonya Harding and Women's Power." Interviewed on Hydrogen Jukebox, a weekly radio editorial show on KALX, UC Berkeley, February 1994.
"Women and Violence in the Lorena Bobbitt Case." Interviewed as part of a panel on Paper Tiger Television's Finally Got the News, San Francisco, January 1994.
"Why Must There Be Serial Killers?" Outlines Series, UC Berkeley, 18 November, 1993.
"Walk Like You're in Cyberspace: Graduate Students, 'Identity,' and the Simulation of Praxis." With Charles Bertsch, Annual Modern Language Association Convention, New York, 27 December 1992.
"The Culture of Coming Out: Working on our Fantasies in the 90s." Fall Film Conference, UC Berkeley, 24 October, 1992.
Fall 1994: "Representing Reality: Realism and Social Theory".
University Fellowship, English Department, UC Berkeley, 1997-98.
McEnerney Grant, UC Berkeley, Summer 1997.
Eisner Prize in Literature for Poetry, UC Berkeley, 1995.
Phi Beta Kappa, 1989.
Regent's Scholarship, UC Berkeley, 1987-89.
Popular Culture, Media and Film, American Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender and Ethnic Studies, Literary Theories, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Literature
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