Laura Shackelford (Email; phone 812-855-8093)
Visiting Lecturer
Ph.D. Indiana University, Bloomington 2004
M.A. Indiana University, Bloomington 1998
B.A. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 1992

RESEARCH INTERESTS
19th- and 20th-century American literature, realism and naturalism, feminist and critical theory, theories of modernity, literature and science, history of psychology, cultural studies

PARTIAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS
Articles:
“The Monstrosity of Media in Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl and other Posthumanist Critiques of the Instrumental” (forthcoming in Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies, issue 63, Winter 2006).

“Narrative Subjects Meet their Limits: John Barth’s ‘Click’ and the Remediation of Hypertext.” Contemporary Literature 46.2 (2005): 275-310.

Recent Talks:
“Opposing National and ‘Timeless Time:’ Evolution and other Queer Logics of Self-Transformation in Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex.” Out of Time: Theorizations of Culture and the Political, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 2005.

“The ‘Meat is the Message:’ Transnational Feminist Networks Transfigure and Embody the American Nation and its Archives in Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats.” Trans/Positions: Transnational, Transgender, Transdisciplinary, Transcultural - A Conference on Feminist Inquiry in Transit, Purdue, Indiana, April 2005.