Visiting Lecturers and Post Doctoral Fellows
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Georges-Claude Guilbert |
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Dawn Rae Davis |
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Hilary Malatino |
Georges-Claude Guilbert
The Department of Gender Studies is very pleased to welcome Georges-Claude Guilbert as Distinguished Senior Scholar in Residence from January to July 2012. Professor Guilbert is a leading French academic who works on queer theory, media, and American Studies. He is the author of several important works of cultural theory, including Après Hanoi: Les mémoires brouillés d’une princesse vietnamienne (2011, in French), Madonna as Postmodern Myth (2004, in English with translated editions in French, Korean, and Spanish), and Carson McCullers: amours décalées (1999, in French and English). While here, Professor Guilbert will be using the resources of the Kinsey Institute and the Lilly Library to develop his new book on camp.
He has also very kindly consented to teach a section of G225 – Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Culture. His stay in Bloomington is being co-sponsored by Communication and Culture, American Studies, and Cultural Studies. For more information, contact Professor Brenda Weber (breweber at indiana dot edu)
Dawn Rae Davis
Dr. Dawn Rae Davis is an interdisciplinary gender and women's studies scholar whose research engages feminist theory and philosophy, cultural and postcolonial studies, intersectionality, love, and decolonial and transnational feminisms. Her research on the decolonization of love is published in the philosophy journal, Hypatia, and her writing on the use of decolonial pedagogies in the gender and women's studies classroom is published in the journal, Feminist Formations. She is currently at work on two books. The first is Decolonizing Love: Feminist Subjects and the Ability of Not Knowing, which explores the decolonial imaginary in relation to an epistemology of love and the demands of transnational feminisms. The second is Learning Whiteness, a monograph investigating gendered intersections of whiteness in a postcolonial framework. Dr.Davis teaches core courses in the field of gender studies and specialty courses such as Gender and Popular Culture, Politics of the Body, Global Feminisms, Free Love and Feminisms, Feminist Epistemology and Ethics, the Politics of Love, and Gendering Whiteness. Her Ph.D. is in Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota and her BA is from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her dissertation research was accorded a University of Minnesota Thomas Wallace Endowed Fellowship and an American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship. Dr. Davis is also a creative non-fiction writer and memoirist and has been a free-lance journalist and performance artist.
Hilary Malatino
Hilary Malatino received her Ph.D. in Philosophy at Binghamton University in 2010, along with a certificate in Feminist Theory. Her research interests include queer theory, feminist theory, science and technology studies, feminist ethics, bioethics, continental philosophy, process philosophy, and postcolonial/decolonial theory.
She is currently at work on a manuscript tentatively entitled Sexing the Monster: Queer Corporealities, Biomedical Becomings, which examines queer corporealities, biomedical technologies, and the perpetual de and re-construction of social and political subjectivities that both generate and attend processes of gender diagnosis and assignation. In pursuing this line of inquiry, she deploys a genealogical methodology in order to track the divergent and often piecemeal accounts of intersex subjects found in biomedical archives, natural histories, and philosophical accounts (ranging from the early modern to the
contemporary) in order to develop a deep, variegated, and textured tale of the epistemological shifts that have informed how queerly built bodies are construed within current biomedical practice. Her research also asks after what this genealogy might mean, in existential terms, for contemporary subjects diagnosed with one of the many Disorders of Sex Development, as well as those whose lives are shaped by and through grappling with other, closely related corporeal or psychosomatic queernesses, with varied trans subjectivities figuring chief among these. This project involves significant research in the archives of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, where she is examining the textual, political, and philosophical viccisitudes of mid to late 20th century sexological thought.
She has published work in the fields of disability studies, continental philosophy, queer theory, and medical humanities, including
“The Becoming-Woman of the Young-Girls: Revisiting Riot Grrrl, Rethinking Girlhood” Rhizomes 22 (2011)
“Medical Histories, Queer Futures: Imaging and Imagining ‘Abnormal’ Bodies. ” eSharp 16 (Winter 2010): Politics and Aesthetics
“Situating Bio-Logic, Refiguring Sex: Intersexuality and Coloniality”in Critical Intersex, ed. Morgan Holmes. Surrey, England: Ashgate Press, pp. 73-94 (2009).
