Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1999

Fields of Interest

Contemporary & Feminist Theory

Critical Studies of Technology, Science & Psychiatry

Cultural Politics

Selected Publications

Panic Diaries: A Genealogy of Panic Disorder. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, February 2006. 

“The Militarization of Inner Space.” Critical Sociology Vol. 30, No. 2 (Spring 2004): 451-482.

Reprinted:

Pp. 47-70 in Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties. Edited by Betsy Hartmann, Banu Subramaniam, and Charles Zerner. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.

“The Ecstasy of Miscommunication: Cyberpsychiatry and Mental Dis-ease.” Pp. 151-176 in Doing Science + Culture. Edited by Roddey Reid and Sharon Traweek. New York: Routledge, 2000.

“Science Fiction Feminism? Situating Donna Haraway.” Pp. 32-51, Introduction to Ciencia, Cyborgs y Mujeres: La Reinvención de la Naturaleza (Spanish translation of Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature by Donna Haraway). Translated by Manuel Talens. Madrid, Spain: Universitat de València, Institute de la Mujer, 1995.

“Theory on the Market: Panic, Incorporating.” Social Problems Vol. 37, No. 4 (November 1990): 460-484.
 

Recent guest performances:

            “Daddy Does Cybernetics: Diary of a Mental Patient.”   Solo 60-minute live performance piece with video collage. Part political theater, part social history of U.S. Cold War culture and new cybernetic forms of social control.

University of Lancaster, England. Symposium on “Gender, Technology, and Performativity.” Co-sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Studies and the Centre for Science Studies, June 12, 2005.

University of California, Berkeley. Sponsored by the Joint Program in Medical Anthropology, April 8, 2004.

University of Chicago, conference on Depression: What Is It Good For? Sponsored by the Society of Fellows/Critical Inquiry, March 12, 2004.

University of Maryland, College Park. Sponsored by the Sociology Department, February 9, 2004.

New York University. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality, Sociology Department, and Performance Studies Department, March 11, 2003.

Recent Invited Lectures

“Cutting Into the Archive: Trauma and the Technopoetics of Memory.” Symposium on “Memory,” 2004-2005 series on The Future of Feminist Technoscience. Sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council at the University of Surrey, Guildford, England, January 14, 2005.

“Thinking On Drugs: Psychopower, Psychopharmacology, and National Security.” University of California, San Francisco. Sponsored by the Department of History, Anthropology and Social Medicine, April 7, 2004.

“Thinking on Drugs: Psychopower, Psychopharmacology, and National Security.” Sarah Lawrence College. Sponsored by the Science, Technology, and Society Program and the Environmental Studies Program, April 3, 2004.

“The Madwoman in the Academy: Thinking on Drugs.” City University of New York Graduate Center. Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women and Society and the Psy-ences Project, November 14, 2003.

“Psychopower, Cybernetics, and the Technoscientific Control of Panic.” Symposium on Medicine and Culture, Duke University, April 28, 2003.