Dr. Stacy Alaimo
Associate Professor of English

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Years of Service at UT Arlington:

Associate Professor of English, (2000-present)

Education:

 Ph.D. - University of Illinois, Department of English, May 1994
Certificate from the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, 1993
M.A. - University of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of English, 1986
B.A. - Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota.  Magna Cum Laude, 1985

Current Research:

Stacy has published essays on feminist theory, green cultural studies, American literature, and film in Feminist Studies, camera obscura, MELUS, Studies in American Fiction  ISLE,  as well as in other journals and edited collections.  Her first book, Undomesticated Ground:  Recasting Nature as Feminist Space (Cornell, 2000) argues that the nature has been a crucial site for the cultural work of feminism. 
She is currently finishing a book entitled “Bodily Natures:  Science, Environment, and the Human Self. ” This project grapples with one of the most urgent theoretical questions within the humanities—how to understand the agency and significance of material forces.   Drawing on feminist theory, environmental philosophy, and science studies, Alaimo argues that focusing on “transcorporeality”—the movement across bodies and nature, profoundly alters our sense of human subjectivity, environmental ethics, and the individual’s relation to scientific knowledge.  In a cultural studies fashion, the theoretical arguments emerge from a careful consideration of a wide range of cultural artifacts—from literature, film and photography to scientific studies and activist web sites.  Much of the book focuses on two movements that only continue to increase in their significance—environmental health and environmental justice.   
      
Alaimo’s interest in emerging theories of materiality has also led her to co-edit a volume of feminist theory, with Susan Hekman, entitled Material Feminisms (Indiana UP, 2007), which brings together feminist environmentalism, corporeal feminism, and feminist science studies.  Other current projects include the article, “The Naked Word:  The Intercorporeal Ethics of the Protesting Body,” and “Posthuman Desire: Queer Animals, Science Studies, and  Environmental Ethics,” forthcoming in Queer Ecologies:  Sex, Nature, Biopolitics and Desire, ed. Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson.   She will be a plenary speaker at the “Nature Matters” conference at York University in Toronto,; last summer she led a special seminar on ecocriticism and science studies at ASLE .

Recent Publications:

Undomesticated Ground:  Recasting Nature as Feminist Space, Cornell University Press, (2000)

Material Feminisms, co-edited with Susan Hekman. Indiana University Press, (2007)

Bodily Natures:  Science, Environment, and the Material Self  (book manuscript in progress)

"The Trouble with Texts, or Teaching Green Cultural Studies in Texas,” in Teaching North American Environmental Literatures, ed. Frederick O. Waage, Mark Long, and Laird Christensen. New York: MLA, (2007)

“This Is about Pleasure:  Human Habitats, Animal Memories, and Corporeal Ethics.”  In  Architecture, Ethics, and the Personhood of Place,  ed. Gregory Caicco. University Press of New England, (2007)

“Discomforting Creatures:  Monstrous Natures in Recent Films,” in Beyond Nature Writing, ed. Karla  Armbruster and Kathleen Wallace, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2001: 279-296.

“Cultural Difference and Epistemic Rupture:  The Vanishing Acts of Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Alfredo Véa Jr.,” MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the U. S.) 25.2 (Summer 2000)

“Endangered Humans?:  Wired Bodies and the Human Wilds,” Camera Obscura 40-41 (May 1997): 227-244.

 

 

Consulting:

Consultant for Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, (Fall 2004—present, and from 1992 to 2000)
Specialist Reader, MELUS:  Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States, (2006—present)
Board Member.  Society for the Study of American Women Writers, (2000-2004)
Editorial Board,  Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, (2000-2004)
Editorial Board, Fast Capitalism, (Fall 2004—present)

Have read articles and book manuscripts for:

University of Arizona Press
Palgrave McMillian
Bedford
International Feminist Journal of Politics
Contemporary Literature
DSQ: Disability Studies Quarterly.

 

Professional Memberships:

Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA)
Society for American Women Writers (SSAWW)

 

 

 

Interviews:

Video interview with Jeanne Hamming, for Ecology, Technology, Culture: An online resource center for Environmental Humanities. Spring 2006 (Video Link)

 

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