Bernice L. Hausman

Professor
Department of English
Virginia Tech

Professor
Department of Interprofessinalism
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine

Bernice L. Hausman is Professor of English at Virginia Tech, where she has taught since the fall of 1995. She is the author of Changing Sex: Transsexualism, Technology, and the Idea of Gender (Duke University Press 1995) and Mother's Milk: Breastfeeding Controversies in American Culture (Routledge 2003), and Viral Mothers: Breastfeeding in the Age of HIV/AIDS (University of Michigan Press 2011). Her articles have been published in Journal of Medical Humanities, Journal of the History of Sexuality, Hypatia, Feminist Studies, NWSA Journal, New Literary History, and Technical Communication Quarterly. Her main research interests are medical rhetoric, feminist and gender theory, and cultural studies. Her current research projects include vaccination controversies and rhetorical approaches to bioethics. Prof. Hausman teaches courses in medical rhetoric, cultural studies, medical humanities, literary theory, and women writers for the English Department, and is a faculty affiliate in the Women's and Gender Studies Program and the Science and Technology Studies and ASPECT graduate programs. She is the coordinator and faculty advisor for the university minor in Medicine and Society .

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Contact info:
Phone: 540-231-5076, Fax: 540-231-5692
E-mail: bhausman @ vt.edu, Shanks Hall, office number 206

Office hours fall 2011: Tuesdays 1:30-3pm, and by appointment.

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Last modified, April 2011