Bernice L. Hausman
Professor

Department of English
Virginia Tech

Faculty Advisor for the undergraduate minor in Medicine and Society (MSOC)

Contact info:

Spring 2008 Office Hours:
Fridays 9-11am and by appt.

Shanks Hall, room 206

Phone: 540-231-5076
Fax: 540-231-5692
E-mail: bhausman @ vt.edu

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 is in the midst of a book-length manuscript entitled Viral Mothers: Imagining Breastfeeding in the Age of HIV/AIDS. Her articles have been published in Journal of Medical Humanities, Journal of the History of Sexuality, Hypatia, Feminist Studies, NWSA Journal, and Technical Communication Quarterly, among other publication venues. Her main research interests are sexed embodiment, feminist and gender theory, and cultural studies of medicine. Prof. Hausman teaches courses in literary theory, women writers, gender theory, cultural studies, and medical humanities for the English Department, and is a faculty affiliate in the Women's Studies Program and the Science and Technology Studies graduate program. She is the coordinator and faculty advisor for the university minor in Medicine and Society .