Bernice Hausman's CV

EDUCATION
Ph.D. Feminist Studies and Critical Theory University of Iowa 1992
M.A. English University of Iowa 1990
B.A. Literature, with distinction Yale University 1985 (Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa)

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
Professor, English, Virginia Tech, 2006
Associate Professor (with tenure,) English, Virginia Tech, 2000
Assistant Professor, English, Virginia Tech, 1995
Mellon Instructor, Humanities, University of Chicago, 1993
Visiting Assistant Professor, English, University of Iowa, 1993 (spring)

ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
Coordinator and Faculty Advisor, Medicine and Society Minor, 2005-present
Director, Women’s Studies Program, IDST, Virginia Tech, 2003-5

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
Awards
*Schachterle Award for “Sex before Gender: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Evolutionary Paradigm of Utopia,” Society for Literature and Science. 1997.
*Special Commendation, Bruns Prize competition, for “Demanding Subjectivity: Transsexualism, Medicine, and the Technology of Gender,” Society for Literature and Science. 1992.

Books
*Viral Mothers: Modernity, Breastfeeding, and HIV/AIDS. Forthcoming from University of Michigan Press, 2010.
*Mother’s Milk: Breastfeeding Controversies in American Culture. New York: Routledge, 2003. (274 pp.)
*Changing Sex: Transsexualism, Technology, and the Idea of Gender. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995. (247 pp.)

Chapters in Books
* “Risk and Culture Revisited: Breastfeeding and the 2002 West Nile Virus Scare in the United States.” Giving Breast Milk: Body Ethics and Contemporary Breastfeeding Practice. Ed. Rhonda Shaw and Alison Bartlett. York, ON: Demeter Press, forthcoming 2010. (20 ms. pages)
*“Body, Technology, and Gender in Transsexual Autobiography.” The Transgender Studies Reader. Ed. Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle. New York: Routledge, 2006. 335-61. Reprinted from Changing Sex: Transsexualism, Technology, and the Idea of Gender, 141-74.
*“Cosmetic Surgery and Transgender Discourse in the Twentieth Century.” Digital Anatomy. Ed. Christina Lammer. Vienna: Turin + Kant, 2001. 86-97.
*“Virtual Sex, Real Gender: Body and Identity in Transgender Discourse.” Virtual Gender: Fantasies of Subjectivity and Embodiment. Ed. Mary Ann O’Farrell and Lynne Vallone. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. 190-216.
*“Words Between Women: Victoria Ocampo and Virginia Woolf.” In the Feminine Mode: Critical Essays on Hispanic Women Writers. Ed. Noël Valis and Carol Maier. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1990. 204-26.

Articles in Refereed Journals
*“Biocultures Response.” Forum entry. PMLA (forthcoming May 2009). (5 manuscript pages, invited)
*“Women’s Liberation and the Rhetoric of ‘Choice’ in Infant Feeding Debates.” International Breastfeeding Journal 3.10 (2008). Web, <http://www.internationalbreastfeedingjournal.com/content/3/1/10>.
*“Things (Not) to Do with Breasts in Public: Maternal Embodiment and the Biocultural Politics of Infant Feeding.” New Literary History 38.3 (Summer 2007): 479-504. Special issue, Biocultures. Ed. Lennard Davis and David Morris.
*“Contamination and Contagion: Environmental Toxins, HIV/AIDS, and the Problem of the Maternal Body.” Hypatia 21.1 (Winter 2006): 137-156. Special Issue, maternal embodiment. Ed. Rebecca Kukla.
*“Risky Business: Framing Childbirth in Hospital Settings.” Journal of Medical Humanities 26.1 (Spring 2005): 23-38. Special Issue. Eds. Susan Squier and Anne Hunsaker Hawkins. (invited)
*“The Feminist Politics of Breastfeeding.” Australian Feminist Studies 19.45 (November 2004): 273-85. Special Issue, breastfeeding. Eds. Fiona Giles and Alison Bartlett. (invited)
*“Recent Transgender Theory.” Feminist Studies 27 (Summer 2001): 465-90. (invited)
*“Do Boys Have to Be Boys?: Gender, Narrativity, and the John/Joan Case.” NWSA Journal 12.3 (2000): 114-38.
Reprinted in Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Sex and Gender. 2nd ed. Ed. Elizabeth L. Paul. Dubuque, IA: McGraw-Hill, 2001. 21-30; 3rd ed. Ed. Jacquelyn W. White. Dubuque, IA: McGraw-Hill, 2007. 21-30.
*“Rational Management: Medical Authority and Ideological Conflict in Ruth Lawrence’s Breastfeeding: A Guide for the Medical Profession.” Technical Communication Quarterly 9.3 (Summer 2000): 271-89. Special issue on medical rhetoric. Eds. Barbara Heifferon and Stuart C. Brown.
*“Ovaries to Estrogen: Sex Hormones and Chemical Femininity in the 20th Century.” Journal of Medical Humanities 20 (1999): 165-75.
*“Between Science and Nature: Interpreting Lactation Failure in Elizabeth von Arnim’s The Pastor’s Wife.” Journal of Medical Humanities 20 (1999): 101-15. (invited)
*“Sex before Gender: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Evolutionary Paradigm of Utopia.” Feminist Studies 24 (1998): 489-510.
*“Demanding Subjectivity: Transsexualism, Medicine, and the Technologies of Gender.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 3.2 (October 1992): 270-302.
*“Anti-Semitism in Feminism.” Iowa Journal of Literary Studies 11 (1991): 83-98.

Edited Volumes and Journals
Journal of Medical Humanities 25.3 (Fall 2004). Special issue on cultural studies of medicine.

Reviews (recent selected)
*The Breastfeeding Café by Barbara Behrmann, Tainted Milk by Maia Boswell-Penc, and Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture, and Mother’s Bodies by Rebecca Kukla. Journal of Medical Humanities 30.1 (2009): 77-81.*Breastwork: Rethinking Breastfeeding by Alison Bartlett. Feminist Theory 8.1 (2007): 120-22.
*Evolution and “the Sex Problem”, by Bert Bender; Profound Science and Elegant Literature, by Stephanie P. Browner; and Liminal Lives, by Susan Merrill Squier. American Literature 78 (September 2006): 659-662.
*The Emergence of Sexuality, by Arnold Davidson. Journal of Medical Humanities 27.1 (Spring 2006): 67-69.
*A Small, Good Thing: Stories of Children with HIV and Those Who Care for Them, by Anne Hunsaker Hawkins. Journal of Medical Humanities 26.4 (Winter 2005): 283-85.
*How Sex Changed, by Joanne Meyerowitz and The Man Who Would Be Queen, by J. Michael Bailey. Journal of Medical Humanities 26.2/3 (Fall 2005): 195-98.
*American Women of Letters and the Nineteenth-Century Sciences: Styles of Affiliation, by Nina Baym. American Literature 75 (March 2003): 181-83.
*Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race before Roe v. Wade, by Rickie Sollinger. Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering 4.1 (Spring/Summer 2002): 212-14.

Encyclopedia Entries
*“Transsexuality.” The Encyclopedia of New England. Eds. Burt Feintuch and David H. Watters. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. 513.
*“Gender and Gender Roles.” Dictionary of American History. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. New York: Scribner’s, 2002. 515-21.

Introductions
*“Introduction.” Journal of Medical Humanities 25.3 (Fall 2004): 167-71. Special Issue. Ed. Bernice L. Hausman.

Newspaper Articles
*“The Politics of Sex.” The Roanoke Times 14 September 2008: Horizon 3.
*“Professors Worry about Armed Students.” The Roanoke Times 2 Feb. 2006: Virginia 9.

Blog Entries
*“Biocultures: Take 2.” Literature, Arts, and Medicine Blog, New York University School of Medicine. Web, February 2008. <http://medhum.med.nyu.edu/blog>