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Susan Squier
Brill Professor of Women's Studies and English

Contact:
219 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
Office Phone: 814-863-3604
sxs62@psu.edu
http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/s/x/sxs62/

Office Hours:
Not Teaching

Educational History:
Ph.D. Stanford University
A.B. Princeton University

Research Interests:
Cultural studies of science and medicine; feminist theory; disability studies; modernism

Awards:
Rockefeller Foundation Residency, Bellagio Conference Center, 2001
Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, 1990-1991
Distinguished Visiting Fellow, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 1992
Visiting Fellow, Wake Forest College

Major Publications:
Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine (Duke University Press, 2004)
Communities of the Air: Radio Century, Radio Culture (Duke University Press, 2003)
Playing Dolly: Technocultural Formations, Fantasies, and Fictions of Assisted Reproduction (Rutgers University Press, 1999)
Babies in Bottles: Twentieth Century Visions of Reproductive Technology (Rutgers University Press, 1994)
Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation (UNC Press, 1989)
Virginia Woolf and London: The Sexual Politics of the City (UNC Press, 1985)
Women Writers and the City: Essays in Feminist Literary Criticism (University of Tennessee Press, 1984)

National Professional Service:
Member, Executive Board of the Division of Twentieth Century English Literture of the MLA, 2002-2005
Member, Elections Committee, Modern Language Association, 2003-2004
Member, Executive Board, Society for Literature and Science, 2000-
President, SLS, 2000-2001
President, The Society for Literature and Science, 1998-2000
Member, Executive Board of the Division of Literature and Science of the MLA, 1997-1999
Member, Publications and Policies Committee, The Feminist Press
Consulting editor, The Virginia Woolf Annual

 

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