Botanophobia: Fear of Plants in the Age of the Anthropocene
· December 19, 2013
Lecture
Nanjing University, China
Redefining Life: Biotechnology and the Cold War
· December 17, 2013
Lecture
National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China
From Civil Rights to Black Power: Martin Luther King and the Second Indo-China War,”
· December 16, 2013
Lecture
National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China
Public Ritual and the Cold War: McCarthy and the Crucible
· December 15, 2013
Lecture
National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China
Keynote Address, China in the US Viral Imaginary
· December 9, 2013
Lecture
Centre for Humanities and Medicine, Hong Kong University
Botanophobia: Fear of Plants in the Age of the Anthropocene
· December 19, 2013
Lecture
Nanjing University, China
Redefining Life: Biotechnology and the Cold War
· December 17, 2013
Lecture
National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China
From Civil Rights to Black Power: Martin Luther King and the Second Indo-China War,”
· December 16, 2013
Lecture
National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China
Public Ritual and the Cold War: McCarthy and the Crucible
· December 15, 2013
Lecture
National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China
Keynote Address, China in the US Viral Imaginary
· December 9, 2013
Lecture
Centre for Humanities and Medicine, Hong Kong University
Plenary Address, The Politics of Health
· October 3, 2013
Lecture
Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt University
Keynote, What is Human Now?’: the Science Fiction of Henrietta Lacks and Other Tales from the Lab
· June 1, 2013
Lecture
Duke Department of Pediatrics Research Retreat
Botanophobia: Fear of Plants in the Atomic Age
· April 1, 2013
Lecture
University of Pittsburgh
What is Human Now?’: the Science Fiction of Henrietta Lacks and Other Tales from the Lab
· March 7, 2013
Lecture
Gender Studies, Northwestern University
Outbreak: Contagion, Sensation, and the Obscured Geography of Poverty
· March 2, 2013
Lecture
Humanities Center, University of Illinois, Chicago
Workshop, Human Being After Genocide
· March 1, 2013
Lecture
Brigham Young University
From Cell Lines to Story Lines: The Science Fiction of Henrietta Lacks
· February 7, 2013
Lecture
Boston College
From Cell Lines to Story Lines: the Science Fiction of Henrietta Lacks and Other Tales from the Lab
· January 1, 2013
Lecture
Production of Literature Speaker Series, Carleton University
Keynote, 'What is Human Now?’: Species Identity in the Age of Biotechnology
· January 1, 2013
Lecture
Unity, Division, and the Making of American Identity, Eastern ASA conference, Harrisonburg, VA
Keynote Panel, Public Scholarship
· January 1, 2013
Lecture
Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
How Do You Know You’re Human?: Bioslavery in the Moment of Biotechnology
· January 1, 2013
Lecture
Carleton University
Cells, Race, and Stories: Henrietta Lacks and the HeLa Cell Line
· January 3, 2012
Lecture
Science and Social Justice, and the Center for Biomolecular Sciences and Engineering, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Sociology, University of California at Santa Cruz
Human Being After Genocide
· January 3, 2012
Lecture
Futures of Literary and Cultural Studies speakers series, University of California at Los Angeles
The Outbreak Narrative: Disease Emergence and the Obscured Geography of Poverty
· January 3, 2012
Lecture
Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, South Korea
How Do You Know You’re Human?: Bioslavery in the Moment of Biotechnology
· January 3, 2012
Lecture
Keynote, Health and Illness in Culture, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
Human Being Under the Microscope: From Science to Science Fiction in the Cold War
· January 3, 2012
Lecture
public address, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
Human Being Under the Microscope: From Science to Science Fiction in the Cold War
· January 3, 2012
Lecture
National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China
The Politics of Fear and the Antidote of Abstraction: Art in the Cold War
· January 3, 2012
Lecture
National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China
Botanophobia: Fear of Plants in the Atomic Age
· January 3, 2012
Lecture
National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China
Danger from Within: the Nuclear Family and the Drama of the Unconscious in the Cold War
· January 3, 2012
Lecture
National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China
From the Cold War to Star Wars: Vietnam and the New Myth of America
· January 3, 2012
Lecture
National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China
Biophobia: Fear of Life in an Age of Biotechnology
· January 3, 2012
Lecture
Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Clones, Chimeras, and Other Creatures of the Biotechnology Revolution: Toward a New Creation Story
· January 3, 2012
Lecture
Sogang University and Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Biophobia: Fear of Life in the Atomic Age
· January 3, 2012
Lecture
Presidential Address, Japanese Association for American Studies, Nagoya, Japan
Viral Visions: Disease Emergence and the Obscured Geography of Poverty
· January 3, 2012
Lecture
Kaynote Address, Speculative Futures, U Calif at Santa Barbara
Race, Cells, and Monstrosity: Biotechnology in Public Discourse
· January 3, 2012
Lecture
University of Manchester
The Outbreak Narrative: Disease Emergence and the Obscured Geography of Poverty
· January 3, 2012
Lecture
ESRC Genomics Research and Policy Forum and the Medical Humanities Research Network, University of Edinburgh
Race, Cells, and Monstrosity: Biotechnology in Popular Culture
· January 3, 2012
Lecture
Taking Good Care: A History of Health and Wellness in the Black Community, 32nd Annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series, Rutgers Newark (for MLK Day)
Cells, Genes, and Stories: HeLa’s Journey from Labs to Literature
· November 1, 2011
Lecture
Revolutionizing American Studies speakers series, CUNY Graduate Center
Presidential Address, Cells, Stories, and Social Justice
· October 19, 2011
Lecture
American Studies Association Convention, Baltimore, Md
Keynote, Contagion and the Global City
· September 15, 2011
Lecture
Miami University, Ohio
Keynote, Science and Religion in America
· September 12, 2011
Lecture
Princeton University
Literary Contagion
· August 28, 2011
Lecture
Contagionism and Contagious Diseases in Medicine and Literature, 1880-1930, Newcastle University
Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Towards a Genomic Creation Myth
· April 15, 2011
Lecture
Science and Society series, University of British Columbia
Cells, Genes, and Stories: HeLa’s Journey From Labs to Literature
· April 12, 2011
Lecture
University of Washington
Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Or, What Can We Learn from Our Monsters
· January 10, 2011
Lecture
Hiram College
Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology
· September 10, 2010
Lecture
Misercordia College
keynote, Humanity’s Borders: Cells, Genes, and Stories
· May 25, 2010
Lecture
Christina Conference, Helsinki University, Finland
keynote address, Human Being After Genocide: Cells, Genes, and Stories
· April 15, 2010
Lecture
Bios Symposium, University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana
Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology
· March 5, 2010
Lecture
College of Charleston
Bio Terror: From Microbes to Monsters in the Outbreak Narrative
· February 25, 2010
Lecture
global studies symposium on contagion, Whitman College
The Outbreak Narrative: Disease Emergence and the Obscured Geography of Poverty
· December 11, 2009
Lecture
Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, Hong Kong University
Human Being After Genocide: Cells, Genes, and Stories
· November 1, 2009
Lecture
Brown University
Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology
· May 1, 2009
Lecture
Columbia University Medical School
Contagious
· May 1, 2009
Lecture
Columbia University Medical School, Grand Rounds, Narrative Medicine
Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology
- Wesleyan University Center for the Humanities (Lecture Series)
· May 1, 2009
Invited Talk
Cells, Genes, and Stories: Human Being Under the Microscope in the Aftermath of War
· April 1, 2009
Lecture
Ward-Phillips Lecture Series, Notre Dame
Humanity's Borders: The View From Space
· April 1, 2009
Lecture
Ward-Phillips Lecture Series, Notre Dame
Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology
· March 1, 2009
Lecture
Second Annual Walter J. Ong, S.J., Memorial Lecture and Inaugural Lecture, Medical Humanities Program, St. Louis University
Public Matters: the Work of Art and Story in an Age of Biotechnology
· March 1, 2009
Lecture
keynote address, “Public Matters in American Literary and Cultural Studies,” Princeton University
Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology
· February 1, 2009
Lecture
Brown University
The Outbreak Narrative: Disease Emergence and the Obscured Geography of Poverty
· January 1, 2009
Lecture
Geography Colloquium, University of North Carolina
Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology
· January 1, 2009
Lecture
Trent History of Medicine Series, Duke University
Blood and Stories: Two Cultures in the Classroom
· January 22, 2008
Lecture
Modern Language Association (Presidential Forum)
Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology
· January 21, 2008
Lecture
Washington University
Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology
· January 21, 2008
Lecture
keynote address, Futures of American Studies, University of Florida
Writing Science From the Humanities
· January 21, 2008
Lecture
University of Idaho
Speaker
· January 21, 2008
Lecture
Transnational Futures Symposium, University of Pennsylvania
Speaker
· January 21, 2008
Lecture
Race and DNA Invited Conference, Rutgers University
Speaker
· January 21, 2008
Lecture
Genomics on TV, Durham, NC
The Outbreak Narrative: Disease Emergence and the Obscured Geography of
· January 21, 2008
Lecture
Keynote Address, Association of University Anesthesiologists Annual Convention
Outbreak Narrative
· January 21, 2008
Lecture
Grand Rounds, Infectious Disease, Duke University
Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology
· January 21, 2008
Lecture
Penn State University
Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
Bass Connections Faculty Team Leader - DECIPHER: Case Studies in Drinking Water Quality · 2018
- 2019
Projects & Field Work
Primary Theme: Energy & Environment
The technologies, processes and products we develop have impacts on the environment and our health. Some impacts are intended, and some are not. The policies adopted to regulate the risks of such developments may themselves pose unintended consequences. We can point to examples of product and policy advances intended to deliver benefits by minimizing one target risk, only to uncover later that unanticipated consequences created new risks. These complexities pose challenges for both private innovation and public oversight. They also present opportunities to improve understanding and decision-making. An important step in enabling such improvements is to understand the interconnected physical, economic, legal and cultural factors along the lifecycle of a set of decisions related to characterizing and managing risks.
Bass Connections Faculty Team Member - Decisions on Complex Interdisciplinary Problems of Health and Environmental Risk · August 2017
- May 2018
Projects & Field Work
United States of America
Service to the Profession
Co-Director, First Book Institute, Center for American Literary Studies, Pennsylvania State University
·
June 10, 2013
- June 14, 2013
Other
MLA Delegate for the American Council of Learned Societies
·
2011
Other
President and Immediate Past Present, American Studies Association
·
2011
- 2013
Other
Pool of Supervisors, Finnish Gender Studies Doctoral Program
·
2010
Other
Member, Jacob K. Javits Fellows Program Fellowship Board
·
2010
Other
Co-Director, First Book Institute, Center for American Literary Studies, Pennsylvania State University
·
June 10, 2013
- June 14, 2013
Other
MLA Delegate for the American Council of Learned Societies
·
2011
Other
President and Immediate Past Present, American Studies Association
·
2011
- 2013
Other
Pool of Supervisors, Finnish Gender Studies Doctoral Program
·
2010
Other
Member, Jacob K. Javits Fellows Program Fellowship Board
·
2010
Other
Advisory Board, Centre for Humanities and Medicine, University of Hong Kong
·
2010
Other
Selection Committee, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellowships (Mellon/ACLS Early Career Fell
·
2009
Other
National Council, American Studies Association
·
2009
Other
Program Committee, American Studies Association (for 2010 convention)
·
2009
- 2010
Other
Advisory Board, Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies
·
January 21, 2008
Other
series co-editor, "America and the Long Nineteenth Century" : NYU Press
·
2008
Other
Advisory Board, C19 (Society for the Study of 19th Century American Literature)
·
2008
- January 27, 2009
Other