IRA LIVINGSTON-- CURRICULUM VITAE 



EDUCATION

Ph.D. in English, Stanford University, 1990.

M.A. in English, Stanford University, 1985.

B.A. in English, Summa Cum Laude, Macalester College, 1983.


EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1999-present.

Associate Professor of English, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1997-present.

Assistant Professor of English, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1990-1997.

Women's Studies Affiliate, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1992-present.


SCHOLARSHIP 

Books:

Between Literature and Science: An Introduction to Autopoetics” ; foreword by N. Katherine Hayles. Forthcoming 2004, University of Illinois Press.

Arrow of Chaos: Romanticism and Postmodernity . University of Minnesota Press (Theory Out of Bounds Series); 1/97.

Posthuman Bodies (collected volume), as editor and author of preface and lead essay (both with Judith Halberstam), and as cover designer/illustrator. Indiana University Press; 1995.

Articles:

“Ce que signifie etre un theoreticien queer?”; trans. Robert Harvey, Rue Descartes #40, May 2003.

"The No-Trump Bid on Romanticism and Gender," Essays and Studies, 1997 (English Association Annual, U.K.).

"Defrosting: Self/Poetry/Power/Science," in Poetics/Politics, ed. A. Kumar; St. Martin’s, 1999.

"The Traffic in Leeches: David Cronenberg's Rabid and the Semiotics of Parasitism"; American Imago, Winter 1993.

"Indiscretions: Of Bodies, Genders and Technologies"; in Processed Lives, ed. J.Terry and M.Calvert; Routledge, 1997.

"Fractal Logics in Romanticism and Posthumanities" (English text by author with Spanish translation by Eleonora Falco); Ometeca Journal #5; Winter 1996-7.

Catalog Essay for Joseph Grigely, "Body Signs; Deviance, Difference and Eugenics"; Washington Project for the Arts, 1993.

"Semiotic Generators 39 & 173: 'Swimming In Language' and 'Romanticism and Posthumanities'" (experimental texts); Nomad: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Spring 1994.

Illustrations: "Automating Gender," in Feminist Studies, Fall 1991; "Three Drawings," in Sequoia, Spring 1989; "Three Lithographs," in Chanter, Winter 1983.

Poetry: "Books In Print," in Sequoia, Autumn 1985.


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