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ANN LARABEE
Associate Professor; Director of American Studies
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
517/355-2400 (office); 517/353-5250 (fax)
teaching and research interests: disaster studies, cultural impacts of technology, cultural theory, feminism and technology, history of terrorism
course: WRA 110 Writing: Science and Technology; Body and Technology; Impacts of New Technologies on Women; Introduction to Women's Studies; American Studies Methodologies; American Radical Thought
Larabee earned her PhD in English at Binghamton University. Her teaching and research interests include disaster studies, cultural impacts of technology, cultural theory, feminism and technology, and history of terrorism. She has taught Tier 1 courses--Writing: Science and Technology and Writing: American Radical Thought--as well as upper level and graduate courses in American and Women’s Studies, including Body and Technology; Impacts of New Technologies on Women; Introduction to Women's Studies; and American Studies Methodologies. She is a member of the core faculty of the American Studies Program.
Larabee's recent publications include Decade of Disaster (University of Illinois Press, 2000); "'Nothing Ends Here': Managing the Challenger Disaster" in American Disasters (New York University Press, 2001); "The American Hero and His Mechanical Bride: Gender Myths of the Titanic Disaster" in Titanic: An Anthology (Penguin, 1999); "'The Drama of Transformation': Settlement House Idealism and the Neighborhood Playhouse" in Performing America: Cultural Nationalism in American Theatre (University of Michigan Press, 1999).
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