shannan’s academic work

dissertation

Tales as Old as Time? Myth, Gender, and the Fairy Tale in Popular Culture

ongoing research project(s)

analysis of female cyborgs in American blockbuster films

curriculum vitae

available upon request

syllabi

intro to women’s studies

• women’s studies and everyday life (fall 2006)
• myth-ing normal: conceptualizing the natural through fairy tales

intro to film studies

• screening schedule only (fall 2007)

intro to studies in sexualities

• reel sexualities (spring 2009)

special topics in women’s studies

• peer-taught feminist epistemologies (course outline, 2005-6)
• speculative fictions of gender
• techno-femmes: cyborgs, monsters, and “women” post-humanity
• contemporary mythography: theorizing 9/11 and hurricane katrina (available upon request)