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Curriculum Vitae

Robyn Wiegman

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Contact Info
    Box 90760
    Durham, NC 27708 (919) 684-5683 (office)
    (email)
Education

    PhD University of Washington 1988
    MFA Indiana University 1984
    BA Indiana University 1981
    Women's Studies Certificate Indiana University 1981

Conferences Organized
  • OrganizerFeminist Theory Workshop, 2006-2007
  • Co-OrganizerGender, Empire, and the Politics of Eastern and Central Europe, Spring 2007

Professional Service
  • Editorial Board, 2005 - present, member
  • Editorial Board, 2008 - present, Member
  • Editorial Advisory Board, 2008 - present, Member
  • Advisory Board, 2008 - present, Member
  • Series Editor, 2008 - present
  • Consultant, 2008-2009
  • Executive Committee, 2008 - present, Member
  • Jean Fox O'Barr Search Committee (ex officio), 2006-2007
  • Women's Studies Steering Committee, Chair, 2004 - 2007
  • Journal Referee, January 1, 2003 - present
  • Search Committee, Jean Fox O'Barr Chair, 2002 - 2004
  • Americas Studies Committee, Trinity College, 2001-03, Member
  • Feminist Studies Across the Disciplines Lecture Series, 2001-2007, Organizer
  • Arts and Sciences Council, 2001-03, fall 2006, faculty representative
  • Women's Studies Steering Committee, Member, December 2008
  • Manuscript Prize Committee, December 2008, Member
  • Foundation Proposal Referee, December 2008, Referee
  • Editorial Board, 2002-2008, Member
  • Linda Zerilli Tenure Review Committee, November 2007, Member
  • Ara Wilson Tenure Review Committee (ex officio), 2006
  • Literature Program, Tenure Committee Chair (Viego), 2006
  • Blue Sky Committee, Provost's Office, 2006
  • Director of Graduate Studies, 2001-2004, 2006-2007
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies, 2001-2005, 2006-2007
  • Blue Sky Committee, Provost's Office, December 2005
  • Jean Fox O'Barr Distinguished Chair Review Committee, 2004
  • Jean Fox O'Barr Distinguished Chair Search Committee, 2002-2004, Ex Officio Member
  • Jean Fox O'Barr Distinguished Chair Review Committee, May, 2004
  • Graduate Admissions, Literature, March, 2004
  • Three Year Review Committee (Ranjana Khanna), English and Literature, Spring 2003, Member
  • Tenure and Review Committee (Kathi Weeks), 2002, Ex Officio Member
  • Tenure Review Committee (Tomiko Yoda), AALL, 2002, Member
  • Graduate Scholars Program, 2001-2003, 2006-2007, Faculty Director
  • Search Committee, 2001-2002, Ex Officio Member
  • Undergraduate Curriculum Ad Hoc Committee, 2001-2002, Chair
  • Graduate Curriculum Review, 2001-2002, Chair
Recent Publications   (More Publications)
  1. R. Wiegman. "Romancing the Future: Internationalization as Symptom and Wish." American Studies: An Anthology  (Accepted, 2009).
  2. R. Wiegman. "“Outside American Studies: On the Unhappy Pursuits of Non-Complicity”."  (reprint) American Studies in Germany  (Accepted, forthcoming 2009).
  3. R. Wiegman. "“Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity”."  (reprint) Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice  (Accepted, forthcoming 2009).
  4. R. Wiegman, Anna Curcio, and Michael Hardt. "“Le presidenziali americane all’ombra della crisi finanziaria: Quale rappresentanza per le presidenziali americane?”."  http://www.posseweb.net/spip.php?article239 Posse (Ottobre 2008) ().
Selected Talks

  • "The Future of Feminist/Gender History" (panelist, co-chair), Department of History Conference, Closing Roundtable, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Feb 2008
  • "The Intimacy of Critique", Workshop on International Politics in the Twenty First Century: Ending International Feminist Futures?, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, October 2008
  • "The Progress of Gender", Melbourne Center for Research on Women and Gender Anniversary Conference and Mini-Seminar, Feb 2008
  • “Knowing What We Mean”, Gender Institute, London School of Economics, Nov 2008
  • "Knowing What We Mean", Women's Studies Lecture Series, University of California, Berkeley, November, 2007
  • "Against the Urgency of the Present", The Futures of Feminist Theory Conference, Keynote, Rutgers University, October, 2007
  • "Happiness: In Pursuit of an Americanist Archive", The Pursuits of Happiness Interdisciplinary Seminar, Keynote, The Center for American Studies in Rome and the Italian Association for North American Studies, Rome, Italy, May, 2007
  • "Doing Justice with Objects", Intimacy, Postsecularism, Postcolonialism Workshop, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Columbia University, April 2006
  • "Outside American Studies", Keynote Lecture, Internationalizing American Studies Conference, University of Bonn, Germany, July 2006
  • “The Vertigo of Critique,”, University of Bonn, Germany, July 2006
  • “American Studies and the International Imperative,” Keynote Speaker, Nordic American Studies Association Conference, Voxjo, Sweden,, May 2005
  • “Between Women’s Studies and Queer Theory,” School of Criticism and Theory Conference, Duke University,, April 2005
  • “Feminist Theory: Currents and Imperatives,” Women and Gender Studies, Rice University,, October 2005
  • “Joyful Forgetting: Feminism and the Emergence of the ‘Global Left,’”Cultural Studies Speaker Series, University of California, Davis,, April 2005
  • “Lost Relations: Emergence, Genealogy, and the ‘Global Left,’” Pembroke Center for Research on Women, Brown University,, April 2005
  • “Sexual Subjects, Transnational Dialogues: Field Report, ” Plenary Speaker, Feminist Dialogues on Social Justice Conference, University of Washington,, October 2005
  • “The Desire for Gender,” Gender Seminar, Women’s Studies Program, University of Kansas,, May 2005
  • “The Desire for Gender,” Keynote Speaker, Center for Feminist and Gender Studies Conference on Heteronormativity: a Fruitful Concept?, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim,, May 2005
  • “The Desire for Gender,” Larry Kramer Center, Yale University,, February 2005
  • “On the Psychic Life of Women’s Studies,” Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University,, February 2005
  • "Outside American Studies: On Internationalization and Critical Exceptionalism,", Beyond a Boundary: Area, Ethnic/Race and Gender Studies and the "New" Global Imperative, University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana, December, 2004
  • "Toward Something", Dignity and Shame: An Inquiry into the State of our Art on Sex, Sexuality, Gender and the Family Conference, Program on Law and Social Thought, Harvard Law School, November, 2004
  • "Being in Time with Feminism", Gender Studies, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, July, 2004
  • "Outside American Studies", Australia and New Zealand American Studies Association Conference, Keynote Speaker, Auckland University, Auckland, New Zealand, July, 2004
  • "The Institutional Future of Women's Studies", Centre for Cultural Studies, University of Auckland, New Zealand, July, 2004
  • "Being in Time with Feminism", Uppsala University, Sweden, May, 2004
  • "American Literature and Feminist Criticism", Benson Endowed Lectureship, English Department, Auburn University, April, 2004
  • "Being in Time with Feminism", Linda Singer Memorial Lecture, Philosophy, Miami University, Oxford, OH, March, 2004
  • "The Possibility of Women's Studies", Faculty/Student Research Seminar, Philosophy and Women's Studies, Miami University, Oxford, OH, March, 2004
  • Feminism After the disciplines, 13 December 2003
  • "Taking a Break From Feminism", Harvard University, 20 November 2003
  • On Being in Time with Feminism, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 20 October 2003
  • The Psychic Life of Women's Studies, Dartmouth College, 17 June 2003
  • Bad Habits, Cornell University, 18 April 2003
  • Feminism's Broken English: Or a Theoretical Defense of the Humanities, State University of New York, Binghamton, 10 April 2003
  • The Humanities in an Age of Crisis, Humanities Center, State University of New York, Binghamton, April, 2003
  • Feminism in Time, University of California, Santa Barbara, 20 February 2003
  • Feminism in Time, Women's Studies, Disciplinarity, and Interdisciplinarity: Conversations for Change Lecture Series, University of California, Santa Barbara, February, 2003
  • Sex and the Troubled Lives of Feminism and Queer Theory, UCLA, 23 January 2003
  • Sex and the Troubled Life of Feminism and Queer Theory, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Program, UCLA, January, 2003
  • 'Academic Feminism' and Other Swear Words, University of North Carolina, September 2002
  • Activism, Policy, and the PhD in Women's Studies, National Council for Research on Women Annual Conference, New York, May 2002
  • Feminism's Broken English, Ohio State University, April 2002
  • Intimate Publics: Race, Property, and Personhood, University of California, Riverside, March 2002
  • Just in Time: Women's Studies and Its Futures, University of Northern Colorado, October 2002
  • On Being in Time with Feminism, University of Washington, October 2002
  • On Literary Objects and Racialized Memory, University of California, Santa Cruz, March 2002
  • On the Uses of Literary Objects for American Studies, Dartmouth College, June 2002
  • Race and Reproductive Technologies, Duke University, November 2002
  • Women's Studies on its Own, University of Pittsburgh, September 2002
  • Feminist Futures, University of Iowa, December 2002
  • Feminist Futures, Women’s Studies Lecture Series, University of Iowa, December, 2002
  • Becoming Canonical: The Life Cycle and Time of Feminist Theory, Modern Language Quarterly Symposium, University of Washington, October, 2002
  • Just in Time: Women’s Studies and Its Futures, Women’s Studies Lecture Series, University of Northern Colorado, October, 2002
  • Academic Feminism and Other Swear Words, Women’s Studies Lecture Series, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, September, 2002
  • Women’s Studies on Its Own, Women’s Studies 30th Anniversary Conference, University of Pittsburgh, September, 2002
  • Activism, Policy, and the Ph.D. in Women’s Studies, Facing Global and National Crises: Women Define Human Security, The National Council for Research on Women Annual Conference, New York City, May, 2002
  • Feminism's Broken English: Or, a Political Defense of a Theoretical Humanities, English Department Symposium on Twentieth Century American Literature and Queer Studies, Ohio State University, Columbus, April, 2002
  • Intimate Publics: Race, Property, and Personhood, Center for Ideas and Society, University of California - Riverside, March, 2002
  • On Literary Objects and Racialized Memory, Americanist Centennials: Columbus to Moby Dick & Beyond Symposium, University of California, Santa Cruz, March, 2002
  • Women's Studies on its Own, Smith College, January 2002
  • Women’s Studies on Its Own, The Future of Women’s Studies Symposium, Smith College, January, 2002
  • Doctoral Training, Women's Studies and the Future of the University, Emory University, October 2001
  • Doctoral Training, Women’s Studies, and the Future of the University, The Women’s Studies Ph.D. Conference, Emory University, October, 2001
  • Academic Feminism Against Itself, National Women's Studies Association Conference, June 2001
  • The Promise of Cultural Studies, Dartmouth College, June 2001
  • Academic Feminism Against Itself, Plenary Speaker, National Women’s Studies Association Conference, University of Minnesota, June, 2001
  • The Promise of Cultural Studies, Keynote Speaker, Masters in Liberal Arts Program Symposium, Dartmouth College, June, 2001
  • Feminism's Broken English, Cornell University, April 2001
  • Institutional Locations: Building LGBT Studies into the 21st Century, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York, April 2001
  • Feminism’s Broken English, Feminist Criticism and Its Futures Lecture Series, Cornell University, April, 2001
  • Institutional Locations, Futures of the Field: Building LGBT Studies into the 21st Century University, The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York, April, 2001
  • Feminism's Idiom of Failure, Lancaster University, March 2001
  • Women's Studies and the Instrumentalization of the Political, Indiana University, March 2001
  • Feminism’s Idiom of Failure, Transformations: Thinking Feminism Conference, Lancaster University, March, 2001
  • Women’s Studies and the Instrumentalization of the Political, Flexible Knowledges: Interdisciplinarity, Globalization, and the Future of the University, Plenary Speaker, Indiana University, March, 2001
  • Utopian Aspirations, Workshop on Feminist Sexuality Studies, University of Chicago, January, 2001
  • Revolutionary Words, Rice University, November 2000
  • Interdisciplinarity and Institutionalization: The Future of Women's Studies, University of Arizona, October 2000
  • Interdisciplinarity and Institutionalization,”, Plenary Speaker, The Future of Women’s Studies, University of Arizona, October, 2000, October, 2000
  • Revolutionary Words, The Future of Feminist Critique: Ethics, Agency, Politics, Plenary Speaker, Rice University, November, 2000
  • Born in the USA: Race and In Vitro Kinship, Dartmouth College, June 2000
  • Born in the USA: Race and In Vitro Kinship, Plenary Speaker, Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College, June, 2000
  • Politics and the Profession, University of Florida, March 2000
  • The University in the Afterlife of Identity Politics, Rice University, March 2000
  • Politics and the Profession, English Department Lecture Series, University of Florida, March, 2000
  • The University in the After Life of Identity Politics, Keynote Speaker, Analysis Now, Department of English Symposium, Rice University, March, 2000
  • The Race Politics of the Womb, University of California, Berkeley, February 2000
  • The Race Politics of the Womb, Plenary Speaker, Race, Nature and the Politics of Difference, University of California - Berkeley Institute of International Studies, February, 2000
  • Feminism's Apocalyptic Futures, UCLA, October 1999
  • Queer Studies: From Here to Eternity, UCLA, October 1999
  • Feminism’s Apocalyptic Futures, UCLA Center for the Study of Women Speakers Series, October, 1999
  • Queer Studies: From Here to Eternity, Roundtable Discussant, QGRAD: A Graduate Student Conference on Sexuality and Gender, UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program, October, 1999
  • The University and the After Life of Identity Politics, Dartmouth College, June 1999
  • The University and the After Life of Identity Politics, Plenary Speaker, Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College, June, 1999
  • Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity, Conference on Narrative Literature, April 1999
  • Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity, Plenary Speaker, Conference on Narrative Literature, Dartmouth College, April, 1999
  • Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity, University of California, Berkeley, March 1999
  • Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity, English Department Lecture Series, University of California - Berkeley, March, 1999
  • Feminism and the Afterlife of Identity Politics, Plenary Speaker, University of Virginia American Studies Symposium, March, 1999
  • What's New(s) About Whiteness Studies?, UCLA, February 1999
  • What’s New(s) About Whiteness Studies, UCLA Center for the Study of Women Speakers Series, February, 1999
  • Feminism After the Disciplines, English Department Lecture Series, Indiana University, December, 1998
  • Difference and Disciplinarity, Plenary Speaker, Aesthetics and Difference Conference, University of California - Riverside, October, 1998
  • Theories of Sexuality, USIA Summer Institute, University of California - Santa Barbara, July, 1998
  • What’s New(s) About Whiteness Studies?, Plenary Speaker, Rethinking Race, Troubling Empiricism Conference, University of California - San Diego, February, 1998
  • History and Theory: Negotiating the Divide, Plenary Speaker, University of California Graduate History Conference, University of California - Irvine, November, 1997
  • Queer Theory as Political Critique, Plenary Speaker, Creating Change Conference, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, San Diego, November, 1997
  • White Studies After the Disciplines, Keynote Speaker, In Search of American Cultures Summer Symposium, Dartmouth College, August, 1997
  • Racial Rage in Forrest Gump’s America, English Department Lecture Series, University of Alabama at Birmingham, February, 1997
  • Race Supremacy in Contemporary America, Women’s Studies Lecture Series, University of California - San Diego, November, 1996
  • Natural Born Whiteness, Plenary Speaker, Interdisciplinary Group for Historical Literary Study and Women’s Studies, Texas A & M, College Station, April, 1996
  • The Queer Present Tense, Keynote Speaker, West Virginia University Graduate Symposium, Morgantown, PA, March, 1996
  • Queer Knowledges/Queer Politics, Feminist and Gender Studies Colloquium, Haverford College, Philadelphia, PA, March, 1996
  • What is Queer Studies?, English Department Lecture Series, Purdue University, March, 1995
  • Embodied, Unpleasured, Plenary Speaker, Gay/Lesbian/Queer: Knowledges and Identities for the 90's, University of California - San Diego, January, 1995
  • Feminist Futures, Keynote Speaker, Gender Studies Symposium, Wabash College, October, 1994
  • Speaking for the Dead, Keynote Speaker, Out in the Academy, Syracuse University Symposium on Lesbian and Gay Studies, February, 1994
  • The Lesbian Postmodern?”, Plenary Speaker, Post/ Modernism/ Feminism Symposium, University of Louisville, October, 1993
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