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Carol Mason
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Minnesota
Areas of Interest & Expertise
- 20th Century American Literature and Culture
- Race and Reproduction
- Theories of Gender and Sexuality
- Discourse and Society, particularly the Post-WWII rise of the right
Recent Upper Division & Graduate Courses Taught
- Race and Reproduction in the US
- Gender and Sexuality in American Literature
- Feminist Theories
Selected Publications
Review of Shameless: Sexual Dissidence in American Culture by Arlene Stein. American Studies Journal 47.3-4 (2007): forthcoming.
"Reproducing the Souls of White Folk" Hypatia 22.2 (2007): 98-121.
"The Hillbilly Defense: Culturally Mediating U.S. Terror At Home and Abroad" National Women's Studies Association Journal 17.3 (2005): 39-63.
"An American Conflict: Representing the 1974 Kanawha County Textbook Controversy." Appalachian Journal 32.3 (2005): 352-378.
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Dare? Confronting Anti-abortion Terrorism after 9/11" Journal of Constitutional Law 6.4 (2005): 796-817. Reprinted in Gender and Apocolyptic Desire, Brenda Brasher and Lee Quinby, eds (London: Equinox Publishers, 2006).
Killing for Life: The Apocalyptic Narrative of Pro-life Politics. Cornell University Press, 2002.
"Cracked Babies and the Partial Birth of a Nation: Millenialism and Fetal Citizenship" Cultural Studies 14.1 (2000): 35-60.
Honors & Offices
- Rockefeller Foundation for the Humanities Scholar in Residence. Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia, Marshall University, 2002.
- Frieda L. Miller Postdoctoral Fellowship for Cultural Studies, the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College and Harvard University, 1998-99.
Recent Grants or Research Trips
- Big XII Faculty Fellowship, University of Kansas, 2007.
- NEH Summer Institute for Teachers on service learning. Appalachia Up Close: Regional Study and Liberal Arts, Ferrum College, 2004.
- Nevada Humanities Council grant for "Nevada Women's Oral Histories of WWII" programs, 2004.
Recent Conference Presentations
"Regionalism and the 'Return of Religion': Teaching Gender in Red States." NWSA Conference, Illinois, June, 2007.
"Gender: A Useful Category for Analyzing Appalachia." Appalachian Studies Association. Maryville, Tennessee, April 2007.
"Contextualizing Kopp's 'Abortion is Holocaust' Statement" The Abortion Controversy in Context, Baldy Center for Law and Policy, University at Buffalo Law School, October, 2006.
"The Story Behind Partial Birth" 'Pro-life' Visual Politics, Narrative and History" The 13th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Claremont, California, June, 2005.
Current Research & Projects
Soul on Appalachian Ice: Ethnicity, Gender, Protest.
English Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Oklahoma State University
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