Carol Siegel

Biography

Prior to becoming a professor I lived most of my life in San Francisco where my sense of what is normal developed. I'm a graduate of San Francisco City College, San Francisco State, and U.C. Berkeley. I've been a radical feminist since 1971 and love literature, film, theory, and music.

Publications

Lawrence Among the Women: Wavering Boundaries in Women's Literary Traditions (1991), Male Masochism: Modern Revisions of the Story of Love (1995), New Millennial Sexstyles (2000), Goth's Dark Empire (2005) and articles on nineteenth and twentieth century literature, film, and youth cultures. I co-edit the online journals Genders (www.genders.org) and Rhizomes (www.rhizomes.net).

Research Iinterests

I work on the representation of sexuality in literature anf film, concentrating on contemporary youth cultures and changes in the discourses of feminism. My approach is informed by the theories of Foucault and Deleuze primarily, but also by other theorists of sexuality and gender.

Graduate Teaching Interests

I regularly teach seminars on feminist theory, with an emphasis on race and class issues, and French poststructuralism, with an emphasis on cultural contexts for ideas. I also enjoy teaching seminars on Women's Postmodernism and Victorian literature.

Links

www.genders.org

www.rhizomes.net