Office: Keezell
413
Phone: 540-568-3758
Email: thompsmx@jmu.edu
Office Hours: T/Th 3:30-5; W 2-4; M/F by appointment
Co-Coordinator, Women's Studies Program
Courses: Spring 2008
GAMST 200 Introduction to American Studies
WMST 200 Introduction to Women's Studies
ENG 466 Motherhood in Toni Morrison's Fiction
Fall 2007
GENG 248 American Literature II
ENG 302/03 "Gender and Working Class Literature"
ENG 467 Feminist Literary Theory
Also taught
WMST 200 Introduction to Women’s Studies
GAMST 200 American Borders of Identity, Community and Nation
GHUM 200 Memory, Narrative and Truth
GENG 248 American Literature 1865-present
ENG 299 Writing About Literature
ENG 368 Troublemakers: Disruptive Women’s Writing
ENG 368 Narratives of Female Development
ENG 466 Toni Morrison and Motherhood
ENG 467 Feminist Literary Theory
ENG 674 Literature and Body Studies
Specialties: American Literature, Women's Literature,
Feminist Theory, and Theories of The Body
Faculty Advisor: Sister Speak, Free Thinkers
Education: BA University of Vermont,
French and English; MA University of Vermont, English; PhD Bowling
Green State University, American Culture Studies
Publications:
"Juno or Just Another Girl? Young Breeders and a New Century of Racial Politics and Motherhood.” In Motherhood at the 21st Century: Policy, Experience, Identity, Agency. Ed. Andrea O’Reilly. (forthcoming)
“’Finding God’ But Not the Third Wave: Doing Women’s Studies at an Abortion Clinic.” In Locating Women’s Studies. Eds. Catherine Orr and D. Lichtenstein. (forthcoming)
“What is a Feminist Blog?” Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women’s Studies Resources. 27(2) Winter 2006.
"Third Wave Feminism and Motherhood." GENDERS 43 (Spring
2006): 40pars
http://www.genders.org/g43/g43_marythompson.html
"The Construction of Public Health in the FDA Hearings
on Silicone Breast Implants" in Body Talk: Rhetoric, Technology,
and Reproduction. Eds Claire Gavon, L. Gurak, M. Lay and C. Mynti.
Chicago: U. of Wisconsin Press, 2000.
Works in Progress:
No Easy Choice: New Conversations in the Abortion Debate. Co-Edited with Dr. Jeannie Ludlow.
“Learn Something From This! The Problem of Optional Ethnicity in America’s Next Top Model.” In circulation.
Selected Conference Presentations:
"'I'm Against Abortion, But...": Hostile Abortion Patients and 'Post-Feminist' Challenges to Abortion on Demand." June 2007. National Women's Studies Association Conference. Chicago, IL.
“Representing the Fetus at Abortion Clinics.” June 2006. National Women’s Studies Association Conference. Oakland, CA.
“The Jell-O Theory of Individuality: Erika Lopez’s Flaming Iguanas and the Female Bildungsroman.” February 2006. 20th Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville.
“Optional Ethnicity and America’s Next Top Model.” Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference. October 2005. Michigan Tech. Houghton, MI.
“The Politics of Motherhood and Third Wave Feminism.” Association for Research on Motherhood Annual Conference. October 2004. Toronto, Canada.
"A Regrettable Necessity: Do Abortion Clinics Belong to Their Communities?" October 2003. American Studies Association Conference. Hartford, CT.
"Teaching Breeder: The New Generation of Mothers in the College Classroom." April 2002. Purdue Women's Studies Symposium: Third Wave Feminism. W. Lafayette, IN.
"Man-Made Muscle: Constructions of Masculinity in the Memoirs of Sam Fussell and Ken Baker." February 2002. 20th Century Literature Conference. Louisville, KY.
"The Center for Choice: Changing the Abortion Conversation." June 2001. National Women's Studies Association Conference. Minneapolis, MN.
“Cyborg Writing in the Fictions of Gibson, Cadigan, and Piercy.” February 2000, 20th Century Literature Conference. Louisville, KY.
"Narrative in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon." February 1997, 20th Century Literature Conference. Louisville, KY.
"The Construction of Public Health in the FDA Hearings on Silicone Breast Implants." October 1996. American Studies Association Conference. Kansas City, MO.
"Tinkering With The Machine: Ideology in Sophie Treadwell's Machinal." February 1996. 20th Century Literature Conference. Louisville, KY.
"The Body Politic in Terry Tempest Williams' Refuge." June 1995. ASLE Conference. Fort Collins, CO.
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