Ann Brigham
Associate Professor of English & Women's and Gender Studies
Director, Women's and Gender Studies Program
Roosevelt University
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Chicago Campus |
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476
(Auditorium Bldg.)
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3725
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TU 4:30-5:30PM; TH 12:30-1:30PM or by appointment |
| E-mail |
abrigham@roosevelt.edu |
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| Education |
Ph.D. University of Arizona
M.A. University of Arizona
B.A. Bard College
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| Research Interests |
Twentieth-century American literature and culture, especially fiction and popular culture; Native American literature; gender and sexuality studies; contemporary feminist theories; theories of space, place, and tourism
I am currently writing a book on representations of spatial and social mobility in American road narratives. |
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| Scholarly Publications (selected) |
“Behind-the-Scenes Tourism: Promoting Production in a Landscape of Consumption.” The Themed
Space: Locating Culture, Nation and Self. Ed. Scott A. Lukas. Lexington Books, 2007.
“Touring Memorial Hall: The State of the Union in The Bostonians.” Arizona Quarterly 62.3
(2006): 1-25.
“Productions of Geographic Scale and Capitalist-Colonialist Enterprise in Leslie Marmon Silko’s
Almanac of the Dead.” Modern Fiction Studies 50 (2004): 303-31.
“Consuming Pleasures of Re/production: Going Behind the Scenes in Spielberg’s Jurassic
Park and at Universal Studios Theme Park.” Genders 36 (2002): 53 pars. http://www.genders.org/g36/g36_brigham.html
With Sallie Marston. “On Location: Teaching the Western American Landscape through Mi
Vida Loca and Terminator 2.” In Engaging Film: Geographies of Mobility and
Identity. Ed. Tim Cresswell and Deborah Dixon. Rowman and Littlefield P, 2002. 226-45.
Co-editor (with Susan Aiken, Sallie A. Marston, Penny Waterstone). Making Worlds: Gender, Metaphor, Materiality. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. |
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| Other Courses Taught |
ENG 356/456: American Road Novels
ENG 355: Landscape and Literature
ENG 347/447: Contemporary Native American Literature
ENG 328/428: American Literature Since 1945
ENG 328/428: American Literary Realism
ENG/HIST 326/426: Marketing the Nation: Consumerism and Democracy in America,1920-40 (interdisciplinary course team taught with Margaret Rung, history)
ENG 327/427: Twentieth-Century American Women’s Fiction
ENG 326/426: American Gothic Literature
ENG 308/408 Gender in American Road Novels and Film
ENG 222 (honors): Writing About Ideas: Theorizing Tourism
ENG 215: Introduction to Contemporary Native American Literature
ENG 213: American Literature 1865 to the Present
ENG102: Argument, Analysis, Research
WGS 404: Feminist Theories of Space and Place
WGS 402: Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
WGS 304/404: Feminist Theories: Second and Third Waves
Newberry Library Undergraduate Seminar: Sites of Democracy and Difference: U.S. Popular Culture and Entertainment,1880-1930 (co-taught with Lew Erenberg, history department, Loyola University Chicago)
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Roosevelt University
Chicago 430 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Schaumburg
1400 N. Roosevelt Blvd, Schaumburg, IL 60173 |
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