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Debra Benita Shaw
Position: Senior Lecturer
Location: EB.1.18, Docklands
Contact address:
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of East London
Docklands Campus
University Way
London E16 2RD
Brief biography:
Debra Benita Shaw is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Media & Cultural Studies at the University of East London. She is the author of Women, Science & Fiction:The Frankenstein Inheritance (Palgrave/St Martins Press, 2000) and Technoculture: The Key Concepts (Berg, 2008). She has also published papers on feminism and science fiction, science fiction film, the psychedelic politics of Timothy Leary and, most recently, an analysis of film, architecture and the politics of the body (for Parallax). She is currently editing a special issue of the journal Science as Culture, entitled 'Technology, Death and the Cultural Imagination'. She is also a photographer with a particular interest in architecture and urban environments.
Qualifications
- 1987, BA (Hons), English Literature with Philosophy, 2:1, Polytechnic of North London
- 1995, PhD, Department of English & American Studies, University of East Anglia. Thesis: The Feminist Perspective: Women Writing Science Fiction.
Previous posts held
- 1995-2001, Lecturer/Visiting Lecturer, Department of Arts & Humanities, University of North London
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Activities/responsible for:
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Areas of interest/Summary of Expertise:
- Cyberculture and the body
- Gender, sexuality and science fiction
- Architecture and the city
- Posthumanism
Teaching:
Programmes:
- Cultural Politics: Power & Contemporary Social Change
- Culture & Economy in the Modern City
- Culture, Power & Resistance in the 21st Century
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Research / Publications:
Current research:
All publications post 2001:
Monograph:
- Technoculture: The Key Concepts, Berg, 2008. ISBN:
9781845202989
Journal articles:
- 'Systems, Architecture & The Digital Body' in Parallax, 14:3, August, 2008, pp74-87. ISSN:
1460-700X (electronic) 1353-4645 (paper)
- Sex and the Single Starship Captain: Compulsory Heterosexuality and Star Trek: Voyager' in Femspec, 7.1, 2006, pp66-85. ISSN: 1523 4002
- 'Bodies Out of This World: The Space Suit as Cultural Icon' in Science as Culture, Vol 13, No. 1, March 2004, pp123-144. ISSN: 0950-5431
- 'The Scientist Goes Surfing: Timothy Leary, LSD & The Internet' in Philip Tew & Wendy Wheeler (eds), New Formations: Complex Figures , No. 49, Spring, 2003, pp110-123. ISBN: 0-85315-974-2
- 'The Video Word Made Flesh: Spectacular Transgressions in David Cronenberg's Videodrome ' in Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction , No 84 (Spring, 2002), pp22-35. ISSN: 0306-4964258
Book Reviews
- 'No One Will Know the Difference?', review of Daniel Dinello's Technophobia!: Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology in Science as Culture, Volume 16, No. 1, March 2007
- 'Stories About Stories', review of Donna J Haraway's The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness, Sarah Kember'sCyberfeminism and Artificial Life and Jane Miller's Relations in Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, Issue 26, Spring, 2004, pp138-143. ISBN: 0-85315-993-9
- 'Aliens and Imperialism', review of Errol Vieth's Screening Science: Contexts, Texts and Science in Fifties Science Fiction Film in Science as Culture , Volume 12, No. 2, June 2003. ISSN: 0950-5431, pp257-262
Periodical and newspaper articles
- 'Making Starship Troopers' in Bad Subjects , No 63, April, 2003, www.eserver.org/bs/63/shaw.htm .
- Review of Gwyneth Jones' Bold As Love in Mute No. 24, May, 2002, p66.
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Research archive:
Key publications pre 2001:
- Women, Science & Fiction: The Frankenstein Inheritance , Palgrave (Macmillan) Press, 2000.
- 'In Her Own Image: The Constructed Female in Women's Science Fiction' in Science as Culture , Vol 3, Pt 2, No 15, Free Association Books, 1992
- 'Virtually Human: Replication & Subjectivity in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner' in Wojciech Kalaga and Tadeusz Rachwal (eds) Signs of Culture: Simulacra and the Real, Frankfurt, Berlin, New York: Lang Verlag, 2000
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