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STS Faculty

Bernice Hausman

Professor, English

Blacksburg Campus

206 Shanks Hall

Email: bhausman@vt.edu
Office: (540) 231-5076

  • sexed embodiment and medicine, exploring human embodiment within modern social formations. With published scholarship on transsexuality and medical technology, gender theories, and breastfeeding and medicine, she is widely read in the areas of reproductive technologies and practices, cultural studies of medicine, feminist theory, and the medical humanities. Her work relies on a Foucauldian framework and utilizes semiotic and rhetorical methodologies to explore the cultural production of meaning about modern bodies. She is developing a new research area in trauma studies and storytelling in post-genocide Rwanda.

 

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Department of Science and Technology in Society

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Blacksburg, VA 24061
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