Assistant Professor
Professor
Research Interests
Gender/Sexuality Studies, Irish Studies, Modern British, Theory & Criticism, Women's Literature
Education
Ph.D., Princeton University; M.A., Princeton University; B.A., University of Texas at Austin
Courses Taught
Modernist literature; Irish literature; fairy tales and gender formation; Beckett; Eliot; Homer; Joyce; Wilde; Woolf; Yeats; literary authority and the Holocaust
Additional Campus Affiliations
Clayton and Thelma Kirkpatrick Professor, English
Professor, English
Professor, Gender and Women's Studies
Highlighted Publications
Mahaffey, V. (1988). Reauthorizing Joyce. Cambridge University Press.
Mahaffey, V. (1998). States of Desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish Experiment. Oxford University Press.
Mahaffey, V. (2007). Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions. Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470775721
Recent Publications
Ellmann, M., White, S., & Mahaffey, V. (2021). The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism. (Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities). Edinburgh University Press.
Mahaffey, V. (2021). Irish Christian Comedy: Heresy or Reform? In M. Ellmann, S. White, & V. Mahaffey (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism (Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities). Edinburgh University Press.
Mahaffey, V., & Truran, W. J. (2020). Feeling Ulysses: An Address to the Cyclopean Reader. In P. Kitcher (Ed.), Joyce's Ulysses: Philosophical Perspectives (pp. 100-131). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190842260.003.0004
Mahaffey, V. (2017). Darkening Freedom: Yeats, Joyce, Beckett. In V. Sherry (Ed.), The Cambridge History of Modernism (pp. 646-662). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139540902.040
Mahaffey, V. (2015). “Ricorso”: The Flaming Door of IV. In K. J. Devlin, & C. Smedley (Eds.), Joyce's Allmaziful Plurabilities: Polyvocal Explorations of Finnegans Wake (pp. 290-306). (The Florida James Joyce Series). University Press of Florida. https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813061542.003.0018
Professor
Research Interests
Gender/Sexuality Studies, American, later, Theory & Criticism, Women's Literature
Research Description
Since 2004, Dale M. Bauer has been a Professor of English atthe University of Illinois, Miami U of Ohio, College of the Holy Cross, andFranklin& Marshall College. In addition to writing on feminist and critical pedagogy, she has also published Feminist Dialogics, Edith Wharton’s Brave New Politics, and edited collections on Bakhtin and feminism, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-paper,” and 19th-century American women’s writing. Her new book, Sex Expression and American Women’s Writing, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in May 2009. This is a study of American women’s writing about sexuality, from 1860 to 1940, with sentimental fictions like The Morgesons and The Silent Partner to the huge bestsellers byJewish-American writer Fannie Hurst. This new rhetoric of sexuality enables critical conversations about who had sex, when in life they had it, and how it signified.
She is now studying the 50+ novels of the 19th-century writer EDEN Southworth (essay forthcoming in Arizona Quarterly), as well as editing the Cambridge History of American Women’s Literature(forthcoming Spring 2012).
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor Emerita, English
Highlighted Publications
Bauer, D. M. (2009). Sex Expression and American Women Writers 1860–1940. University of North Carolina Press. https://doi.org/10.5149/9780807887691_bauer
Bauer, D. M. (1994). Edith Wharton's brave new politics. University of Wisconsin Press. http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1202/94013432-d.html
Bauer, D. M. (1988). Feminist dialogics: A theory of failed community. State University of New York Press. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=7380
Recent Publications
Bauer, D. M. (2019). Nineteenth-century American women's serial novels. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108761017
Bauer, D. M. (2018). “The zipless fuck is absolutely pure”: Sexual liberation and 1970s american literature. In American Literature in Transition, 1970-1980 (pp. 102-114). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316584484.008
Bauer, D. M. (2016). Serial women writers and racial intimacy. Arizona Quarterly, 72(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1353/arq.2016.0004
Bauer, D. (2013). Seriality and Ann Stephens. J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, 1(1), 28-35. https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2013.0010
Bauer, D. (2013). Why Read E. D. E. N. Southworth? Arizona Quarterly, 69(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1353/arq.2013.0006
Professor
Research Interests
19th- and 20th-Century European and American literature
Painting and Film
Modernism and Post-Modernism
Interdisciplinary Research
Psychoanalytic theory
Translation
Women's studies
Education
Doctorat d’État: University of Paris (1980)
Doctorat de Troisième Cycle: University of Paris (1974)
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor Emerita, French and Italian
Professor Emerita, Program in Comparative and World Literature
External Links
Highlighted Publications
Blake, N. (2001). Robert Steiner: La rhétorique de la passion. (Voix Américaines). Belin.
Recent Publications
Blake, N. (2007). L'Art et l'inceste: Sarabande d'Ingmar Bergman. Evolution Psychiatrique, 72(2), 313-324. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evopsy.2007.04.006
Blake, N. (2005). Che vuoi? Jouir du symptôme pervers dans le cinéma de Pedro Almodóvar. Evolution Psychiatrique, 70(3), 613-621. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evopsy.2005.06.003
Blake, N. (2003). Beyond Postmodernism: An Introduction. Communication Review, 6(4), 269-274. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714420390249185
Blake, N. (2003). “We Won’t Be Like Them”: Repetition Compulsion in Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love. Communication Review, 6(4), 341-356. https://doi.org/10.1080/714858385
Blake, N. (2003). What's your story: Narration and "a new knowledge of reality" in the death of the novel and other stories. In Musing the Mosaic: Approaches to Ronald Sukenick (pp. 65-73). State University of New York Press.
Associate Professor Emerita
Biography
Through her retirement from university teaching at the end of 2018, Ramona Curry designed and delivered courses on the histories, theories, and strategies for writing about cinema and other forms of popular media and culture. Her research focuses on the sociocultural impact of media institutions, including film stars and cinema distribution and exhibition historically. She has written extensively about German and more recently about Hong Kong cinema of the mid-20th century. She is author of Too Much of a Good Thing: Mae West as Cultural Icon (U of Minnesota P, 1996) and numerous essays that have appeared in U.S. and international anthologies and journals, including Cinema Journal, The Journal of Women’s History, Journal of Film and Video, and Camera Obscura.
Prof. Curry taught at Hong Kong Baptist University as the recipient of a 2004 Fulbright Award and spent Spring 2015 as the "Fulbright Distinguished Chair of American Studies" at Uppsala University in Sweden. She is currently completing a monograph entitled Trading in Cultural Spaces: How Chinese Film Came to America, which takes an urban cultural geographic and historiographic approach to rewriting American cinema history “from the margins.” The archive-research-intensive project has received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2008, 2011) and the University of Illinois Mid-Career Faculty Release Time Award (2014).
Research Interests
issues of gender, race/ethnicity and class in media
theories and practices in media genre
cross-cultural media adaptations
popular culture/media stars
international and American cinema history
historiography of cinema
Research Description
Abstract for the NEH-Funded monograph project Trading in Cultural Spaces: How Chinese Film Came to America.Cinema scholars have well documented how movies "made in the USA"have dominated screens internationally for 90 years, but as yetinsufficiently addressed the historical and on-going impact of intra-regional and community-based media circuits around the globe thatdo not fit the “West to the Rest” model. Curry's book-in-progress, entitled “Trading in Cultural Spaces: How Chinese FIlm Came to America” draws on dense archival research to document individuals, practices, and locales comprising an unwritten strand of American film history: the trans-Pacific flow of Chinese movies into and within the U.S. From the early 20th century such films have challenged stereotypes and forged avenues for cross-cultural exchange. By recovering multiple Chinese American and supporting voices, images and multicultural networks, my project aims to refocus cinema history on its prior margins, to enrich transnational and national film and social histories and make intellectual contributions consonant with the NEH "We the People" and "Bridging Cultures" initiatives.
Education
B.A. University of Chicago
M.A. University of Tuebingen, Germany
Ph.D. Radio/TV/Film, Northwestern University
Courses Taught
Engl 396 honors seminar: Theories of Popular Culture
Engl/MACS 503: Historiography of Cinema
Engl 593: Proseminar in the Teaching of Film
Engl/MACS 373: Magical Empire: The Disney Phenomenon from Aesthetic, Cultural, and Economic Perspectives
Engl 300: Writing Film Criticism
Engl 300: Transmedia Adaptations: From Written Word to Screen
Engl/MACS 273: American Cinema Since 1950
Engl/MACS 104: Introduction to Film
Highlighted Publications
Encyclopedia Entries
"Transnational and Diasporic Cinema." Oxford Bibliographies in Cinema and Media Studies, New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Journal Articles
"Benjamin Brodsky (1877-1960): The Transpacific American Film Entrepreneur -- Part One, Making A TRIP THRU CHINA." Journal of American-East Asian Relations, vol. 18,no. 1, 2011, p. 58-94. Link to access via JStor.
"Benjamin Brodsky (1877-1960): The Trans-Pacific American Film Entrepreneur – Part Two, Taking A TRIP THRU CHINA to America." Journal of American - East Asian Relations, vol. 18, no. 2, 2011, p. 142-180. Journal website.
Book Contributions
"Making Connections: Benjamin Brodsky and Early Trans-Pacific Cinema Historiography." Chinese Cinema: Tracing the Origins (in Chinese), edited by Ain-ling Wong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Film Archive, 2011, p. 94-109. Review.
"Bridging the Pacific with Love Eterne." China Forever: The Shaw Brothers and Diasporic Cinema, edited by Poshek Fu. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008, p. 174-198. Catalog link.
Reviews
Curry, Ramona. "Reviving the History, Revising the Historiography of Female Media Pioneers." Review of Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood; The Girl from God’s Country; Nell Shipman and the Silent Cinema; It’s One O’Clock and Here Is Mary Margaret McBride; The First Lady of Hollywood: A Biography of Louella Parsons. Journal of Women’s History, vol. 21, no. 3, 2009, p. 188-203. Journal website. journal website.
Books
Curry, Ramona. Too Much of a Good Thing: Mae West as Cultural Icon. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996. Press website.
Contact Information
Department of Anthropology
607 S Mathews Ave.
M/C 148
Urbana, IL 61801
607 S Mathews Ave.
M/C 148
Urbana, IL 61801
Office Hours
Contact Instructor
Tues., 2-5 pm
Tues., 2-5 pm
Professor Emeritus
Grants
1993 Small Grant, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. For fieldwork on Beng infants, summer 1993.
1996 Summer Faculty Award, National Endowment for the Humanities. For writing of The Afterlife Is Where We Come from: Infants and Infant Care in West Africa
2012 European Commission/U.S. Department of Education (via the European Union Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Faculty Research/Course Development Grant
1985 Faculty Fellowship, Travel to Collections Program, National Endowment for the Humanities. To conduct research in the French National Archives (Overseas Section, Paris) on colonial-era Beng society, summer 1985.
1991 Summer Faculty Award, National Endowment for the Humanities. For writing of Parallel Worlds (co-authored with Philip Graham).
1992-93 Fellowship for University Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities, To research a new project on cultural constructions of Beng infancy, AY 1992-93. Release from two semesters of teaching plus fieldwork funds
1999 Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. For writing of The Afterlife Is Where We Come from: Infants and Infant Care Practices in West Africa. January 1999 - December 1999
2006 National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Faculty Award. For new fieldwork project among Cape Verdean immigrants in Lisbon, summer 2006.
1982-83 Dissertation Grant in Women's Studies, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. For writing of dissertation, AY 1982-83.
1979-81 International Doctoral Research Fellowship, Africa Program, Social Science Research Council. For fourteen months of doctoral fieldwork among the Beng of Ivory Coast and six months of dissertation write-up, Sept. 1979 – May 1981.
1982-83 Constance L. Tomkies Endowed Fellowship, American Association of University Women. For writing of dissertation, AY 1982-83.
Courses Taught
Combined Graduate/Advanced Undergraduate Level: Africans in Europe; Religions of Africa; Infants and Young Children in Cross-Cultural Perspective; Fieldwork in Cultural Anthropology: Theory and Method; Writing Ethnography; Cultures of Africa; Religion in Anthropological Perspective; Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology
Graduate Level: Feminism, Gender and Sexuality; Feminist Theory in Anthropology; Explorations in Feminism and Postmodernism in Anthropology; Cultural Images of Women; Research Proposal Seminar; Dissertation Writing Seminar; Kinship/Culture/Power/Africa; Kinship and Social Structure in Africa; Integrated Four-Field Proseminar
Undergraduate Level: Memoirs of Africa; Cultural Images of Women; Women’s Lives; Women Cross-Culturally; Women in World Cultures; Images of the "Other"; Anthropology in a Changing World; Introduction to Cultural Anthropology; Introduction to Social Anthropology and Ethnology; Introduction to Modern Africa
Additional Campus Affiliations
Emerita - Center for African Studies
European Union Center
Emeritus Professor - Gender and Women's Studies
External Links
Highlighted Publications
BOOKS
Gottlieb, Alma, and Phillip Graham. Braided Worlds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (in press), 2012. U of Chicago Press page.
The Restless Anthropologist: New Fieldsites, New Visions. Edited by Alma Gottlieb, Chicago: University of Chicago Press (in press), 2012. U of Chicago Press page. Web page.
Gottlieb, Alma. The Afterlife Is Where We Come from: The Culture of Infancy in West Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
A World of Babies: Imagined Childcare Guides for Seven Societies. Edited by Judy DeLoache, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Gottlieb, Alma. Under the Kapok Tree: Identity and Difference in Beng Thought. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Gottlieb, Alma, and M. Lynne Murphy. Beng-English Dictionary. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1995.
Gottlieb, Alma, and Phillip Graham. Parallel Worlds: An Anthropologist and a Writer Encounter Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Gottlieb, Alma, and Phillip Graham. Parallel Worlds: An Anthropologist and a Writer Encounter Africa. New York: Crown/Random House, 1993.
Gottlieb, Alma. Under the Kapok Tree: Identity and Difference in Beng Thought. Bloomington: Indiana University Press (African Systems of Thought Series), 1992.
Blood Magic: The Anthropology of Menstruation. Edited by Alma Gottlieb, Edited by Thomas Buckley, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
The Afterlife Is Where We Come from: The Culture of Infancy in West Africa. 2013.
BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS
Gottlieb, Alma, and Phillip Graham. "Mad to be Modern." Being There: Learning to Live Cross-Culturally., edited by Sarah Davis, edited by Melvon Konner. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Who Minds the Baby? Beng Perspectives on Mothers, Neighbors, and Strangers as Caretakers." Substitute Parents: Alloparenting in Human Societies, edited by Gillian Bentley, edited by Ruth Mace. Oxford: Bergahn (Biosocial Society Symposium Series), 2009.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Rituals for and Care of the Newborn." The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion, edited by Richard Shweder, edited by Thomas Bidell, edited by Anne Dailey, edited by Suzanne Dixon, edited by Peggy Miller, edited by John Modell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Loggers vs. Spirits: Competing Models of the Beng Forest." African Ethnoforests: Sacred Groves, Culture, and Conservation, edited by Celia Nyamweru. Oxford: James Currey, 2008, p. 149-163.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Ethnography: Theory and Methods." A Handbook for Social Science Field Research; Essays & Bibliographic Sources on Research Design and Methods, edited by Ellen Perecman, edited by Sara Curran. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2006, p. 87-117.
Gottlieb, Alma, and Phillip Graham. "Our Village Needs Chairs." Bridges to Friendship: Narratives on Fieldwork and Friendship, edited by Bruce Grindal, edited by Frank Salamone. Prospect Heights: Waveland, 2006, p. 204-217.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Babies’ Baths, Babies’ Remembrances: A Beng Theory of Development, History and Memory." Collective Memory and Generation in Africa, edited by Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg. London: International African Institute, 2006.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Non-Western Approaches to Spiritual Development among Infants and Young Children: A Case Study from West Africa." The Handbook of Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence, edited by Peter Benson, edited by Pamela King, edited by Linda Wagener, edited by Eugene Roehlkepartain. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2005, p. 150-162.
Gottlieb, Alma. "From Pollution to Love Magic: The New Anthropology of Menstruation." Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective, edited by Carolyn Sargent, edited by Caroline Brettell. Upper Saddle River: Pretice-Hall 2004, p. 256-267.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Foreword: Falling into Trust." Knowing Bodies, Feeling Minds: Towards Embodied Teaching and Learning, edited by Liora Bresler. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2004, p. 1-5.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Beng." Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World’s Cultures, edited by Carol Ember, edited by Melvin Ember. New York: Kluwer/Plenum, 2003, p. 323-333.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Interpreting Gender and Sexuality: Approaches from Cultural Anthropology." Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines, edited by Jeremy MacClancy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002, p. 167-189.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Deconstructing the Notion of ‘Education’: A View from West Africa." Research in International Education: Experience, Theory and Practice, edited by Liora Bresler, edited by Alexandre Ardichvili. New York/Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2002, p. 83-101.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Luring Your Child into this Life: A Beng Path for Infant Care (Côte d’Ivoire)." A World of Babies: Imagined Childcare Guides for Seven Societies, edited by Judy DeLoache, edited by Alma Gottlieb. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000, p. 55-89.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Où sont partis tous les bébés? Pour une anthropologies du nourisson [Where Have All the Babies Gone? Toward an Anthropology of Infants]." En substances: Systèmes, critiques et symboliques -- Textes pour Françoise Héritier, edited by Emmanuel Terray, edited by Jean-Luc Janard. Paris: Favard, 2000, p. 367-385.
Gottlieb, Alma, and Bertin Kouadio. "Peoples and Cultures of Ivory Coast." Encyclopedia of Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by John Middleton. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Blood." The Blackwell Dictionary of Anthropology, edited by Thomas Barfield. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997, p. 41-42.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Blood Pacts/Blood Covenants." The Blackwell Dictionary of Anthropology, edited by Thomas Barfield. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997, p. 42-43.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Menstruation." The Blackwell Dictionary of Anthropology, edited by Thomas Barfield. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997, p. 320-321.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Rethinking Female Pollution: The Beng Case." Beyond the Second Sex: New Directions in the Anthropology of Gender, edited by Peggy Sanday, edited by Ruth Goodenough. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990, p. 113-138.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Witches, Kings, and the Sacrifice of Identity; or, The Power of Paradox and the Paradox of Power among the Beng of Ivory Coast." Creativity of Power: Cosmology and Action in African Societies, edited by W. Arens, edited by Ivan Karp. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989, p. 245-272.
Gottlieb, Alma, and Thomas Buckley. "A Critical Appraisal of Theories of Menstrual Symbolism." Blood Magic: The Anthropology of Menstruation, edited by Thomas Buckley, edited by Alma Gottlieb. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988, p. 1-50.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Claude Lévi-Strauss." Book of Days 1988: An Encyclopedia of Resource Guides on Historical Figures and Events, Ann Arbor: Pieria Press, 1988, p. 658-660.
"First Acts of Violence: Reflections on Breastfeeding and Enemas in West Africa." Childhood, Youth and Violence in Global Contexts: Researchers and Practitioners in Dialogue, Palgrave, 2014.
"Detaching from Attachment Theory: Perspectives from the West African Rain Forest." The Different Faces of Attachment, Cambridge University Press, 2014.
"Two Visions of Africa: Reflections on Fieldwork in an ‘Animist Bush’ and an Urban Diaspora." The Restless Anthropologist: New Fieldsites, New Visions, University of Chicago Press, 2012.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Gottlieb, Alma. "Knowing Ed Bruner." Anthropology and Humanism, vol. 30, no. 2, 2006, p. 196-200.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Babies' Baths, Babies' Remembrances: A Beng Theory of Development, History and Memory." Africa, vol. 75, no. 1, 2005, p. 105-118.
Gottlieb, Alma. "The Afterlife Is Where We Come from: Infancy in West Africa." Expeditions, vol. 41, no. 4, 2004, p. 381-390.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Secrets and Society: The Beng of Côte d'Ivoire." Mande Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, 2000, p. 129-151.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Where Have All the Babies Gone? Toward an Anthropology of Infants (and Their Caretakers)." Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 73, no. 3, 2000, p. 121-132.
Gottlieb, Alma, and Phillip Graham. "Revising the Text, Revisioning the Field: Reciprocity over the Long Term." Anthropology and Humanism, vol. 24, no. 2, 1999, p. 117-128.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Do Infants Have Religion? The Spiritual Lives of Beng Babies." American Anthropologist, vol. 100, no. 1, 1998, p. 122-135.
Gottlieb, Alma, Judy S DeLoache, Sophia L Pierrpitsakos, David H Uttal, and Karl S Rosengren. "Grasping the Nature of Pictures." Psychological Science, vol. 9, no. 3, 1998, p. 205-210.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Infants, Ancestors and the Afterlife: Fieldwork's Family Values." Anthropology and Humanism, vol. 23, no. 2, 1998, p. 121-126.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Fabrication d'un Premier Dictionnaire de la Langue Beng : Quelques Considérations éthiques [Construction of a First Dictionary of the Beng Language: Some Ethical Considerations]." Journal des Anthropologues, vol. 70, 1997, p. 147-162.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Beyond the Lonely Anthropologist: Collaboration in Research and Writing." American Anthropologist, vol. 97, no. 1, 1995, p. 21-26.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Of Cowries and Crying: A Beng Guide to Managing Colic." Anthropology and Humanism, vol. 20, no. 1, 1995, p. 20-28.
Gottlieb, Alma. "The Anthropologist as Mother: Reflections on Childbirth Observed and Childbirth Experienced." Anthropology Today, vol. 11, no. 6, 1995, p. 10-14.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Hyenas and Heteroglossia: Myth and Ritual among the Beng of Côte d'Ivoire." American Ethnologist, vol. 16, no. 3, 1989, p. 487-451.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Rethinking Female Pollution: The Beng Case (Côte d'Ivoire)." Dialectical Anthropology, vol. 14, no. 2, 1989, p. 65-80.
Gottlieb, Alma. "American Premenstrual Syndrome: A Mute Voice." Anthropology Today, vol. 6, 1988, p. 10-13.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Cousin Marriage, Birth Order and Gender: Alliance Models among the Beng of Ivory Coast." Man, vol. 21, no. 4, 1986, p. 697-722.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Dog: Ally or Traitor? Mythology, Cosmology and Society among the Beng of Ivory Coast." American Ethnologist, vol. 13, no. 3, 1986, p. 477-488.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Stalking the Wild Symbol: Reflections on Sperber and Structuralism." Anthropology UCLA, vol. 13, 1984, p. 61-70.
Gottlieb, Alma. "American's Vacations." Annals of Tourism Research IX, vol. 2, 1982, p. 165-187.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Sex, Fertility and Menstruation among the Beng of the Ivory Coast: A Symbolic Analysis." Africa, vol. 52, no. 4, 1982, p. 34-47.
Gottlieb, Alma. "The Social Theories of Fustel and Durkheim: Toward an Analysis of a Neglected Relationship." Anthropology, vol. III, no. 1-2, 1979, p. 139-153.
SPECIAL ISSUES OF A JOURNAL
Gottlieb, Alma. The Afterlife Is Where We Come from: Infancy in West Africa Expeditions, Winterth ed. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, 2004, p. 13-21.
Gottlieb, Alma. Blood mysteries: Beyond menstruation as pollution - afterword Ethnology, vol. 41, no. 4, 2002, p. 381-390.
Contact Information
Department of Religion
3092B Foreign Languages Building
707 S. Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
M/C 166
3092B Foreign Languages Building
707 S. Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
M/C 166
Office Hours
by appointment
Professor
Biography
I am a specialist in Islamic thought and practice. I have worked on many aspects of Islam, from the time of the Prophet to the contemporary period; I have conducted textual studies and have done fieldwork. I did two major fieldwork projects in Egypt, one on Muslim women's religious lives in contemporary Egypt (1980-81) and another on Sufism in modern Egypt (1987-89). Then I studied Swahili and spent two summers in Zanzibar, where I became aware that two distinct strands of Arabian Islam had impacted the Swahili coast: the Sultanate of Oman and the Hadramawt region of Yemen. I spent the 2000-2001 academic year in Oman and the Hadramawt, and became particularly interested in the Ibadi sect of Islam, an ancient and small sect that is neither Sunni nor Shiite and is practiced in Oman and small pockets of North Africa. I have since written the first English-language study of Ibadi theology and have become a specialist in Ibadism in the modern period, especially in Oman and Zanzibar.
Research Interests
Islamic thought and practice, Muslim sects, medieval and contemporary Islamic thought and movements, Sufism, Islamic gender ideology, Muslim women’s religious lives, Islam in Oman, Yemen, Egypt and East Africa
Research Description
Current Research Project: Islamic Sectarianism Reconsidered: Ibadi Islam in the Modern Age
Education
Arabic and Islamic Studies, Ph.D., The University of Chicago
Arabic and Islamic Studies, M.A., The University of Chicago
Anthropology, B.A., University of Pennsylvania
Grants
Fulbright Research Fellowships, 2000-2001; 1987-1988
Carnegie Scholarship, 2009-2010
National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, 1991-1992
Awards and Honors
Carnegie Scholarship, 2009-2010
Alumni Discretionary Award for Service to the University of Illinois, 2008
University Scholar, University of Illinois, October 1996
Faculty Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, 2003
Courses Taught
REL 260/SAME 260, Mystics and Saints in Islam
REL 481/SAME 481, Muslim Ethics in the Global Age
RLST 403/ANTH 403/GLBL 403/GWS 403/HIST 434/SAME 403, Women in Muslim Societies
RLST 482, Muslim-Christian Interactions
REL 514/SAME 514, Islamic Theology
REL 214/SAME 214, Introduction to Islam
REL 408/PS 408/SAME 408, Islam and Politics in the Middle East
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor Emerita, Religion
External Links
Honors & Awards
Carnegie Scholarship, 2009-2010
Alumni Discretionary Award for Service to the University of Illinois, 2008
University Scholar, University of Illinois, October 1996
Faculty Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, 2003
Highlighted Publications
Hoffman, V. J. (2012). The Essentials of Ibadi Islam. Syracuse University Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1j5d7rj
Hoffman, V. J. (Ed.) (2019). Making the New Middle East: Politics, Culture, and Human Rights. (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East). Syracuse University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv14h4pr
Recent Publications
Hoffman, V. J. (2023). Religion, Ethnicity and Identity in the Zanzibar Sultanate. In Muslim Cultures of the Indian Ocean: Diversity and Pluralism, Past and Present (pp. 73-90). Edinburgh University Press.
Hoffman, V. J. (2022). THE INTERPRETATION OF ISLAM UNDER SULTAN QABOOS. In Sultan Qaboos and Modern Oman: 1970-2020 (pp. 185-208). Edinburgh University Press.
Hoffman, V. J. (2020). A Sufism for our time: The Egyptian society for spiritual and cultural research. In L. Ridgeon (Ed.), Routledge Handbook on Sufism (pp. 474-486). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315175348-35
Hoffman, V. J., & Bin ali bin ameir al-Shueili, S. (2020). Ibāḍī Tafsīr Literature. In M. A. Haleem, & M. Shah (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Qur'anic Studies (pp. 734-745). Article 49 Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199698646.013.63
Hoffman, V. J. (2020). Review: C. Aillet's (ed.) L'ibadisme dans les sociétés de l'islam médiéval: Modèles et interactions. Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, 31(3), 349-351. https://doi.org/10.1080/09596410.2020.1802910
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Associate Professor
Biography
Kathryn La Barre is an Associate Professor Emerita at the School of Information Sciences and Gender and Women's Studies faculty affiliate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work interrogates the power dynamics of historical and contemporary naming practices in cultural heritage collections. Her research has been published in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Library Trends, Knowledge Organization, Libraries and the Cultural Record, and Cataloging and Classification Quarterly. She is an active member of the Association of Information Science and Technology, serving as the Chair of the 80th Anniversary Working Group, as co-facilitator the oral history project "Leaders of Information Science Worldwide" and the ASIST Curator. Her public outreach activities include: hosting Zine workshops, Caretaker for the UCIMC Zine Library, and Librarian at the Rantoul Multi-Cultural Center.
Project CoBRA (Comic Book Readership Archive)
Research Interests
Interrogating historical and contemporary naming practices and power dynamics in cultural heritage collections of films, comics and zines. Methods: Community-based participatory research and oral history.
Awards and Honors
Association for Library and Information Science Education and OCLC Library and Information Science Research Award, 2010
Centennial Scholar, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois, 2011-2012
Director-at-Large, Association for Information Science & Technology, 2015-2018
Principal member of the Knowledge Organization Research Group in the School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2016-present
J. William Fulbright Specialist, 2016-2021
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Recent Publications
Kerr, P., La Barre, K., & Lilley, S. (2021). Diversity in local and comparative contexts grounding change in academic libraries through dialogue. College and Research Libraries News, 82(10), 458-465. https://doi.org/10.5860/CRLN.82.10.458
La Barre, K., & Richardson, C. (2021). Chaos and conception in the opened archive. Library Trends, 69(3), 646-671. https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2021.0008
La Barre, K., Burke, C., Buckland, M. K., & Gorichanaz, T. (2020). ASIST AM 2020. SIG HFIS panel proposal April 27, 2020. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 57(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.290
Graf, A., Fulton, C., Jackson, A., La Barre, K., Walsh, J., Tilley, C., Lucky, S., & Gorichanaz, T. (2018). Everyday documentation of arts and humanities collections. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 55(1), 680-683. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.2018.14505501080
La Barre, K., Buckland, M. K., & Arafat, S. (2018). Glittering in the dark: Memory, culture, and critique in light of the history of information. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 55(1), 701-703. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.2018.14505501086
Professor Emerita
Research Interests
Medieval European social and religious history; history of women and gender; history of madness and "altered spiritual states"
Education
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1985
Additional Campus Affiliations
Emeritus Professor - Gender and Women's Studies
Emerita - Medieval Studies
Highlighted Publications
BOOKS
McLaughlin, Megan. Sex, Gender and Episcopal Authority in an Age of Reform, 1000-1122. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
McLaughlin, Megan. Consorting with Saints: Prayer for the Dead in Early Medieval France. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1994.
BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS
McLaughlin, Megan ""The Church as Bride in Eleventh-Century England"." Les Strategies matrimoniales (IXe-XIII siecles), Turnhout: Brepols, 2013.
""Women and Men"." The Cambridge History of Christianity, vol. 4: Christianity in Western Europe, c. 1100-c. 1500, compiled by Miri Rubin, compiled by Walter Simons. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2009, p. 187-99.
""The Bishop as Bridegroom: Marital Imagery and Clerical Celibacy in the Eleventh and Early Twelfth Centuries"." Medieval Purity and Piety: Essays on Medieval Clerical Celibacy and Religious Reform, edited by Michael Frassetto. New York: Garland, 1998, p. 209-37.
McLaughlin, Megan. ""Spiritual and Secular Fatherhood in the Eleventh Century"." Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities: Men in the Medieval West, edited by Jacqueline Murray. New York: Garland, 1999, p. 25-43.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
McLaughlin, Megan. ""Disgusting Acts of Shamelessness: Sexual Misconduct and the Deconstruction of Royal Authority in the Eleventh Century"." Early Medieval Europe, vol. forthcoming, 2011.
McLaughlin, Megan. ""The Bishop in the Bedroom: Witnessing Episcopal Sexuality in an Age of Reform"." Journal of the History of Sexuality, vo. 19, no. 1, 2010, p. 17-34.
McLaughlin, Megan. ""Abominable Mingling: Father-Daughter Incest and the Law"." Medieval Feminist Newsletter, vol. 24, 1997, p. 26-30.
McLaughlin, Megan. ""The Twelfth-Century Ritual of Death and Burial at Saint-Jean-en-Vallee in the Diocese of Chartres"." Revue Benedictine, vol. 105, 1995, p. 155-66.
McLaughlin, Megan. ""'Familiarity and Love': Noble Friendship and Liturgical Commemoration in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries."." Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History, vol. 18, 1991, p. 60-69.
McLaughlin, Megan. ""Gender Paradox and the Otherness of God"." Gender & History, vol. 3, 1991, p. 147-59.
McLaughlin, Megan. ""On Communion with the Dead"." Journal of Medieval History, vol. 17, 1991, p. 23-34.
McLaughlin, Megan. ""The Woman Warrior: Gender, Warfare and Society in Medieval Europe"." Women's Studies, vol. 17, 1990, p. 193-209.