gwen d'arcangelis
associate professor of gender studies
Gwen D'Arcangelis
Gwen D’Arcangelis is associate professor in Gender Studies. Her areas of teaching
and research include gender, race, and science; feminist science fiction; disease
and empire; and feminist and anti-imperial praxis. She has published on the construction
of white scientific masculinity in U.S. national security discourse, gendered Orientalism
in the U.S. news media during the 2003 SARS disease scare, and nurse activism during
the war on terror. Her forthcoming book, titled Bio-Imperialism: Disease, Terror, and the Construction of National Fragility, examines the gendered, raced, and imperial dimensions of U.S. focus on bioterror
and germ threats.