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Katie King

Professor Women's Studies Department and Program

http://www.womensstudies.umd.edu/University of Maryland, College Park MD 20742

office tel. 301.405.7294; fax 301.314.9190

email: [email protected]: http://www.katiekin.weebly.comtalksites: http://pinterest.com/katkingumd/talksites/

After her Army brat girlhood living around the U.S., including the D.C. area, in Japan shortlyafter the U.S. occupation following WWII, and in Turkey as the Berlin Wall went up at the

height of the Cold War Katie King went to college at the University of California, Santa Cruz.There she became involved in the anti-war, women's and gay liberation movements in the early

seventies. She spent summers teaching English in Thailand as the Vietnam War deteriorated, andschool terms studying Sappho with Norman O. Brown, cybernetics with Gregory Bateson,

Beowulf with Harry Berger, Jr. and Southeast Asian anthropology with Shelly Errington,receiving an interdisciplinary joint BA in Anthropology and Literature.

After several years in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, she

returned to Santa Cruz and the program in the History of Consciousness, where, under thedirection of Donna Haraway, she wrote a doctoral dissertation applying epistemological analyses

derived from science studies to the materialities of textual editing and feminist political activismin constructions of "poetry" in the work of Emily Dickinson and Audre Lorde.

Settling into the women's studies program at the University of Maryland, College Park in 1986,

she spent brief stints at Cornell University on a post-doc and with their Humanities Center in thelate eighties, and a sabbatical in the mid-nineties divided between UC-Santa Cruz, associated

with their Center for Cultural Studies, and UC-Irvine, associated with their Humanities Center.Since then she has participated in colloquia and institutes at the Folger Library, Washington,

D.C. and participated in graduate workshops in feminist methods in Sweden for the NordicResearch School. She serves as affiliate faculty in Comparative Literature, Performance,

American and LGBT Studies, and is a Fellow of the Maryland Institute for Technology in theHumanities (MITH).

King's transdisciplinary research on writing technologies and digital culture works across

disciplines and knowledge worlds, with an eye for intersectional issues and opportunities toqueer theory and methodology. She uses feminist technoscience methods to explore media

historically and theoretically, with tendrils in a range of disciplines anthropology, literature,sociology, economics, history, classics, folklore and communications. Her first book was Theory

in its Feminist Travels: Conversations in U.S. women's movements, and her secondNetworkedReenactments: Stories transdisciplinary knowledges tell. Two others are in progress: Speaking

with Things, an introduction to writing technologies, andDemonstrations and Experiments:Quakers, plain style, and the Scientific Revolution. She has been published in the journals The

Scholar & the Feminist Online, Writing Technologies, Criticism, Feminist Theory, cameraobscura, Configurations, TEXT, Communications, and Cultural Studies.


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Publications:

Networked Reenactments: Stories Transdisciplinary Knowledges Tell.Chapel Hill: Duke

University Press, 2011

Theory in its Feminist Travels: Conversations in U.S. Women's Movements. Bloomington:Indiana University Press, 1994

"In Knots: Transdisciplinary Khipu." In Object/Ecology. Special Inaugural Issue of O-Zone ~ A

Journal of Object Oriented Studies 1/1 (forthcoming). To be available online at: http://o-zone-journal.org/forthcoming/ : n. pag.

Science Fiction Feminisms, Feminist Science Fictions & Feminist Sustainability. Co-authored

with Joan Haran. Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology 2. (2013): n. pag. doi:10.7264/N30P0WXQ. Available at: http://adanewmedia.org/2013/11/issue3-kingharan/

A Naturalcultural Collection of Affections: Transdisciplinary Stories of Transmedia Ecologies

Learning. The Scholar and the Feminist Online: Special issue on Feminist Media Theory:Iterations of Social Difference 10/3. (Summer 2012): n. pag. Available at:

http://sfonline.barnard.edu/feminist-media-theory/a-naturalcultural-collection-of-affections-transdisciplinary-stories-of-transmedia-ecologies-learning/

Feminist Worlding: Media Ecologies Learning. Co-authored with Jarah Moesch. Chapter in

Feminist Cyberspaces, pp. 14-32. Edited by Sharon Collingwood, Alvina E. Quintana, andCaroline J. Smith. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2012.

"Networked Reenactments, a thick description amid authorships, audiences and agencies in the

nineties." In Writing Technologies 2/1 (2008). Available online at:http://www.ntu.ac.uk/writing_technologies/back_issues/Vol.%202.1/King/index.html

"Women in the Web: teaching technology narratives." Chapter in The Politics of Information:

the electronic mediation of social change. Edited by Marc Bousquet, Bruce Simon, andKatherine Wills. AltX. 2004. Available online at: http://www.altx.com/ebooks/infopol.html

"Historiography as Reenactment: metaphors and literalizations of TV documentaries." In

Extreme and Sentimental History. Special issue of Criticism 46/3 (2004): 459-475

"'There are No Lesbians Here': Feminisms, Lesbianisms and Global Gay Formations." Chapter inQueer Globalization/Local Homosexualities: Citizenship, Sexualities and the Afterlife of

Colonialism, 33-48. Edited by Analdo Cruz-Malave and Martin Manalansen IV. SUNY, 2002

"Globalization, TV Technologies, and the Re-production of Sexual Identities: Researching andTeaching Layers of Locals and Globals in Highlander and Xena." Chapter in Encompassing

Gender: Integrating International Studies and Women's Studies, pp. 101-124. Edited by Mary M.Lay, Janice Monk, and Deborah S. Rosenfelt. The Feminist Press, 2002


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"Productive agencies of feminist theory: the work it does." Feminist Theory 2/1 (2001): 94-98

"Global Gay Formations and Local Homosexualities." Chapter in Companion to Postcolonial

Studies, 508-519. Edited by Sangeeta Ray. Blackwell, 2000

"Feminism and Writing Technologies: Teaching Queerish Travels through Maps, Territories, andPattern." Configurations 2 (Winter 1994): 89-106

"Local and Global: AIDS Activism and Feminist Theory." In Imaging Technologies, Inscribing

Science. Special issue of camera obscura 28 (January 1992): 78-99 ("Local and Global: AIDSActivism and Feminist Theory." (Revised for Chapter in Provoking Agents: Gender and Agency

in Theory and Practice, 93-112. Edited by Judith Kegan Gardiner. University of Illinois Press,1995)

"Bibliography and a Feminist Apparatus of Literary Production." TEXT 5: Transactions of the

Society for Textual Scholarship (1991): 91-103

"Audre Lorde's Lacquered Layerings: The Lesbian Bar as a Site of Literary Production." CulturalStudies 2 (October 1988): 321-342 (Reprinted as Chapter in New Lesbian Criticism, 51-74.

Edited by Sally Munt. Simon & Schuster, 1992. Also reprinted in Feminist Cultural Studies II,321-342. Edited by Terry Lovell. Edward Elgar, 1997)

"Producing Sex, Theory and Culture: Gay/Straight ReMappings in Contemporary Feminism."

Chapter in Conflicts in Feminism, 82-101. Edited by Marianne Hirsch and Evelyn Fox Keller.Routledge, 1990

"The Situation of Lesbianism as Feminism's Magical Sign: Contests for Meaning and the U.S.

Women's Movement, 1968-1972." In Feminist Critiques of Popular Culture. Special issue ofCommunication 9 (Fall 1985): 65-91

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