Publications

Publications
Sex in Space: From the Woman of Willendorf to World of Warcraft and Beyond: Hallucination, imagination, innovation: from the mind in the cave to life on the screen, increasingly virtual reality is the only human reality. Sex in Space explains why. New: the free PDF file is available HERE and you can get a hard-copy on LULU HERE and on Amazon HERE for around $11. eBooks versions are coming soon!

Pulling together an astoundingly diverse array of source material, Sex in Space traces the technological and intellectual history of virtual reality beginning with early representative art and continuing through the invention of narrative, cartography, communication media, simulation technologies (i.e. logistics and war gaming), the advent of the internet, and the role of video games and online gaming in contemporary culture by integrating a diverse array of source material and distilling it through a gender perspective.  As it closes with a look to the place of humankind in the distant future of the universe, Sex in Space explains why all culture is virtual culture and why we must embrace it as a species to survive into the distant future of the universe.
Alien Woman: The Making of Lt. Ellen Ripley (available on Amazon.com)
New York: Continuum, 2004. Winner of the 2005 Ray and Pat Browne Popular Culture Association National Book Award. Review in Science Fiction Studies. New: A free copy of the final draft is now available online HERE.

Alien Woman examines the construction of sex and gender in the four science-fiction films comprising the Alien saga (starring Sigourney Weaver).

The Alien saga stands alone in presenting an enduring, self-reliant female protagonist, Ripley, who in the first film ends up as the sole survivor of the beleaguered starship Nostromo. Subsequent writers and directors in the 1980's and 1990's, left to grapple with this strong female protagonist, re-envision Ripley for different social, political, and cultural imperatives for women.

Alien Woman focuses on how these writers and directors have re-written Ripley and how each revision informs our understanding of women in science fiction, and by examining the films' creation and commodification of the female hero, the book illustrates how changing attitudes toward women and the female body help us understand broader societal beliefs and relationships, and provides a useful lens with which to understand woman's place in the late 20th century and early 21st century.

Book Chapters and Journal Articles
  • “AlienWare: The Starship as Posthuman Surface in SF Television and Film.” Co-author. In progress. 
  • “Virtual Minds” Archaepteryx: The Newman Journal of Ideas 1.1 (2013). On Amazon.
  • “The Quest for the Domestic in the Harry Potter Series.” Co-author. In Reading Harry Potter Again. Praeger, 2009. 91-108. On Amazon
  • “Alien [Film Series]” Co-author. In Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: An Encyclopedia. Greenwood Press. 2009. 3-5. On Amazon
  • “Body Matters in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games.” Reconstruction 6.1 (Winter 2006): n.p.
  • “Oy SF! An Interview with Marleen S. Barr.” Co-interviewer. Reconstruction 4.3 (Fall 2005): n.p.
  • “To See More Clearly and Broadly: Science and the Postmodern Sentiment” Postmodern Science: A Special Issue of Reconstruction 4.5 (Fall 2004): n.p.
  • “‘The End of Man is to Know’: Critical Teleology and the Posthuman Body.” Reconstruction 4.3 (Summer 2004): n.p.
  • “Cinderfella: J.K. Rowling’s Wily Web of Gender.” Co-author. In Reading Harry Potter: Critical Essays: Praeger, 2003. 192-205. On Amazon
  • “Are Fictional Characters Really Alive?: Some Thoughts on Fiction, AI, and Quantum Mechanics” Delirium Journal (1 Oct. 2002). n.p.
  • “Philosophers, Fools, and Kings: Notes on The Brother’s Karamazov and All the King’s Men.” rWp: An Annual of Robert Penn Warren Studies, 2 (2002): 123-140.
  • “The Observing Body: Quantum Mechanics, the Anthropic Principles, and Panopticism,” Reconstruction 2.1 (Winter 2001-2002): np.
  • “Schrödinger’s Cat and Sara’s Child: John Fowles’ Quantum Narrative,” Mosaic: the Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 32.2 (June 1999): 91-106.
  • “Robert Penn Warren: A Bibliographical Survey.” Co-author. Mississippi Quarterly (Winter 1994): 169-194.
Book Reviews
  • “The Films of James Cameron”  Postscript. Coming soon!
  • “Culture, Identities, and Technology in the Star Wars Films.” The Journal of Science Fiction Film and Television 2.1(Spring 2009): 141-145.
  • “Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey: New Essays.” The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. 2.1 (Spring 2009): 141-145.
  • “Technophobes Unite! Or . . . not: Technophobia. ” Science Fiction Studies 34.2 (July 2007): 331-333.
  • “Film Voices: Interviews from Post Script.” The Journal of Film History 36.1 (May 2006): 74-76.
  • “Theories from Elsewhere: The Hayles Reader.” Science Fiction Studies 33.1 (Spring 2006): 182-184.
  • “Brian Atteberry’s Decoding Gender in Science Fiction.” Reconstruction 4.3 (Fall 2005): np.
  • “Fantasies of Fetishism.” Reconstruction 3.2 (Summer 2003): np.
  • “Marx for a Post-communist Era.” Reconstruction 3.1 (Spring 2003): np.
Magazine Articles
  • “Surveying the Ponte Rio Negro” (cover story). Point of Beginning Magazine, March 2012: 12-15.
  • “Mapping the Future of Space Travel.” GeoConnexion International Magazine, March 2009: 42-43. Online.
  • “Mapping Ancient Sites” Position Magazine, February-March 2009: 53-55. Online.
  • “Surveying a Nation: Case Study Iraq .” GeoConnexion International Magazine, February 2009: 20-22. Online.
  • “Off the Map in Egypt: Surveying the Western Desert .” GeoWorld, February 2009.
  • “Off the Map in Egypt: Surveying the Western Desert .” GeoConnexion International Magazine, December-January 2009; GeoWorld, February 2009.
  • “Off the Map in Egypt: A Premier Team of Yale Egyptologists uses Imaging Total Station Technology to Solve Mysteries in the Western Desert” (cover story). Point of Beginning Magazine, Dec. 2008.
  • “Surveying a Nation: Dedicated individuals with advanced equipment are forging ahead to give Iraq a new geospatial reference system.” Point of Beginning Magazine, September, 2008: 28-33.
  • “The Mother of Invention—Part II: Assembling a Low-cost Aerial Survey System in the Alaskan Wilderness” (cover story) GeoConnexion International Magazine, February 2008: 20-22.
  • “The Mother of Invention—Part I: Assembling a Low-cost Aerial Survey System in the Alaskan Wilderness” (cover story). GeoConnexion International Magazine, December 2007: 26-29. 
  • “Inventive Measures: Assembling a Low-cost 3D Aerial Survey System in the Alaskan Wilderness” (cover story). Point of Beginning Magazine, December 2007: 34-38. 
  • “En la Cima de las Américas: Una peligrosa expedición para resolver un conflicto internacional sobre la montaña más alta en las Américas.” Construcción Pan-Americana, November 2007: 83-86.
  • “The Top of the Americas: GPS Confirms the Tallest Mountain in the Americas and the Tallest Volcano in the World.” Point of Beginning Magazine, September 2007: 34-38.
Web Publications
  • “Visual Rhetoric.” LaGuardia Community College Common Reading: An Inconvenient Truth. 1 September 2007. http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/ait/teaching.htm
  • “Bio-blog.” LaGuardia Community College Common Reading: An Inconvenient Truth. 1 September 2007. http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/ait/teaching.htm
  • “Assessing and Responding to ‘Writing’ in an Online Multimedia Environment.” Co-author. CUNY Central Office Online Education Training Website. 5 January 2006.
  • “Online Assignments, Activities, and Projects.” Co-author. CUNY Central Office Online Education Training Website. 5 January 2006.
  • “Design a Lean and Clean Online Interface to Promote Learning.” Co-author. CUNY Central Office Online Education Training Website. 5 January 2006.
Wikipedia

 Original author and editor on articles in the fields of Science Fiction, Science Fiction Television and Film, Naval Literature, and International Cuisine.

 Poetry
  • "The Glorious Ninth" (poem, co-author). In Reveille: A Story of Survival, War, Family by George S. Smith. Baltimore: Publish America, 2009. On Amazon.
Web Content Management and Course Design
Special Skills

Web and Web 2.0 technologies including blogs, wikis, and online 3-D virtual educational environments. Online Course Design and Instruction including ePortfolio, Blackboard  (6-8), WebCT, eCollege. Distance Learning Technologies including compressed video delivery.

Education
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