Priscilla Wald

Education

Ph.D. Columbia University 1989
Special Candidate, Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research Columbia University 1987
M.A. Columbia University 1981
B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude, distinction in the English major Yale University 1980

Professional Experience / Employment History Duke University Associate Professor, Women's Studies, , 2002-present Affiliate, Center for the Study of Medical Ethics and Humanities, 2001-present Affiliate, Women's Studies, 2000-02 Associate Professor, English Department, , 1999-present University of Washington Adjunct Associate Professor, Women Studies, 1997-99 Associate Professor, English, 1996-99 Columbia University Associate Professor, English, 1995 Assistant Professor, English, 1988-95 Visiting Positions Assistant Professor (Mellon Fellow), Stanford University, 1990-92 Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

John Hope Franklin Faculty Seminar (Historicizing Identities), Duke University, 2001-02
NIH, ELSI Faculty Seminar, Institute for the Study of Applied and Professional Ethics (Human Genome Project), Hanover, NH, 2001
Cornell University Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 1999-2000
John Hope Franklin Faculty Seminar (Historicizing Identities), Duke University, 2001-02
NIH, ELSI Faculty Seminar, Institute for the Study of Applied and Professional Ethics (Human Genome Project), Hanover, NH (summer), 0 2001

Publications

Books

  1. P. Wald, Cultures and Carriers: From "Typhoid Mary" to "African Eve" (forthcoming).
  2. P. Wald, Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biological Revolution: Essays on Genetics and Popular Culture (forthcoming collection of essays).
  3. P. Wald, Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form (1995), Duke UP (second printing, 1998.).

Edited

  1. P. Wald, N. Tomes, and L. Lynch, eds., Culture and Contagion , special issue of American Literary History, vol. 14 no. 4 (Winter 2002).
  2. Wai Chee Dimock, Priscilla Wald, Literature and Science: Cultural Forms, Conceptual Exchanges , special issue of American Literature, vol. 74 no. 4 (Dec. 2002).
  3. P. Wald, C. Di Stefano, and J. Weisenfeld, eds., Institutions, Regulations and Social Control , special issue of Signs (Fall 1999).

Papers Published

  1. P. Wald, Emma Goldman , Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Women Prose Writers 1870-1920  (Forthcoming.).

Essays/Articles/Chapters in Books

  1. P. Wald, Hannah crafts , in Critical Essays on Hannah Crafts' The Bondwoman's Narrative, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Hollis Robbins (forthcoming Fall 2003).
  2. P. Wald, Of Crucibles and Grandfathers: The East European Immigrants , in The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature, edited by Michael Kramer and Hana Wirth Nesher (forthcoming 2003), Cambridge UP.
  3. Wai Chee Dimock, P. Wald, Preface , in Literature and Science: Cultural Forms, Conceptual Exchanges (n.d.), pp. 705-14.
  4. P. Wald, Zora Neale Hurston , in A Companion to American Thought, edited by Richard Fox and James Kloppenberg (n.d.), Blackwell Publishers.
  5. P. Wald, Humanity's Borders: Grammar, Genes and Geography , in Beyond Identity, edited by Heather Love, Mike Millner, et al. (under consideration) (Revised from "Future Perfect".).
  6. P. Wald, Introduction to Paula Treichler's AIDS, Homophobia, and Biomedical Discourse: An Epidemic of Signification , in American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader, edited by Michael A. Elliott and Claudia Stokes (2003), pp. 182-84, New York: New York UP.
  7. P. Wald, Communicable Americanism: Contagion, Geographic Fictions, and the Sociological Legacy of Robert E. Park , in Culture and Contagion, a special issue of American Literary History, vol. 14 no. 4 (Winter 2002), pp. 653-85 (Revised from "Geographics".).
  8. P. Wald, Introduction , to Culture and Contagion, a special issue of American Literary History, vol. 14 no. 4 (Winter 2002), pp. 617-24 (with Nancy Tomes and Lisa Lynch.).
  9. P. Wald, Americanization , in Encyclopedia of American Studies (2001), Grolier.
  10. P. Wald, Immigration and Assimilation in Nineteenth-Century US Women's Narratives , in The Cambridge to 19th-Century American Women's Writing, edited by Dale Bauer and Philip Gould (2001), pp. 176-199, Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
  11. P. Wald, Future Perfect: Genes, Grammar and Geography , New Literary History, vol. 4 no. 31 (2000), pp. 681-708.
  12. P. Wald, Imagined Immunities , edited by J. Dean, Cultural Studies & Political Theory (2000), pp. 189-208, Cornell UP.
  13. P. Wald, Minefields and Meeting Grounds: Transnational Analyses and American Studies , (review essay) American Literary History, vol. 9 no. 1 (Spring 1997), pp. 199-218.
  14. P. Wald, Cultures and Carriers: 'Typhoid Mary' and the Science of Social Control , Social Text, vol. 52-53 (Dec. 1997), pp. 181-214.
  15. P. Wald, Review of Lee Quinby's Anti-Apocalypse: Exercises in Genealogical Criticism , American Literature, vol. 67 no. 2 (June 1995), pp. 421-22.
  16. P. Wald, 'Chaos Goes Uncourted': John Yau's Dis-orienting Poetics , in Cohesion and Dissent in America, edited by Joseph Alkana and Carol Colatrella (1994), pp. 133-58, SUNY Press.
  17. P. Wald, Dreiser and the Fallen Woman Narrative , in The Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser (1993), Duke UP (Reprinted in American Indian Persistence and Resurgence, ed. Karl Kroeber [Duke UP, 1994].).
  18. P. Wald, Terms of Assimilation: Legislating Subjectivity in the Emerging Nation , boundary 2, vol. 19 no. 3 (Fall 1992), pp. 77-104 (Reprinted in Cultures of United States Imperialism, ed. Amy Kaplan and Donald Pease [Duke UP, 1993]. Also reprinted in American Indian Persistence and Resurgence, ed. Karl Kroeber [Duke UP, 1994].).
  19. P. Wald, A God Who Is Later a Terror: (En)countering the National Plot in Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans , Prospects (Jan. 1992), pp. 323-65.
  20. P. Wald, Guilt by Dissociation: John Yau's Poetics of Possibility , Talisman, vol. 5 (Fall 1990), pp. 121-26.
  21. P. Wald, Hearing Narrative Voices in Melville's Pierre , boundary 2, vol. 17 no. 1 (Spring 1990), pp. 100-32 (Reprinted in Revisionary Interventions into the Americanist Canon, ed. Donald Pease (Duke UP, 1994).).
  22. P. Wald, William Peterfield Trent , in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Nineteenth Century American Literary Critics and Scholars (1989), Columbia, SC: Bruccoli-Clark, Inc.
  23. P. Wald, N. Tomes, and L. Lynch, Introduction, Encountering the Microbe , book 2003.
  24. P. Wald, Communicable Americanism: Contagion, Geographic Fictions, and the Sociological Legacy of Robert E. Park , American Literary History, vol. 14 no. 4 , pp. 653-85.

Book Reviews

  1. P. Wald, Review of Laura Otis' Networking: Communicating with Bodies and Machines in the Nineteenth Century , in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (forthcoming).
  2. P. Wald, Review of Lawrie Balfour's The Evidence of Things Not Said: James Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy , The Review of Politics, vol. 63 no. 4 (Fall 2001), pp. 593-95.
  3. P. Wald, Review of Richard M. Merelman's Representing Black Culture: Racial Conflict and Cultural Politics in the United States , Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 20 no. 1 (Jan. 1997), pp. 226-28.
  4. P. Wald, Review of Nina Schwartz's Dead Fathers: The Logic of Transference in Modern Narrative , Clio, vol. 26 no. 1 (Fall 1996), pp. 127-32.
  5. P. Wald, Review of History and Memory in African-American Culture , American Literature, vol. 68 no. 1 (Mar. 1996), pp. 269-71.
  6. P. Wald, Review of Mark Twain's Pudd'n'head Wilson: Race, Conflict, and Culture , Studies in American Fiction, vol. 23 no. 2 (Autumn 1995), pp. 254-56.
  7. P. Wald, Review of Kathleen Diffley's Where My Heart Is Turning Ever: Civil War Stories and Constitutional Reform , Journal of American History, vol. 81 no. 1 (June 1994), pp. 283-84.
  8. P. Wald, Review of Paula Gunn Allen's A Cannon Between My Knees , Studies in American Indian Literature, vol. 9 no. 4 (Fall 1985).
  9. P. Wald, Review of Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller , Studies in American Indian Literature, vol. 6 no. 4 (Fall 1982).