| Name: | Dr. Angela Marie Laflen |
| Title: | Assistant Professor of English |
| Office Location: | Fontaine 328 |
| Extension: | (845) 575-3000 ext. 2217 |
| Email: | Angela.Laflen@marist.edu |
| Degrees Held: | Ph.D., English, Purdue University M.A., English, Purdue University B.A., English, Northern Kentucky University |
| Publications: | Prescribing Gender in Medicine and Narrative. With Marcelline Block. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Forthcoming. "Unmaking the Self-Made Man: Louise Erdrich's Fictional Exploration of Masculinity." Women Constructing Men: Female Novelists and Their Male Characters, 1750-2000. Eds. Sarah Franzen and Katharina Rennhak. New York: Lexington, 2009. Forthcoming. "'There's a Shock in This Seeing': The Problem of the Image in The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake." American Studies/Amerika studien. Forthcoming. "(Re)presenting the Fetus: The Limits of Objective Vision in 'Birthmates' and 'The Ultrasound.'" Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature. 41.4 (Dec. 2008)111-27. "'From a Distance it Looks Like Peace': 'Reading Beneath' the Fascist Style of Gilead in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale." Studies in Canadian Literature. 32.1 (2007). Rev. of The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television by Kathleen Fitzpatrick in Modern Fiction Studies. 54.4 (Winter 2008): 895-98. |
| Research Interests: | Twentieth-century American literature, Visual Rhetoric, Rhetoric and Composition, Professional Writing, Theory and Cultural Studies, Women's literature, Multi-ethnic literature |
| Affiliations: | The National Council of Teachers of English Conference on College Composition and Communication Modern Language Association Northeastern Modern Language Association American Comparative Literature Association |
| Presentations: | "Pop Medicine: Media and the New Medical Consumer in DeLillo's White Noise" American Comparative Literature Association 2009 Annual Meeting, Harvard University, March 26-29, 2009. "Transparent Bodies and Invisible Ideology: Women Writers on Medical Imaging Technologies" Modern Language Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, Dec. 27-31, 2008. "Not Fatal, but Freakish: Male Body Image and the Clinical Gaze in 'My Mammogram.'" Northeastern Modern Language Association, Buffalo, April 11, 2008. "Keeping it Reel: Using Film to Teach Theory to Undergraduates." 2008 Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, April 3, 2008. "Seeing Patients: Gender Politics and Medical Imaging in 'Third Monday' and 'Bluebeard's Egg.'" The Patient: A Symposium, Bucknell University, Oct. 21-22, 2006. "The Womb with a View: Fetal Images in 'Birthmates' and 'The Ultrasound.'" American Comparative Literature Association 2006 Annual Meeting, March 22-24, 2006. "The Bluest Eye: Visual Culture and the Construction Female Desire." 2005 College English Association Annual Meeting, April 2, 2005. |
