Melissa Littlefield

Assistant Professor, English and
Kinesiology

Office: 102D English
Office Phone: 244-1835

email

Teaching

Feminist Science Studies, Science Fiction, Critical Theory, Feminist Theory

Specializations

Science and Literature, Feminist Science Studies, Science Fiction, Technology and Modernity, Body Studies

Publications

Technologies of Truth: The Embodiment of Deception Detection (under contract University of Washington Press) • "Matter for Thought: The Psychon in Neurology, Psychology and American Culture, 1927-1943" (forthcoming in a book collection on Neurology and Modernity) • "Technology and Representation." Science, Technology and Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 463-469. • Squier, Susan and Melissa Littlefield, eds. Special issue of Feminist Theory on the topic of "Feminist Theory and/of Science," 5:2 (2004). Co-author, with Susan Squier, "Introduction." 123-126.

Work in Progress

Book project on facial reconstruction in American culture, physiology and forensics. • "The Evolution of Forensic Art: Cops, Composite Artists and the Forensic Imagination" • "'An American Flag with Great Gams'": Wonder Woman's Post-9/11 Diplomacy"