Kathleen Woodward
Professor of English, U. Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Selected Publications:

• Books include:
  • editor, Figuring Age: Women, Bodies, Generations (1999)
  • Aging and Its Discontents: Freud and Other Fictions (1991)
  • co-editor, Memory and Desire: Aging—Literature—Psychoanalysis (1986)
  • editor, The Myths of Information: Technology and Postindustrial Culture (1980)
  • At Last, the Real Distinguished Thing: The Late Poems of Eliot, Pound, Stevens and Williams (1980)
• Recent articles include:
  • "Prosthetic Emotions," in Emotion in Postmodernism, ed. Gerhard Hoffmann and Alfred Hornung [Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1997]: 95-108)
  • "Global Cooling and Academic Warming: Long-term Shifts in Emotional Weather," American Literary History (American Literary History, 8.4 [Winter 1996]: 759-79)
  • "From Virtual Cyborgs to Biological Time Bombs: Technocriticism and the Material Body," in Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology, ed. Gretchen Bender and Timothy Druckrey (Seattle: Bay, 1994): 47-64
• Online:
  • "The Future of the Government / University Partnership: The Humanities and Arts" (1997; conference talk) (U. Michigan Year of the Humanities Initiative)
• "Telling Stories" (.pdf file) (1997; Woodward's paper on "Telling Stories: Aging, Reminiscence, and the Life Review" followed by responses from panelists) (Occasional Papers of the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities)

• Chair, Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes
• Chair, National Advisory Board of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life
• Director, U. Milwaukee Center for Twentieth Century Studies
• Director, U. Washington Humanities Center [beginning in 2000-2001]
  

• Autobiography
• Cultural criticism
• Discourses of the emotions
• Psychoanalytic theory