David Serlin

Associate Professor of Communication

Director of Graduate Studies

Affiliated Faculty in Science Studies and Critical Gender Studies

Education

Ph.D. in American Studies, New York University (1999)

Research

Nineteenth and twentieth century cultural studies of medicine and health; gender/sexuality studies and queer theory; disability studies; material culture and museum studies; architecture, urbanism, and the built environment

Publications

Imagining Illness: Public Health and Visual Culture (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming). Editor.

Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America (University of Chicago Press, 2004). Winner of the 2005 Alan Bray Book Prize from the Modern Language Association.

Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics (New York University Press, 2002). Co-Editor.

Policing Public Sex: Queer Politics and the Future of AIDS Activism (South End Press, 1996). Co-Editor. Winner of the 1997 Gustav Meyers Center Award for a Book on the Subject of Human Rights in North America.

Co-Editor, special issue on “Queer Futures.” Radical History Review 100 (Winter 2008).

“Disabling the Flâneur.” Journal of Visual Culture 5:2 (August 2006), 131-146.

“The Other Arms Race.” In Lennard Davis, ed., The Disability Studies Reader, second ed. (New York: Routledge, 2006), 49-65.

Co-Editor, special issue on “Disability and History.” Radical History Review 94 (Winter 2006).

“Disability, Masculinity, and the Prosthetics of War, 1945 to 2005.” In Marquard Smith and Joanne Morra, eds., The Prosthetic Impulse: From a Posthuman Present to a Biocultural Future (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006), 155-183.

Co-Editor, special issue on “Homeland Securities.” Radical History Review 93 (Fall 2005). Winner of the 2005 Award for “Best Special Issue” by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.

“Crippling Masculinity: Queerness and Disability in U.S. Military Culture, 1800-1945.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 9:1/2 (Winter/Spring 2003), 149-179.

“Rethinking the Corporate Biosphere: The Social Ecology of Sustainable Architecture.” In David Gissen, ed., Big and Green: Sustainable Urban Architecture for the 21st Century (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002), 136-145.