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Publications - David Serlin

A.  PUBLISHED WORK

  1. Serlin, David. “Christine Jorgensen and the Cold War Closet.” Radical History Review 62 (Spring 1995), 136-165. [Reprinted in Kathy Peiss, ed., Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002), 384-393.] RESEARCH ARTICLE
    1. Serlin, David. “The Dialogue of Gender in Melville's ‘The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids’.” Modern Language Studies 25:2 (Spring 1995), 80-87. RESEARCH ARTICLE
  2. Colter, Ephen Glenn, Wayne Hoffman, Eva Pendelton, Alison Redick and David Serlin, co-editors. Policing Public Sex: Queer Politics and the Future of AIDS Activism. Boston: South End Press. 1996. BOOK
  3. Serlin, David. “The Twilight (Zone) of Commercial Sex.” In Dangerous Bedfellows, eds., Policing Public Sex: Queer Politics and the Future of AIDS Activism (Boston: South End Press, 1996), 45-52. RESEARCH ARTICLE
  4. Serlin, David and Jesse Lerner. “Weegee and the Jewish Question” Wide Angle 19:4 (Fall 1997), 94-108. RESEARCH ARTICLE
  5. Serlin, David. “From Sesame Street to Schoolhouse Rock: Urban Pedagogy and Soul Iconography During the 1970s.” In Richard Green and Monique Guillory, eds., Soul: Black Power, Politics, and Pleasure (New York: NYU Press, 1998), 105-20. RESEARCH ARTICLE
  6. Serlin, David. “Building Objectivity: Recent Feminist Histories of Science.” Radical History Review 71 (Spring 1998), 196-206. REVIEW ESSAY.
  7. Serlin, David. “Engineering Masculinity: Veterans and Prosthetics After World War Two.” In Katherine Ott, David Serlin, and Stephen Mihm, eds., Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics (New York: NYU Press, 2002), 45-74. RESEARCH ARTICLE
  8. Ott, Katherine, David Serlin and Stephen Mihm, co-editors. Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics. New York: New York University Press. 2002. BOOK
  9. Serlin, David. “Rethinking the Corporate Biosphere: The Social Ecology of Sustainable Architecture.” In David Gissen, ed., Big and Green: Toward Sustainable Urban Architecture for the 21st Century (Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 2002), 136-145. RESEARCH ARTICLE
  10. Serlin, David. “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. RESEARCH ARTICLE
  11. Serlin, David. “Performing Live Surgery on Television and the Internet Since 1945.” In Jim Drobnick and Jennifer Fisher, eds, Living Display: Rethinking Human Exhibition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press). ARTICLE
  12. Serlin, David. Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2004. BOOK
  13. Reilly, Eliza Jane and David Serlin, co-editors. “Race, Nation, and Cultural Memory.” Editor. Radical History Review 90 (Fall 2004). EDITED JOURNAL
  14. Philip, Kavita, Eliza Jane Reilly and David Serlin, co-editors. “Homeland Securities.” Radical History Review 93 (Fall 2005). EDITED JOURNAL
  15. Serlin, David. “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. RESEARCH ARTICLE
  16. Meade, Teresa and David Serlin, co-editors. “Disability and History.” Radical History Review 94 (Winter 2006). EDITED JOURNAL
  17. Serlin, David. “Disabling the Flâneur” in Journal of Visual Culture special theme issue 5:2, 193-208. (August 2006). ARTICLE NEW
  18. Serlin, David. “The Other Arms Race” in The Disability Studies Reader, 2nd Edition, edited by Lennard Davis. (Routledge: New York, 2006) 49-65. CHAPTER NEW
  19. Murphy, Kevin P., Jason Ruiz and David Serlin, co-editors. “Queer Futures.” Radical History Review 100:1-9 (Winter 2008). EDITED JOURNAL NEW
  20. Serlin, David. “Window Shopping with Helen Keller: Disability History and the Evidence of Experience,” History Workshop Journal, special theme issue (65:1, Spring 2008) ESSAY IN PRESS

B. OTHER WORK

  1. Serlin, David. “Sadie Muriel Baron” and “Fay Berger Karpf.” Entries in Jewish Women in America: A Historical Encyclopedia, Paula Hyman and Debra Dash Moore, eds. (New York: Routledge, 1997), 121-22 and 724-25. ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
  2. Serlin, David. “Producing Surgery on the Internet: Is the Rectum a Cinema?” Cabinet 1 (Winter 2000), 11-13. FEATURED COLUMN
  3. Serlin, David. Conceptualized, researched, and wrote five interactive multimedia exhibits for “Profiles in Science” (www.profiles.nlm.nih.gov), a digital history project in the history of biomedical science, sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (1999-2001). Created on-line exhibits for Nobel Prize winners Christian Anfinsen (Chemistry, 1972), Julius Axelrod (Physiology or Medicine, 1970), Barbara McClintock (Physiology or Medicine, 1983), Marshall Nirenberg (Physiology or Medicine, 1968), and Martin Rodbell (Physiology or Medicine, 1994). WEB-BASED RESEARCH PROJECTS
  4. Serlin, David. “Christine Jorgensen.” In George Haggerty, ed., Gay Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia (New York: Garland, 2000), 500-501. ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRY.
  5. Serlin, David. “Unwinding the History of the Scopitone.” Cabinet 2 (Spring 2001), 15-17. FEATURED COLUMN
  6. Serlin, David. “Some Like it Cold: Engineering the ‘Personal Environment’.” Cabinet 3 (Summer 2001), 13-17. FEATURED COLUMN
  7. Serlin, David. “Making the Jaipur Foot.” Cabinet 4 (Autumn 2001), 10-11. FEATURED COLUMN
  8. Serlin, David. “Wrestling with the Digital Angel.” Cabinet 5 (Winter 2001), 15-16. FEATURED COLUMN
  9. Serlin, David. “Reading the Working Body After September 11.” Cabinet 6 (Spring 2002), 13-17. FEATURED COLUMN
  10. Serlin, David. “The New Face of Terrorism.” Cabinet 7 (Summer 2002), 13-15. FEATURED COLUMN
  11. Serlin, David. “Just Say No to Eucalyptus.” Cabinet 8 (Autumn 2002), 13-15. FEATURED COLUMN
  12. Serlin, David. “Superfly Me to the Moon.” Cabinet 9 (Winter 2003), 9-13. FEATURED COLUMN
  13. Serlin, David. “Giants, Neither Green Nor Jolly.” Cabinet 10 (Spring 2003), 10-12. FEATURED COLUMN
  14. Serlin, David. “Domesticating the Hiroshima Maidens.” Cabinet 11 (Summer 2003), 8-12. FEATURED COLUMN
  15. Serlin, David. “Gladys Bentley,” “Christine Jorgensen,” “John Money & Anke Ehrhardt,” and “Bathhouses.” In Marc Stein, ed., The Encyclopedia of American Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History and Culture (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003). ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES.
  16. Serlin, David. “SARS Poetica.” Cabinet 12 (Autumn 2003/Winter 2004), 7-11. FEATURED COLUMN
  17. Serlin, David. “Etymology Recapitulates Entomology.” In Brian Conley, ed., The Decipherment of Linear X (Brooklyn: Pierogi Press, 2004). ESSAY
  18. Serlin, David. “Infectious Laughter.” Cabinet 17 (Summer 2005), 84-85. ESSAY
  19. Serlin, David. “Making Disability Public.” Radical History Review 94 (Winter 2006,) 197-211. INTERVIEW.
  20. Serlin, David. “The Transparent Body: A Cultural Analysis of Medical Imaging,” by Jose van Dijck, in Isis 97:4, 804 (2006). BOOK REVIEW NEW
  21. Serlin, David. “Social Histories of Disability and Deformity,” by David M. Turner and Kevin Stagg, eds., Social History of Medicine 20:2, 422-423 (2007). BOOK REVIEW NEW
  22. Serlin, David. “The Body at Risk: Photography of Disorder, Illness, and Healing,” by Carol Squiers in Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Spring 2008. BOOK REVIEW IN PRESS
  23. Serlin, David. “Cultural Locations of Disability,” by Sharon Snyder and David Mitchell in Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Summer 2008. BOOK REVIEW IN PRESS

C. WORK IN PROGRESS

  1. “Broadcasting the Body: Performing Surgery on Television and the Internet Since 1945.” WORK-IN-PROGRESS.
  2. “Exhibiting Eugenics: Babies, Freaks, and Others at the 1939-40 New York World’s Fair.” WORK-IN-PROGRESS.
  3. “Feeling Modern: Architecture and Disability in Pedagogical Tools for the Blind.” WORK-IN-PROGRESS.