Dr. Patrick B. Sharp

Associate Professor

Office: ET A411

Email: psharp (at) calstatela (dot) edu

Phone: ext. 5811

EDUCATION:

1999 Ph.D. English, University of California, Santa Barbara.

1994 M.A. English, University of California, Santa Barbara.

1989 B.A. English, High Honors, University of California, Santa Barbara.

TEACHING INTERESTS:

I teach courses that help students to develop their understanding of the disciplines, while helping them to build knowledge across disciplinary boundaries. I teach many of the courses in the Liberal Studies core (301, 360, 489, and 490), as well as LBS 386 (Gender in Science), LBS 410 (National Identity, Race, and Popular Culture), LBS 420 (Science, Culture, and Representation), and AAAS/LBS 422 (Asian Americans in Science and Literature). I also teach courses in English such as ENGL 475C (American Novel: 1945-Present) and ENGL 476 (Ethnic Literature in the U. S.). I work on science fiction, so there is always at least one science fiction text in every course I teach.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

My work and research is most deeply concerned with the cultural studies of science and technology, race, and gender. My first book, Savage Perils: Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture looks at how Darwinist narratives of race and progress have influenced stories about nuclear apocalypse in American culture. My second book project, which focuses on representations of women and technology and women in the military, is well underway. I am also co-editing with Dr. Jeannette Eileen Jones an anthology entitled The Descent of Darwin: Evolutionary Visions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Circum-Atlantic Culture. This anthology is nearly complete and we are hoping it will be out during 2009. I am actively involved with the CSU Los Angeles Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities and the CSU Los Angeles American Communities Program.

FALL 2008 COURSE SCHEDULE

Course	Sect.	Title	Units	Day & Time	Room
LBS 386	1	Gender in Science	4.0	MW 6:10-7:50pm	TBA
LBS/ENGL 454	1	American Science Fiction	4.0	MW 1:30-3:10pm	TBA

FALL 2008 OFFICE HOURS

4:30-6:00 pm

ET A-411

RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND WORKS IN PROGRESS (WIP)

Year	Title
WIP	"Military Damsels in Distress: Compulsory Motherhood and Captivity Narrative in Battlestar Galactica." Under consideration.
WIP	Descent of Darwin: Evolutionary Visions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Circum-Atlantic Culture. Anthology co-edited with Jeannette Eileen Jones. Under consideration.
WIP	"The Evolution of the West: Darwinist Visions of Race and Progress in Roosevelt and Turner." Descent of Darwin: Evolutionary Visions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Circum-Atlantic Culture. Under consideration.
2008	"Darwin's Soldiers: Gender, Evolution, and Warfare in Them! and Forbidden Planet." Science Fiction Film and Television 1.2 (November 2008).
2008	"Science Studies 101." SFRA Review 283 (Winter 2008): 4-7.
2007	Savage Perils: Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007.

RECENT AND UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS

2008	"Ideological Reboot: Gender, Science, and Technology in The Bionic Woman." Science Fiction Research Association Conference. Lawrence, Kansas: July 11, 2008.
2008	"Questing for a Genre: Silko's Ceremony and the Boundaries of SF." Science Fiction Research Association Conference. Lawrence, Kansas: July 11, 2008.
2008	"Genre, Silko's Ceremony, and the Limits of Science Fiction." American Literature Association Conference. San Francisco: May 23, 2008.
2008	"Darwin's Soldiers: Gender, Technology, and Warfare in American Culture." Invited Presentation to the Klopsteg Seminar Series in Science and Human Culture. Northwestern University, Chicago: February 29. 2008.
2008	"Gender on the Nuclear Frontier: The Science Fiction Films of James Cameron." Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. Albuquerque, New Mexico: February 14, 2008.
2007	"Saving Private Jessica: Gender, Technology, and the Military Damsel in Distress." Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference. Portland, Maine: November 3, 2007.
2007	"Darwin's Soldiers: Gender and the Military in the Early Twentieth Century." American Studies Association Conference. Philadelphia: October 12, 2007.
2007	"Savage Perils: Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture." Invited Presentation to The American Cultures and Global Contexts Center Lecture Series. University of California, Santa Barbara. October 5, 2007.
2007	"Monster's from Darwin's Id: Gender and Evolution in Them! and Forbidden Planet." Science Fiction Research Association Conference. Kansas City, Missouri: July 6, 2007.
2006	"The Darwinist Frontier: Roosevelt, Turner, and the Evolution of the West." American Studies Association Conference. Oakland: October 15, 2006.