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University of California
3218 Humanities Gateway Building
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697
Email: jterry@uci.edu
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cultural studies; science and technology studies; formations of sexuality; critical approaches to modernity; American studies in transnational perspective
Since January 2003, Jennifer Terry has been an associate professor of Women’s Studies with affiliations in Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Film and Media Studies, the Art, Computation, and Engineering graduate program, and the Culture and Theory PhD program. Her research is concentrated in Feminist Cultural Studies; Science and Technology studies; comparative and historical formations of gender, race, and sexuality; critical approaches to modernity; and American studies in transnational perspective. Professor Terry came to UCI after a decade of academic employment at UC Berkeley and Ohio State University. She received her PhD in History of Consciousness from UC Santa Cruz in 1992.
She is the author of An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society (University of Chicago Press, 1999) and co-editor of Deviant Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Difference in Science and Popular Culture (Indiana University Press, 1995) and Processed Lives: Gender and Technology in Everyday Life (Routledge, 1997). She has written articles and chapters on reproductive politics, the history of sexual science in the United States, and contemporary scientific approaches to the sex lives of animals.
Terry is now working on a project presently titled Attachments to War: Militarization and Consuming Desires in America’s Age of Empire. The project focuses on the history of military morale management in the US during the expansion of the nation into an international empire by theorizing the dynamics of governmentality and sentimentality as they manifest in the mutual provocations between entertainment forms, hygienic technologies, and militarism. The book's chapters analyze military basic training and its framing of the U.S. nation through a praxis of "unit cohesion"; civilian mobilization for war; surveillance technologies and remote tracking devices; weaponry design and its relationship to medical innovations; psychological operations; USO shows; and simulation experiences. The technosocial processes analyzed share capacities for entertainment, aggression, and desire, and are tied to new forms of commodification and governmentality. A critical analysis of the erotic politics at play in these deployments is central to the project.
She recently completed a three-year National Science Foundation collaborative project on Privacy, Identity, and Technology, with Paul Dourish and Simon Cole. She is also a member of the Working Group on Transnational and Transoceanic Networks.
Terry is the coordinator of the Queer Studies program at UCI, and was the chair of Women's Studies from July 2005 to June 2008.
Courses Frequently Taught:
Undergraduate course:
Gender and Feminism in Everyday Life
Gender and Popular Culture
Feminist Theory
Queer Lives and Queer Knowledges
Feminist Cultural Studies
Militarism and Gender
Graduate courses:
Gender and Technoculture
Subaltern Sexualities
Feminist Knowledges and Social Change
Feminist Methodologies
Identity and Difference
Movement and Displacement
UCI Affiliations:
Culture and Theory PhD Program
Comparative Literature
Anthropology
Film and Media Studies
Art, Computation and Engineering (ACE) Graduate Program
UCI Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies
"Significant Injury: War, Medicine, and Empire in Claudia's Case," Women's Studies Quarterly Special Issue on Technology, 37(1&2) (Spring/Summer 2009): 200-225.
Killer Entertainments, Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Fall 2007), with Raegan Kelly, available for interactive viewing at http://www.vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=86
An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society
Publisher: University of Chicago Press; (November 1999)
Processed Lives: Gender and Technology in Everyday Life
Routledge; 1 edition (May 1997)
Deviant Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Difference in Science and Popular Culture (Race, Gender, and Science)
Indiana University Press; (November 1995)
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