Faculty/Staff Directory
Dr. Lisa Bro
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| Office Hours: | Spring 2025 Mondays & Thursdays: Online: 11:30 am - 1:30 pm Tuesdays & Wednesdays: In Office: 11 am - 1 pm |
| Biography: | Dr. Bro has been teaching at Middle Georgia for over nearly 20 years. Her specialty is Postmodern American Lit, particularly Speculative Fiction such as Magical Realism and Science Fiction. Her book Bodies for Profit and Power: Science Fiction and Biopolitics released in 2023, and she has co-edited a collection of essays related to modern and postmodern literary monsters Monsters of Film, Fiction, and Fable: The Cultural Links between the Human and Inhuman. |
| Courses: | Spring 2025 M/W ENGL 1101 - Honors @ 9:30 T/Th ENGL 1101 @ 9:30 Online ENGL 2132 PFWR 3180 |
| Education: | Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Greensboro - Greensboro, NC - 20th Century American Literature: Emphasis- Postmodernism & Magical Realism M.A. University of Northern Iowa - Cedar Falls, IA - 20th Century American Literature & Creative Writing B.A. Wartburg College - Waverly, IA - Communication Arts & English |
| CV: | Recent Conferences The Monstrous Woman, the Biopolitical, and Decoloniality: Reimagining Folk and Fairy Tale Women. SAMLA Conference. Jacksonville. November 2024. "Puppets & Puppet Masters: Conformity in Jennifer Egans Black Box & Orphan Black." SAMLA Conference. Atlanta. November 2023. The Woman I Used to Be: Rowenas Reclamation and Transformation. SAMLA Conference. Virtual. November 2022. Reimagining Women in Fairy Tales & Myth: Transformation and Empowerment in Nalo Hopkinsons The Glass Bottle Trick, Sonia Alejandra Rodriguezs Bromelia, and Zen Chos House of Aunts. PCAS/ACAS Conference. New Orleans. 2022. |
| Professional Experience: | Author: Bodies for Profit and Power: Science Fiction and Biopolitics (2023) Co-Editor and contributor: Monsters of Film, Fiction, and Fable (2018) Co-Chair - SAMLA - Literary Monsters & Speculative Fiction Panels (2012 - present) Chair, PCAS/ACAS - various Speculative Fiction panels (2014 - present) Editorial Board: Making Connections and GPAJ journals (2012-2017) President of Georgia Philological Association (2016) |
| Professional Affiliations: | SAMLA - South Atlantic Modern Language Association PCAS/ACAS - Popular Culture Association in the South/American Culture Association in the South SFA - Speculative Fiction Association |
| Publications: | Select Publications "The Search for Truth in Ariel Dorfmans The Suicide Museum." NCLR, Fall 2024. Bodies for Profit and Power: Science Fiction and Biopolitics. McFarland P., 2023. "Compliancy, Control, Subservience: Biopolitics and the Regulation of Womens Bodies in The Handmaids Tale, 'Black Box,' and Orphan Black. Women Writing Trauma in Literature, edited by Laura Alexander, Cambridge, 2022. Anarchy in the OPA: Sovereignty, Capitalism, and Bare Life. The Expanse and Philosophy: So Far Out into the Darkness, edited by Jeffery L. Nicholas, Wiley & Sons/Blackwell, Hoboken, 2022, pp. 111-24. Monsters of Fiction, Film, and Fable: The Cultural Links Between the Human and Inhuman, edited by Lisa Wenger Bro, Crystal OLeary Davidson, and Mary Ann Gareis, Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2018. |
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