Biography

Jody Lisberger, Associate Professor, has a Ph.D. in English with a specialty in feminist narrative theory, problems of sacrifice, and alternative notions of narrative desire. She was originally trained as an anthropologist.

Her recent presentations have been on “Plutonium: The toxic silences and illusions behind patriarchal notions of safety and remediation in The Cassandra” and “Ecology, Gender, and Nuclear Waste: The Perils of Not Knowing About Hanford, the Largest Nuclear Waste Site in the U.S.” She’s also authored “The Politics of Data: Gender Bias and Border Mentality in the EEOC, “DES and Diflucan: Pharmaceutical Marketing Choices—Why Women Should Take Heed,” “The University as Nation-State: Transnational remedies,” “Challenging the Myth of Disposable Women,” and “Disposable Women, Border Mentalities, and Militarization in Academia.”

In addition, Jody has an M.F.A. in fiction writing. She has several published stories and a 2008 short story collection, Remember Love, which was nominated for a National Book Award. She recently completed a novel called You Don’t Know the Half Of It. In the past, Jody has worked as an editor, grant writer, and journalist, including for Sojourner, the feminist newspaper that in its day went to 40,000 readers worldwide.