Elena Glasberg

WORK

Selected Essays:

"Introduction", to The Scholar & Feminist Online: Special Issue 'Gender on Ice', with L. Bloom and L. Kay. (7:1 Fall 2008). Online here.

"Blankness in the Antarctic Landscape of An-My Lê", in The Scholar & Feminist Online, (7:1 Fall 2008). Online here.

"Who goes there? Science, fiction, and belonging in Antarctica", in Journal of Historical Geography: Special Issue 'Science and Geopolitics: The International Geophysical Year, 1957-8'. (34:4, Oct 2008) pp 639-657.

"Camera Artists: Gender in Antarctic Visual Culture", in New Zealand Journal of Photography: Special Feature on Antarctic Representation. (October 2007). Download PDF.

"Bad Light—A Visual Approach to Antarctica", in Breaking Ice: ReVisioning Antarctica, Adam Art Gallery exhibition publication, Wellington, NZ, (2005), pp 9-14. Download PDF.

"The Intimate Sphere: National Strategies of Mapping and Embodiment", in Genre, vol 36, no 3&4, (2003), pp 251-270. Download PDF.

"Refusing History at the End of the Earth: Ursula Le Guin's 'Sur' and the 2000-01 Women's Antarctic Crossing", in Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, vol 21 no 1, (2002), pp 99-121. Download PDF.

"On the Road With Chrysler: From Nation to Virtual Empire", in Postcolonial America, ed. C. Richard King, (Univ. Ill Press, 2000), pp 154-170. Download PDF.

Literature and Gender: Thinking Critically Through Poetry, Fiction, and Drama (and Teachers Manual). Co-authored with Robyn Wiegman. (Addison-Wesley Longman, 1999).

"The Last Place on Earth: Antarctica and Virtual Capitalism", in Political and Legal Anthropology Review, vol 21, no 1, (1998), pp 65-76. Download PDF.

Selected Recent Presentations:

Panelist, Transoceanic Dialogues, Cultural Studies Association. Annual Meeting, NYU, New York, May 2008.

Opening Conference remarks, and Panelist, Polar Geopolitics, Gender on Ice conference, Barnard College, New York, Nov 2008.

"To Travel South is to Travel Back? Obsolete Futures of Antarctica", Keynote Address, Imagining Antarctica conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, Sept 2008.

"US Polar Imaginaries", North By Degree: An International Conference on Arctic Exploration, Philadelphia, May 2008.

"Who Goes There? Science and Belonging in Contemporary Antarctica", Keynote Address, John Wesley Powell Conference. Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL, Apr 2008.

"The Gender of the Absent Native in Renarrating the Race to the South Pole", Arctic Discourses 2008 conference, Tromso, Norway, Feb 2008.

"Little America to McMurdo Station: Cities at the End of the World", NY Metro American Studies Association, New York, 2006.

"Science/Fiction at the South Pole", McMurdo Station, Antarctica, 2004.

"Thawing Out Thing(s)", Dartmouth College, MALS Program, 2004.

"Horror Stories: Antarctic Cold War Science and Fiction", Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University, 2004.

"Antarctic Matters", panel organizer and participant, Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, 2004.

"The Edge of Empire", International Historical Geography Association, Auckland, 2003.

"Dis-assembling the National Body", Cultural Studies Association of Australia, Christchurch, 2003.

"The Intimate Sphere", Modern Language Association, NYC, 2002.

"American Studies Without a Map", American Studies Association, Houston, 2002.

"The Polar Imaginary", Modern Language Association, panel respondent, 2001.

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