People
Faculty
Theresa Kulbaga
Contact Information
219 Rentschler Hall
Hamilton Campus
513 785 3034
Titles
- Assistant Professor
- Faculty Affiliate in American Studies & Women’s Studies
Education
- Ph.D., The Ohio State University (2006)
- M.A., The Ohio State University (2000)
- B.A., Baldwin-Wallace College (1997)
Research Interests
- Autobiography and Life Narrative
- Multi-Ethnic American Literatures of the United States
- Post-Nationalist American Studies
- Transnational Feminism and Human Rights
- Documentary Film
Teaching Interests
- Autobiography and Life Narrative
- Contemporary U.S. Literatures
- American Popular Culture
- American Studies
Selected Publications
- “Pleasurable Pedagogies: Reading Lolita in Tehran and the Rhetoric of Empathy.” College English 70.5 (May 2008): 506-521.
- Teaching with Rhetorical Visions: Writing and Reading in a Visual Culture. With Ivonne M. García and Deneese Owen. Prentice Hall, 2007.
- Rev. Split Lives: Croatian Australian Stories by Val Colic-Peisker. Life Writing 4.2 (October 2007): 327-331.
- “Labored Realisms: Geopolitical Rhetoric and Asian American and Asian (Im)migrant Women’s Auto/biography” with Wendy S. Hesford. JAC 32.1 (2003): 77-107. (Winner of the 2003 Elizabeth Flynn Award for Best Feminist Essay published in JAC: Quarterly Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Rhetoric, Culture, Literacy, and Politics)
- “Labored Realisms: Geopolitical Rhetoric and Asian American and Asian (Im)migrant Women’s Auto/biography” with Wendy S. Hesford. Western Subjects: Autobiographical Writing in the North American West. Eds. Kathleen Boardman and Gioia Woods. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2005. 302-337.
Work in Progress
Theresa A. Kulbaga is currently completing a book manuscript, Transnational Subjects: Gender, Genre, and Geopolitics in Contemporary American Autobiography. This book examines the production, circulation, and consumption of the “transnational” as a gendered and racialized space in contemporary life writing. She is also completing several articles about autobiography and transnational feminisms, including an analysis of celebrity, activism, and human rights in the autobiographical works of Angelina Jolie and Alek Wek.