- Tyler Curtain
Tyler Curtain (b. July 13, 1966) is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is an influential theorist ofevolution , sexuality, andcybernetics . His work within sexuality studies has been cited by theNew York Times , most recently in regard to his reflections on US presidential politics and theMonica Lewinsky affair. Current work includes a book forthcoming fromDuke University Press , "Mistaken Evolution," on identity, sexuality, and philosophies of biology and evolution. His next project is entitled "Imagining Extinctions," a treatise on the philosophy, science, and cultural theoretical import of theextinction of humans.Curtain was born in
Albuquerque, New Mexico , United States, and raised inColorado . Educated inComputer Science in the College of Engineering at theUniversity of Colorado at Boulder , Curtain took the Ph.D. in English and American Literature atThe Johns Hopkins University inBaltimore, Maryland . Curtain's dissertation was directed by noted philosophers of literature, history, and culture,Mary Poovey andJonathan Goldberg . In addition to beingAssociate Professor at UNC Chapel Hill, Curtain is Associate Fellow in the Gender Institute,London School of Economics , and Senior Scholar, Humanities Institute of theJohn Hope Franklin Center atDuke University .Important publications
* "Mistaken Evolution: computers, the post-human, and other anxious objects of biological and cultural reproduction" (Duke University Press, forthcoming)
* "The Symbolics of Presidentialism," withDana D. Nelson , in "Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and the Public Interest" edited byLauren Berlant andLisa Duggan (ISBN 0-8147-9864-0), 2001
* "Baltimore Portraits" (ISBN 0-8223-2368-0), 1999ee also
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Evolution
*Evolutionary Theory
*Cultural Studies
*Gender and sexuality studies
*Human Sexuality
*Philosophy of Biology
*Queer Theory External links
* [http://english.unc.edu/ Department of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]
* [http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/genderInstitute/ Gender Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science]
* [http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/about/mission.php John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies]
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