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Tyler Curtain
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Our Monica, Ourselves : The Clinton Affair and the Public Interest
(Sexual Cultures) by Lauren
Berlant (Editor), Lisa Duggan (Editor), Tyler Curtain (Contributor)
Alongside the O.J. Simpson trial, the affair
between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky now stands as the seminal
cultural event of the 90s. Alternatively transfixed and repelled by
this sexual scandal, confusion still reigns over its meanings and
implications. How are we to make sense of a tale that is often wild
and bizarre, yet replete with serious political and cultural
implications?
Our Monica, Ourselves
provides a forum for thinking through the cultural, political, and
public policy issues raised by the investigation, publicity, and
Congressional impeachment proceedings surrounding the affair. It
pulls this spectacle out of the framework provided by the
conventions of the corporate news media, with its particular notions
of what constitutes a newsworthy event. Drawing from a broad range
of scholars, Our Monica, Ourselves considers Monica
Lewinsky's Jewishness, Linda Tripp's face, the President's penis,
the role of shame in public discourse, and what it's like to have
sex as the president, as well as specific legal and historical
issues at stake in the impeachment of Bill Clinton.
Thoughtful but accessible, immediate yet far
reaching, Our Monica, Ourselves will change the way we think
about the Clinton affair, while helping us reimagine culture and
politics writ large.
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Biography
Tyler Curtain received his Ph.D. in English and
American Literature from The Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was Director of Bioinformatics for
Rankin Clinical Research Unit at the Duke University Medical
Center and Visiting Scholar at Duke University's Department of
English (1996-1999). Curtain is currently Assistant Professor of
English and Critical Theory at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
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Organizations & Institutions
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Fields of Study
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Critical Theory/Queer Theory |
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Cultural Studies of Computer Science |
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Published Works
I recently co-authored an article about sexual politics,
democratic theory, and the Monica Lewinsky scandal, with Dana
Nelson, Professor of English and Social Theory at the University
of Kentucky. It appears in the just released collection
Our Monica, Ourselves, edited by Lauren Berlant and Lisa Duggan (NYU Press,
March 2001). Also: Baltimore Portraits (Duke University Press,
1999), article on Alan Turing in
Novel Gazing, edited by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and "Erasmus' Tigress,"
Queering the Renaissance (Duke University Press, 1996).
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Current Projects
I am currently finishing a manuscript on Alan
Turing, Norbert Wiener, and Wittgenstein. The book introduces a
cultural studies of computer science from a queer theoretical
standpoint.
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