Faculty/Staff Directory
Dr. Lisa Bro
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| Office Hours: | Fall 2023 Mondays: Online: 8 am - noon Tuesdays: In Office: 11 am - 1 pm Wednesdays: In Office: 10:30 am - 12:30 pm |
| Biography: | Dr. Bro has been teaching at Middle Georgia for over nearly 20 years. Her specialty is Postmodern American Lit, particularly Speculative Fiction such as Magical Realism and Science Fiction. Her book Bodies for Profit and Power: Science Fiction and Biopolitics released in 2023, and she has co-edited a collection of essays related to modern and postmodern literary monsters – Monsters of Film, Fiction, and Fable: The Cultural Links between the Human and Inhuman. |
| Courses: | Fall 2023 M/W ENGL 1101: 12:30 T/Th ENGL 1101: 9:30 Online ENGL 1101 ENGL 2132 PFWR 3180 |
| Education: | Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Greensboro - Greensboro, NC - 20th Century American Literature: Emphasis- Postmodernism & Magical Realism M.A. University of Northern Iowa - Cedar Falls, IA - 20th Century American Literature & Creative Writing B.A. Wartburg College - Waverly, IA - Communication Arts & English |
| CV: | Recent Conferences “‘The Woman I Used to Be”: Rowena’s Reclamation and Transformation.” SAMLA Conference. Virtual. November 2022. “Reimagining Women in Fairy Tales & Myth: Transformation and Empowerment in Nalo Hopkinson’s ‘The Glass Bottle Trick,’ Sonia Alejandra Rodriguez’s ‘Bromelia,’ and Zen Cho’s ‘House of Aunts.’” PCAS/ACAS Conference. New Orleans. 2022. “Reimagining the Witch.” SOAL Virtual Conference. March 2022. “Angel, Mother, Virgin, Whore: Authoritarian Control of Women’s Bodies in Science Fiction.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference. Virtual. November 2021. “Orphan Black and the Evolution of the Female Hero.” PCAS/ACAS Conference. Virtual. October 2021. “Them in Us: Monstrous Humans.” SOAL Virtual Conference. March 2021. “Monsters & Childhood Trauma.” Atlanta Horror Writers Association’s Southern Nightmares Reading Series. Read essay and participated in a discussion of our book Monsters of Film, Fiction, & Fable, which the organization selected as their “Nightmare of the Month.” Virtual. January 2021. “The Shifting of Sovereignty: James S.A. Corey’s Expanse Series and Biopolitical Dangers. South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference. Atlanta, GA. November 2019. Kentucky Writer’s Conference. Southern Kentucky Bookfest/Western Kentucky University Libraries. Bowling Green, KY. April 2019. “Compliancy, Control, Subservience: Biopolitics and the Regulation of Women’s Bodies in Orphan Black, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Bitch Planet.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference. Birmingham, AL. November 2018. “Rewriting Gothic Tropes in Late and Post- Postmodern Literature.” Popular Culture Association in the South/American Culture Association in the South. New Orleans, LA. October 2018. “Bodies for Profit and Power: Biopolitics in Orphan Black.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference. Atlanta, GA. November 2017. Kentucky Writer’s Conference. Southern Kentucky Bookfest/Western Kentucky University Libraries. Bowling Green, KY. April 2017. “Who are the Real Clones? Biopower, Normality, and Agency in Orphan Black.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference. Jacksonville, FL. November 2016. |
| Professional Experience: | Author: Bodies for Profit and Power: Science Fiction and Biopolitics (2023) Co-Editor and contributor: Monsters of Film, Fiction, and Fable (2018) Co-Chair - SAMLA - Literary Monsters & Speculative Fiction Panels (2012 - present) Chair, PCAS/ACAS - various Speculative Fiction panels (2014 - present) Editorial Board: Making Connections and GPAJ journals (2012-2017) President of Georgia Philological Association (2016) |
| Professional Affiliations: | SAMLA - South Atlantic Modern Language Association PCAS/ACAS - Popular Culture Association in the South/American Culture Association in the South SFA - Speculative Fiction Association |
| Publications: | Recent Publications Bodies for Profit and Power: Science Fiction and Biopolitics. McFarland P., 2023. Compliancy, Control, Subservience: Biopolitics and the Regulation of Women’s Bodies in The Handmaid’s Tale, “Black Box,” and Orphan Black.” Women Writing Trauma in Literature, edited by Laura Alexander, Cambridge, 2022. “Anarchy in the OPA: Sovereignty, Capitalism, and Bare Life.” The Expanse and Philosophy: So Far Out into the Darkness, edited by Jeffery L. Nicholas, Wiley & Sons/Blackwell, Hoboken, 2022, pp. 111-24. “Linking the Common and the Uncanny in Jen Fawkes Tales the Devil Told Me.” North Carolina Literary Review. Spring 2022. “Haunted Lives: Wrestling with the Past in Charles Dodd White’s In the House of Wilderness and Therese Anne Fowler’s A Good Neighborhood.” North Carolina Literary Review. Spring 2020. Monsters of Fiction, Film, and Fable: The Cultural Links Between the Human and Inhuman, edited by Lisa Wenger Bro, Crystal O’Leary Davidson, and Mary Ann Gareis, Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2018. “Introduction: The Cultural Links Between the Human and Inhuman.” Monsters of Fiction, Film, and Fable: The Cultural Links Between the Human and Inhuman, edited by Lisa Wenger Bro, Crystal O’Leary Davidson, and Mary Ann Gareis, Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2018, pp. 1-11. “Killing Tinkerbell: Remythologizing the Fey in a Technocentric Age.” Monsters of Fiction, Film, and Fable: The Cultural Links Between the Human and Inhuman, edited by Lisa Wenger Bro, Crystal O’Leary Davidson, and Mary Ann Gareis, Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2018, pp. 45-69. “What Happens When the Body’s Gone? Transhumanistic Fears and Desires in Science Fiction and Urban Fantasy.” Monsters of Fiction, Film, and Fable: The Cultural Links Between the Human and Inhuman, edited by Lisa Wenger Bro, Crystal O’Leary Davidson, and Mary Ann Gareis, Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2018, pp. 314-41. “The Masculinized Female Hero: Punishing Misalignment in Battlestar Galactica and Game of Thrones.” JGPA. Spring 2017. |
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