Department of Feminist Studies

 

 

University of California, Santa Barbara

Department of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Barbara Tomlinson

Barbara Tomlinson
Associate Professor

Department of Feminist Studies
4711 South Hall
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6130
Phone: (805) 893-7503
Fax: (805) 893-8676
E-mail: btomlinson@femst.ucsb.edu

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Areas of study:

  • rhetoric & feminist politics
  • feminist theory & analysis
  • culture & affect
  • critical race theory
  • disciplinary & interdisciplinary discourses
  • gender & literature
  • feminist science studies
  • culture & reproduction
  • composition theory & pedagogy

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Education:

1980 Ph.D. University of California, Riverside (rhetoric and composition, reading, curriculum, English education

1970 M.A. University of California, Berkeley (comparative English & French literatures)

1970 Teaching Credentials University of California, Berkeley (elementary, secondary, and reading specialist)

1968 A.B. University of California, Berkeley ( English literature with honors)

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Books:

Feminism and Affect at the Scene of Argument: Beyond the Trope of the Angry Feminist. Philadelphia, PN: Temple U P, 2010.

Authors on Writing: Metaphors and Intellectual Labor. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Writing Truth to Power: Academic Argument and Social Justice. Co-authored with George Lipsitz. In progress.

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Publications:

My work on rhetoric and affect in feminist and antifeminist argument in sociolegal studies, feminist musicology, and feminist science studies has appeared in Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Cultural Critique, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology, Journal of American Studies, and Literatura e Estudos Culturais/ Literature and Cultural Studies. Other work, particularly on metaphor and composing processes, has appeared in Cultural Sociology, Written Communication, Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, the Journal of College Reading and Learning and edited collections.

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