gwen d'arcangelis
associate professor of gender studies

Gwen D’Arcangelis is associate professor in Gender Studies. Her areas of teaching and research include gender, race, and science; feminist science fiction; disease and empire; and feminist and anti-imperial praxis. She has published on the construction of white scientific masculinity in U.S. national security discourse, gendered Orientalism in the U.S. news media during the 2003 SARS disease scare, and nurse activism during the war on terror. Her forthcoming book, titled Bio-Imperialism: Disease, Terror, and the Construction of National Fragility, examines the gendered, raced, and imperial dimensions of U.S. focus on bioterror and germ threats.