Current Graduate Students
Education
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA September 2002-current, Women’s Studies Doctoral Program; GPA 3.95
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA May 1997
B.A., Biological Basis of Behavior (Physiology of Neural Systems); minor, Philosophy; GPA: 3.2
Dissertation Research
My research explores the gendered and racialized cultural productions of "biological threats" such as anthrax, smallpox, SARS and flu. A recently emerging conception of microbes as a particular type of national security threat, "biological threats" have been accompanied by scares in the post-9/11 U.S. climate. I focus on these scares as a lens into the bio-political mechanisms by which the U.S. State shapes notions of gender, race and nation. By examining the politics and media surrounding these scares, I analyze the role that biological threat discourse plays in post-9/11 U.S. Empire and nationhood.
Publications
D’Arcangelis, Gwen. 2008. Chinese chickens, ducks, pigs and humans, and the Technoscientific Discourses of Global U.S. Empire. In Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience, edited by Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip. Cambridge: MIT Press.
D’Arcangelis, Gwen, Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip. 2008. Interview with Richard Lewontin. In Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience, edited by Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Shigematsu, Setsu, Gwen D’Arcangelis and Melissa Burch. Forthcoming
2008. Prison abolition in practice: The LEAD Project, the politics of
healing, and ‘A New Way of Life’. In Interrupted Lives: Experiences of
Incarcerated Women in the United States, edited by Solinger, Rickie,
Martha Raimon, Ruby Tapia, Tina Reynolds, and Paula Johnson. Berkeley:
University of California Press.
Conference Presentations
“Microbial Citizenship in post-9/11 U.S. nation-State building”,
National Women’s Studies Association, Cincinnati, OH (June 2009)
“Bio-geographies of Asian/American Identity in a Post-9/11 Climate”,
Association for Asian American Studies, Chicago, IL (April 2008)
“Surveillance and Policing in Bioscience”, Interrogating Diversity, American
University, Washington, D.C. (March 2007)
“Chinese chickens, ducks, pigs and humans, and Technoscientific Orientalism”
[Plenary], Thinking Gender Conference, UCLA, Los Angeles (February 2007)
“Biological Threats and Technologies of Security”, Society for the Social
Studies of Science, Vancouver, BC, Canada (November 2006)
“Biological Threat Construction: Fear, security, and surveillance in the
U.S.”, Global States, UC Irvine (May 2006)
Video Productions
“Toxics & Health in the First Five Years” [in progress]
environmental justice documentary, Communities for a Better Environment
“Bollywood Ki Aurat”
13-minute documentary on depictions of women in Bollywood film
Teaching
Women’s Studies Program, UCLA (September 2003-current)
Teaching Assistant, lead discussion sections for undergraduate
introductory classes in women’s studies.
Department of Academic Support, University of Pennsylvania (Sept
1995-April 1997)
Tutor, tutored college peers in biology and chemistry.
West Philadelphia Tutoring Project, Philadelphia, PA (Sept
1995-April 1997)
Volunteer, tutored literacy one-on-one at Powel Elementary School.
Cal Poly Pomona, CSU Long Beach (2004-current)
Guest Lecturer, one-time lectures on gender and science to undergraduate
audience.
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