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University of California
3218 Humanities Gateway Building
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697
Email: jterry@uci.edu
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cultural studies; science and technology studies; formations of sexuality; critical approaches to modernity; American studies in transnational perspective
Since January 2003, Jennifer Terry has been an associate professor of Women’s Studies with affiliations in Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Film and Media Studies, International Studies, and the Culture and Theory PhD program. Her research is concentrated in Feminist Cultural Studies; Science and Technology studies; comparative and historical formations of gender, race, and sexuality; critical approaches to modernity; and American studies in transnational perspective. Professor Terry came to UCI after a decade of academic employment at UC Berkeley and Ohio State University. She received her PhD in History of Consciousness from UC Santa Cruz in 1992.
She is the author of An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society (University of Chicago Press, 1999) and co-editor of Deviant Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Difference in Science and Popular Culture (Indiana University Press, 1995) and Processed Lives: Gender and Technology in Everyday Life (Routledge, 1997). She has written articles and chapters on reproductive politics, the history of sexual science in the United States, contemporary scientific approaches to the sex lives of animals, love of objects, signature injuries of war, and the relationship between war-making practices and entertainment.
Terry is now working on a project titled Attachments to War: Militarization and the Production of Biomedical Knowledge in Modern America. Modern modes of militarization and innovations in medicine are deeply entangled with one another and bound up in a relationship of mutual provocation. How did this come to be so? What are the effects of this entanglement? How does this entanglement tie war making to humanitarianism? These questions are central to what I am writing as a way of exploring how ordinary people become deeply attached to war today in ways that are either rarely acknowledged and routinely disavowed or hyperbolically celebrated as painful yet redemptive truths. My focus, in the book, is on how state-sanctioned wounding provokes the expansion of medical knowledge to produce new techniques and technologies aimed at contending with and sometimes exploiting the damage done by war. This relationship of mutual provocation, I argue, perpetuates and elaborates processes of militarization by redeeming war as a necessary condition for human advancement. I examine a series of cases, each center around a particular kind of wound, to analyze how the entangled relationship between war making and medical knowledge takes particular form in the context of the United States’ imperial expansion, tracing back to the turn of the twentieth century.
In 2008, Terry completed a three-year National Science Foundation collaborative project on Privacy, Identity, and Technology, with Paul Dourish and Simon Cole. She chaired the department of Women's Studies from 2005 through 2008 and from 2010 through 2012. She was a member of the Critical Theory Institute at UC Irvine from 2005 through 2008.
Terry is the founder and coordinator of the Queer Studies Minor degree program at UCI.
Select Media Appearances
"Battlefield Views," accessible at http://uci.edu/features/2010/07/feature_terry_100720.php
"The YouTube Wars," The Riz Khan Show, al Jazeera English, aired June 16, 2010, accessible at http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/rizkhan/2010/06/20106157235198947.html
"Do Women Need a Sex Pill?", CNN Opinion Online, June 21, 2010, accessible at http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/06/21/terry.sex.pill.women/index.html?iref=allsearch
Courses Frequently Taught:
Undergraduate course:
Gender and Feminism in Everyday Life
Gender and Popular Culture
Gender and Science
Gender and Technology
Feminist Theory
Queer Lives and Queer Knowledges
Feminist Cultural Studies
New Reproductive Technologies
Militarism and Gender
Queer History Making
Graduate courses:
Gender and Technoculture
Subaltern Sexualities
Feminist Knowledges and Social Change
Feminist Methodologies
Identity and Difference
Movement and Displacement
UCI Affiliations:
Culture and Theory PhD Program
Comparative Literature
Anthropology
Film and Media Studies
International Studies
UCI Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies
Other Affiliations
Consortium Member, Bioethics, Sexuality, and Gender Identity Project, Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Affiliate, Center for New Racial Studies Multi-campus Research Program based at UC Santa Barbara
Affiliate, Centre for Applied Somatechnics, Department of Critical and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Australia
"Killer Entertainments," Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Fall 2007), with Raegan Kelly, available for interactive viewing at http://www.vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=86
"Loving Objects," Trans-humanities 2(1) (2010): 33-75.
"Significant Injury: War, Medicine, and Empire in Claudia's Case," Women's Studies Quarterly Special Issue on Technology, 37(1&2) (Spring/Summer 2009): 200-225.
An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society
Publisher: University of Chicago Press; (November 1999)
Processed Lives: Gender and Technology in Everyday Life
Routledge; 1 edition (May 1997)
Deviant Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Difference in Science and Popular Culture (Race, Gender, and Science)
Indiana University Press; (November 1995)
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