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Karen Barad

Karen Barad   
Karen Barad
    Title:  Professor of Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness and Philosophy
    Type:  Core Faculty
    Email:  kbarad@ucsc.edu
    Phone:  (831) 459-3101 Office
(831) 459-1925 Fax
    Office:  Humanities I 330
    Office Hours:  Fall 09: Tuesday Noon-1:30 PM

Courses Taught 
FMST 80K - Feminism and Science
FMST 133 - Science and the Body
FMST 194D - Feminist Science Studies
FMST 214 - Feminist Science Studies

Research Focus 
Feminist theory, physics, twentieth-century continental philosophy, epistemology, ontology, philosophy of physics, cultural studies of science, feminist science studies

Education History 
Ph.D., Theoretical Particle Physics, SUNY Stony Brook

Selected Publications 

"Queer Causation and the Ethics of Mattering,” in Queering the Non/Human, edited by Noreen Giffney and Myra J. Hird. Ashgate Press (Queer Interventions Book Series), 2008.

"Schrödinger’s Cat,” in Bits of Life: Feminism and the New Cultures of Media and Technoscience, edited by Anneke Smelik and Nina Lykke. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008.

Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007.

"Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter," in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 28, no. 3, Spring 2003.

"Re(con)figuring Space, Time, and Matter," in Feminist Locations: Global and Local, Theory and Practice, edited by Marianne DeKoven. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2001.

"Performing Culture / Performing Nature: Using the Piezoelectric Crystal of Ultrasound Technologies as a Transducer Between Science Studies and Queer Theories," in Digital Anatomies, edited by Christina Lammar, Vienna: Turia & Kant, 2001.

"Scientific Literacy -> Agential Literacy = (Learning + Doing) Science Responsibly," in Feminist Science Studies: A New Generation, edited by Maralee Mayberry, Banu Subramaniam, and Lisa Weasel. NY: Routledge Press. (Abridged version of article published in Doing Culture + Science), 2001.

"Reconceiving Scientific Literacy as Agential Literacy, or Learning How to Intra-act Responsibly Within the World," in Doing Culture + Science, edited by Roddy Reid and Sharon Traweek, NY: Routledge Press, 2000.

"Agential Realism: Feminist Interventions in Understanding Scientific Practices," in The Science Studies Reader, edited by Mario Biagioli, NY: Routledge Press, 1998.

"Getting Real: Technoscientific Practices and the Materialization of Reality," in differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, vol. 10, no. 2, Summer 1998.

"Meeting the Universe Halfway: Realism and Social Constructivism Without Contradiction," in Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science, ed. Lynn Hankinson Nelson and Jack Nelson, Dordecht, Holland: Kluwer Press, 1996.