The department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGS) is composed of administrators, a Program Advisory Committee (PAC) and Teaching Faculty.

WGS Administrators oversee planning, programming, and day-to-day operations.

The WGS Program Advisory Committee (PAC) is made up of faculty and staff who consult on curricular matters, choose scholarship and award winners, and advise on vision and programming.

The WGS Teaching Faculty includes numerous faculty members (from several colleges at UAH) who teach classes designated as Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies courses.

 

Dr. Joe Conway

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR & DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE STUDIES, ENGLISH

Contact

1310 Ben Graves Drive
Morton Hall
Room 265
Huntsville, AL 35899
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256.824.2380
joseph.conway@uah.edu

Biography

Curriculum Vitae


Education

  • Ph.D., American Literature, Washington University, 2008
  • B.A., English and Philosophy, Villanova College, 2000

Expertise

  • Early American Literature Pop Culture Economics in Literature & Culture

Recent Publications

  • "“See I Know How to Grab It”: Capturing Money in the Neoliberal Heist Film." LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 34.4 (2023): 279-300.

  • "From Disincorporation to Rematerialization: Breaking Bad and the Life of Cash." Canadian Review of American Studies 51.3 (2021): 196-212.

  • "Currencies of Control: Black Mirror, In Time, and the Monetary Policies of Dystopia." CR: The New Centennial Review 19.1 (2019): 229-254.

  • "‘To banter the age': Sir William Phips and the Wonders of the Modern World," Early American Literature 52.2 (2017).

  • "After Politics/After Television: Comedy Vérité and the Running Gag of Government," Studies in American Humor 2.2 (2016): 182-207

  • "Conversion Experiences: Money and Other Strange Gods in The Female America," Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 45.4 (2016): 671-683.

  • "Words Are for the Birds: ‘Non-Reasoning Creatures Capable of Speech' in the Writings of Schreber and Poe," in Mocking Bird Technologies: Essays on the Comparative and Global Poetics of Bird Mimicry, eds. Christopher GoGwilt and Melanie Holm. Fordham University Press, 2018.

  • "Hawthorne's Backwoods Puritan: ‘Sir William Phips and the Democratic Clown Tradition," The Nathaniel Hawthorne Review (Fall 2013): 36-59. Winner of Hawthorne Review's "Essay of the Year" for 2013.

  • "Making Beautiful Money: Currency Connoisseurship in Nineteenth-Century America," Nineteenth-Century Contexts 34.5 (2012): 427-443.

  • "Failing Criticism: An Essay on The Recognitions," in The Arch Never Sleeps: William Gaddis in Context. McFarland, 2009.