Milo Obourn: SUNY Brockport

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Milo Obourn, Ph.D

Professor and Chair (Women & Gender Studies), Professor (English), Committee Member (President’s Council on Diversity & Inclusion): (585) 395-2034
mobourn@brockport.edu
Office: Liberal Arts 118

Education

Ph.D. Department of English, New York University, 2006
Dissertation: “Critical Distances: Liberal Multiculturalism, U.S. Citizenship, and Contemporary American Literature,” Director: Phillip Brian Harper
M.A. Department of English, New York University, 2000
B.A. English Literature & French Language and Literature, Tufts University, summa cum laude, 1998

Courses Taught

SUNY BROCKPORT

Queer Theory, Disability Theory, and Contemporary American Literature (graduate seminar)
Asian American Literature (graduate seminar)
American Literature 1920-1950: Lead-up to Civil Rights (graduate seminar)
Critical Approaches to Literature (senior capstone & MA “swing” course)
American Literature after 1950 (senior & MA “swing” course)
Race, Sex, Gender and the Public Sphere (senior seminar)
African American Women Writers (cross-listed with Women’s Studies)
American Women Writers: Women with Weapons (cross-listed with Women’s Studies)
Sex and Gender in Literary Theory (cross-listed with Women’s Studies)
Disability Studies and American Literature: Honors College Contemporary Issues
American Literature II Survey: 1865-present
College Composition

SUNY PURCHASE

The Search For Equity: Race, Class, and Gender in America Since 1945

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, GALLATIN SCHOOL FOR INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY

Multiculturalism in American Political Thought and Literature Freshman Writing Seminar: Self-Representation in Writing

PACE UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENTS OF ENGLISH AND WOMEN’S STUDIES

Women’s Bodies: Violence and Resistance (Freshman Writing component to a Learning Community, interdisciplinary pairing with Introduction to Women’s Studies)
Women in Literature (cross-listed with Women’s Studies) Introduction to Women’s Studies Through Civic Engagement (Women’s Studies)

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

Representations of Women
Literary Interpretation (English major gateway course)
Writing New York, Teaching Assistant
American Literature I Survey: beginnings-1865, Teaching Assistant

Research Interests

Contemporary American Literature
Cultural Citizenship
Gender and Sexuality
Critical Race Theory

Recent Publications
ARTICLES
- “Racialized Disgender and Disruptive Futurity in Lorde’s and Engelberg’s Cancer Narratives,” Genders, Volume 1, Issue 2 (Fall 2016): http://www.colorado.edu/genders/issue-12-fall-2016-0.
- “Object fear: The national dissociation of race and racism in the era of Obama,” co-written with Dr. Annie Lee Jones, clinical psychologist, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, Volume 19 (Fall 2014): 392–412.
- “Octavia Butler’s Disabled Futures,” Contemporary Literature, Volume 54, Number 1 (Spring 2013): 109-138.
- “Speaking with the Same Weapons: Voice Work in Wright and Hurston,” Twentieth Century Literature, Volume 58, Number 2 (Summer 2012): 238-66.
- “Arturo Islas’s La Mollie and the King of Tears,” Hispanic American Literature Volume of The Encyclopedia of Ethnic American Literature. Ed. Luz Ramirez. Facts on File, 2008. 185-86.
- “Hybridity, Identity, and Representation in La Mollie and the King of Tears,” American Literature, Volume 80,Number 1 (March 2008): 141-66.
- “Audre Lorde: Trauma Theory and Liberal Multiculturalism,” MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, Volume 30, Number 3 (Fall 2005): 219-45.
BOOKS
- Reconstituting Americans: Liberal Multiculturalism and Identity Difference in Post-1960s Literature, August 2011, Palgrave.
- Disabled Futures: A Framework for Radical Inclusion, under contract with Temple UP.
POETRY
- “On Reading Jeanette Winterson,” Wilde Magazine: A Magazine of Art and Literature with a Queer Edge, Issue One (Winter 2012): 38.
- “Speaking of Power” and “Enyo,” ADANA, Special Issue “Women and War a Tribute to Adrienne Rich” (March 2013): 86-88.
Presentations
- “Community Conversations: Expanding the Inclusive Conversation” and “Campus-Wide Committee on Disability and Access: A New Initiative at SUNY Brockport” co-presented with Drs. Jennifer Ashton and Jessica Sniatecki, SUNY Diversity Conference: Awareness to Action, November 2016.
- “Disgender Performativity and Queer Illness in Audre Lorde, Miriam Engelberg, and Cherrie Moraga,” Invited talk, Willamette University, Oregon, October 2016.
- “The Economics of Racialized Internal Processes in the Individual Psyche and our Culture,” co-presented with Dr. Annie Lee Jones, Invited talk for NYU’s PostDoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis Committee on Ethnicity, Race, Class, Culture, and Language, April 16, 2016, NYU.
- “White Guys in Wheelchairs: Lost, Avatar, and the Appropriation of Disability,” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard, March 2016.
- “Disgender and the Politics of Care in Lorde’s and Engelberg’s Cancer Narratives,” MLA, Austin, TX, 2016.
- “Do Not Create a Hunger: Vampirism as Social Disability in Gomez’s The Gilda Stories,” After Queer After Humanism: Rice English Symposium, Houston, TX, September 2012.
- “Disabled Futures of the Queer Wound: Islas and Moraga,” NEMLA, Rochester, NY, March 2012.
- “Queering Through Cripping: Butler and Butler,” MLA, Los Angeles, CA, January 2011.
- “Economies of Race in the Political Psyche,” co-presented with Annie Lee Jones, Psychoanalysis, Money and the Economy Conference, Birkbeck College & Freud Museum, London, July 2010.
- “Jamaica Kincaid’s International Geographic,” American Studies Association of Korea, Seoul, October 2009.
- “Rethinking Subjective Universality: Aesthetics and Politics in a Post-post-Kantian Moment,” American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Harvard University, March 2009.

Academic Positions

State University of New York, Brockport, Professor of English, English Department (2007-present)
State University of New York, Purchase College, Adjunct Profesor, School of Liberal Studies and Continuing Education (2007)
New York University, Adjunct Professor, Gallatin School for Individualized Study (2006-2007)
Pace University, Adjunct Professor, Department of Women’s Studies and Department of English (2006-2007)
New York University, Instructor, Department of English (2004-2005)
New York University, Teaching Assistant, Department of English (2001-2003)

Milo Obourn

Open gallery

Milo Obourn, Ph.D

Education

Courses Taught

SUNY BROCKPORT

SUNY PURCHASE

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, GALLATIN SCHOOL FOR INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY

PACE UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENTS OF ENGLISH AND WOMEN’S STUDIES

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

Research Interests

ARTICLES

BOOKS

POETRY

Academic Positions