 Associate Professor of EnglishOffice: Hellems 123 Telephone: 303-492-2853 E-mail: kibbey@colorado.edu |
Research and teaching interests
Gender studies; feminist theory; film studies
Education
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1977
B.A., Cornell University, 1969
Publications
Books
Theory of the Image: Capitalism, Contemporary Film, and Women. Indiana Univ. Press, 2004
Co-ed with Thomas Foster, Ellen Berry, and Carol Siegel, On Your Left: The New Historical Materialism. New York Univ. Press, 1996
Co-ed. with Cathy N. Davidson, Linda Wagner-Martin, Elizabeth Ammons, Trudier Harris, Amy Ling, and Janice Radway, The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. Oxford Univ. Press, 1995
Co-ed. with Carol Siegel, Forming and Reforming Identity. New York Univ. Press, 1995
Co-ed. with Carol Siegel, Eroticism and Containment: Notes From the Flood Plain. New York Univ. Press, 1994
Co-ed. with Abouali Farmanfarmaian and Kayann Short, Sexual Artifice: Persons, Images, Politics. New York Univ. Press, 1994
The Interpretation of Material Shapes in Puritanism: A Study of Rhetoric, Prejudice, and Violence. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1986
Essays
“Whitewashing the Economy.” Athanor: Semiotica, Filosofia, Arte, Letteratura, special issue on “White Matters / Il Blanco al Centro Della Questione," ed. Susan Petrilli, n.s. 17.10 (2007): 109-18
"Why Must They Take the Bus? Editorial on the New Orleans Disaster." Genders 42 (2005)
"Social Surveillance in Ladybird, Ladybird." Semiotics 2002. Ed. John Deely and Terry Prewitt. Legas Press, 2003, 21-34.
“The Gender Politics of Justice: A Semiotic Analysis of The Verdict.” Genders 35 (Spring, 2002)
"C. S. Peirce and D.W. Griffith: Indexical Meaning, Prejudice, and Parallel Action." Semiotics 2001. Ed. Scott Simpkins and John Deely. Legas Press, 2002, 258-66.
"The Semiotics of Photographic Evidence." Law/Text/Culture 5, 2 (2001): 157-86
"Trial by Media: DNA and Beauty-Pageant Evidence in the Ramsey Murder Case." New York Law School Law Review 43 (1999-2000): 691-714
"Who Incidented That Little Girl? Stories as Pollution Rites in the Ramsey Murder Case." Contemporary Legend n.s. 2 (1999): 73-108. Rpt. Border Crossings: Legend, Literature, Mass Media, and Cultural Ephemera. Ed. Cathy Lynn Preston. International Society for Contemporary Legend Research, 2000, 65-100
"The Plaintiff's Perspective on the Legal Process in Gender Discrimination Cases." Concerns 26, 2 (Summer 1999): 91-105
"Anne Hutchinson." Encyclopedia of New England Culture. Ed. Burt Feintuch and David Watters. Yale Univ. Press, 1997
"Prejudice," "Witchcraft," "Identity," "Anne Hutchinson." The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. Ed. Cathy N. Davidson, et al. Oxford Univ. Press, 1995, 702-3, 925-27, 413, 410
With Michele Stepto, "The Anti-Language of Slavery: Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative. " Critical Essays on Frederick Douglass. Ed. William L. Andrews. G.K. Hall, 1991, 166-91.
"Language in Slavery: Douglass' 1845 Narrative." Prospects 8 (1983): 163-82
"Mutations of the Supernatural: Witchcraft, Remarkable Providences, and the Power of Puritan Men." American Quarterly 34, 2 (Summer 1982): 125-48. Rpt. in Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology, vol. 8, Witchcraft in Colonial America. Ed. Brian Levack. Garland Publishing, 1993
"A Room Without a View." Texas Working Papers in Sociolinguistics 12 (1973): 1-20.
Editorial positions
Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief, Genders
Selected honors and awards
Florence Howe Award, 2003
Film Educators Workshop, Directors Guild of America, 1995
Nomination for John Hope Franklin Prize, American Studies Association, 1987
Visiting Professor, Cornell University, 1985
National Endowment for the Humanities, Women's Studies Grant, 1983-84
American Council of Learned Societies, Fellowship, 1980-81
Morse Fellowship, Yale University, 1980-81
Social Science Research Council, Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1977
Current projects
A book on social class theory from the mid-17th to the late 20th century