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Simone Weil Davis

Visiting Associate Professor
27 8 Park St.
(413) 538-3229
office hours: Tuesdays 1-3 & by appt.
swdavis@mtholyoke.edu

Education
B.A. New York University
M.A. University of California Berkeley
Ph.D. University of California Berkeley


Simone Weil Davis’s work to date has focused especially on gender and incarceration, commodity culture, and issues of contemporary sexuality. She is a member of the National Steering Committee for the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program.  Many of her seminars at Mount Holyoke are cross-listed with American Studies and Gender Studies.

Selected Publications

“Inside-Out: The Reach and Limits of a Prison Program,” in Ashley Lucas and Jodie Lawston, eds., Razor Wire Women: Prisoners, Scholars, Activists and Artists.  Forthcoming, 2009.

“Collision and Contact,” in Collide: Styles, Structures, and Ideas in Disciplinary Writing. Belinda Kremer and Richard McNabb, editors. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt, 2005.  Second Edition: Pearson Publishers, 2007.

Living Up to the Ads: Gender Fictions of the 1920s. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000.

“The Rapture at the End of It All,” a review of Amanda Fernbach’s Fantasies of Fetishism: From Decadence to the Post-Human and Dominic Pettman’s After the Orgy: Toward a Politics of Exhaustion.  Science Fiction Studies 30.(Spring 2003): 319-323.

“Loose Lips Sink Ships.”  Feminist Studies 28:1. (Spring 2002): 7-35.

• reprinted in Abby L. Ferber, ed., The New Basics: Sex, Gender and Sexuality. NY: Oxford UP, 2007. 
• reprinted in Verta Taylor, Nancy Whittier, Leila Rupp, eds. Feminist Frontiers VII. NY: McGraw-Hill, 2006.
• reprinted in Janet Lee and Susan Shaw, eds.  Women’s Voices: Feminist Visions 3/e. NY: McGraw-Hill, 2006.

“The Door Ajar: The Erotics of Hypocrisy in the White House Scandal,” in Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and the National Interest. Lauren Berlant & Lisa Duggan, eds. NY: New York University Press, 2001. 86-101.

Teaching Schedule 2007-2008
English 101f  Family Fictions
English 364f  Cultural Studies: Theory & Practice
English 200s Introduction to the Study of Literature
English 348s Inside-Out at Hampden County: Crisis and Transcendence