Simone Weil Davis

Visiting Associate Professor of English

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.