Jennifer A Wagner-Lawlor
Biographic Data
| ID | 387184 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer A Wagner-Lawlor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer A |
| FAMILY NAME | Wagner-Lawlor |
| SIGNATURE | WAGNER-LAWLOR J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Plastic Bag Theory of Fiction
This article traces the relation of plasticity, ontology, and responsibility in Anthropocene novels by Ursula K. Le Guin, J.G. Ballard, William Gibson, and Ruth Ozeki. Reimagining Le Guin’s “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” as “The Plastic Bag Theory of Fiction” reveals Anthropocene fiction’s “plastic” resources – its play with form and language, the troping of space and temporality, its metafictional reflections on the narrative itself – to il…
White Power and American Neoliberal Culture
White Power and American Neoliberal Culture, by utopian studies scholars Patricia Ventura and Edward K. Chan, feels like a tour de force. I say “feels” for a reason: if you live in America, what you read in this book feels entirely familiar, sketching out U.S. racialized socio-political dynamics. But I also experienced a feeling of uncanniness, as Ventura and Chan expose the underbelly of a white supremacist United States—in which I happen to liv…
The Plastic Turn
Editors’ Message
Welcome to Utopian Studies 34.3, the final issue for 2023. We want to start by thanking subscribers (and of course authors!) for their patience as this new editorial team has worked its way, together, through a new “look” and a new format for the journal. This issue reflects all these changes, with a balance of academic articles, an important CRITICAL FORUM, several DESIRE LINES contributions, BOOK REVIEWS, and CONFERENCE BRIEFINGS.The first thre…
The Last Man
New critical editions of well-known literary works serve several important functions, and those designed specifically for students serve two of the most important: to introduce readers to texts that were overlooked during and since the author’s time, but that might find greater favor today; and to re-introduce to a new generation of students classic texts that have lost critical favor or been neglected. Mary Shelley’s The Last Man (1826) is a nov…
The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures
The Persistence of Utopia
The theorizing of utopia is a persistent theme throughout several generations of the French continental tradition, and alongside the process theory of Alfred North Whitehead to a large degree recuperates the concept of utopia from its supposed dismissal by Marx and his intellectual descendants. Most recently, attention to the notion of plasticity, popularized (relatively speaking) by Catherine Malabou, extends speculation on utopian possibility. …
Regarding Intimacy, Regard, and Transformative Feminist Practice in the Art of Pamela Longobardi
Feminist Studies 42, no. 3. © 2016 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 649 Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor Regarding Intimacy, Regard, and Transformative Feminist Practice in the Art of Pamela Longobardi The trashing of the planet by plastic pollution has finally started to make it to mainstream news outlets. The year 2016 brought the World Economic Forum projection that by 2050 there will be more plastic by weight in the world’s oceans than fish. It brings furt…
Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions
This study examines feminist speculative fiction from the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, and finds within it a new vision for the future. Rejecting notions of postmodern utopia as exclusionary, Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor advances one defined in terms of hospitality, casting what she calls 'imaginative sympathy' as the foundation of utopian desire. Tracing these themes through the works of Atwood, Butler, Lessing and Winterson, as w…
Little Songs
Reviewed by: Little Songs: Women, Silence and the Nineteenth-Century Sonnet Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor (bio) Little Songs: Women, Silence and the Nineteenth-Century Sonnet, by Amy Christine Billone; pp. ix + 199. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2007, $39.95, $9.95audio CD. Amy Christine Billone's Little Songs: Women, Silence and the Nineteenth-Century Sonnet extends the interest the modern sonnet form has enjoyed since Stuart Curran's g…
The Persistence of Utopia
The theorizing of utopia is a persistent theme throughout several generations of the French continental tradition, and alongside the process theory of Alfred North Whitehead to a large degree recuperates the concept of utopia from its supposed dismissal by Marx and his intellectual descendants. Most recently, attention to the notion of plasticity, popularized (relatively speaking) by Catherine Malabou, extends speculation on utopian possibility. …
Little Songs
Reviewed by: Little Songs: Women, Silence and the Nineteenth-Century Sonnet Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor (bio) Little Songs: Women, Silence and the Nineteenth-Century Sonnet, by Amy Christine Billone; pp. ix + 199. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2007, $39.95, $9.95audio CD. Amy Christine Billone's Little Songs: Women, Silence and the Nineteenth-Century Sonnet extends the interest the modern sonnet form has enjoyed since Stuart Curran's g…
Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions
This study examines feminist speculative fiction from the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, and finds within it a new vision for the future. Rejecting notions of postmodern utopia as exclusionary, Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor advances one defined in terms of hospitality, casting what she calls 'imaginative sympathy' as the foundation of utopian desire. Tracing these themes through the works of Atwood, Butler, Lessing and Winterson, as w…
Regarding Intimacy, Regard, and Transformative Feminist Practice in the Art of Pamela Longobardi
Feminist Studies 42, no. 3. © 2016 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 649 Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor Regarding Intimacy, Regard, and Transformative Feminist Practice in the Art of Pamela Longobardi The trashing of the planet by plastic pollution has finally started to make it to mainstream news outlets. The year 2016 brought the World Economic Forum projection that by 2050 there will be more plastic by weight in the world’s oceans than fish. It brings furt…
The Persistence of Utopia
The theorizing of utopia is a persistent theme throughout several generations of the French continental tradition, and alongside the process theory of Alfred North Whitehead to a large degree recuperates the concept of utopia from its supposed dismissal by Marx and his intellectual descendants. Most recently, attention to the notion of plasticity, popularized (relatively speaking) by Catherine Malabou, extends speculation on utopian possibility. …
The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures
Editors’ Message
Welcome to Utopian Studies 34.3, the final issue for 2023. We want to start by thanking subscribers (and of course authors!) for their patience as this new editorial team has worked its way, together, through a new “look” and a new format for the journal. This issue reflects all these changes, with a balance of academic articles, an important CRITICAL FORUM, several DESIRE LINES contributions, BOOK REVIEWS, and CONFERENCE BRIEFINGS.The first thre…
The Last Man
New critical editions of well-known literary works serve several important functions, and those designed specifically for students serve two of the most important: to introduce readers to texts that were overlooked during and since the author’s time, but that might find greater favor today; and to re-introduce to a new generation of students classic texts that have lost critical favor or been neglected. Mary Shelley’s The Last Man (1826) is a nov…
White Power and American Neoliberal Culture
White Power and American Neoliberal Culture, by utopian studies scholars Patricia Ventura and Edward K. Chan, feels like a tour de force. I say “feels” for a reason: if you live in America, what you read in this book feels entirely familiar, sketching out U.S. racialized socio-political dynamics. But I also experienced a feeling of uncanniness, as Ventura and Chan expose the underbelly of a white supremacist United States—in which I happen to liv…
The Plastic Turn
The Plastic Bag Theory of Fiction
This article traces the relation of plasticity, ontology, and responsibility in Anthropocene novels by Ursula K. Le Guin, J.G. Ballard, William Gibson, and Ruth Ozeki. Reimagining Le Guin’s “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” as “The Plastic Bag Theory of Fiction” reveals Anthropocene fiction’s “plastic” resources – its play with form and language, the troping of space and temporality, its metafictional reflections on the narrative itself – to il…
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