Professor of Anthropology, Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA
Debbora Battaglia is the author of On the Bones
of the Serpent: Person, Memory, and Mortality in
Sabarl Island Society [University of Chicago Press]
and the editor of Rhetorics of Self-Making [University
of California Press], and E.T. Culture: Anthropology
in Outerspaces [in press, Duke University Press].
She is currently working on Galaxies of Discourse:
Toward an Anthropological Model of Visits. Professor
Battaglia has also published numerous scholarly
articles, including, most recently, 'Multiplicities:
An Anthropologist's Thoughts on Replicants and Clones
in Popular Films,' in the journal Critical Inquiry,
and 'Toward an Ethics of the Open Subject: Writing
Culture 'In Good Conscience',' in Henrietta Moore,
ed. Anthropological Theory Today [Cambridge: Polity
Press]. Professor Battaglia, who received her doctorate
from Cambridge University in the field of social
anthropology, teaches courses in cultural identities
and differences, discourses of the sacred, visualizing
culture, peoples of the South Pacific, and introductory
anthropology. She has conducted anthropological
fieldwork in the islands off the New Guinea coast
and urban fieldwork in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
She has also worked in Quebec Province, the East
Coast of the U.S., and on the Internet with a new
religious movement, focusing on faith in science
as religion. Her honors include the John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation Fellowship and the National
Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. A frequent
presenter and keynote speaker at national and international
conferences and academic institutions, she has served
as a member of the editorial board of American Ethnologist,
Cultural Anthropology, Material Culture, and Anthropological
Quarterly. She has also served on National Endowment
of the Humanities Fellowship panels and on Ph.D.
external review committees. In addition to teaching
at Mount Holyoke, she has taught courses at the
University of East Anglia and Stanford University. |
