Audrey Watters

email: audrey.watters@gmail.com


web: audreywatters.com


twitter: @audreywatters





Professional Experience

Writer/Owner, Hack Education, Spring 2010 - present

Blogger, Inside Higher Ed, Winter 2011 - present

Writer, O'Reilly Media's Radar, Spring 2011 - present

Writer, NPR/KQED's MindShift, Spring 2011 - present

Blogger, Edutopia, Summer 2011 - present

Writer, ReadWriteWeb, Spring 2010 - Summer 2011

Special Interest Group Program Manager, International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), Spring 2008 - Spring 2010

Graduate Teaching Fellowship, University of Oregon, Fall 1999 - Fall 2000, Fall 2001 - Summer 2007

Practicum Coordinator, University of Oregon Literacy Initiative, Winter - Spring 2001

Conference Assistant, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, Winter 2000 - Winter 2001

Graduate Assistant, Archivist, Randall V. Mills Folklore Archives, University of Oregon, Winter - Spring 2000

Conference Coordinator, Conference Services, University of Oregon, 1997-1999

Education

ABD

Comparative Literature

University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 2001-2007




MA

Folklore


Women's Studies


University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 2000


THESIS TITLE: Political Pranks: The Performance of Radical Humor


BS

Social Sciences

Women's Studies


University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 1996


THESIS TITLE: Reproductive Technologies: Representation and Reconstruction through Feminist Utopian Fiction


The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1990-1992


IB

International Baccalaureate


St. Clares, Oxford England, 1990

Publications


Watters, Audrey, Inside Higher Ed archive

---, O'Reilly Radar archive

---, MindShift archive

---, Edutopia archive

---, ReadWriteWeb archive

---, Huffington Post archive

Vanderford, Audrey. "Activism." Encyclopedia of Womens Folklore and Folklore. ed. Ed Liz Locke, Theresa A Vaughan and Pauline Greenhill. Westport: Greenwood Press,2009, 3-4.

---. "Consciousness Raising." Encyclopedia of Womens Folklore and Folklore. ed. Ed Liz Locke, Theresa A Vaughan and Pauline Greenhill. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2009, 97-99.

---. "Emma Goldman." Encyclopedia of Women's Autobiography. ed. Victoria Boynton and Jo Malin. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2005, 250-252.

Richardson, Tina and Audrey Vanderford. "Butterflies and Boobs (Or, How to Manufacture an Environmental Pin-Up Girl)". Women and the Media: National and Global Perspectives. ed. Teresa Carilli and Jane Campbell. Lanham: University Press of America, 2005, 169-183.

Vanderford, Audrey. Review of The Raw Brunettes[Lorraine Schein]. FEMSPEC. 4.2 (2004): 184-187.

---. "The Theory of Pie." Pie Any Means Necessary: The Biotic Baking Brigade Cookbook. Oakland: AK Press, 2004. 13-17.

---. "Ya Basta! A Mountain of Bodies that Advances, Seeking the Least Harm Possible to Itself." Representing Resistance: Media, Civil Disobedience and the Global Justice Movement. ed. Andrew Opel and Donnalyn Pompper. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003. 16-26.

---. "The Legacy of Julia Butterfly Hill" [book review]. Women and Environments International. 52/53 (2001): 45-46.

---. "Pie, Oh My!" Oregon Quarterly. 80.4 (2001): 8.

---. "We Can Lick the Upper Crust Pies as Political Pranks. to the Quick Journal. 4 (2001): 7-20.

Courses Taught

Comparative Literature 399 Gender and Identity in Literature, Summer 2007

Comparative Literature 103 Introduction to Comparative Literature: Visual Culture, Spring 2007

Comparative Literature 204 World of Fiction: Clowns and Tricksters, Winter 2007, Winter 2005

Comparative Literature 399 World of Film: Gangsters in Popular Culture, Fall 2006, Fall 2005, Summer 2005

Comparative Literature 204 World of Fiction: Sixties Counterculture(s), Summer 2006, Winter 2006

Comparative Literature 204 World of Fiction: World Science Fiction, Spring 2006, Summer 2004

Comparative Literature 202 World of Drama: Manifesto as Political Theater, Spring 2005

Writing 122 College Composition II, Fall 2003, Fall 2002, Winter 2002, Spring 2002

Women and Gender Studies 399 Feminist Science Fiction: Monsters, Cyborgs, and Women, Summer 2003

Writing 121 College Composition I, Fall 2001

Womens Studies 408 Anarcha-feminism, Summer 2001




Teaching Assistantships

Comparative Literature 101 Literature, Language, Culture, (Prof. Leah Middlebrook) Fall 2004

English 266 History of the Motion Picture: World War II to the Present, (Prof. Michael Aronson, Prof. Kathleen Karlyn) Spring 2004, Spring 2003

English 265 History of the Motion Picture: The Silent Era to World War II, (Prof. Michael Aronson, Prof. Lesli Larson) Winter 2004, Winter 2003

English 250 Introduction to Folklore, (Prof. Sharon Sherman) Fall 1999

Conference Papers

Vanderford, Audrey. Spoiling Survivor. Western States Folklore Society Meeting. Eugene, OR. April 15-16, 2005.

---. Detournement and the Anarchist Practice of Defamiliarization. (in absentia) MMLA conference. St. Louis, MO. November 4-7, 2004.

---. Who Wants to Marry a Construction Worker? Class, Gender, and Joe Millionaire. Popular Culture Association conference. San Antonio, TX. April 7-11, 2004.

---. Political Pranks: Performing Anarchist Humor. Culture and the State. University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB. May 2-5, 2003.

---. Cant See the Forest for Her Tree: Celebrity, Activism, and the Legacy of Julia Butterfly Hill, Taking Nature Seriously: Citizens, Science, and Environment. University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, February 25-27, 2001; Looking Forward, Looking Back, Lewis & Clark Gender Studies Symposium. Portland, OR, March 14-16, 2001.

---. Whose Streets? Our Streets! Whose World? Our World! -- Narratives and Negotiation after the WTO, California Folklore Society Meeting. Berkeley, CA, April 14-15, 2000.

---. Pioneers and Pagans: Celebrating the Summer Solstice in Casper, Wyoming, American Folklore Society Meeting. Memphis, TN, October 20-24, 1999.





Other Presentations



Watters, Audrey, with Dawn Shrum. "Brownbag: Facebook Privacy." International Society for Technology in Education. November 20, 2009.

Vanderford, Audrey. Zine workshop. ENG 410/510 Community Literacy. Prof. Suzanne Clark. University of Oregon. Summer, 2004, Summer 2002, Summer 2001.

---. "Reality TV: Postmodernism, the Hyperreal, The Osbournes." Guest lecture. English 266 History of the Motion Picture: World War II to the present. University of Oregon, May 28, 2003.

---. Freedom and Focus: Engaging Students with Innovative Units panel. Composition and Community Fall Composition Conference, University of Oregon, September 25, 2002.

---. "Anarcha-feminism." Anarchy: The Intentional Creation of a New Movement. Eugene, OR. June 12, 2002.

---. Theory and Practice panel. Ecological Conversations Colloquium. University of Oregon, May 6, 2002.

---. "Anarchism and Feminism." Against Patriarchy conference. Eugene, OR, January 27, 2002.

---. "Pie Politics." To the Point. Public Radio International. May 21, 2001.

Richardson, Tina and Audrey Vanderford, Boobs and Butterflies: Eco-feminine Complicity (Or, How to Manufacture an Environmental Pin-up Girl). Ecological Conversations Seminar. University of Oregon, April 6, 2001.

Vanderford, Audrey. Folklore and Religion. Guest lecture. English 250 Introduction to Folklore. University of Oregon, November 11, 1999. 


Awards

Media Predicts 2012, Silicon Valley, 2011

Beall Dissertation Prospectus Award, Comparative Literature Program, University of Oregon, 2005

General University Scholarship, University of Oregon, 2003-2006

last updated November 26, 2011