Dancing amid worlds

an interview with Katie King

Authors

  • Marina Costin Fuser University of São Paulo, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0931-0673

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/1984-3585.2021i24p15-26

Abstract

Katie King is a prominent scholar and a former Professor in the field of Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland. She received her PhD in History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, advised by Donna Haraway, who also had the privilege of studying with Gregory Bateson, who is highly influential to her work. She has published “Theory in its Feminist Travels: Conversations in US Women’s Movements” (1994) and “Networked Reenactments: Stories Transdisciplinary
Knowledges Tell” (2011), besides several articles on “Feminism and Writing Technologies: Teaching Queerish Travels through Maps, Territories, and Pattern” (1994), and multiple transdisciplinary contributions to the fields of Critical theory, Feminist Theory, Media and Communications, Technoscience Studies, Cyberculture, and Cultural Studies.

Author Biography

Marina Costin Fuser, University of São Paulo, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

Marina Costin Fuser is a social scientist, PhD in film and gender studies at Sussex (CAPES), with a sandwich doctorate at Berkeley. She is currently doing post-doctoral research at IEA-USP on learning technologies and in intelligence technologies on the semiotics of feminist robots at TIDD/PUC-SP. Her research includes: a study of women's emancipation in Simone de Beauvoir, women in Hilda Hilst's political theater, and nomadism in the cinema of Trinh T. Minh-ha. At Sussex, she has taught in the field of cultural studies. She has published the books Words that Dance on the Edge of an Abyss: Women in the Dramaturgy of Hilda Hilst (EDUC) and co-edited Women Behind the Cameras: Brazilian Filmmakers from 1930 to 2018 (Estação Liberdade).

References

KING, Katie. Women in the web. In: BOUSQUET, Marc; WILLS, Katherine (orgs.). The politics of information: the electronic mediation of social change. Stanford, CA: Alt-X Press, 2003, p. 303-314.

Published

2022-03-09