Georgia Roberts

Lecturer

Georgia Roberts

Ph.D. English, University of Washington, Seattle
M.A. English, University of Washington, Seattle
B.A. English and Ethnic Studies (minor), University of California, Berkeley

Email: gmr2@uw.edu
Mailing: Box 358511, 18115 Campus Way NE, Bothell, WA 98011

Teaching

Each of us approaches education from a unique social location, a personal history and context. I often teach through the rubric of popular culture because it’s one of those places where our understanding of the world may likely ‘overlap’ and intersect. I am not suggesting that we always agree on the definition and/or the merits of popular culture; quite the contrary. However, I believe culture becomes ‘popular’ because it speaks to something familiar in our understanding of ourselves as social beings – for better or for worse. The key is tracing out what that ‘something’ is and learning from it in a way that informs an active response to the present. I strongly believe that knowledge is made both inside and outside of the classroom, and for this reason, I encourage an ethics of mutual respect, difficult dialogue, and persistent, critical reflection about our practices in the university and in our various communities.

Recent Courses Taught

BIS 206 Engaging Literary Arts
BIS 313 Issues in Media Studies: Music, Media and Politics
BIS 379 American Ethnic Literatures
BIS 387 Women and American Literature
BISAES 367 Race, Ethnicity and Immigration

Research/Scholarship

American Literature and Realism, Critical Theory, and Cultural Studies

Projects and Publications

  • “Mythology and Memory in FX’s Dear Mama: The Saga of Afeni and Tupac Shakur” in The FX Channel Reader, Ed. Dave Pierson & Brian Faucette, Syracuse University Press, 2025, forthcoming.
  • “Picturing the Singularity: Data Smoothing and the Visual History of a Future Idea,” in Intersectional Singularity (New Suns: Race, Gender, and the Speculative Series), Ed.Christene d’Anca, The Ohio University Press, 2025, forthcoming.
  • “Providing Care When There is No Cure: How FemTech Can Help Destigmatize Autoimmune Disease” in Who is FemTech For? Intersectional Interventions in Women’s Digital Health, Ed. Lindsay Balfour, Palgrave, 2023.
  • Collaborative Futures: Critical Reflections on Publicly Active Graduate Education, co-edited with Amanda Gilvin. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2012.