Western Carolina University

Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Assistant Professor - Sociology

Education:

Vanderbilt University

• Ph.D., Department of Sociology. Dissertation: “Face Work: Cultural, Technical, and Surgical Interventions for Facial ‘Disfigurement.’”
• M.A., Department of Sociology. Thesis: “Close Encounters of the Not-So Queer Kind: Queer Contradictions and Complementarities.”
• Graduate Certificate in Gender Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies Program

The University of North Carolina at Asheville

• B.A., Department of Sociology. Thesis: “Trans(Social) Stratification: Sociology of Transgender Inequality”

Publications:

·         Talley, Heather Laine. (under contract). Sociology of the Face: Aesthetic Intervention as Life Saving Work. New York University Press.

·         Talley, Heather Laine. (under review). “Close Encounters with the Not-So Queer Kind: Contradictions of Contemporary Queer Politics.”

·         Talley, Heather Laine. (forthcoming in 2011). “Getting Work Done: Cosmetic Surgery as Constraint as Commodity, as Commonplace.” In Routledge International Handbook of the Body, edited by Bryan Turner.  New York, NY: Routledge.

·         Talley, Heather Laine. (forthcoming 2011). “Not a Pretty Girl: Facial Feminization and the Theory of Facial Sex Difference.” In Gendering Difference: Studies in Contemporary Science and Medicine, edited by Jill Fischer. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

·         Talley, Heather Laine and Monica J. Casper. 2011. “Intersex and Aging: A (Cautionary) Research Agenda for the 21^st Century.” In Handbook of GLBTI Aging, edited by Tarynn M. Witten. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

·         Talley, Heather Laine and Monica J. Casper. 2010. “Oprah Goes to Africa: Philanthropic Consumption and Political Disengagement.” In The Story of O, edited by Trystan Cotton and Kimberly Springer. Jackson, MS: The University of Mississippi Press.

·         Casper, Monica J. and Heather Laine Talley. 2008. “A Response to the Motion Picture Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.” Journal of Sport and Social Issues. 31: 434-439.

·         Casper, Monica J. and Heather Laine Talley. 2006. “Feminist Disability Studies.” In Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by George Rizter. Boston: Blackwell Publishing.

·         Talley, Heather Laine. 2005. “The Curious Incident of Disability in the Night Time.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 34: 235-245.

·         Casper, Monica J. and Heather Laine Talley. 2005. “Preface Special Issue: Ethnography and Disability Studies.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 34: 115-120.

Awards:

• Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Dissertation Fellow
• Outstanding Teaching Award by a Graduate Teaching Assistant, Vanderbilt College of Arts & Science.
• Sociology Graduate Student Teaching Award, Vanderbilt University.

Professional Service:

• Feminist Teacher

Editorial Collective Member

www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/ft.html

• The Feminist Wire

Contributor & Editorial Collective Member

www.thefeministwire.com

·         UNITY

Western Carolina University’s LGBTQ Student Organization

Faculty Advisor

Community Engagement:

·         Act Like a Grrrl!

Empowerment Program for Teen Girls

Program Co-Leader

www.actlikeagrrrl.org

·         Western Carolinians for Criminal Justice

Secretary, Board of Directors

www.wccj.org