Paula A. Treichler

ptreich@uiuc.edu

Research Professor of Communications

Professor of Criticism and Interpretive Theory

Professor of Medicine
(Medical Humanities and Social Sciences Program)

Professor of Gender and Women's Studies

Primary areas of interest: Cultural studies of science and medicine; feminist theory and gender studies; analysis of language and discourse; HIV/AIDS; history and future of condoms.




With a background in philosophy and linguistics, specializing in psycholinguistics, Professor Treichler has served since 1972 as a teacher and administrator at the University of Illinois' experimental Unit One program, as dean of students in the College of Medicine, and as Director of the Institute of Communications Research. She holds faculty appointments in the College of Medicine, ICR, Gender and Women's Studies, and the Campus Honors Program. The courses she has recently taught include Feminist Cultural Studies, Feminist Media Studies, Cultural Studies in Science and Medicine, the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic, Medicine and Society, Human Sexuality, and AIDS and Culture.

Treichler is author of How to Have Theory in an Epidemic: Cultural Chronicles of AIDS and coauthor of A Feminist Dictionary and Language, Gender, and Professional Writing: Theoretical Essays and Guidelines for Nonsexist Usage. She is coeditor of For Alma Mater: Theory and Practice in Feminist Scholarship, The Visible Woman: Imaging Technologies, Science, and Gender and Cultural Studies. She has published essays on feminist theory, language and gender, language and medicine, HIV/AIDS, and language and American women's writing. She is currently working on a book on the history of condoms in the U.S. since 1873.

Ph.D., Languages and Linguistics (Psycholinguistics), University of Rochester

B.A., Philosophy, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio

Non-degree student, Madras Christian College, Madras, India (Philosophy)