Edrie
Sobstyl received her PhD in feminist philosophy of science from the
University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada) in 1995. She taught philosophy
of science and technology, epistemology, feminist theory, and environmental
philosophy in the History of Ideas program at the University of Texas
at Dallas, where she won the Outstanding Teaching award in the School
of Arts & Humanities in 1999. Recent work includes All the
Sisters of Shora: An Anarcha/Ecofeminist Reading of Slonczewskis
Door Into Ocean (Anarchist Studies 1999), and Cyberpunk:
Liminal Space Cadets (Enculturation 2000), as well as reviews
for Hypatia, Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies,
and Research in Philosophy and Technology. She is currently working
on a collection of essays on technology and local material culture,
and a volume on science fiction and bioethics. She is a member of the
Bioethics Discussion Group. She was a fellow at the International School
for Theory in the Humanities at the Universidade de Santiago, Spain,
in 1997 and a Rockefeller Fellow at the University of Oregon at Eugene
in 2002. Home Page: http://www.utdallas.edu/~esobstyl |