Areas of Research/Interest: Literary and other discourses; feminism; philosophy; technology and media; psychoanalysis; deconstruction; performance art.

External Affiliations: Chair, Division of Philosophy and Literature and Division of Comparative Literature; Modern Language Association, 1993-1996.

Fellowships/Honors: University of California President's Fellowship, 1995-1996; Research Fellow Award, 1993; American Cultures Fellowship, 1991; Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Fellowship, 1981-1983.

Select Publications:
The Test Drive (2005)
Stupidity(2003)
Stupidity; The Test Drive (2001), French translation forthcoming by Galilee Press, France.
The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech (1989)
Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania (1992)
Dictations: On Haunted Writing (1986/1993)
Finitude's Score: Essays for the End of the Millenium (1994)