Curriculum Vita

Steven Daniel Mentor

Department of English
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195

1607 Nisqually Street
Steilacoom, WA 98388

1-206-589-0727
Email address: cybunny@u.washington.edu

Pre-doctoral Education:

Bachelor of Arts Degree Cum Laude, English Literature, 1976:
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Masters Degree with Distinction, Rhetoric and Composition, 1987:
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94132

Doctoral Program

Philosophy Candidate, English Studies
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98159

Major Field of Study: English Literature

Minor Fields of Study: Cultural Studies, Discourse Analysis, Science and Literature

Date Advanced To Candidacy: 3/18 /94

Date Ph.D is Expected: April 1996

Dissertation Title: From Cybernetics to Bioethics: the Cyborg as Map of Human-Machine Co-Evolution. A Transdisciplinary Approach to the Political Implications of Writing and/as Technology.

Relevant Employment History

1991 - Present: Teach standard Composition, Equal Opportunity Program sequence, Computer Assisted Writing, Advanced Composition, Introduction to Literature at University of Washington.

1992: Major contributor to Columbia Encyclopaedia, 5th ed. Wrote and substantially edited over 100 articles.

1987 - 91: Lecturer in English Composition, San Francisco State University. In addition to class types at UW, taught Critical Thinking. Served on English Composition Committee, 1989-91.

1988 - 89: Summer Literacy Project instructor: used computers and self-published newspaper to teach California Conservation Corps members.

1989 - 90: Instructor, Stanford Workshops On Political and Social Issues, Stanford University. Taught courses in liberatory political theory.

1981 - 82 Teaching assistant, "Environmental Issues" and "Alternative Energy" classes, University of California at Santa Cruz.

1979-86: Community activist and organizer, Palo Alto and Santa Cruz, CA. Public education around apartheid, nuclear weapons and energy, nonviolent social change. Coordinator, Nonviolence Trainers Collective; conducted workshops in nonviolence, egalitarian group decision making.

Grants, Fellowships, or Honors Received

• Benjamin Franklin Scholar, U of Pennsylvania, 1972-6
• General Honors Society, U of Pennsylvania, 1972-6
• Bachelor's Degree Cum Laude, U of Pennsylvania, 1976
• Master's Degree with Distinction, San Francisco State University, 1987
• Graduate Review Workshop Award for Good Teaching, San Francisco State University, 1989, 1990
• Alvord Scholarship Nominee, University of Washington, 1994

Scholarly Papers Presented

• July 1995 ACH-ALLC Conference (Association for Computers and the Humanities - Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing), Santa Barbara, California.
• Demonstration: FIRE!! Multimedia CD-Rom teaching the literature and history of the Harlem Renaissance.
• Paper title: "Playing with Fire!! Hypermedia and the Harlem Renaissance" (with Michelle Kendrick).
• October, 1994 Annual Meeting: Society for the Social Studies of Science, History of Science Society, Philosophy of Science Association, New Orleans.
• Panel title: Technohistory and Cyborgology: Using the History of Technology in Interdisciplinary Multicultural Research
• Paper title: "Manifest(o) Technologies, or, How Genre Affects the Representation and Politics of Technology: Marx, Marinetti, Haraway."
• April, 1993 Virtual Conference on Cyborgs and Cybernetic Technology, Massachusetts Insititute of Technology (MIT) Media MOO. Organized interdisciplinary conference on cybernetics and cyborgs; participants from 13 different countries, including India, Germany, Puerto Rico, New Zealand, Australia, Japan.
• Paper title: "Cyborg Bodies Politic: How Telecommunications is Changing Nations and Citizens."
• October, 1989 Society for Literature and Science Annual Meeting, Portland OR.
• Paper title: "Ursula LeGuin's The Dispossessed as a critique of ideology: the technologies of power."

Publications

• Author, " ART, Las Vegas and Hugh Grant: the Politics of Language in In Vitro Fertilization" In Floyd-Davis, Robbie and Joe Dumit, eds., Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots (Routledge, 1996 forthcoming).
  A weave of medical anthropology, participant-observer methodology and feminist critical theory. Our techno-baby Bailey arrived on his due date, June 20 1995.
• Editor, with C.H Gray and H. Figueroa, The Cyborg Handbook (Routledge, 1995).
  This is a large (450+ pp) anthology of the key historical and theoretical texts which touch on the cyborg as artefact and figure. I was responsible for reading over 60 manuscripts, sending comments to authors, making final cuts.
• Author, with C.H. Gray, "Cyborgology: An Introduction," in The Cyborg Handbook, ed. Gray, Mentor, Figueroa (Routledge, 1995).
  Co-wrote this overview of the field, argument for cogency of the collection, and brief description of sections and articles.
• Author, with C.H. Gray, "The Cyborg Body Politic," in The Cyborg Handbook, ed. Gray, Mentor, Figueroa (Routledge, 1995).
  Responsible for analysis of effects of telecommunications and cybernetic systems on political bodies and practices.
• Author, "Manifesto Technologies: Marx, Marinetti, Haraway," in Gray, ed., Technohistory (Westview Press, 1995, forthcoming).
• Author, with C.H. Gray, Cyborg Body Politic: Version 2.0," in Prosthetic Territories, ed. Gabriel Brahm (Krieger Press, 1995).
• Author, "Welfare," Shopping Mall,' "Erving Goffman" and 10 other entries, Columbia Encyclopaedia, 5th Ed., (Columbia University Press, 1993). Substantial editing of over 80 articles, including "Mass Transit," "Bureaucracy," "Housing," "Student Protest," "Secret Police."
• Author, "Nonviolence Theory," in The Diablo Canyon Handbook for Civil Disobedience (Diablo Canyon Project Office, 1981). In addition, author and co-author of many articles, pamphlets, leaflets on nuclear power and weapons, 1979-86.

Last Updated 10/21/95 - 1995 by Steven Mentor