Heidi J. Nast, Ph.D.

Professor
990 West Fullerton, Suite 4110
773.325.7882
hnast[at]depaul.edu

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Theories of fertility and reproduction; intersectional analyses of critical sexuality, queer, race, and gender theories and well as critical social, economic, and cultural theory. Critical pet studies. Animal-human relations.

COURSES TAUGHT - Undergraduate Program
Africa on Film (Africa and Black Diaspora Program, ABD)
Africa: People’s Cultures, Ideas, and Movements (ABD)
Boundaries & Identities
Colonial and Post-Colonial Worlds
Cultural Analysis
Emergence of the Modern Nation State
Gender and Fascism
Global Connections
Pet Love in Chicago: Culture, Politics, Economy
Slavery around the World (Liberal Studies)
Social Movements of the Twentieth Century
Space, Power, and Identity
Urban Experience (Honors)

COURSES TAUGHT - Graduate Program
Africa on Film (Master of Arts of Liberal Studies, International Studies)
Political Economy of Sex
Colonial and Post-Colonial Worlds
Cultural Geography
Economic Geography
Geography and Sexuality
Globalization
Oil
Political Economy of Sex
Spatiality of Women’s Lives
(Travel)writing and Imperialism
The City

EDUCATION
Ph.D. McGill University, Cultural Geography, High Honors
M.Sc. McGill University, Geological Sciences
B.Sc. University of Texas, Geological Sciences, Special Honors

PUBLICATIONS

Books:
forthcoming. Petifilia:Volume 1 Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.

2005. Concubines and Power: Five Hundred Years in a Northern Nigerian Palace. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press. Winner of the African Studies Association’s annual Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize, 2005.

1998 (co-edited with Steve Pile). Places through the Body. London: Routledge.

1997 (co-edited with John Paul Jones and Susan Roberts) Thresholds in Feminist Geography. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield.

Articles
2011. ‘Race’ and the Bio(necro)polis. Antipode: a Radical Journal of Geography 43(5):1457-1464.

2011 (with Michael McIntyre). Bio(necro)polis: Marx, surplus populations, and the spatial
dialectics of ‘race.’ Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography. 43(5): 1465-1488.

2011. Liminality, physicality, difference. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 29: 565-566.

2009. Out of place: interrogating silences in queerness/raciality (2008) edited by Adi Kuntsman and Esperanza Miyake. York, England: Raw Nerve Books, for Cultural Geography (book review)

2008. Islam and colonialism: intellectual responses of Muslims of northern Nigeria to British colonial rule (2006) by Muhammad S. Umar, for African Affairs 107:290-92. (book review)

2008. III. Secrets, reflexivity, and geographies of refusal. Feminism & Psychology 18(3): 395-400.

2008. Women, royalty, and indigo-dyeing in northern Nigeria, circa 1500 to 1807. In Court Women around the World, 232-261. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

2007. “Concerning masochism”: Fanon and the de-centering of whiteness. Special section for “Author Meets Critics” responses to Heather Merrill’s work, An alliance of whiteness. Gender, Place and Culture 14(6): 754-757.

2006. Puptowns and Wiggly Fields – Chicago and the racialization of pet-love in the twenty-first century. In Race and Landscape in America, edited by Rich Schein, 237-251. New York: Taylor and Francis/Routledge.

2006. Loving…whatever: alienation, neoliberalism and pet-love in the twenty-first century. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 5(2): 300-327.

2006. Critical pet studies? Antipode 38(5): 894-906.

For Full Curriculum Vitae (including additional publications)

SYLLABI: Winter 2012

INT 364-Political Economy of Sex

INT 206 - Boundaries and Identities: Capitalism, Anti-Natalism, and New Geographies of Reproduction