Review of 'Recoding Gender: Women’s Changing Participation in Computing’ by Janet Abbate

Author Biography

Carol Colatrella

Carol Colatrella is Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, and Co-Director of the Georgia Tech Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology, which since 2002 has been sponsored by the Office of the Provost. During 2005-07 she served as Director of the Georgia Tech NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Program, and in 2005-06, she was a Fulbright New Century Scholar. Since 1993, she has served as Executive Director of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts and editor of the SLSA newsletter Decodings. Her book Evolution, Sacrifice, and Narrative: Balzac, Zola, and Faulkner and articles in Nineteenth-Century French Studies and Comparative Literature and other journals analyze popular and scientific narrative representations of race, class, and gender. She has co-edited (with Joseph Alkana) and contributed to an anthology examining the influence of Sacvan Bercovitch's scholarship on American culture, Cohesion and Dissent in America. Her book Literature and Moral Reform: Melville and the Discipline of Reading was published in 2002 by University Press of Florida. Her analysis of popular culture representations of women engaging with science and technology, in manuscript and tentatively titled Toys and Tools in Pink: Cultural Narratives of Gender, Science, and Technology, is under review.