Reading Wonder Woman's Body: Mythologies of Gender and Nation

Mitra C. Emad teaches and writes about cultural constructions of the human body, especially in terms of how the body functions as a site for cultural translation. Along with her continued research on the body as a gendered and nationed text in American comic books, she has published articles on acupuncture needling as a mode of bodily translation as well as articles on cultural constructions of pain. She is currently completing a book, Twirling the Needle: the Body as a Site for Cultural Translation in American Encounters with Acupuncture. Dr. Emad is an Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth.