Dr Zoë Sofoulis
Dr Zoë Sofoulis is an Adjunct Research Fellow at CCR. She has an international scholarly reputation in the areas of cultural studies, gender and technology, philosophy of technology, and currently writes on cultural aspects of urban water use. Recent team projects led by Zoë include Universal Design and Cultural Context: Accessibility, Diversity and Recreational Space in Penrith, Who Are the Users? Demand Management Through Cultural Innovation, and Everyday Water. Zoë was also the convenor of the successful 2007 CCR symposium In the Pipeline: New Directions in Cultural Research on Water.
Qualifications
1988 PhD, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
1979 BA (Hons 1), Human Communication/Social Inquiry, Murdoch University, Western Australia.
Honours and Awards
1988, Doctoral Thesis nominated for California award of University Microfilms International Humanities dissertation prize.
1984, 1986, University of California Regent's Fellowships
1986, University of California, Santa Cruz Patent Fund and Graduate Research Award for conference travel and library research at UC Riverside.
1986, Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, UCSC
1984, UCSC Graduate Division travel award for attending 'Nuclear Criticism' conference
1982, Fulbright Foundation Cultural Enrichment Grant to attend disarmament events, New York, June.
1980-81, West Australian recipient, Caltex Woman Graduate of the Year Scholarship
1980, Fulbright Travel Grant for postgraduate studies.
Selected Publications
Dr Sofoulis publishes as both Sofia and Sofoulis.
Books
Sofoulis, Z., Angerer, M. L. & Peters, K. (eds) 2002, Future Bodies: Zur Visualisierung von Körpern in Science und Fiction, Wein and New York: Springer-Verlag.
Sofia, Z. 1993, Whose Second Self? Gender and (Ir)rationality in Computer Culture, Geelong: Deakin University Press.
Book Chapters
Sofoulis, Z. 2008, 'Cyberquake: Haraway's Manifesto', in, Bell, D. & Kennedy, B. M. (eds), The Cybercultures Reader, 2nd Ed., London & New York: Routledge, pp 365-385. [Reprint of Sofoulis, Z. 2003, 'Cyberquake: Haraway's Manifesto', in, Tofts, D., Jonson, A. & Cavallaro, A. (eds), Prefiguring Cyberculture: An Intellectual History, Cambridge, Ma. & London: MIT Press, pp 84-103.]
Morphett, A. & Sofoulis, Z. 2005, ‘Cars, Sex, Drugs and Media: Comparing Modalities of Road Safety and Public Health Messages’, in Dorn, L. (ed.), Driver Behaviour and Training Volume II: Human Factors in Road and Rail Transport, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp 61-78.
Sofia, Z. 2003, ‘Contested Zones: Futurity and Technological Art’, in, Malloy, J. (ed.), Women, Art and Technology, Cambridge, Ma. & London: MIT Press, pp. 502-522. [Reprint of 1996, Leonardo: Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology, 29(1): 59-66].
Sofoulis, Z. 2003, ‘Cyberquake: Haraway’s Manifesto’, in, Tofts, D., Jonson, A. & Cavallaro, A. (eds), Prefiguring Cyberculture: An Intellectual History, Cambridge, Ma. & London: MIT Press, pp. 84-103.
Sofoulis, Z. 2002, ‘Post-, Non- and Para- Human: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Personhood’ (trans. Gehlen, G.), in Sofoulis, Z., Angerer, M. L. & Peters, K. (eds) 2002, Future Bodies: Zur Visualisierung von Körpern in Science und Fiction, Wein and New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 273-300.
Sofoulis, Z. 2002, ‘Cyberquake: Haraway’s Manifesto’ in Jähnert, G., Aleksander, K. & Rosenbusch, K. (eds), Cyberfeminismus: Feministische Visionen mit Netz und ohne Boden? (issue of papers from eponymous seminars published as ‘Bulletin Texte 24, Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Frauenforschung’), Berlin: Humboldt University, pp. 54-72. [Shortened version published by permission of Tofts, D., Jonson, A. & Cavallaro, A., 2003.]
Sofia, Z. 2002, ‘Women Artists and Their Relations to Technologies’, in, Yelland, N. & Rubin, A. (eds), Ghosts in the Machine: Women’s Voices in Research with Technology, New York: Peter Lang, pp. 97-116.
Sofia, Z. & Jones, M. 2002, ‘Stelarc and Orlan in the Middle Ages’, in, Zylinska, J. (ed.), The Cyborg Experiments: The Extensions of the Body in the Media Age, London: Continuum, pp. 56-72.
Sofoulis, Z. 2001, ‘Smart Spaces @ The Final Frontier’, in Munt, S. (ed.), Technospaces: Inside the New Media, London: Cassell, pp. 129-146.
Sofoulis, Z. 1999, ‘Virtual Corporeality: A Feminist View’, in, Wolmark, J. (ed.), Cybersexualities: A Reader on Feminist Theory, Cyborgs and Cyberspace, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 55-68. [Reprint of 1992, ‘Virtual Corporeality: A Feminist Perspective’, Australian Feminist Studies, 15: 11-24.]
Sofoulis, Z. 1998, ‘The Mythic Machine: Gendered Irrationalities and Computer Culture’, Bromley, H. & Apple, M. W. (eds), Education/ Technology/ Power: Educational Computing as a Social Practice, Albany, NY: SUNY, pp. 29-51.
Sofoulis, Z. 1996, ‘Spacing Out in the Mother Shop’, in, Holt, S. & Lynch, M. (eds), Motherlode, Melbourne: Sybylla Feminist Press, pp. 120-128. [Revision of 1990 chapter in, White, T. A., Jenkins, W., Gibbs, A. & King, N. (eds), No Substitute, Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, pp. 133-143.]
Sofoulis, Z. 1995, ‘Of Spanners and Cyborgs: De-Homogenising Feminist Thinking on Technology’ in, Caine, B. & Pringle, R. (eds), Transitions: New Australian Feminisms, Sydney: Allen & Unwin, pp. 147-163.
Refereed Journal Articles
Sofoulis, Z. 2009, 'Social Construction for the Twenty-First Century: A Co-Evolutionary Makeover', Australian Humanities Review, vol. 46.
Sofoulis, Z. & Williams, C. 2008, 'From Pushing Atoms to Growing Networks: Cultural Innovation and Co-Evolution in Urban Water Conservation', Social Alternatives, 27(3): 50-57.
Allon, F. & Sofoulis, Z. 2006, ‘Everyday Water: Cultures in Transition’, Australian Geographer, 37(1): 45-55.
Sofoulis Z. 2006, ‘Changing Water Cultures’, Creating Value: The Humanities and their Publics. 36th Annual Symposium of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, 17-18 November 2005, Canberra: AAH, pp 105-115.
Sofoulis Z. 2005, ‘Big Water, Everyday Water: A Sociotechnical Perspective’, Contiuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 19(4): 445-463.
Sofoulis Z. 2006, ‘Changing Water Cultures’, Creating Value: The Humanities and their Publics. 36th Annual Symposium of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, 17-18 November 2005, Canberra: AAH, pp 105-115.
Sofoulis Z. 2005, ‘Big Water, Everyday Water: A Sociotechnical Perspective’, Contiuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 19(4): 445-463.
Sofoulis, Z. 2000, ‘Container Technologies’, Hypatia, 15(2): 181-201.
Sofoulis, Z. 1992, ‘Hegemonic Irrationalities and Psychoanalytic Cultural Critique’, Cultural Studies, 6(3): 376-394.
Sofoulis, Z. 1984, ‘Exterminating Fetuses: Abortion, Disarmament, and the Sexo-Semiotics of Extraterrestrialism’, Diacritics, 14(2): 47-59.
Reports
Sofoulis, Z., Armstrong, H., Bounds, M., Lopes, A. & Andrews, A. 2008, Out and About in Penrith. Universal Design and Cultural Context: Accessibility, Diversity and Recreational Space in Penrith (Executive Summary). A UWS Research Partnership Grant project with Penrith City Council. University of Western Sydney.
Sofoulis, Z. 2007, Demand Management through Cultural Innovation Final Report. A UWS Water Futures Research Alliance project with Sydney Water Corporation.
Sofoulis, Z. 2006, Report on User Perspectives. A UWS Futures Research Alliance project with Sydney Water Corporation.
Sofoulis, Z. 2006, Report on the Corporate Study Phase. A UWS Futures Research Alliance project with Sydney Water Corporation.
Sofoulis, Z., Noble, G. & Redshaw, S. 2005, Youth, Media & Driving Messages: Report of the Transforming Drivers Media Study (Executive Summary). An ARC Linkage Grant in partnership with the National Roads and Motorists Association Limited (NRMA). University of Western Sydney.
Sofoulis, Z., Allon, F., Campbell, M., Attwater, R. with Velayutham, S. 2005, Everyday Water: Values, Practices, Interactions: Final Report. A UWS Research Partnership project with Maryland Development Company. University of Western Sydney.
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