Faculty/Staff Directory
Dr. Lisa Bro
478.934.3456
Professor
| Office Hours: | Spring 2026 Office Hours - Jackson Hall 211 & Online Mondays - Thursday: 11 am - 1 pm Contact me at lisa.bro@mga.edu if you need an online TEAMS meeting at any time |
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| Biography: | Dr. Bro has been teaching at Middle Georgia for over nearly 20 years. Her specialty is Postmodern American Lit, particularly Speculative Fiction such as Magical Realism and Science Fiction. Her book Bodies for Profit and Power: Science Fiction and Biopolitics released in 2023, and she has co-edited a collection of essays related to modern and postmodern literary monsters – Monsters of Film, Fiction, and Fable: The Cultural Links between the Human and Inhuman. |
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| Teaching and Research Interests: | 20th & 21st Century American Literature Postmodernism Metamodern/Post-Postmodernism Biopolitics Speculative Fiction o Magical Realism o Fantasy o Science Fiction Decoloniality Postcolonialism Feminism/Women’s Studies Writers of Color |
| Courses: | Spring 2026 M/W ENGL 1102 - Honors @ 9:30 PM T/Th ENGL 1102 @ 9:30 AM Online ENGL 2132 ENGL 1102 |
| Education: (All institutions attended and degrees or credentials earned) | Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Greensboro - Greensboro, NC - 20th Century American Literature: Emphasis- Postmodernism & Magical Realism M.A. University of Northern Iowa - Cedar Falls, IA - 20th Century American Literature & Creative Writing B.A. Wartburg College - Waverly, IA - Communication Arts & English |
| CV: | Select Conference Presentations “Patriarchal Control and Biopolitics: Punishing Non-Compliance in Kelly Sue DeConnick’s Bitch Planet.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference. Atlanta. November 2025. “Modern Gothic: Fashion, Film, Fiction, Movies, and Mayhem.” MGA Goth-Tober. October 2025. “Exploitation, Oppression, and Satire: Exploring the Impact of Race on Bitch Planet’s Women.” PCAS/ACAS Conference. Huntsville, AL. October 2025. “Graphic Novels & Social Change.” MGA Arts Festival. April 2025. “The Monstrous Woman, the Biopolitical, and Decoloniality: Reimagining Folk and Fairy Tale Women.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference. Jacksonville. November 2024. “Puppets and Puppet Masters: Pulling the Strings in Jennifer Egan’s ‘Black Box’ and Orphan Black.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference. Atlanta. November 2023. “The Woman I Used to Be: Rowena’s Reclamation and Transformation.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference. Virtual. November 2022. “Reimagining the Women of Fairy Tale and Myth in Contemporary Fiction.” PCAS/ACAS Conference. New Orleans. October 2022. “Progress, Neocolonialism, and Biopolitics in The Expanse.” Tales of Progress Panel. Middle Georgia State University Arts Festival. April 2022. “Speculative Fiction and the Portrayal of Gender.” SOAL Virtual Conference. March 2022. “Angel, Mother, Virgin, Whore: Authoritarian Control of Women’s Bodies in Science Fiction.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference. Virtual. November 2021. “Orphan Black and the Evolution of the Female Hero.” PCAS/ACAS Conference. Virtual. October 2021. “Them in Us: Monstrous Humans.” SOAL Virtual Conference. March 2021. “Monsters & Childhood Trauma.” Atlanta Horror Writers Association’s Southern Nightmares Reading Series. Read essay and participated in a discussion of our book Monsters of Film, Fiction, & Fable, which the organization selected as their “Nightmare of the Month.” Virtual. (January 2021) “The Shifting of Sovereignty: James S.A. Corey’s Expanse Series and Biopolitical Dangers. South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference. Atlanta, GA. November 2019. |
| Professional Experience: | Author: Bodies for Profit and Power: Science Fiction and Biopolitics (2023) Co-Editor and contributor: Monsters of Film, Fiction, and Fable (2018) Co-Chair - SAMLA - Literary Monsters & Speculative Fiction Panels (2012 - present) Chair, PCAS/ACAS - various Speculative Fiction panels (2014 - present) Editorial Board: Making Connections and GPAJ journals (2012-2017) President of Georgia Philological Association (2016) |
| Publications and Scholarships: (Last 5 Years) | Select Publications “‘Man Make Us Come Down in the World’: Biopolitics in Nalo Hopkinson’s ‘The Glass Bottle Trick.’” Intercultural Conversations: Collaboration, Exchange, and Transformation, edited by Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh, Cambridge, 2025. “A Search for Truth: Ariel Dorfman’s The Suicide Museum.” North Carolina Literary Review. Fall 2024. Bodies for Profit and Power: Science Fiction and Biopolitics. McFarland P., 2023. "Compliancy, Control, Subservience: Biopolitics and the Regulation of Women’s Bodies in The Handmaid’s Tale, “Black Box,” and Orphan Black.” Women Writing Trauma in Literature, edited by Laura Alexander, Cambridge, 2022, pp. 228-38. “Anarchy in the OPA: Sovereignty, Capitalism, and Bare Life.” The Expanse and Philosophy: So Far Out into the Darkness, edited by Jeffery L. Nicholas, Wiley & Sons/Blackwell, Hoboken, 2022, pp. 111-24. “Linking the Common and the Uncanny in Jen Fawkes Tales the Devil Told Me.” North Carolina Literary Review. Spring 2022. “Haunted Lives: Wrestling with the Past in Charles Dodd White’s In the House of Wilderness and Therese Anne Fowler’s A Good Neighborhood.” North Carolina Literary Review. Spring 2020. Monsters of Fiction, Film, and Fable: The Cultural Links Between the Human and Inhuman, edited by Lisa Wenger Bro, Crystal O’Leary Davidson, and Mary Ann Gareis, Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2018. |
| Professional Affiliations: | SAMLA - South Atlantic Modern Language Association PCAS/ACAS - Popular Culture Association in the South/American Culture Association in the South SFA - Speculative Fiction Association |
| Organizations: | SAMLA PCAS/ACAS |
| Awards and Honors: | Bodies for Profit and Power - Scholar's Choice - 2024 |
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