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Alys Eve Weinbaum is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Washington, specializing in feminist, Marxist, and anti-racist scholarship. Her work spans modern and contemporary transatlantic literature and culture. She teaches courses focused on feminism, gender, sexuality, Marxism, race, and the complexities of racial formation and capitalism. Her recent publication, 'Afterlife Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism Black Feminism's Philosophy History', explores the connections between Atlantic slavery and contemporary biocapitalism. This book examines the persistence of what she terms 'the slave episteme' in the context of texts produced by Black feminists across various idioms. Another critical work, 'Wayward Reproductions: Genealogies Race Nation Transatlantic Modern Thought', theorizes the 'race/reproduction bind', which highlights the interrelations between human reproduction and racial belonging in 19th and 20th-century ideologies. She is also engaged with projects on dystopian representations of human reproduction in contemporary media and the anthology 'Reproductive Racial Capitalism', in collaboration with Jennifer Morgan. Weinbaum has received numerous awards for her teaching and scholarship, including the Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award and the Sarah A. Whaley Book Prize.
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