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Publications:
  • “Genetic Counseling and the Disabled:  Feminism Examines the Stance of Those Who Stand at the Gate” (with Annette Patterson), Genetics: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy, ed. Thomas A. Lanham, Maryland:   Shannon, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005 , 33-58.   Originally published in Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy 17:3  (Summer 2002), 118-142.

  • “Implicated in a Color Change:  Memoirs of White Mothers of African American Children” in Autobiography and Maternal Subjectivities  ed. Andrea O’Reilly and Silvia Caporale Bizzini, SUNY Press (forthcoming).

  • "Teaching Native Son:  A Missionary to Her People" in Approaches to Teaching Richard Wright's Native Son, ed. James A. Miller, (New York:  Modern Language Association, 1997), 54-66.

  • "An Epistemological Understanding of Pride and Prejudice:  Humility and Objectivity," in Jane Austen:  New Perspectives, ed. Janet Todd, Women and Literature, new series, Vol. 3, (New York, London:  Holmes and Meir Publications, Inc., 1983), 171‑186. 

Courses/Seminars:
  • African American Women Writers
  • Literature and Culture of Disability
  • Ethical Implications of Children’s Literature
  • Minority Literature

Martha Satz exploits her dual background in philosophy and literature and experience in trans-racial culture to teach and write about a diversity of topics.  She teaches courses in minority literature, most notably African American and Jewish American literature, ethics and children’s literature, literature and disability, and ethics and literature.  She is on  leave fall 2006 to complete a work on  literature, culture, and trans-racial adoption.

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Martha Satz
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas at Dallas
Office: Dallas Hall, room 244
Office Hours: W 10-11, F 10-11 & 2-3
Phone: 214-768-2855
Email: msatz@smu.edu
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