Intro – Liz

Hi everyone!

My name is Elizabeth Kelman. I usually go by Liz. Like Kaitlyn, I graduated last semester but thought this class sounded awesome so I’m auditing. I went to CCNY, where I minored in Spanish and Women’s Studies, but for my major I did a CUNY BA interdisciplinary degree in Global Health so I took a lot of my classes at Hunter and did the Macaulay capstone/thesis colloquium with Lee Quinby. I’m really interested in gender studies and knew that I would miss having structured academic discussions and readings, so I’m looking forward to the next few months. I’m particularly looking forward to reading more Margaret Atwood and the Hunger Games (finally!), as well as the Cyborg Manifesto, which we read for my Intro to Women’s Studies class but didn’t discuss much. That piece, as well as some of the other readings we’ll be doing, are especially relevant to my academic/professional interests because technology and biomedicine are very closely tied–it’s not just new media that connects tech, gender and health/medicine!

I’ve had mixed experiences with hybrid courses, but love this FemTechNet set-up. I think the dual identity–as a student in an individual course as well as a member of the larger learning community–feels especially comfortable as a Macaulay student, where we have a similar experience of being part of a small community within the larger CUNY system and our home campuses. I am not sure whether I can make the in-person classes, but I hope I can–if only to meet all of you and put faces to your names and avatars 🙂