Education

Stabile received a Bachelor of Arts from Mountain. Holyoke College, and a Doctor of Philosophy in English from in 1992. She then took a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at in the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive theory at the University of Illinois Institute of Communications Research.

During her Doctor of Philosophy she researched gender, technology, and feminist theory, and published her most widely cited article "Shooting the Mother: Fetal Photography and the Politics of Disappearance." She is now a professor at the University of Oregon, where her research focuses on the intersections of gender, race, class, and sexual orientation in media and popular culture.

Career

In 2014, Stabile received an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship for her work on blacklisted (supposedly communist) and conservative women"s involvement in 1940"s and 1950"s television industries.

Achievements

• Her project "examines the forms of employment progressive women were seeking in the new industry, as well as the opposition they faced from anti-communist men and women opposed to viewpoints they considered un-American." Prior to the American Council of Learned Societies fellowship, Stabile"s peer-reviewed academic article "The Typhoid Marys of the Left: Gender, Race, and the Broadcast Blacklist" received the 2013 Ronald D. and Gayla T. Farrar Award in Media and Civil Rights History. Additionally, she serves on the Mississippi Magazine Committee of Scholars, and is an adviser and co-founder of Fembot Collective.

Politics

Stabile has published several books in the field of feminism including Feminism and the Technological Fix and White Victims, Black Villains: Gender, Race, and Crime News in United States Culture.