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Faculty



Diane R. Wiener
Assistant Professor

Office: (607) 777-9158
Office Location: UDC-307
Fax: (607) 777-5683
E-mail: dwiener@binghamton.edu


Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies (focus in feminist media and autobiography studies), disciplinary minor in Anthropology, concentrations in Women’s Studies and Disability Studies, University of Arizona
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Anthropology, University of Arizona
  • L.M.S.W., New York State
  • M.S.W., concentration in Casework, Yeshiva University
  • B.S., Animal Science, concentration in Pre-Veterinary Medicine, Rutgers University
  • Certificate in Comprehensive Science Education (K-12), Rutgers University

Teaching Profession

Courses Regularly Taught

  • Human Behavior in the Social Environment I

  • Human Behavior in the Social Environment II

  • Advanced Social Work Practice with Groups


Selection of Courses Previously Taught

  • Generalist Social Work Practice III

  • Special Topics in Social Work: Perspectives on Gender

  • Multidisciplinary Approaches to LGBTIQ Studies

  • Women’s Studies (including “Women and ‘Madness’ in American Film”)

  • Cultural Studies (including “Critical Concepts in Western Culture”)

  • Verbal and Non-Verbal Folklore


Current Research Interests

  • Social work discourses and related implications for local, regional, and national (U.S.) social work practices and policies
  • Social constructionism, phenomenology, and hermeneutics in relation to social work theory, research, policy, practice, and activism
  • Engagements with social justice in social work program and curriculum development and in social work students’ learning processes
  • Critical explorations of psychiatry and biomedicine in mental health treatment contexts
  • Autobiographical and cinematic representations of U.S. mental health consumers, psychiatric survivors, and ex-patients/patients, especially with respect to gender, sexuality, race, and class
  • Representations of social workers in the mainstream media and the effects of these images upon “mainstream” societal understandings of the social work profession
  • Teaching writing and critical thinking to social work students through creative, social justice-focused diversity initiatives in curriculum development
  • Interdisciplinary linkages between social work, disability studies, and medical anthropology, and related applications to social work curriculum development
  • LGBTIQ studies and social work curriculum development
  • Applications of the expressive arts in social work education and practice

Selected Publications

Wiener, D. R. (In Press). A meditation on depression, time, and narrative peregrination in The Hours. In H. Clark (Ed.), Depression and Narrative: Telling the Dark (pp. 224-237). Albany, NY: SUNY Press.  

 

Wiener, D. R. (2008). Benny & Joon’s “alternative philosophies” of emotional (dis)ability, class, gender, and sexuality. Essays in Philosophy: A Biannual Journal, 9(1).

 

Wiener, D. R. (2005). Antipsychiatric activism and feminism: The use of film and text to question biomedicine. Journal of Public Mental Health, 4(3), 42-47.

 

Wiener, D. R. (2005). Entry on “Andrea Weiss.” In I. Aitken (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film (pp. 1432-1434). New York and London: Routledge (Taylor and Francis).

 

Wiener, D. R. (2005). “Normals, crazies, insiders, and outsiders”: The relevance of Sue Estroff’s medical anthropology to disability studies. The Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, 1(3), 76-82.

 

Wiener, D. R. (2003). Performativity and metacommentary in Jewish American Mother light bulb jokes. M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, 6(5).  

 

Ruggill, J., & Wiener, D. (2003). Leaving the “prison for your mind”: The Matrix’s escapist and orienting liberatory in-sights. In Conference Proceedings (CD-ROM and .pdf). Honolulu, HI: International Conference on the Arts and Humanities.

 

Wiener, D. R. (2000). Representing pre-millennial tensions: Hollywood’s gendered invasion narratives. CineAction, 51, 17-22.

 

Wiener, D. R. (1998). Living within darkness: Psychiatric survivors and the protection of mythical language. The Arts in Psychotherapy: An International Journal, 25(3), 167-181.


Selected Recent Presentations

Wiener, D. R. (2007). Using poetry and metaphor in counseling: A collaborative approach. New York State School Social Workers Association’s Annual Conference: “Youth @ Risk.”  Owego, NY.

 

Wiener, D. R., & Rosenwald, M. (2006). Unlocking doors: Providing MSW programs and students with educational “keys” to social justice. “Social Justice through Social Reform.” Council on Social Work Education - 52nd Annual Program Meeting.  Chicago, IL. 

 

Russell, R., Sunukjian, M., & Wiener, D. (2006). Red hot mammas: Exploring the impact of menopause in the lives of clients and social workers. The Power of Social Work Conference: “Professional Revitalization in a Climate of Change.”  New York State Chapter, National Association of Social Workers.  Albany, NY. 

 

Wiener, D. R. (2005). Taking back the camera, the web, the keyboard, and the pen: Female psychiatric survivors and contemporary autoethnographic discourses. Panel: “Intersections between Cultural Studies and Anthropology: Ethnographic Readings in Museums, Civil Religion, and Cinema.” The 3rd Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association. Tucson, AZ. 

 

Wiener, D. R. (2005). On Autobiography, antipsychiatric activism, and feminism: Reading Kate Millett’s The Loony-Bin Trip. Panel: “Biography/Autobiography/Memoir/Personal Narrative.” The 26th Annual Conference of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association.  Albuquerque, New Mexico.


Selected Affiliations

  • Member, Council on Social Work Education

  • Member, National Association of Social Workers

  • Consulting Editor, Families in Society

  • Member, American Association of University Women

  • Member, The Learning Games Initiative

  • Research Associate, Center for Applied Community Research and Development, Binghamton University

  • Elected CCPA Representative to Binghamton University Graduate Council (2006-2009)

  • Member, Board of Directors, Binghamton University Sexual Assault Prevention Project

  • Member, Women’s Studies Steering Committee, Binghamton University

  • Affiliated Faculty Member, Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture (PIC), Binghamton University

  • Member, Binghamton Pride Coalition