Nationality American Website deborahrudacille.com Role Journalist | Occupation Journalist and author Name Deborah Rudacille | |
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Residence Balti, Maryland, United States Nominations Lambda Literary Award for Transgender/GenderQueer Books The Riddle of Gender: Science, The Scalpel and the B, Roots of Steel: Boom an, Animals and Alternativ | ||
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Deborah Rudacille (born July 1958) is an American journalist and science writer. She has worked as a news editor for the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative in New York, and in May 2012 became a visiting professor in journalism at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
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Rudacille is the author of The Scalpel and the Butterfly (2000), a history of the practice and politics of animal testing, The Riddle of Gender (2004), which examines scientists' attempts to define gender and the effect that had on transgender people, and Roots of Steel (2010), about the closure of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation steelworks in Sparrows Point, Maryland.
The Scalpel and the Butterfly was chosen by the Los Angeles Times as one of the year's best non-fiction books, and The Riddle of Gender was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award.
Background
Rudacille was born in Dundalk, Maryland into a family with a long history of working for the local steelmill, including her father and his brothers, her grandfather and her great-grandfather. Her mother worked for the United Steel Workers labor union.
She attended Our Lady of Hope elementary school and The Catholic High School of Baltimore. She obtained her BA in 1980 from Loyola College and her MA in 1998 from the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins University, where she specialized in science writing. In May 2012, she joined the English department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, as a visiting professor. She will teach courses on science and medical writing, community journalism in the digital age, and the history of medical attempts to define gender.