Micah Goodrich
Assistant Professor, English
mjgood@bu.edu
Specializations:
Trans studies
Queer studies
Premodern literature
Medieval literature
History of the body
Ideas of nature
Course idea:
None specified
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Carlos E Rodriguez-Diaz
Chair and Professor, Community Health Sciences
Specializations:
LGBTQ health
Intersectionality
Social Determinants of Health
Latinos
Course idea:
None specified
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Alejandra Vela-Martínez
Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish)
Specializations:
20th-21st Century Mexican Cultural Studies
Transnational mass culture, archives, feminine periodicals and literature
Diasporic and border feminine literature
their reception and preservation throughout Latin American Modernity
Course idea:
Open to collaborating on a topic related to formations of identity and/or popular culture
My research critically examines the construction of symbolic value in Latin American literature and culture, with a particular focus on Mexico, through the lens of Gender, Women, and Sexualities Studies. I explore the creation of symbolic capital using two main approaches: historical research based on archival work with understudied materials, and critical readings informed by reception theory and affect theory to highlight biases in cultural consumption. My analyses question the institutionalized margins of official culture from a gendered perspective.
As a whole, my research questions the Latin American cultural field by examining how different "counter-archives," as I call them in my current book manuscript, illuminate literary and cultural history involving feminine writers and materials. I defend the need, within the Humanities, to celebrate the ways femininity has intervened in the public sphere, while rethinking the limits of what is considered Literature and Culture. This is a necessary step towards a reconceptualization of intellectual history based on feminized aesthetics that uncover numerous female and women writers, editors, and readers formerly excluded from the canon.
My interests lie at the intersection of Literary History, Women and Gender Studies, and the History of Material Culture. I challenge prevailing feminist historical perspectives that dismiss cultural products as too conservative or patriarchal, advocating for the recognition of diverse forms of feminine participation in the public sphere throughout history. This approach seeks to restore the agency of women and other feminine subjects in shaping their destinies.
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Tesla Cariani
Lecturer of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Specializations:
Critical media studies
Literary studies
Queer theory
Trans and two spirit studies
Postcolonial studies
Affect theory
Popular culture
Course idea:
None specified
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Alexandra Gold
Head Preceptor, Writing
alexandra_gold@fas.harvard.edu
Specializations:
Post—1945 American poetry and visual art
Writing / first-year composition
Popular culture
Course idea:
None specified
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Sasha Sabherwal
Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Global Asian Studies
s.sabherwal@northeastern.edu
Specializations:
South Asian Diaspora
Critical Ethnic Studies
Transnational Feminist Cultural Studies
Racialization of Religion
Caste
Course idea:
None specified
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Kristen Ethier
Professor and Dean’s Distinguished Scholar, Law
Specializations:
Reproductive justice
Sexual and reproductive health equity among transition aged, expectant, and parenting youth in foster care, LGBTQ+ people of color living with HIV
Course idea:
None specified
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Katharine Young
Professor and Dean’s Distinguished Scholar, Law
Specializations:
Feminist legal theory
International human rights
LGBTQIA+ rights
Reproductive rights and reproductive justice
Women's rights
Comparative constitutionalism
Economic and social rights (rights to housing, health care, education, social security, water, sanitation, clean environment)
Critical race theory
Critical legal studies
Law and the Global South
Course idea:
Feminist legal theory - U.S. and international perspectives
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Peng Yin
Assistant Professor of Ethics, Boston University
Specializations:
Religion and sexuality
Sexual ethics
Queer theology
Course idea:
Sexual ethics: a feminist-and-queer-centered attempt at thinking through contemporary conversations in sexual desire and pleasure, intimate violence, polyamory, sex work, pornography, as well as sex and technologies.
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Emily Fairchild
Lecturer on Sociology and Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard
Specializations:
Micro-processes that sustain and challenge understanding of gender
Interplay among levels of analysis: institutional, interactional, individual especially as related to gendered rituals (ex: weddings), sports, and higher education
Course idea:
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Linda Griffith
School of Engineering Teaching Innovation Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering and MacVicar Fellow, MIT
Specializations:
Integration of Tissue Engineering and Systems Biology
Functional Biomaterials
Drug Development
Course idea:
A few studies have shown that women miss more work than men because they themselves are ill, not just because they are taking care of sick family members. I am very plugged in to the medical side and epidemiological side of gynecology disorders, as well as diseases that skew female (eg most autoimmune diseases, many chronic inflammatory diseases). I wish there were more intensity in the area of how the cumulative morbidity of health disorders impacts women's educational and professional development, and would very much like to partner with someone with expertise in the social/work side.
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Shoniqua Roach
Assistant Professor, African and African American Studies & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis
Specializations:
Black Feminist Theory
Black Studies
Queer and Sexuality Studies
Performance Studies
Racial Capitalism
Course idea:
None specified
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V Varun Chaudhry
Assistant Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis
Specializations:
Transgender studies
Queer of color critique
Black feminist theory
Institutionality
Nonprofits
Critical university studies
Course idea:
None specified
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Andrés Henao Castro
Assistant Professor, Political Science, UMass Boston
Specializations:
My research seeks to rethink the relationship between politics and aesthetics in relation to gender-differentiated colonial logics of capitalist accumulation. While focused on that question, I also want to reimagine the relationship between ancient and contemporary political theory, via the prisms of decolonial theory, critical theory, psychoanalysis, settler colonial critique, Marxism, queer of color critique, critical race theory, and poststructuralism.
Course idea:
None specified
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Yuri Doolan
Assistant Professor of History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yuri Doolan
Specializations:
Military prostitution
Sex work
Transpacific feminisms
"Comfort women"
US militarism in Asia
Camptown
International adoption
Race, empire, sexuality, migration, diaspora, and Asian American studies
Transnational Korean studies
Course idea:
None specified
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Lisa Joffe
Lecturer, Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis
Specializations:
Women's rights and religious law
Gender and multiculturalism
Family law
Course idea:
None specified
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Nicole Noll
Lecturer, Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard
Specializations:
Embodiment of gender and other culturally- and historically-situated social categories
Gender/sex-essentialist beliefs and their implications
Social psychology, especially automatic social cognition
Course idea:
I would be interested in co-developing a course on the embodiment of gender (and/or sexuality), contributing a social psychological perspective. I would also be open to building a course that examined intersectionality in the context of social science research.
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Patricia Davis
Associate Professor, Media & Design, Northeastern
Specializations:
Memory
Race
Gender
Representation
Visual culture
Material culture
Corporeality
Media studies
Course idea:
Memory and Gender: this course will explore the ways in which women have used various modes of historical production to represent their experiences of and perspectives on the past. It will include studies of women's performance, visual and material culture, filmmaking, literature, and other forms of memory work.
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Brian Horton
Assistant Profressor, Anthropology, Brandeis
Specializations:
queer anthropology;
queer of color critique/queer theory;
popular culture;
race;
digital anthropology;
virtual subjectivities;
social media;
South Asia
Course idea:
None specified
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Madhavi Venkatesan
Assistant Teaching Professor, Economics, Northeastern University
Specializations:
Environment
Sustainability
Sustainable and Ecological Economics
Race, Gender, Poverty
SDGs
Resilience
Course idea:
Biological roots of economic systems: An evaluation of how biology and environment foster economic frameworks and an assessment of the rationale for differences in economic goals.
None specified