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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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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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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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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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
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Timothy Oleksiak
Assistant Professor, English, UMass Boston
Specializations:
Rhetoric and composition teacher-scholar with a specialization in listening as a rhetorical act, composition pedagogy, and queer feminist rhetoric.
Course idea:
A feminist rhetoric and composition studies course. The course functions as an introduction to feminist approaches to rhetoric.
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Karen Suyemoto
Professor, Psychology, Umass Boston
Specializations:
Psychological experiences and effects of racism
Psychological processes, experiences, and effects of resisting racism for people of color
Activism and psychology
Development and experiences of allies/accomplices
Solidarity and intersectionality
Anti-oppressive education
Course idea:
I would be interested in a course focused on activism/resistance, with particular attention to (a) interactions of the individual/group/structural levels and (b) solidarity and intersectionality, especially related to the dynamic of maintaining White supremacy through divide and conquer and resisting internalizing that dynamic.
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Francesca Inglese
Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicology, Northeastern University
Specializations:
African-Diasporic music and dance
Critical race studies
Ethnographic method and ethics
Cultural politics
Postcolonialism
Course idea:
None specified
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Heike Schotten
Associate Professor, Political Science, Umass Boston
Specializations:
Feminist theory
Queer theory (broadly construed, incl. queer history and queer of color politics/critique)
Trans studies
Critical theory (incl. biopolitics, settler colonial studies, empire studies)
Radical/left political theory
War on Terror
"terrorism"
Nietzsche studies
Israel/Palestine
Zionism
Academic freedom
Course idea:
The feminist sex wars; queer theory/trans studies [a course on the two fields' development, co-implication, intersections, contradictions, troublings, critiques]; lesbian feminism; a course on "radical criticism"/totalizing critique [feat., e.g., Afropessimism, anti-porn and TERF feminism]; a broad, interdisciplinary course on biopolitics; i'm sure there are others!
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K.J. Rawson
Associate Professor, English, Northeastern University
Specializations:
Digital humanities
Rhetoric
LGBTQ+ and Feminist Studies
Archives
Course idea:
None specified
K.J. Rawson is founder and director of the Digital Transgender Archive, an award-winning online repository of trans-related historical materials, and he is the co-chair of the editorial board of the Homosaurus, an international LGBTQ linked data vocabulary.
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Dana Miranda
Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Umass Boston
Specializations:
Africana Philosophy
Political Philosophy,
Existentialism
Psychosocial Studies
competency in Phenomenology, Philosophy of History, and Decolonial Studies. Generally, my work studies how historical and contemporary processes create structural arrangements that although normal, regularized, and relatively healthy to some are at the same time suboptimal and detrimental to others. This research aims to not only criticizes such “disordered” socio-political orders, but also aims to construct viable “counter-orders.”
Course idea:
I have an idea for a course entitled, "On Intimate Violence." This course will interrogate the ways in which intimacy is entwined with our conduct towards others. As human beings, we are involved in sexual, romantic and ethical relations with one another and such relations can either be pleasurable, ambiguous, or oftentimes violent. As such, students will be asked to examine the phenomenon of rape, practices that seek to eliminate the act, as well as ongoing philosophies that call on us to be ethical in our intimate relations. I would like for this course to be co-taught with someone from another discipline, perhaps working in feminist theory or sexuality, so that students could receive a full range of information. I also think it would be helpful to have two professors involved so that they could provide emotional support with these topics, while also adhering to Title IX policies and our duties as mandated reporters.
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Erin Seaton
Senior Lecturer, Educational Studies, Tufts University
Specializations:
School-Based Mental Health
Gender/Feminist Theory
Anti-Racist Teaching/Pedagogy
Child and Adolescent Development
Identity and Education
LGBTQ+
Qualitative Research Methods
Narrative and Writing
Course idea:
I would love to help facilitate a course that critically examined the intersection of mental health and intersectional identities. Likewise, I would be happy to participate in a series of workshops on reexamining and redesigning education.
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Hilary Binda
Senior Lecturer, Visual and Critical Studies, Tufts University
Specializations:
Carceral Studies
Queer/Feminist Studies
Course idea:
None specified
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Rani Neutill
Lecturer, Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University
Specializations:
Asian American Literature and Film
WOC memoir
Creative nonfiction
Course idea:
Gender and Sexuality in Asian American Literature and Film - This course examines works across a range of genres by Asian-American writers, focusing on the intersection of race, gender formation, and sexuality. We will put conceptions of feminism, queerness, and LGBT identity in conversations about ethnicity, citizenship, power, activism, art and politics, representation, race and resistance and collective as well as individual histories. As a class that focuses on film and literature, we will close read texts as a means to discuss the politics of representation, how a text can inform the world and vice versa. In this class, we will create a space of community forged by respect and the understanding that marginalized voices have been historically de-centered. We will focus on the diversity of Asian American stories and move away from generalized, romanticized, and essentialized notions of Asian American identities.
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Wan Tang
Assistant Professor, Hispanic Studies, Boston College
Specializations:
19th-21st-century Spain
the Spanish Civil War
Contemporary Spanish literature and visual culture
The fantastic and Gothic fiction
Monster theory
Aging studies, television studies, critical race and migration studies
The Asian diaspora
Course idea:
None specified
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Paula Austin
Assistant Professor, African American Studies, Boston University
Specializations:
Black studies/US history
Black women's history
Urban history
Childhood studies/history
History of social sciences
Social movement history in the US
Course idea:
None specified
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Suzanne Leonard
Professor, English & Critical Race, Gender, and Cultural Studies, Simmons University
suzanne.leonard@simmons.edu
Specializations:
American film and television studies
Feminist media studies
Women's literature, gender and cultural theory
Literary interpretation
20th and 21st century American literature
Course idea:
None specified