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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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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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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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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Hillary Chute
Distinguished Professor, English, Northeastern University
Specializations:
Visual culture and feminisms
Comics and graphic narratives
Contemporary literature
Course idea:
None specified
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Sarah Pinto
Professor, Anthropology, Tufts University
Specializations:
Medical anthropology
History of medicine
STS
Gender
Kinship
Body
Psychological Anthropology
South Asia
Course idea:
None specified
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Heidi Levitt
Professor, Psychology, UMASS Boston
Specializations:
LGBTQ+ gender and LGBTQ+ gender communities (e.g., trans, butch, femme, bear, leather, drag, families/houses)
Qualitative and mixed methods research
Feminist, critical, and constructivist epistemological perspectives to inquiry
Psychotherapeutic change and healing from stigma-related experiences
Course idea:
I would be interested in co-developing a course focused on LGBTQ+ gender identities and/or LGBTQ+ gender communities. The course could examine the practices and functions of genders using intersectional and social justice lenses, and engage multidisciplinary themes related to culture, sexuality, activism, physical aesthetics, gender theory, and identity.
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Chris A Barcelos
Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, UMass Boston
Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Specializations:
Critical public health
Sexualities studies
Queer of color critique
Transgender studies
Youth
Course idea:
none specified
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David Sherman
Associate Professor, English, Brandeis University
Specializations:
Global modernism
Elegy and the politics of commemoration
Public sphere theory
Comedy
Literature in the criminal justice system
Literature and philosophy
Course idea:
Death and Feminism. A course on feminist and queer mortuary politics, including attention to literature, visual art, performance, and other expressive practices as sites of cultural intervention in the lives of the dead.
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Kareem Khubchandani
Mellon Bridge Assistant Professor, Drama & Dance, Tufts University
Specializations:
Performance studies
Queer studies
South Asian studies
Course idea:
Non specified
Kareem Khubchandani (any pronouns) is Associate Professor of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at Tufts University. He is the author of Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife (University of Michigan Press, 2020), which received the 2019 CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies Fellowship award, the 2021 Dance Studies Association de la Torre Bueno best book award, and the 2021 ATHE Outstanding Book Award. Kareem is co-editor of Queer Nightlife (University of Michigan Press) and curator of www.criticalauntystudies.com. He holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, and previously served as Embrey Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Jill Weinberg
Assistant Professor, Sociology, Tufts University
Specializations:
Crime, Law, Deviance
Sports
The body
Research Methods
Course idea:
Non specified
Jill D. Weinberg is an Associate Professor of Sociology and an affiliated scholar at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago, IL. She joined Tufts University after serving as a Visiting Assistant Professor at DePaul University.
She is a scholar who examines the decriminalization through social process, focusing on the ways groups use rules, norms, and the language of consent and choice. Her first book, Consensual Violence: Sex, Sports, and the Politics of Injury(University of California Press 2016), examines how two groups that willingly engage in seemingly violent activities — mixed-martial arts and sexual sadomasochism -- enact elaborate law-like rules to organize themselves and to demonstrate their legitimacy to a broader public. Her second book project is a cross-country comparison of assisted death and the ways terminally ill people, their loved ones, and medical professionals navigate laws that proscribe or permit aid-in-dying.
Her second research stream emerges from the "Contested Constructions of Discrimination Project" funded by the American Bar Foundation. This project uses experimental research design and semi-structured interviews to compare how ordinary people and trial judges define employment discrimination.
She is widely published in peer-review journals such as Sociological Science, Sociological Methods & Research, and Law & Social Inquiry. Popular accounts of her work have appeared in the Advocate, the Huffington Post, Talking Points Memo, Truthout, and the Society Pages.
In her free time, she is an avid runner and enjoys hanging out with her pugs.
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Christina Michaud
Senior Lecturer, Writing Program, Boston University
Master Lecturer, Writing
Specializations:
Literary analysis
Discourse analysis
Feminist intersectional parenting theory
Motherhood and breastfeeding
Sociolinguistics
Intersectionality and international students
Course idea:
Selfies (history of self-portraits in visual culture & literature, regulation of gender therein; visual cultures of the body; representation as a site of protest)
Christina Michaud has been a full-time instructor in the Writing Program since 2003. She teaches WR 097 and WR 098, the ESL writing classes mainly for first-year international students, as well as WR 100 and WR 150 sections on women’s studies. She has co-authored an ESL pronunciation textbook, a TESOL teacher-training book on goal-driven lesson planning, and numerous articles and presentations in the areas of TESOL, applied linguistics, and teacher training. Broadly, her research interests span composition and rhetoric, language and literacy, feminist literature, and gender studies.
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Phyllis Thompson
Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University
Specializations:
Domesticity
Representations
Food
Motherhood
American studies
Course idea:
Selfies (history of self-portraits in visual culture & literature, regulation of gender therein; visual cultures of the body; representation as a site of protest)
Phyllis Thompson is a cultural historian who works on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American topics. Her book project, Domestic Pleasures: Dreams of Hope and Fulfillment in American Home Life, traces the intellectual history of the idea of pleasure in private life. It focuses on representations of gendered pleasure as they circulated in literary, prescriptive, and popular texts and images during a pair of Gilded Ages a century apart. A second project addresses the development of taste as a transatlantic phenomenon, with a particular focus on taste-makers and their evolving qualifications.
She received her doctorate in American Studies, with a graduate certificate in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, from Harvard University. She additionally holds an A.M. in History from Harvard, an M.A. in American Civilization from Brown University, and a B.A. in English Literature from Yale University. From 2013-2014 she was the Visiting Scholar in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Northeastern University.
Thompson maintains active research interests in representations of gender, race, and class; the body; the family and domesticity; childhood; the intellectual histories of love and beauty; food; DIY culture; the relationship between text and image; the history of sexuality and gender; and gender politics. Before her academic career she worked as an editor of photography books at Aperture Foundation in New York City.
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Linda Blum
Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University
Specializations:
Contemporary gender relations in US
Work, family, and intersectionality
Disability, gender, medicine, and the body
Course idea:
Teaching Feminist Inquiry. Would be interested in a gender and disability course.
Linda Blum is a qualitative, ethnographic sociologist who studies persistence, change, and contradictions in contemporary gender relations. Her interests include: Gender, Medicine, and the Body; Work, Family, and Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class Inequality; Sociological Theory; Qualitative and Ethnographic Methods; Feminist Theory and Methods. She began her sociological career researching and writing on women’s grassroots movements for comparable pay, but has since developed another focus on ideologies of motherhood in the United States, how we judge fit and unfit, respectable and disreputable, and measure mothers against each other in ways that reinforce class and race inequality. She is the author of Between Feminism and Labor: The Significance of the Comparable Worth Movement (1991, University of California Press); At the Breast: Ideologies of Breastfeeding and Motherhood in the Contemporary United States (1999, Beacon); and Raising Generation Rx: Mothering Kids with Invisible Disabilities in an Age of Inequality (2015, NYU Press).
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Colleen Kiely
Professor, Arts and Music Simmons University
Professor, Art
Specializations:
Studio Art Practice
Course idea:
A studio art drawing class could pair well with themes of perception, cognition, mindfulness, embodiment, visual culture, gender, etc. providing a different, yet complimentary, experiential approach to theory-based learning.
Colleen Kiely is Professor of Art and has taught studio art courses at Simmons College since 2005. In addition to her regular rotation of courses, Kiely designed a unique upper level studio seminar for Simmons titled "Looking at Herself: Contemporary Women Artists and the Female Body". This course focuses on contemporary figuration by women artists in all media, exploring issues of gender and feminist art practices. Prior to joining Simmons, she taught at institutions including Bowdoin College, Massachusetts College of Art, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Northeastern University and Montserrat College of Art.
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Chris Bobel
Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, UMass Boston
Specializations:
Embodiment
Feminist activism
Social movements
Health
Critical development studies
Course idea:
None specified
Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston where she teaches courses on Gender & the Body, Feminist Theory, Feminist Research Methods, Women in US Social Movements and Feminist Activism. Chris is interested, most broadly, in the social construction of embodiment, and the diverse efforts of actors to effect social change especially around issues that are stigmatized and otherwise marginalized and how feminist thinking becomes feminist doing at the most intimate and immediate levels. In short, she finds the body-- a site where social norms, cultural anxieties and political agendas come to life-- an endlessly fascinating subject of inquiry.
Chris is the author, most recently, of The Managed Body: Developing Girls and Menstrual Health in the Global South just released this month. Her other books include The Paradox of Natural Mothering, New Blood: Third Wave Feminism and the Politics of Menstruation and Embodied Resistance: Breaking the Rules, Challenging the Norms (co-edited with Samantha Kwan). Her current major projects in progress include a 2nd co-edited collection titled Body Battlegrounds: Transgressions, Tensions and Transformations (forthcoming with Vanderbilt University Press in Winter 2019), and serving as lead editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies [due out in 2020] and a new ethnographic project exploring contemporary activism inspired by grief and trauma.
Chris is past president of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research and often quoted in the mainstream media about the rapidly growing menstrual activist movement including The New York Times, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Time, NPR, USA Today, The Atlantic, El Mundo,Agence France-Presse, and the Associated Press.
For a complete list of her publications and public intellectual engagements, see https://works.bepress.com/chris_bobel/