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Micah Goodrich

Assistant Professor, English

Assistant Professor, English

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Specializations:

  • Trans studies

  • Queer studies

  • Premodern literature

  • Medieval literature

  • History of the body

  • Ideas of nature

Course idea:

None specified

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Alejandra Vela-Martínez

Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish)

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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Gender Theory, Post Colonialism, Queer Theory/LGBT Studies, Trans/Nonbinary Studies, Media or Digital Culture Guest User Gender Theory, Post Colonialism, Queer Theory/LGBT Studies, Trans/Nonbinary Studies, Media or Digital Culture Guest User

Tesla Cariani

Lecturer of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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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Kristen Ethier

Professor and Dean’s Distinguished Scholar, Law

Assistant Professor, Social Work

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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Sexuality, Writing, Religion/Spirituality, Queer Theory/LGBT Studies, Post Colonialism, Medicine/Health, Literature, Law, Human Rights, History, Gender Theory, Family Parenting Guest User Sexuality, Writing, Religion/Spirituality, Queer Theory/LGBT Studies, Post Colonialism, Medicine/Health, Literature, Law, Human Rights, History, Gender Theory, Family Parenting Guest User

Peng Yin

Assistant Professor of Ethics, Boston University

Assistant Professor of Ethics, Theology

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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Education, Feminist Theory, Gender Theory, Queer Theory/LGBT Studies, Methodology, Media or Digital Culture, Trans/Nonbinary Studies Guest User Education, Feminist Theory, Gender Theory, Queer Theory/LGBT Studies, Methodology, Media or Digital Culture, Trans/Nonbinary Studies Guest User

Emily Fairchild

Lecturer on Sociology and Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard

Lecturer on Sociology and Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies

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

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Shoniqua Roach

Assistant Professor, African and African American Studies & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis

Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Specializations:

  • Black Feminist Theory

  • Black Studies

  • Queer and Sexuality Studies

  • Performance Studies

  • Racial Capitalism


Course idea:

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Trans/Nonbinary Studies, Sexuality, Science, Queer Theory/LGBT Studies, Gender Theory, Feminist Theory, Embodiment/Body Studies, Cognition, Activism, Methodology, Critical Race Theory/Studies Guest User Trans/Nonbinary Studies, Sexuality, Science, Queer Theory/LGBT Studies, Gender Theory, Feminist Theory, Embodiment/Body Studies, Cognition, Activism, Methodology, Critical Race Theory/Studies Guest User

Nicole Noll

Lecturer, Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard

Senior Preceptor in Psychology; Lecturer in Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies 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

Associate Professor, Communications

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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Heike Schotten

Associate Professor, Political Science, Umass Boston

Associate Professor, Political Science Department

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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Gender Theory, Material Culture, Queer Theory/LGBT Studies, Post Colonialism, Trans/Nonbinary Studies, Visual Culture, Writing, Media or Digital Culture, Critical Race Theory/Studies Guest User Gender Theory, Material Culture, Queer Theory/LGBT Studies, Post Colonialism, Trans/Nonbinary Studies, Visual Culture, Writing, Media or Digital Culture, Critical Race Theory/Studies Guest User

K.J. Rawson

Associate Professor, English, Northeastern University

Associate Professor, English Department

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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Hillary Chute

Distinguished Professor, English, Northeastern University

Distinguished Professor, English and Art + Design

Specializations:

  • Visual culture and feminisms

  • Comics and graphic narratives

  • Contemporary literature

Course idea:

None specified

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Erin Seaton

Senior Lecturer, Educational Studies, Tufts University

Senior Lecturer, Educational Studies

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

Senior Lecturer, Department of Visual and Critical Studies

Specializations:

  • Carceral Studies

  • Queer/Feminist Studies

Course idea:

None specified

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Sarah Pinto

Professor, Anthropology, Tufts University

Professor, Department of Anthropology

Specializations:

  • Medical anthropology

  • History of medicine

  • STS

  • Gender

  • Kinship

  • Body

  • Psychological Anthropology

  • South Asia

Course idea:

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Jocelyn Viterna

Professor, Sociology, Harvard University

Professor, Sociology Department

Specializations:

  • Sociology, Reproductive Justice

  • Reproductive Health

  • Gender and Politics

  • Criminalization of Sexuality and Reproduction

  • Implicit/Explicit Gender Bias in the Judicial System

  • Gender-based Violence

  • Gender and War

  • Latin America

Course idea:

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Wan Tang

Assistant Professor, Hispanic Studies, Boston College

Assistant Professor, Hispanic Studies

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:

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Suzanne Leonard

Professor, English & Critical Race, Gender, and Cultural Studies, Simmons University

Professor of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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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:

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Heidi Levitt

Professor, Psychology, UMASS Boston

Professor, Psychology Department

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:

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