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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Alecia McGregor
Assistant Professor, Community Health, Tufts University
Specializations:
Health inequities
Health care outcomes
Maternal health
Urban health policies
Course idea:
Non specified
Alecia McGregor earned her Ph.D. in Health Policy from Harvard University in 2014, where she received a certificate in Latin American Studies and was a National Institute of Mental Health trainee. From 2014 to 2016 she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Center for Health and Wellbeing at Princeton University. At Princeton, she helped launch an initiative on Race, Inequality and Health Policy in the United States.
Dr. McGregor's research focuses on health inequalities and the political determinants of health. She has done work on HIV/AIDS disparities, religion and public opinion, mental health and substance abuse policy, and urban health policies; and her research draws on multiple approaches including quantitative, qualitative, comparative, and survey analyses. Her doctoral dissertation analyzed the politics of health care provision in both the United States and Brazil. Currently, she is researching the drivers and consequences of hospital closures in the U.S., and the politics of drug treatment policy in the U.S. and Brazil. Outside of work, she enjoys bicycling, tennis, and anything outdoors.
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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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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.