Faculty

Moradewun Adejunmobi (Associate Professor, Director) African American and African Studies -- African studies, literature and film; Francophone studies; sociolinguistics

Charlayne Allan (Lecturer Emerita) Spanish and Classics -- Women in classical antiquity

Marta Altisent (Associate Professor) Spanish and Classics -- 20th century Spanish prose and theater; modern and contemporary women writers of Spain

Susan Taber Avila (Assistant Professor) Design -- Fashion Design; Experimental Fashion; History of Fashion; Textile Art; Issues of Containment (including language, the body, and identity)

Emilio Bejel (Chair, Professor) Spanish and Classics -- Spanish & Spanish American literature and culture, critical thinking, ideology, and queer theory.

Beverly Bossler (Professor) History -- Gender; women and family in China, especially in the Song-Yuan dynasties (10th-14th centuries)

Cynthia Brantley (Professor) History -- Africa: food and diet; women; the family; agriculture; aging

Joan Cadden (Professor) History, Science and Technology Studies -- Women and gender in medieval Europe; sexuality and gender in medieval science and medicine; medieval women writers

JoAnn Cannon (Professor) French and Italian -- Italian cinema; 20th century Italian literature; representation of gender

Patrick Carroll-Burke (Associate Professor) Sociology, History and Philosophy of Science -- Science studies; historical sociology; material culture, the state

Angie Chabram-Dernersesian (Professor) Chicano/a Studies -- Chicana literature; cultural studies

Jennifer Chacon (Acting Professor) School of Law -- Immigration law and policy; criminal law and procedure; human rights

Miroslava Chavez-Garcia (Assistant Professor) Chicano/a Studies -- U.S., Chicana, and Latin American history

Elizabeth Constable (Associate Professor) French and Italian, Critical Theory -- 19th and 20th century French and Francophone literature; feminist theory; gender and the rhetoric of nationalism

Marisol de la Cadena (Associate Professor, Director of Center for History, Society, Culture) Anthropology -- Cultures of history; critical race theory; anthropology of the State; intellectuals

Lucy Corin (Assistant Professor) English -- Creative Writing (novel and short story), with emphasis in 20th Century American Fiction, Innovative Narrative, and Theory of Fiction

Allison Coudert (Professor, Castelfranco Chair in the History of Christianity) Religious Studies -- Religion and science in the West, particularly scientific and religious attitudes towards women, religious attitudes toward body, and feminist theory

Sergio de la Mora (Associate Professor) Chicano/a Studies -- Masculinity studies; Chicano/Latino film and literature; Latin American film and literature; popular culture; queer theory

Carolyn de la Pena (Associate Professor) American Studies -- Material culture; technology; consumer culture; gender

Adela de la Torre (Professor, Director Chicano/a Studies) Chicano/a Studies -- Public health economics

Joanne Diehl (Professor) English -- 19th and 20th century American literature; Emily Dickinson; psychoanalytic criticism; poetry by women; literature and medicine

Frances E. Dolan (Professor) English -- Literature and history in England from 1500-1700 with a special emphasis on women, gender, and sexuality; law, crime, and violence; print culture; gender and confessional identity; feminist theory; cultural studies

Donald Donham (Professor) Anthropology -- African studies; ethnography of modernity; intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality; political economy

Frances Dyson (Associate Professor) Technocultural Studies -- Technology, culture, and the arts; new media/theory; cyberculture and feminism; sound theory; women digital artists

Linda Egan (Associate Professor) Spanish and Classics -- Colonial, 19th and 20th century women writers, especially of Mexico; discourses of postmodernism; comparative religions, including pagan

Omnia El Shakry (Assistant Professor) History -- History of the Modern Middle East (especially Egypt); gender and sexuality in the Middle East; history of colonialism; modern European intellectual history

Diane Felmlee (Professor) Sociology -- Sociology: gender and intimate relationships; gender and power; women's employment

Margaret Ferguson (Professor) English -- Feminist theory; Renaissance literature by women; women's literacy; 17th century colonial America

Gail Finney (Professor) Comparative Literature and German-- Feminist literary theory; women in modern drama; psychoanalysis and literature/film; trauma theory

Yvette G. Flores (Professor) Chicana/o studies - Latina/o mental health; feminist psychologies; state, family and intimate partner violence

Elizabeth Freeman (Associate Professor) English -- 19th century American Literature; gender and sexuality; critical theory; cultural studies

Lorena Garcia (Assistant Professor) Chicano/a Studies -- Epidemiologic studies; Latina health; intimate partner violence

Sandra Gilbert (Professor Emerita) English -- Gender and literature; 19th and 20th century literature by women

Gayatri Gopinath (Associate Professor) Women and Gender Studies -- queer studies, diaspora studies, postcolonial literature, feminist theory, South Asian popular culture, cinema studies

Laura Grindstaff (Associate Professor) Sociology -- Popular culture; cultural studies; feminist theory, fieldwork

Milmon F. Harrison (Associate Professor) African American and African Studies -- Sociology of religion; the Black church in America; race/ethnic relations in the U.S.; popular culture; sociology of culture; gospel music

Ines Hernandez-Avila (Professor, Director of the Chicana/Latina Research Center) Native American Studies -- Indigenous feminisms; Native American women's and Chicana literature; spiritual traditions

Lynn Hershman (Professor Emerita) Art -- Technocultural studies; video and electronic arts

Margherita Heyer-Caput (Associate Professor) French and Italian -- 19th and 20th century Italian literature and literary criticism; literature and philosophy

Wendy Ho (Associate Professor, Director of Asian American Studies) Women and Gender Studies, Asian American Studies -- Feminist theory and gender; Asian American studies; ethnic literature in the US; masculinities, critical race and cultural studies

Lynette Hunter (Professor) Theatre and Dance -- 20th century and current feminist theory and aesthetics; women's domestic work from the 16th to 21st centuries; women's thought and the rise of modern science; women's writing and publishing; women and citizenship

Robert McKee Irwin (Associate Professor) Spanish -- Latin American literary and cultural studies with emphasis on Mexico; Inter-American studies

Mary Jackman (Professor) Sociology -- Political sociology; group consciousness; gender ideology

Carole Joffe (Professor) Sociology -- Gender; family; social policy; women--s reproductive health; reproductive rights

Alessa Johns (Associate Professor) English --18th century European literature and culture; women writers; utopianism; disaster; cosmopolitanism

Suad Joseph (Professor, Director of Middle East South Asia Studies) Anthropology, Women and Gender Studies --¬ Gender; politics; family; citizenship; human rights; cultural construction of the self; Lebanon and the Middle East

Susan Kaiser (Professor) Textiles and Clothing, Women and Gender Studies -- Social psychology of clothing; fashion and feminist theory

Caren Kaplan (Associate Professor, Director of Cultural Studies Graduate Group) Women and Gender Studies, Cultural Studies -- Studies of travel, tourism, displacement; postcolonial studies; consumer subjects in transnational culture; the visual logics of location and navigation technologies; and theories of globalization and cosmopolitanism

Elisabeth Krimmer (Associate Professor) German -- German studies; gender studies; literary theory; film; representation of war

Cathy Kudlick (Professor) History -- Disability studies; gender and sexuality in modern Europe; history of medicine and public health

Anna K. Kuhn (Professor, Director of Women and Gender Studies) Women and Gender Studies -- Women's literature; film studies; feminist theory; German cultural studies

Kari Lokke (Professor) Comparative Literature -- Feminist literary theory; women writers of Romanticism

Dianne Sachko Macleod (Professor) Art History -- Women as collectors and dealers of art; visual culture; gender and feminism

Sunaina Maira (Associate Professor) Asian American Studies -- Youth; popular culture; citizenship; empire

Susan Mann (Professor, Chair of History Department) History -- History of women; the family and gender in late imperial China; cultural history

Adrienne Martin (Associate Professor) Spanish and Classics -- Early modern Spanish literature: women and women's writing in early modern Spain; gender, sexuality and erotic literature

DesirEe Martin (Assistant Professor) English -- U.S.-Mexico border studies; Chicana/Latina cultural production; Mexican cultural production; Inter-American studies

Cristina Martinez-Carazo (Assistant Professor) Spanish and Classics -- Spanish film (Spanish women film directors); 19th century Spanish novel; Spanish culture

Lisa Materson (Assistant Professor) History -- U.S. history; African American women--s history; women in transnational political movements

Sandra McPherson (Professor) English -- Contemporary American women poets

Jay Mechling (Professor, Chair of American Studies) American Studies -- Men's socialization; masculinities; youth cultures; folklore

Luz Mena (Assistant Professor) Women and Gender Studies -- Cultural geography; Latin American history; ethnic studies; colonial relations

Zoila Mendoza (Associate Professor) Native American Studies -- Dance and performance, particularly of the Peruvian Andes

Susette Min (Assistant Professor) Asian American Studies-- Asian American and African American literature and theater; modern and contemporary art post-1945; visual culture; curatorial studies

Janet Momsen (Professor) Human and Community Development -- Gender and environment; gender and development

Patricia Moran (Professor) English -- 19th and 20th century British women's literature; psychoanalysis and feminism; food and the literature of cooking

Linda Morris (Professor Emerita) English -- 19th and 20th century American literature; women's humor; African American writers

Judith Newton (Professor, Director of Consortium for Women and Research) Women and Gender Studies -- Feminist theory; cultural studies; masculinities

Kimberly Nettles (Assistant Professor) Women and Gender Studies -- Women and social activism; qualitative feminist methodologies; food production and consumption; women in the African Diaspora

Bettina Ng'weno (Assistant Professor) African American and African Studies -- Cultural anthropology; property, states, race and ethnicity; Latin America and Africa

Lorena Oropeza (Associate Professor) History -- ¬Chicana/o history; history of U.S. foreign relations

Rhacel Parrenas (Associate Professor) Asian American Studies -- Gender and migration; globalization and the family

Ana Peluffo (Associate Professor) Spanish and Classics -- 19th and 20th century Latin American women writers; discourses of gender and ethnicity; feminist theory

Beatriz Pesquera (Associate Professor) Chicano/a Studies -- Gender; family; women's labor

Michele Praeger (Professor Emerita) French and Italian -- Women Francophone writers; women's autobiography

Lisa Pruitt (Professor) School of Law -- Feminist legal theory; women and the law

Leslie W. Rabine (Professor Emerita) Women and Gender Studies -- African literature and culture; French literature and culture; feminist theory; fashion studies

Riche Richardson (Associate Professor) English -- African and American literature; critical theory; cultural studies; feminism; geography

Catherine Robson (Associate Professor) English -- Victorian literature and culture; Romanticism; literature and sexuality; imperialism and masculinity

Gloria M. Rodriguez (Assistant Professor) School of Education -- Educational equity status of Latina/o students in the U.S.; social justice leadership in education; school finance using critical, social justice theoretical frameworks

Lynn Roller (Professor, Director of Art History) Art History and Classics -- Women in ancient Mediterranean religion; sexualities in ancient Mediterranean art; ancient background of Orientalism

Suzana Sawyer (Associate Professor) Anthropology -- Culture and power; nation and state; race/class/gender; Amazonia; Ecuador

Seth Schein (Professor) Comparative Literature -- Greek and Roman literature, culture, and thought; gender and interpretation

Juliana Schiesari (Professor) Comparative Literature and Italian -- Gender and Renaissance Studies; posthumanist critical animal studies; feminist theory and psychoanalysis, especially the gendering of melancholy, trauma and mourning

Brenda Schildgen (Professor, Director of Comparative Literature) Comparative Literature -- European Middle Ages, particularly Southern Europe; hermeneutics and interpretive theory; reception theory; the relationship between history and fiction, and narrative theory; late antique Christianity; the medieval vernacular Bible; iconoclasm

Winfried Schleiner (Professor) English -- Early Modern literature; comparative literature; iconography; gender studies; history of medicine

Barbara Sellers-Young (Professor) Theatre and Dance -- Performance studies; cross-cultural performance; movement; acting; directing; Asian theatre

Sudipta Sen (Professor) History -- The social and cultural history of medieval and modern India; history of the British Empire (emphasis on race, gender, and domesticity); colonial state formation; history of criminal law; history of men and masculinity

Jocelyn Sharlet (Assistant Professor) Comparative Literature -- Arabic language literature; Persian literature; Turkish language and Islamic civilization

Kimberlee A. Shauman (Associate Professor) Sociology -- Gender inequality in work and education; sociology of the family

Julia Simon (Professor, Chair French and Italian ) French and Italian -- 18th century French literature and culture; social and political theory; Frankfurt School

Janet Smith (Professor) Anthropology -- Sociolinguistics; language and gender; literacy practices; Japan

Victoria Smith (Professor) Sociology -- Work and industry; gender; corporation; field methods; employee involvement

Eric Smoodin (Professor) American Studies --American film history, 1895-1960; the American film industry; the film audience; the history of film studies as a discipline

Smitri Srinivas (Associate Professor) Anthropology -- ¬ Contemporary religious movements; social and cultural construction of memory; urban cultures; cultures of performance and the body; areas: South Asia and India

Madhavi Sunder (Professor) School of Law -- Law and culture; property; intellectual property; women--s international human rights

Margaret Swain (Associate Adjunct Professor; Director of the Gender and Global Issues Group; Co-Director of the Women--s Resources and Research Center) Women and Gender Studies -- Gender and global issues; ethnic minorities in China

Julie Sze (Assistant Professor) American Studies - race, gender and the environment; urban studies; social movements; urban environmentalism; health and risk

Lenora Timm (Professor) Linguistics -- Language and gender; women's studies; ecofeminism

Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie (Assistant Professor, Director of CN Gorman Museum) Native American Studies -- Native American art; studio arts; photography; film and video; Indigenous and multicultural arts

Patricia Turner (Professor; Vice Provost, Undergraduate Studies) African American and African Studies -- African Americans and popular culture; stereotypes of women of color; folklore

Caroline Kieu Linh Valverde (Assistant Professor) Asian American Studies -- Gender, sexuality, and women in Viet Nam and the Vietnamese diaspora with special focus on technology, cultural production and sociopolitical representation

David Van Leer (Professor) English -- Gay and lesbian film and literature; minority discourse

Heghnar Watenpaugh (Associate Professor) Art History -- Intersection of gender with urban and architectural history, spatial theory in Islamic societies; discourses of "deviance"; colonial/post-colonial

Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo (Professor) Education -- Ethnographic methods and discourse analysis; sociolinguistics; child development and socialization

Martha West (Professor) School of Law -- Employment discrimination; sexual harassment; sex discrimination in higher education

Diane Wolf (Professor) Sociology -- Family; gender and globalization; Southeast Asian immigration and diaspora; Jewish Studies

Julie Wyman (Assistant Professor) Technocultural Studies -- Teaching/research interests forthcoming

Li Zhang (Associate Professor) Anthropology -- Cultural and political anthropology; urban anthropology and migration; city and citizenship; culture and power; postsocialist states; consumer culture; property relations; areas: China, East Asia