faculty
Kadji Amin
Research Interests: queer studies, queer historiography and
temporality, affect studies, literary modernism,
transgender
studies,
and French cultural studies.
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Mary Jo Bona
Professor and Chair of WGSS
Professor and Chair of WGSS
PhD, English, UW-Madison
Research Interests: multiethnic American literature/culture,
Italian American literature/culture, women's literature and feminist theory, theories
of narrativity, theories of ethnicity/migration/diaspora.
Ritch Calvin
Associate Professor and
Director of Undergraduate Studies
PhD, Comparative Literature, Stony Brook
Research Interests: f
eminist theory, Latina
literature
and
culture, Latina feminisms,
feminist science
fiction, reproductive technologies.
Lisa Diedrich
Professor
PhD, WGSS, Emory University
Research Interests: critical medical studies, disability studies, feminist theories,
interdisciplinary methods.
Melissa M. Forbis
Assistant Professor
PhD, Social
Anthropology, UT-Austin
Research Interests: transnational feminist gender theories, indigenous rights, race/ethnicity, social
movements, Mexico and Latin America, feminist ethnography.
Victoria Hesford
Associate Professor & Director of Grad Studies
Associate Professor & Director of Grad Studies
PhD, American Studies, Emory University
Research Interests: gender, sexuality, queer and feminist theory, U.S. queer and
feminist history, popular and mass culture in the postwar era, and critical theory.
Nancy Hiemstra
Assistant Professor
PhD, Geography, Syracuse University
Research Interests: global migration, migration policy-making, immigration enforcement
practices, 'homeland security' at the scales of home and community, processes of
racialization, constructions of borders and sovereignty, Latin America, and feminist
epistemology and methodologies.
E. Ann Kaplan
Distinguished Professor
PhD, Comparative Literature, Rutgers
Research Interests: contemporary theory, world cinema, media, and gender; trauma,
ethnicity, and memory studies; humanities for the environment.
Liz Montegary
Assistant Professor
PhD, Cultural Studies, UC Davis
Research Interests: feminist and queer theory; transnational American studies; LGBT/queer
activism; travel, tourism, and mobility studies; cultural studies of militarization.
Teri Tiso
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Research interests: sociology of bodies, the social issues of health, gender, sport.