faculty 

  kadji   Kadji Amin
 A ssistant Professor
 PhD, Romance Studies, Duke University
  Research Interests: queer studies, queer historiography and        
  temporality, affect studies, literary modernism,  transgender
  studies, and French cultural studies.
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mary jo
 
 Mary Jo Bona
 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
 
 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  
 Lisa Diedrich
 Professor
 PhD, WGSS, Emory University 
 Research Interests: critical medical studies, disability studies,  feminist theories, interdisciplinary methods.                         
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
melissa
 
 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. 
 

 

 

 

 

vicky
 
 Victoria Hesford
 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 
 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. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
ann
 
 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. 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
lizzz
 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
 
 Teri Tiso
 Associate Professor
 Research interests: sociology of bodies, the social issues of  health, gender, sport.                                                                    
  
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