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Winter 2020 Course -
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WST 392: Race & Disability in Contemporary Culture
This course critically examines the entanglements of race and disability in present-day
culture and society. Students will attend closely to race and disability, both as
categories of identity and “tropes of human disqualification,” paying especial attention
to the way disability operates in the production of Black, Latinx, and Asian American
identities and communities. The class will draw on works from a variety of genres
and disciplines, including literature, film, television, graphic narrative, and cultural
criticism, to explore the role of representation in the imagining of racial otherness
and embodied difference. Key works we will consider include: Arturo Islas’
The Rain God; Ramy Youssef’s
Ramy; Jaime Cortez’s
Sexile; Sami Shalk’s
Bodyminds Reimagined; Patrick Devlieger‘s
The Disabling Bullet; David Eng's
Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation;
and Caleb Luna’s “On Being Fat, Brown, Femme, Ugly, and Unlovable.”
News and Announcements
Follow the WGSS Department:
Check out the
WGSS Spring 2020 Newsletter!
Includes Commencement Highlights with invited graduation speaker, Rose Berktas,
Undergraduate Alumni in the Spotlight (Maureen Ahmed '11 and Sophia Pierre-Antoine
'13), Interview with New Facutly, Cristina Khan, and more!
Congratulations to all of our Dec '19 WGSS graduates! Check out this
great piece
on one of our outstanding graduating majors, Olivia Garrison!
“Each day, my WGSS courses left me feeling empowered, and more importantly, like
I was learning something worthwhile."
Congrats, Olivia - we are so proud of you!
PhD Student,
Val Moyer
, has received a Guiliano Global Fellowship from Stony Brook to support her travel
to the Olympic Studies Centre in Switzerland
where she will do ethnographic and archival work for a dissertation chapter on "Regulating
Hormones in International Women's Track and Field." Congrats, Val!
Congratulations to PhD student,
Shruti Mukherjee
, on her recent collaborative work, "Geographies of Occupation in South Asia."
South Asian feminists rethinking nation-states through the lens of occupation.
We have decided to no longer require GREs as part of the application for the PhD &
MA programs in WGSS.
There is much evidence that GREs are not good predictors of academic success. We join
a growing number of programs eliminating the GREs.
#GRExit
WGSS faculty member Cristina Khan publishes:
Constructring Eroticized Latinidad: Negotiating Profitability in the Stripping Industry
in Gender & Society.
Rachel Corbman's dissertation, "Conferencing on the Edge: A Queer History of Feminist
Field Formation, 1969-89," was selected as a finalist for the ASA's Ralph Henry Gabriel
Prize!
Congrats, Rachel!
WGSS welcomes its newest faculty member, Dr. Cristina Khan! Cristina received her PhD in Sociology with a graduate certificate in Feminist Studies
from the University of Connecticut in 2019. Her research and teaching interests include:
feminist methodologies, sexualities, race/ethnic studies, body/embodiment, Latina/o/x
studies, qualitative methods, sex work, and women of color feminisms.
Get to know Cristina by reading more here!
Professor Lisa Diedrich is awarded the 2019 Outstanding Provost's Mentor Award. Congratulations, Lisa!
WGSS celebrates its very first PhD gradute, Rachel Corbman! Rachel successfully defended her thesis, "Conferencing on the Edge: A Queer History
of Feminist Field Formation, 1969-1989" and accepted a position as
Visiting Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University
- congrats, Rachel!
Academics
UNDERGRADUATE
The department offers a Bachelor of Arts, Minor, and Combined Undergraduate Degree
with a Master in Public Health (MPH).
Undergraduate Degree (BA)
Combined Undergraduate Degree (BA/MPH)
GRADUATE
The department offers a PhD and MA in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, as well
as a Graduate Certificate.
*GREs No Longer Required!*
PhD Program
MA Program
Graduate Certificate