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Mary Jo Bona
Distinguished Professor
Distinguished Professor
PhD, English, UW-Madison
Research Interests: Feminist theories and literatures; feminist and queer narrative
theories; multi- ethnic American literary cultures; Italian American/Italian diasporic
literary and cultural studies; diaspora/migration/critical race theories.
Ritch Calvin
Associate Professor
Graduate Program Director
PhD, Comparative Literature, Stony Brook
Research Interests: feminist 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.
Victoria Hesford
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
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
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
PhD, Geography, Syracuse University
Research Interests: global migration, immigration enforcement practices, detention
and deportation, homeland security, borders, gender, race, Latin America, feminist
epistemology and methodologies
Cristina Silva
Assistant Professor
PhD, Sociology, University of Connecticut
Research Interests: feminist methodologies, sexualities, race/ethnic studies, body/embodiment,
Latina/o/x studies, qualitative methods, sex work, and women of color feminisms
Liz Montegary
Associate Professor & Chair of WGSS
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.