Provost Professor, Gender Studies
Director, College Arts and Humanities Institute
Jean C. Robinson Scholar, Gender Studies
Affiliate Faculty, American Studies
Affiliate Faculty, Center for the Research of Race and Ethnicity in Society
Affiliate Faculty, Cultural Studies
Affiliate Faculty, English
Affiliate Faculty, The Kinsey Institute
Affiliate Faculty, The Media School
My work engages with a wide archive of mostly discredited cultural texts, including non-canonical 19th-century transatlantic women's literature and contemporary media, specifically literature, film, and television. As it relates to these texts I have particular interest in how identity is discursively gendered, constructed, and embodied through written and mediated means, as well as how gender, sex, sexuality, race, and class work together to inform notions of the "normative" self. Celebrity, masculinity, and American religious cultures have become important themes, offering a framework for coherency across the many modalities in which I work.
*For a full list of publications, see CV above.
G101: Gender, Culture, and Society
G225: Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Culture
H299: Gender, Representation, and Reality TV
H300: Honors Colloquium on the Body
G304: The Construction of Masculinities: A Survey of Manhood in the American Imagination from the 1950s Forward
G310: Representation and the Body
G402: A Fascination with Fame: Gender and the Culture of Celebrity
G485: Gender and Discourse
CS601/AMST620/GS701: Cultural Studies, the Body, and Theories of Embodiment
G602/CS701: The Gendered Politics of Cultural Production and Criticism: Discredited Genres, Unruly Peoples, and Wayward Acts
G603: Contemporary Debates in Feminist Theory
G701/CS701: Gender, Media, and the Politics of Celebrity
G708: Contested Masculinities
G714: Gender, Race, and Media
G780: Gender Studies Professionalism
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