Research Areas: Social inequality, race, gender, work, family and well-being
Faculty
Suzanne Edwards
Research Areas: Medieval and Early Modern Literature; Gender and Sexuality; Manuscript, Print, and Archival Scholarship; Digital and Public Humanities; Feminist and Queer Theory; Medievalism
Mary Foltz
Director of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
Research Areas: Post-45 U.S. literature, queer fiction and theory, feminist theory, environmental crises, and public humanities
Lyam Gabel
Focus Areas: Acting, directing, performance-maker, community organization
Michael Kramp
Research Areas: Men and masculinity; Jane Austen; critical theory, with an emphasis on the relationships between nation, gender, and race; visual culture, specifically film and early photography
Jenna Lay
Research Areas: Gender and sexuality; literature and religion; medieval and early modern literature; manuscript, print, and archival scholarship
Danielle Lindemann
Research Areas: Gender, Sexuality, Culture, Deviance, Work
Monica Najar
Research Areas: History of US Women and Gender, Sexuality in the U.S., History of U.S. Religion, The Early American Republic
Holona Ochs
Research Areas: Public policy; nonprofit administration and social entrepreneurship; Research methods
Vera Stegmann
Director of Film and Documentary Studies Program
Research Areas: Modern German literature, culture, and film; aesthetics of music and the arts
Nobuko Yamasaki
Research Areas: literature, film, and art from the perspectives of gender & sexuality, affect & trauma theories, and memory & history
Yuping Zhang
Research Areas: Sociology of education, gender and inequality in labor market
Emeriti Faculty
Lucy Gans
Former Louis and Jane P. Weinstock '36 Chair in Art and Architecture
Focus Areas: Sculpture, drawing