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
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
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
Affiliated Staff
Scott Burden
Brooke DeSipio
Emeriti Faculty
Lucy Gans
Former Louis and Jane P. Weinstock '36 Chair in Art and Architecture
Focus Areas: Sculpture, drawing