Women's and Gender Studies Core Faculty
Women's and Gender Studies

Undergraduate and graduate students work closely with dedicated multidisciplinary core faculty to develop knowledge of women’s and gender studies theories and methods through an investigation of the issues, questions, and tasks deemed central to feminist inquiry.

Carrie Brecke
Instructor, English & Women’s and Gender Studies and Writing Center Director

MA, University of Illinois at Chicago

http://faculty.roosevelt.edu/Brecke/
Contemporary feminist theories and pedagogy; ecofeminism; activism; gender, sexuality, and literature; literature and politics of LGBT communities

WGS Related Courses:

• WGS 210 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies

• WGS 304/404 Gender, Race, and Environmental Justice

• WGS 495 Internship in Feminist & Critical Pedagogy at the Writing Center

• WGS 404 Feminist Theories of the Body

• WGS 304/404 Feminist Theories of Violence                          

Ann Brigham
Associate Professor, English & Women’s and Gender Studies and

Women's and Gender Studies Program Director
PhD, English, University of Arizona

http://faculty.roosevelt.edu/Brigham/

Gender, sexuality, and American culture; contemporary feminist theories; gender, space and place; 20th and 21st-century American women’s literature

WGS Related Courses:

• ENG 328/428 Gender & the Politics of Mobility in 20th-century Fiction

• WGS 402 Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies

• WGS 404 Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Culture

• WGS 404 Gender, Sexuality, and Space

Regina Buccola
Associate Professor, English & Women’s and Gender Studies
PhD, English, concentration in Women’s Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago

http://faculty.roosevelt.edu/Buccola/

Feminist performance; early modern women's writing; feminist theatre theory; British and American 20th-century feminist drama

WGS Related Courses:

• ENG 310/410 Early Modern Women Writers

• WGS 304/404 Feminist Theories of Performance                     

Jeffrey Edwards
Associate Professor, Political Science & Women’s and Gender Studies and Political Science and Public Administration Department Chair
PhD, Political Science, University of Minnesota

http://faculty.roosevelt.edu/Edwards/
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer politics; relationships between sexualities and urban political economy

WGS Related Courses:

• POS 312/412 The Politics of Lesbian and Gay Communities

• POS 367/467 Social Movements

• WGS 404 Feminist Theories of Identity Politics

Marjorie Jolles

Assistant Professor, Women's and Gender Studies

PhD, Philosophy, concentration in Women's Studies, Temple University

http://faculty.roosevelt.edu/Jolles/

Feminist philosophy, with emphasis on theories of subjectivity,
agency, the body, and ethics; media and cultural studies; sexuality
studies

WGS Related Courses:

• WGS 210 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies

• WGS 304/404 Global Feminist Ethics

• WGS 404 Feminism and Western Philosophy

• WGS 404 The Body: Agency, Pain, Desire

• WGS 495 Internship in Teaching Women's and Gender Studies

Ellen O’Brien
Associate Professor, English & Women’s and Gender Studies
PhD, English, University of Connecticut

http://faculty.roosevelt.edu/OBrien/
Postcolonial feminism; global feminism; women's poetry and poetics; 19th and 20th-century British literature; cultural representations of gendered crimes and sexual violence

WGS Related Courses:

• ENG 315/415 Contemporary Irish Women's Literature

• ENG 342/442 Imagining Terror

• WGS 210 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies

• WGS 404 Comparative Feminisms: India, Morocco, and the United States

In addition to working closely with these dedicated core WGS faculty, students may also study with over 15 additional affiliated faculty members throughout the university.