Women's and Gender Studies
College of Arts and Sciences

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.

WGS core faculty members and their teaching and research interests

Bethany Barratt, Assistant Professor,
Political Science & Women’s and Gender Studies
PhD, Political Science, University of California, Davis
     International human rights; gender and international relations; rights of
     sexual minorities

Carrie Brecke, Instructor and Director,
Writing Center Women’s and Gender Studies
     Contemporary feminist theories and pedagogy; ecofeminism; literature
     and sexuality

Ann Brigham, Associate Professor and Director,
Women’s and Gender Studies Program English & Women’s and Gender Studies
PhD, English, University of Arizona
     Gender, sexuality, and American popular culture; contemporary feminist
     theories; gender, space and place; 20th and 21st-century American
     women’s literature

Regina Buccola, Associate Professor
English & Women’s and Gender Studies
PhD, English with a concentration in Women’s Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago
     Early modern women’s writing; feminist theater theory; British and American
     20th-century feminist drama

Jeffrey Edwards, Associate Professor
Political Science & Women’s and Gender Studies
PhD, Political Science, University of Minnesota
     Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender and queer
     politics; relationships between sexualities and urban political economy

Ellen O’Brien, Associate Professor
English & Women’s and Gender Studies
PhD, English, University of Connecticut
     Postcolonial and global feminisms; women's poetry and poetics; 19th and      20th-century British literature; cultural representations of gendered crimes      and sexual violence

Pamela Robert, Associate Professor
Sociology & Women’s and Gender Studies
PhD, Sociology, University at Albany, SUNY
     Medicalization of the life course; gender, power, and the body; disability
     theory; sociology of health, illness and medicine

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.