COURSES AY 2020-2021

Fall 2020 – NONE

 

Winter 2021

WGS 311: Black Feminist Theories

This course provides a concentrated engagement with key texts and concepts shaping Black Feminist and Womanist theory and praxis. This year, we will focus on Black women in the U.S. and the ways in which Black women have articulated freedom and sovereignty for the past 150 years.

 

WGS 451/551: Global Issues and Perspectives

Designed to deepen understanding of diverse global issues and perspectives related to women’s and gender studies. Repeatable twice when topic changes for a maximum of 12 credits. This year, we will engage in a deep engagement with the works of feminist and LGBT/queer scholars, activists and artists OUTSIDE of the U.S. – in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East.

 

Spring 2021

WGS 251: Transnational & Indigenous Feminisms

Introductory survey of transnational and Indigenous feminist scholarship, two intersecting strains of feminism that address the workings of culture, nationalism, and gender in multiple contexts. Explores cross-section of key issues and perspectives using interdisciplinary lenses and methodologies employed by scholars in transnational and Indigenous studies.

 

WGS 410/510: Performance Ethnographies

Performance Ethnographies is a methods course that engages with the processes, principles and practices of the Jazz Aesthetic as theorized by Joni L. Jones,  in combination with critical ethnographic methods, specifically auto-ethnography. The question guiding this course is: What does it take to shape an ethnography – a story about your own or someone else’s life – that lives in the body? Participants in this course will practice deep listening, story-telling, and performance.

 

Office Hours
My office hours are listed on my course syllabi and by contacting the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies office (541.346-5529). Otherwise, I  set up office hours by appointment. If you’d like to set up an appointment, please send me a message through Canvas, or use the contact form on this website.