Visiting Lecturers & Associate Instructors

 Ms. Jennifer Shaw

Jennifer Shaw is a lecturer in Gender Studies at IU. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Women’s Studies at Emory University and has been a visiting assistant professor both at Emory and The Ohio State University.

 Her teaching and research interests include visual culture, feminism and science, critical theory and sexuality studies. She has forthcoming publications in ThirdText and Body & Society. Her current work examines the impact of anatomical illustrations on the modernization of pregnancy and reproduction.

Associate Instructors

 Ms. Laura Harrison   lbh@indiana.edu

Laura Harrison areas of interest address gender, sexuality and the family; representations of motherhood in the mass media and US popular culture; race, class and the body. She is looking forward to teaching GNDR G 101 in the 2007-08 school year for our department.

Ms. Sarah Rowley   srowley@indiana.edu

Sarah Rowley is a double PhD major in Gender Studies and History.  Her current areas of interest are: 19th and 20th century American history of gender and sexuality; first-wave feminism;  black women in American history;  the mutual constitution of ideologies of race and gender, especially in terms of borders as cites of contestation and renegotiation; and women's clubs. She is teaching GNDR G 101 this coming fall and spring.

Mr. Bradley Lane bhlane@indiana.edu

Bradley Lane's teaching and research focuses on feminist theory; queer theory; contemporary representations of LGBT identity across media; gender, sexuality and pedagogy.  He recently taught a class at IU entitled:   "Acting Queer: Gender, Sexuality and Contemporary Drama."   He will be serving as an Associate Instructor again this fall and spring teaching GNDR G 101.

Ms. Cierra Olivia Thomas-Williams cthomasw@indiana.edu

Cierra Olivia Thomas-Williams is a doctoral student in Gender Studies with a minor in African American and African Diaspora Studies.  Her areas of interest are the representations of women of color in media; critical feminist race theories; transnational feminisms as they intersect with theories of diaspora.  Cierra taught discussion sections of G102 Sexual Politics in Spring 2008 and is teaching G104 Representing Black Women in Popular Culture this Fall and is teaching GNDR G101 this Spring.

Ms. Stacy Weida   sweida@indiana.edu

Stacy Weida is a doctoral student in Gender Studies with a minor in progress focusing on American Studies.  Her areas of interest include textual representations of the sexed and gendered body, especially the ways in which texts are used by institutions to formulate class-based appeals and to forge ideological solidarities among disfranchised groups;  religious discourse;  feminist theory and activism in a global and transnational context. Stacy successfully taught this past summer a new course, "Rethinking the Gendered Body.   She is teaching GNDR G 101 this coming academic year.

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