Victoria Crump

vcrump@indiana.edu

Admitted: 2009

 

Hollins University (Roanoke, VA)
*BA in English (creative writing concentration) and Women's Studies
*Masters in Liberal Studies (Interdisciplinary concentration)
*Certificate of Advanced Studies (in Gender and the Arts)

Victoria Crump is originally from Roanoke, Virginia. She graduated magna cum laude with a BA in English (creative writing concentration) and Women's Studies from Hollins University. She also earned a Masters in Liberal Studies (Interdisciplinary concentration), and a Certificate of Advanced Studies (in Gender and the Arts) from her alma mater. In 2008, Victoria was a presenter at the University of South Dakota's Women’s Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Conference: Women and Power. Her essay from this conference was published in the Summer 2009 edition of the South Dakota Review.

In the broadest sense, her academic research and interests focus on the intersectionalities of gender, sex, and sexuality with race and class. Past research includes the marginalization of Female to Male Transsexuals of color, butch and femme aesthetics (and the political and feminist debates therein,) and lesbian health and its relationship to homophobia and physician-patient communication. Anything involving transgender studies, butch/femme, female masculinity, feminism(s), race, (subverting) gender roles, and merging modern popular culture with gender and women's studies immediately captures her attention. 

South Dakota Review: Summer 2008