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Dr. Jeannie Ludlow
Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of Women's Studies
Office: 3139 - Coleman Hall
Phone: 217-581-5947
Email: jludlow@eiu.edu
http://castle.eiu.edu/~wsminor/index.htm
Jeannie Ludlow's Vita
Office Hours: M 1-3 pm; T 10 am-noon; W 1-2 pm
Frequently Taught Courses
WST 2309G Women, Men, and Culture
WST 4309 Feminist Theory
Education
Ph.D. American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University, Ohio
Professional Organizations
National Women’s Studies Association
International Society for the Study of Narrative Literature
Multiethnic Literatures of the U.S. (MELUS)
NARAL Pro-Choice American National Foundation Board
Abortion Conversation Project National Board
Abortion Care Network
Speakers Bureau
For more information, please visit the Speakers Bureau Webpage.
Diversity—racial, ethnic, gender, and sexual diversity; anti-racist activism; LGBTQ rights; making your group more open to diversity; social power and privilege SAMPLE PRESENTATION TITLES: LGBT Issues in the Classroom; Cultural Stereotypes and Privilege; Strategies for Including Diversity Across the Curriculum; Anti-Racism in Daily Life; My Roommate is Gay! What Do I Do Now?
Education—dealing with difficult social topics (e.g., racism, abortion, homophobia) in the classroom; handling student resistance in the classroom; diversifying curricula; adding experiential learning (service learning, role playing, etc.) to your curriculum SAMPLE PRESENTATION TITLES: “This Class Is Bullshit!”: Student Resistance, Teacher Authority, and Negotiations of Power; LGBT Issues in the Classroom; Strategies for Including Diversity Across the Curriculum
Environment/Going Green—ecofeminism; vegetarianism as a green choice; the environmental impact of the idealization of beauty SAMPLE PRESENTATION TITLES: What Is Ecofeminism, and Why Is It Important?; What’s in Your Makeup, and Why Don’t You Know about It?
Health—abortion and reproductive health (both historically and currently); eating disorders; women’s health activism; the politics of cosmetic surgery; health effects of family violence SAMPLE PRESENTATION TITLES: What Really Happens in the Abortion Clinic?; Reclaiming ‘the Things We Cannot Say’: Toward a New Abortion Discourse; Abortion History and Law in the U.S.; Why Pro-Choice and Pro-Life Are Both Wrong; Menstrual History and Activism; What to Do if Your Roommate Has an Eating Disorder
Research
Reproduction and abortion in literature, art, and culture
Multicultural American Literatures
Native American Literatures
Publications
“Love and Goodness: Toward a New Abortion Politics” in Feminist Studies 38.2 (Summer 2012).
“Ecofeminism and Experiential Learning: Taking the Risks of Activism Seriously” Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy (peer-reviewed), special issue on Teaching Earth, 21.1 (2010): 42-59.
“Papa’s Baby, Mama’s . . . Papa?: Toward a Faux Gestational History” in Specs (peer-reviewed) Issue 2 (Fall, 2009).
“Sometimes It’s a Child and a Choice: Toward an Embodied Abortion Praxis” in NWSAJ: National Women’s Studies Association Journal (refereed), vol. 19, no. 1, Spring, 2008.
“The Things We Cannot Say: Witnessing the Trauma-tization of Abortion in the United States” in WSQ: Witness (refereed), vol. 36, nos. 1 & 2, Spring/Summer, 2008.
“Students’ Perceptions of Instructors’ Identities: Effects and Interventions,” co-authored with Dr. Laurie Rodgers and Ms. Mary Wrighten, in Academic Exchange Extra (refereed), March, 2005.
“From Safe Space to Contested Space in the Feminist Classroom” in Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy (peer-reviewed), Spring, 2004.
Conference Presentations
“String of Pearls: In/appropriate Motherhood in Parks’ Red Letter Plays” Louisville Conference 2013
“Misopolis: Doing the Abortion Three-Step" NWSA 2012
“Intimacy and Occupation: Abortion, Gestation, and Colonization in Contemporary American Literature” Louisville Conference 2012
“Healing Words (and Deeds): Women’s Studies at the Abortion Clinic” NWSA 2011
“From ‘First Ever Masturbate-athon!’ to ‘Third Annual Sex-Positive Fair’: Deploying and Disarming Queer Feminism” NWSA 2011
“Divine Matters: Abortion and Spiritual Activism in Contemporary Multiethnic Fiction by Women” ALA 2011
“Abortion Is a Women’s Rite: Spirituality and Abortion in Ethnic American Women’s Literature” Louisville 2011
Funding & Grants
Mary Lily Travel Grant, awarded for research at the Sally Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture at Duke University, for summer, 2009.
Community
Abortion Conversation Project, National Board member, 2010-present
NARAL/Pro-Choice America National Foundation Board member, 2010-2013
SACIS (Sexual Assault Counseling and Information Service) board member, Charleston, IL, 2009-present
Board President, 2009-10, 2012-13; Fundraising Committee; The Vagina Monologues planning board, 2012
