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Jeannie Ludlow earned her Ph.D. in American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University in Ohio with a dissertation on poetry by Native American women and feminist and critical race critiques. She is the new Coordinator of the Women’s Studies Program at EIU, where she will teach Women, Men and Culture, Feminist Theory, and the WST Internship. Courses she has taught in the past include Theories of Othered Bodies, Ecofeminist Lit and Theory, and Reproductive Health and Politics. In addition to her academic work, Professor Ludlow has worked many years at a women’s clinic. Her current scholarship focuses on U.S. abortion praxis and politics. You may e-mail Dr. Ludlow at jludlow@eiu.edu.
Melissa Ames is an Assistant Professor in the English Department specializing in media studies, television scholarship, popular culture, and feminist theory. She teaches courses in these fields, as well as in composition and English education. She earned her Ph.D. in 20th Century American Literature & Culture from Wayne State University in 2007. Her doctoral work and other research projects have been published in a variety of anthologies and journals, ranging in topic from Television Study, New Media, and Fandom to American Literature and Feminist Art. Her most recent publications include book length projects: Feminism, Postmodernism, and Affect: An Unlikely Love Triangle in Women’s Media (2008) & Women & Language: The Gendering of Gossip, Talk, & Communication Practices Across Media (2011), as well as chapters in Grace Under Pressure: Grey’s Anatomy Uncovered (2008), Writing the Digital Generation (2009), and Bitten by Twilight: Youth Culture, Media, and the Vampire Franchise (2010).
Dagni Bredesen teaches in EIU's English Department. Her research and teaching interests include 19th century British studies, post-colonialism, and gender, law and literature. Her scholarly work reflects her feminist commitments as in two recently published articles “'What's a Woman to Do?': Managing Money and Manipulating Fictions in Trollope’s Can You Forgive Her? and The Eustace Diamonds” (Victorian Review) and “Conformist Subversion: Ambivalent Agency in Revelations of a Lady Detective" (Clues: A Journal of Detection). She has a book project on the go: Over His Dead Body: Widows in Victorian Literature and Culture and is also working with Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints to produce new editions of two 1864 texts featuring the first female detectives in British Fiction: Andrew Forrester's The Female Detective and W.S. Hayward's Revelations of a Lady Detective. Dr. Bredesen is currently chair of EIU's International Programs Advisory Committee. She has led study abroad programs for Eastern students to both Cape Town, South Africa (2003, 2005, 2007) and Harlaxton College in Grantham, England (2006).
Julie D. Campbell is Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies Faculty at Eastern Illinois University. Her areas of study are Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature with a specialization in the works of Continental and English women writers. She is the editor and translator of Isabella Andreini's pastoral tragicomedy, La Mirtilla (2002) and the author of Literary Circles and Gender in Early Modern Europe (2006). She has contributed work to Women Players in England, 1500-1660 (2005), Reading Early Women (2004), and the Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance (2007). She has published articles pertaining to early modern women in such journals as Shakespeare Yearbook, Renaissance Studies, Women's Writing, and Blackwell's Literature Compass. She is also a contributor to the Brown Women Writers Project.
Linda Coleman, Professor of English and Women's Studies, regularly teaches courses in composition, eighteenth-century literature, the novel, life-writing, women's literature, and feminist theory. She is author of several textbooks, including an advanced composition rhetoric and reader, Professional and Public Writing, and regularly reviews manuscripts and books on gender-related topics for The Journal of American Culture. Her current project is a cultural studies thematic freshman English reader to be titled Voices at the Boundaries.
Dr. Janet Cosbey (Ph.D., University of Akron) is an Associate Professor of Sociology with a background in social work as an administrator of social service programs. She received training in sociology and gerontology and teaches family and society, gender roles and social change, introduction to sociology, social problems and a graduate class in sociological aspects of gerontology. She is a member of the Women’s Studies faculty and also teaches for the MA in Gerontology Program. Her current research interests include the scholarship of teaching and learning, family caregiving and gender differences in the retirement experience.
Jonelle DePetro specializes in ethical theory, value theory, and feminist philosophy. She received her B.A. in Philosophy from Northern Michigan University, and her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Arizona.
Dr. Sace Elder received her PhD in Modern European History from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 2002. A specialist in modern German history, her research interests include criminal violence and urban culture in the Weimar period and the discourses of domestic violence after the First World War. Her publications include "Murder, Denunciation, and Criminal Policing in Weimar," in the Journal of Contemporary History (2006). She is currently researching a book project on the history of child abuse and the child protectionist movement in Germany from the late nineteenth century to the end of the Nazi period. Dr. Elder teaches courses on world history, modern German history, the history of World War I, and the history of women and gender in modern Europe. She is also a member Women's History and Awareness Month planning committee and the Council on Graduate Studies and is the coordinator of the History Department Honors Program.
Marita Gronnvoll:Marita Gronnvoll is an assistant professor of rhetoric in the Department of Communication Studies. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Georgia, and her M.A. and B.A. from the University of Washington. Her research interests include the ways in which gender is implicated in media framing of torture in the “war on terrorism.” Her publications include a research essay entitled “Gender (In)Visibility at Abu Ghraib,” and a book in the works based on her dissertation, Engendering Torture: The Cultural Politics of Gender and Torture. She is currently working on a project that examines media discourses surrounding Arab female suicide bombers. She teaches classes that concentrate on rhetorical criticism and theory, visual rhetoric, and gender and feminist theory.
Ruth Hoberman: My current research: I'm working on a book called Museum Trouble: Narratives of Conflict in the Edwardian Museum. It deals with British fiction written between 1890 and 1915 in which museums and art objects play important roles. These are the years during which the "New Woman" was insisting on her right to an education, a profession, and a vote. I deal with--among other things--the ways women used the museum to further their claim for a role in public life.
Dr. Eunseong Kim has been an Assistant Professor in the department of Journalism at Eastern Illinois University since fall 2006. She teaches Women and the Media (JOU3903) every other semester, in addition to Journalism & Democracy (JOU2001) and Minorities and the Media (JOU3951). While her primary research focus is on the on the implications of new communication technologies on political and civic life and on journalism, she also investigates the representation of women and minorities in the media. Linda Leal: As a developmental psychologist, I am interested in how children develop their understanding of gender and how gender influences how individuals develop, reason, respond, and problem solve throughout their lifetime.
Daiva Markelis received her doctorate from the University of Illinois at Chicago in Language, Literacy, and Rhetoric. Her dissertation deals with the literacy habits and oral traditions of Lithuanian immigrants; chapters have been published in the journals Written Communication and Lituanus and in the edited volumes Ethnolinguistic Chicago and Letters across Borders. Her master’s degree is from the Program for Writers, also at UIC. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in The Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, Writing on the Edge, Women and Language, The Chicago Reader, Mattoid, and The Fourth River. Her short stories have been published in The Cream City Review and Other Voices. She teaches courses in creative writing, composition and rhetoric, and myth and culture.
Janet T. Marquardt, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 1986; Professor, Art History, EIU (1986-present); Visual Arts Department Chair, University of South Florida 1992-1994; Visiting professor Centre d'Études Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale, University of Poitiers, Spring 2006; member research team for French patrimony ‘Territoires, Pouvoirs, Identités’, University of Avignon, 2008-2011. Dual research foci on contemporary women in art and medieval art historiography. Her textbook, Frames of Reference: Art, History, and the World (2005), reorganized the art history survey course into cross-cultural and cross-chronological themes. An NEH senior fellowship helped fund From Martyr to Monument: The Abbey of Cluny as Cultural Patrimony (2007), investigating the story of Cluny between 1800 and 1950. She is currently studying the Zodiaque series of books on Romanesque art published by the monks at La-Pierre-qui-Vire between 1951 and 2001 and its relationship to twentieth-century notions of a sacred art revival. Among other positions, Marquardt is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Center for Medieval Art, and the Committee on Women in the Arts for the College Art Association, for which she has worked to introduce awareness of the theoretical advances feminism has provided for scholars into areas other than those directly concerning women as topics. The final panel in a series she organized to explore this topic at annual national meetings will be "Pan-Feminism: The Dispersal of a Critical Attitude" planned for 2009 in Los Angeles. Marquardt received the EIU Woman of Achievement Award in 2004.
Melanie Mills joined the faculty at EIU in 1985. In addition to teaching gender issues in Communication Studies courses, she has taught "Women, Men & Culture" and the "Changing World of Women" Senior Seminar for the Women's Studies Program. She is a past coordinator of the Women's Advocacy Council and is actively involved with women's issues in the community through work with Women Connected (a philanthropic giving circle that has granted nearly $100,000 for local health programs), Girl Scouts, League of Women Voters, the SACIS advisory board, WHAM programming and the Living History program in the local schools. She is currently working on an edited book about Women's Work, a look at feminized work cultures, women doing traditionally male jobs, and women's ways of working.
Dr. Chris Mitchell has taught theatre history and literature in EIU's Department of Theatre Arts since 2001 and has been an affiliated faculty with the EIU Women's Studies Program since 2004. He directs and serves as dramaturg for university theatre productions. Among his primary research interests are the plays of August Strindberg and feminist theatre; he has published both nationally and internationally in those areas. He serves as editor of "Theatre Southwest," a regional scholarly journal of theatre history/theory/criticism. Dr. Mitchell is currently a member of the Women's Studies Program's Executive Committee.
Letitia Lehua Moffitt was born and raised in Hawaii. She teaches fiction writing and literature, with a particular interest in multicultural women writers. Her stories have been published in various journals including Black Warrior Review, Aux Arc Review, Jabberwock Review, and The MacGuffin; she has also published poetry in Dos Passos Review and literary criticism in Critique. She received a BA in English from UC Berkeley, an MA in English and Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, and a PhD in English and Creative Writing from Binghamton University.
Robin Murray teaches course in film and literature, English education, and multicultural American literature. Her research and service interests are in ecocriticism and film studies, women's studies, and composition theory and practice. Her written book, On The Edge: Ecology and Popular Cinema, with Joe Heumann is forthcoming in 2008. She is currently revising a book manuscript entitled, Shootout at the Eco-Corral: Western Film and the Environment, and is drafting a book on environmental animated features. Her work has appeared in Film Quarterly, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, Jump Cut, and other film and literary journals. She wrote a proposal that was successful in bringing a National Writing Project site to Eastern's campus to serve teachers and students in the region.
Kathleen O'Rourke: Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the School of Family and Consumer Sciences and a Women's Studies faculty member since 2001. Dr. O'Rourke teaches Women in Contemporary Society (FCS 2831). Research interests include: young adult females' disclosure and reporting of sexual assault; portrayal of older adult women and men in children's literature; prevalence and types of aggressive behavior exhibited by consumer shoppers.
Jyoti Panjwani's areas of teaching and research include third world literature and feminism, post-colonial theory and literature, non-western cultural studies, and Asian mythology. Her articles on Indian post-colonial feminism have been published in such journals as Comparative Civilizations Review: Journal of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations, Publications of the Illinois Philological Association, and Proceedings of the Red River Conference on World Literature. She has translated Nabarun Bhattacharya's postcolonial Bengali novel Herbert into English and her English translation of Popati Hiranandani's autobiography The Golden and Silver Pages of My Life is forthcoming.
Barbara Poole, Professor of Political Science, teaches courses in gender politics, the congress, the presidency and American government. She conducts research on women and politics and the presidency. Her publications include chapters in U.S .Women’s Groups: Institutional Profiles and Engaging the Public: How the Government and Media Can Reinvigorate American Democracy, and Debating the Presidency. Her current research focuses on the role played by women’s interest groups in the 2008 presidential election.
Debra A. Reid focuses her research efforts on rural, minority history. This allows her to cover such wide-ranging topics as interpreting gender in historic house museums, women's work in canning centers in Texas, and the family-based agricultural practices of Anabaptists in central Illinois. On-going research projects includes a study of a progressive farmer in Texas during the Civil War and an analysis of Illinois Mennonite farmers and livestock breeding practices between the 1920s and 1950s. She has taught women's history at EIU and also incorporates women's and gender history into her other undergraduate and graduate course offerings.
Jad Smith specializes in Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature, and in literary and cultural theory. He has published essays in ELH, Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, and other journals. His essay "Charity Schools and Reform: The Spectacle of 'Christian Entertainment'" will appear in the forthcoming edited collection The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England. His book project focuses on childhood and social reform during the early eighteenth century, with particular emphasis on prose satire and the novel.
Carol Stevens’s (emeritus) areas of teaching and research interest include 16th- and 17th- century British literature; children's literature; Women's studies, myth and culture; and speculative and utopian fiction. Her scholarly writing has appeared in such journals as Femspec, Children's Literature Review, and Utopian Studies. She has also refereed articles for Femspec and for Utopian Studies.
Angela Vietto studies and teaches colonial and Revolutionary American literature, with interests in gender studies and publishing history. She is author of Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America (2006) and associate editor of Early American Writings (2003). Her current research focuses on gender, writing style, and writing instruction in eighteenth-century America. She is also a program member in Women's Studies and academic adviser in English.
Jean Wolski has written several plays for children and has toured shows throughout the Midwest. She has served on the editorial boards for YOUTH THEATRE JOURNAL and STAGE OF THE ART and is collaborating on a text in the area of Youth Theatre. Her specialization in. the field of acting is in voice and movement, incorporating her degree in music with training in dance. She is currently serving as editor for ATME NEWS, a publication of the Association of Theatre Movement Educators. In addition to teaching, Dr. Wolski has directed and/or choreographed several productions, including BRIGADOON and TWELFTH NIGHT.
Marjorie Worthington received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Dartmouth College, her Master of Arts in English from the University of Missouri, and her Ph.D. from Indiana University with concentrations in Twentieth-Century American Literature, Narrative Theory and Women's and Gender Studies. The focus of her research is on contemporary fiction, particularly experimental and metafiction. Her work has appeared in journals such as LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Studies in the Novel and Twentieth-Century Literature. back to top » |
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