Faculty
Dr. Jeannie Ludlow (she/her), Professor of English; Director, Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Office: 3139 - Coleman Hall
Email: jludlow@eiu.edu
Website: https://www.eiu.edu/women/
Jeannie Ludlow (she/her)'s Vita
Summer office hours (May 30-July 24 only):
T 5:30-6:30 pm; W 8-9 pm; R 4:30-5:30 pm; and by appointment.
Frequently Taught Courses
WGS 2309G Intro to Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
WGS 4309 Feminist Theories
WGS 4310 Queer Theories
ENG 3705 Multicultural American Literature
ENG 3903B Women and Literature, after 1800
Education
Ph.D. American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University, Ohio
M.A. English Literature, Bowling Green State University, Ohio
Professional Organizations
National Women’s Studies Association
Society for the Study of Narrative Literature
Society for Menstrual Cycle Research
Abortion Care Network
Research
Reproduction and abortion in literature, art, and culture
Multicultural American Literatures
Native American Literatures
LGBTQ Studies/Queer Theory
Selected Publications
“Vaccinated by the Blood: Antiabortion Mobilization of the COVID Body,” in Envisioning Embodiment: Interdisciplinary Approaches, essay collection edited by Jodi Cressman, Lisa M. DeTora, Jeannie Ludlow, Nora Martin Peterson, Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming fall 2023.
“‘No Bigger than a Baby Bird’: Narrating Prochoice Fetal Materiality,” in Rewriting the Abortion Narrative: The Power of Popular Culture, essay collection edited by Brenda Boudreau and Kelli Maloy, Lexington/Roman & Littlefield, 2023.
“‘. . . [D]oubt what’s impossible’: Alternate Futurity as Abortion Neonarrative,” for a special issue, edited by Gretchen Busl, forthcoming at Frontiers of Narrative Studies.
“Full Bleed: The Graphic Period at the End of the Menstrual Narrative” in Graphic Perspectives on Health and Embodiment, edited by Jodi Cressman and Lisa DeTora, forthcoming from University of Leuven/Cornell University Press, 2021.
“It’s A Boy! borted: Visualizing the Fetus in Abortion Narratives,” in Representing Abortion, edited by Rachel Hurst, Routledge Press, 2021.
“Look Like a Provider: Representing the Materiality of the Fetus in Abortion Care Work,” co-authored with Lena R. Hann, PhD, in Representing Abortion, edited by Rachel Hurst, Routledge Press, 2021.
“Reenvisioning Reproductive Labor,” a review of Laura Briggs’s How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump and Deirdre Cooper Owens’s Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology, in Women’s Studies Quarterly (refereed), vol. 48, nos. 1-2, Spring/Summer 2020.
“Kicking Ass in Flip-Flops: Inappropriate/d Generations and Monstrous Pregnancy in Comics Narratives” in Monstrous Women in Comics, edited by Elizabeth Coody and Samantha Langsdale, University Press of Mississippi, 2020.
Selected Conference Presentations
“This Clinic Stays Open (for now): Shifting Precarities, Post-Dobbs,” presented at the Gender, Bodies, and Technology conference at Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, Mar. 16-17, 2023
“Refusing Abortion Stigma in (and beyond) the Feminist Theory Class: Or, ‘Why didn’t I know this? I’m a WGS minor!’” presented at the National Women’s Studies Association conference, Minneapolis, MN, Nov, 10-13, 2022
“Decolonizing Comics: Yahgulanaas’s Red and Tonatiuh’s Undocumented,” presented (remotely) at the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature conference, Chichester, UK, June, 2022
Funding & Grants
Community
Board President, Abortion Conversation Projects
Advisory Board member, “Shifting Culture Through Abortion Providers’ Voices: Toward Evidence-Based Public Intellectual Life” (Non Federal Grant-funded project). Principle investigator, Dr. Lisa Harris, University of Michigan, 2017-2020.
Scholar-in-Residence for Women’s History Month, Women’s Studies Program, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, March 11-14, 2013.
COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS AND PRESENTATIONS
“Help! I’m Being Accused of Racism!”: From Denial to Dialogue in a Few (Not So Easy) Steps for the Making Excellence Inclusive conference, EIU, October 13, 2017 and for Staff Development Day, Lake Land Community College, April 5, 2018
All In @ EIU: Resistance and the Neoliberal University for the UPI (faculty union)/Faculty Senate forum, EIU, Feb 13, 2018
The Language of Inclusion, co-presented with Jessica L. Ward for the EIUnity conference, EIU, February 2, 2018
