Keridwen Luis
Lecturer in Anthropology and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Degrees
Brandeis University, Ph.D.Brandeis University, M.A.
Bryn Mawr College, B.A.
Expertise
Culture theory, women's studies, gender studies, gender theory, nonheternormative sexualities, fandom and fan identity, agency and identity, medical anthropology, anthropology of the body, intentional communities, consciously created culture, folklore and magical practice.Profile
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Keridwen N. Luis is currently a lecturer at Brandeis University, where she took her Ph.D. in Anthropology in 2010. Her most recent book, Herland: Exploring The Women's Land Movement in the United States, came out from the University of Minnesota Press in 2018. Her current research, "Fan Bodies and Fan Performance: Community, Identity, and Intersecting Selves," is a fieldwork and interview project examining gender, sexuality, race, and disability in science fiction and media fandom, and a book on this research is under contract with Palgrave-MacMillan.
Courses Taught
| ANTH | 109a | Children, Parenting, and Education in Cross-Cultural Perspective |
| ANTH | 144a | The Anthropology of Gender |
| ANTH | 244a | Gender and Sexuality Seminar |
| SQS | 6b | Sexuality and Queer Studies |
| WGS | 105b | Feminisms: History, Theory, and Practice |
| WGS | 151a | The Social Politics of Sexual Education |
| WGS | 166a | Gender, Sexuality, and Social Media |
| WGS | 205a | Graduate Foundational Course in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies |
| WMGS | 155a | Gender and Fandom |