Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Research interests: indigenous perspectives on gender and sexuality, non-binaristic gender identities, sexual behavior, politics of belonging and identity, geographical focus on Mexico.

Research Interests: Queer anthropology, intimacy and intimate practises, liminal spaces, personhood, affect and emotions, embodiment

Research Interests: Gender and sex/sexuality in science fiction and fantasy, sexual violence and coercion in fiction, histories of gender and sexuality.

Research Interests: incels, deconstruction of female poets and their personal lives, 20th and 21st century female writers, the confessional and deep imagery poetry movements, and how gender and sexuality influence horror works.

Research Interests: The intersection between the great witch hunts, the establishment of capitalism and the underrepresentation of women and BIPOC in the Western musical canon. They also engage in the critical study of anthropocentrism through the lens of nonhuman musicalities, queer and feminist theory, and anti-capitalism.

Research Interests:  Sex education and reproductive rights, the Haskalah, the Yiddish press, Yiddish theater, the General Jewish Labour Bund, and mythology and folklore. She is intrigued by media representations of Jewish women, witches, and sex workers, and how those representations affect cultural narratives. She is deeply curious about the spectrum of ways in which women and minority groups navigated oppressive systems, from compliance to rebellion.

Research Interests: Immigration, LGBTQ asylum seekers, state legibility, homonationalism, queer theory, intersectionality

Research interests: marginalized peoples and identities in the United States; transgender and queer theory; black feminist critique; subcultures; the queer and trans body and the body as monstrous; how queer people create and understand queerness

Research interests: 20th and 21st-century American Literature, Feminist Studies, Motherhood and Pregnancy in Literature and Film, Sexuality in Film and Literature, Women's Memoirs, and Lifewriting.

Research Interests: Social Inequality and Stratification; Social Networks and Culture, Gender and Sexuality, Immigration and Refugees, Social Policy, Comparative Sociology, Sustainability and Subjective Methods.