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Meet the Gender and Women's Studies Faculty
The Gender and Women's Studies Program draws upon Knox faculty expertise in several areas—history, language, literature, Black studies, political science, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, classics, theatre, and art. Their academic fields are listed below, with additional information and e-mail contacts on each person's linked profile page.
Magali Roy-Féquière, Chair
Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1993
"My book reviews selected texts of the Generacion del Treinta suggesting that cultural institutions, publications, and literary works provided the means through which class, racial, and gender alliances were played out in the context of U.S. political and economic hegemony over the island."
Nancy EberhardtProfessor of
Anthropology and Sociology Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1984
"My most recent work has been on developing an account of Southeast Asian ethnopsychologies or folk theories about the nature of human psychological functioning, a project I would also like to continue in the United States."
Brenda FinebergProfessor of
Classics Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1991
"Just as a question asked in the classroom often contributes a nuanced perspective to my research, I find that my research continually energizes what happens in the classroom."
Penny GoldProfessor of
History Ph.D., Stanford University, 1977
"My love of research has had a pervasive impact on my teaching. One of the joys of teaching is to inspire students to ask their own questions, and to see them through the process of finding answers."
Heather HoffmannProfessor of
Psychology Ph.D., State University of New York-Binghamton, 1989
"I am interested in the origins of patterns of sexual attraction and sexual arousal, in other words what turns people on and why. I also have an animal lab that is set up to look at the neurochemical correlates of behavior."
Frederick HordProfessor of
Black Studies Ph.D., Union Graduate School, 1987
"My most immediate projects are in the areas of Black Studies theory, African American literary criticism, Black psychology traditions, and the status of Blacks in Latin America."
Karen KampwirthProfessor of
Political Science On-Site Co-Director, Buenos Aires program
Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 1993
"Throughout my career, I have been interested in people's attempts to radically transform their societies, why those attempts sometimes succeed, and what impact participating in such movements has on the participants."
Elizabeth Carlin-MetzProfessor of
Theatre M.F.A., Temple University, 1983
"I seek to integrate physical theatre techniques with more traditional Western theatre practices so as to discover new levels of expressiveness and meaning in theatre of all styles and genres and, thus, in the world."
Lori HaslemAssociate Professor of
English Ph.D., University of Denver, 1990
"I have recently been exploring pamphlet accounts of victimized early modern English children and popular accounts of children witnessing major crimes in an effort to think through how certain Shakespeare plays could be historicized to better understand the role of the infants and children in them."
Lynette LombardAssociate Professor of
Art M.F.A., Yale University, 1989
"What compels me is how light, form, colour, and composition are informed by the feeling of walking a terrain, working in all kinds of weather and fusing several moments of time into one painting."
Robin RaganAssociate Professor of
Modern Languages and Literatures Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2001
"My dissertation and early research combines my love for literature as well as my engagement in feminist theory. My work has focused on issues of the body, specifically the female body."
Natania RosenfeldAssociate Professor of
English Ph.D., Princeton University, 1992
"Some current projects of mine include: a manuscript of poems dealing with childhood and family history; migration and travel among history-laden places in the world; my relationship to texts and memory as a woman and a Jew; the strangeness of the animal and human worlds."Kelly Shaw
Instructor of Psychology and Gender and Women's Studies
Ph.D. candidate, Purdue University
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