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LGBTQ/Sexualities
Now entering its fourth year, the LGBTQ/Sexualities Research Cluster brings together faculty, graduate students and undergraduates from across campus to share research in feminist and queer studies, the history of sexuality, and related fields. The cluster meets monthly for activities such as visiting speakers, presentation of UT faculty and student research, graduate student professional development, and pedagogy workshops. We co-sponsor events with units across campus, including English, British Studies, Asian-American Studies, African and African-American Studies, History, and Anthropology. In addition, we work with related groups on campus such as the Pride and Equity Faculty and Staff Association, the Gender and Sexuality Center, and the Queer Students Alliance. If you would like to join the research cluster, please contact either Ann Cvetkovich or Tiffany Ross.
The Pink Book (PDF, 209K) lists courses of interest to undergraduate and graduate students pursuing LGBTQ studies.
U.T. Faculty Affiliated with the LGBTQ/Sexualities Research Cluster
Jemel Aguilar (Assistant Professor, School of Social Work)
Research Interests: juvenile justice, theory and model development, and community development
Relevant Courses: SW 360K Gender and Sexuality in Social Work Practice
Kimberly Alidio (Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies, History)
Research Interests: imperialism; modern U.S. cultural and intellectual history; transnational ethnic and racial formation; history of gender and sexuality; how the social sciences and education shaped the U.S. imperial administration of the Philippines (1898-1946), Filipino migration to the U.S., and conceptions of American ethnicity
Relevant Courses: HIS350L/AAS325 Asian American Sexualities; HIST 389 Nation, Empire, and Sexuality
Jafari Allen (Assistant Professor, African and African American Studies, Anthropology, Women's and Gender Studies)
Research Interests: sexuality and gender in African diaspora; critical social theory; black feminisms; critical cultural studies; Cuba and the Caribbean; TBLGQ culture and political organizing
Relevant Courses: AFR 374D/ANT 324L/WGS 340 Black Public Culture; ANT 391/WGS 393 Black Feminisms: Theory and Practice; Genealogies of Black Lesbian, Trans, and Gay Studies: Erotics/Politics/Poetics (no course number yet)
Paul Bonin-Rodriguez (Lecturer, Theater and Dance)
Research Interests: Performance as public practice; the material aspects of artists' lives; funding and support of artists
Relevant Courses: TD 387D/TD 391 Community-Based Performance; TD 351S Seminar in Theater and Dance
Pascale Bos (Associate Professor, German and Netherlandic Studies, Comparative Literature, Jewish Studies, European Studies, Religious Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies)
Research Interests: Dutch postwar literature and culture in comparative perspective; specialty area Jewish literature and literature about World War II (memory of WW II); German-Jewish literature and history; history and literature of the Holocaust; Holocaust and gender; WW II and gender, Holocaust and (trans-generational) trauma; 20th century European and US literature; cultural studies; autobiography.
Relevant Courses: LAH 350/CL 323/EUS 361/JS 365 Holocaust After Effects; GRC 323E/WGS 340/CL 323/E370W/EUS 361/RS 357/JS 363 Women and the Holocaust; DCH 375/EUS 361/WGS 340 Too Tolerant? Dutch Culture in International Perspective
Dana Cloud (Associate Professor, Communication Studies)
Research Interests: the critique of therapeutic discourse; feminist and Marxist theories and politics; rhetoric of “family values”; rhetoric of the U.S. labor movement
Relevant Courses: CMS 367 Gender and Communication, CMS 390R Feminist Theory and Rhetorical Criticism
Ann L. Cvetkovich (Professor, English)
Research Interests: GLBTQ studies; feminist theory; theories of gender and sexuality; 19th and 20th century American and British literature, especially the novel; popular culture; public feelings; trauma studies
Relevant Courses: E314J Difficult Dialogues: Religion and Sexuality; E370W Gender, Sexuality, and Migration; E370W Gay and Lesbian Literature and Culture; E389P Public Feelings; Oral History, Testimony, and Memoir (grad, no course number yet)
Jill Dolan (Professor, Theater and Dance, Intercultural Studies in Folklore and Ethnomusicology and Performance as Public Practice)
Research Interests: theatre and performance history/criticism/theory; performance as public practice; feminist and lesbian performance; performance studies; arts advocacy; democracy; social change; history of queer theatre in the U.S. since the 1960s
Relevant Courses: TD387D Queer Performance and Theory
Carolyn Eastman (Assistant Professor, History, Women's and Gender Studies)
Research Interests: Early American history; women's and gender studies; history of sexuality; the history of nationalisms and civic roles; history and theory of the media.
Relevant Courses: HIS 317L/WGS 301 U.S. Women, Gender, and Sexuality to 1865; AMS 370/HIS 350L/WGS 345 History of Sexuality in America, 1600-Present; HIS 392/WGS 393 Gender History and Theory in Europe and America; HIS 392 Gender and Public Space.
Dorie J. Gilbert (Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Women's and Gender Studies, African and African American Studies)
Research Interests: prevention and intervention with women and people of color living with HIV/AIDS; psychosocial adjustment in persons coping with multiple oppressions (racism, heterosexism, classism, sexism); child and adolescent racial identity and development; Africentric community-based practice.
Relevant Courses: SW 381S Foundations of Social Justice: Values, Diversity, Power, and Oppression; SW360K: Social Work with African American individuals and families
Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez (Assistant Professor, Sociology, Latin American Studies, Mexican American Studies,)
Research Interests: gender and sexuality of Mexican immigrant populations
Relevant Courses: SOC 340G/WGS 322 Sociology of Sexualities (undergrad); MAS 374/SOC 321K/WGS 340 Chicana/Latina Sexualities; SOC 321K/WGS 322 Sociology of Masculinities (no course number yet); SOC 395G/WGS 393 Sociology of Sexualities (grad), Qualitative Methods (grad); Sociology of Sexual Violence (grad, no course number yet)
Kathryn Hansen (Professor, Asian Studies, Religious Studies, South Asia Institute)
Research Interests: history of theatrical practices in South Asia, gender and performance, South Asian literary and cultural studies (modern period), South Asian languages (Hindi, Urdu), diaspora, ethnicity, and immigration
Relevant Courses: HIN 330 Identity at the Margins of Hindi Fiction; ANS 384/WGS 393 Theatre, Gender, and Performance in South Asia; ANS 372 Theatre and Drama in South Asia
Barbara Harlow (Professor, Comparative Literature, English, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Women's and Gender Studies)
Research Interests: cultural politics and political cultures; third world studies; critical theory; prison and resistance writings and postcolonial studies (particularly Anglophone African and modern Arabic literatures and cultures)
Relevant Courses: E 360L Literature and Social Justice; E 397N Literature and Human Rights
Richard Heyman (Lecturer, Geography)
Research Interests: cultural geography, urban geography, critical theory, history of geography, pedagogy, public space
Relevant Courses: GRG 336 Contemporary Cultural Geography; GRG 356T/URB 354 Urban Publics; GRG 356T Introduction to Globalization; GRG 374 Frontiers in Geography
Neville Hoad (Assistant Professor, English, Asian American Studies, Women's and Gender Studies)
Research Interests: Nineteenth-century British literature, Victorian anthropology and sexology, Darwin and social Darwinism, history of the Church Missionary Society, feminism in imperialism, colonial discourse studies, Anglophone postcolonial literature and theory, South African literature, critical race studies, theories of nationalism, Marx and western Marxism, Raymond Williams and British cultural studies, contemporary feminist theory in French and English, psychoanalysis (particularly Freud and Klein), lesbian and gay studies, queer theory, history of sexuality, international human rights law pertaining to sexual orientation, development and globalization theory
Relevant Courses: E376L The Literature of African AIDS; E389P Sexuality in Translation; E397M Homoerotics of Empire
Thomas K. Hubbard (Professor, Classics)
Research Interests: Greek and Roman literature; literary theory; the Classical tradition
Relevant Courses: CC348/WGS 340 Homosexuality in Antiquity; WGS 340 Cultural History of Homosexuality from the Renaissance to 1933
Coleman Hutchison (Assistant Professor, English)
Research Interests: U.S. literature and culture to 1900, poetry, print culture, histories of sexuality, regional and national literatures, cultural sociology, working class studies, popular and folk music
Relevant Courses: E372L The American Renaissance
Robert Jensen (Associate Professor, School of Journalism, Women's and Gender Studies)
Research Interests: feminist critiques of the media; pornography; questions of race through a critique of white privilege and institutionalized racism
Relevant Courses: N/A
Joni L. Jones (Omi Osun Olomo) (Associate Professor, African and African American Studies, Intercultural Studies in Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Theater and Dance)
Research Interests: performance ethnography and videography around the Yoruba deity Osun; performance scholarship that focuses on identity, ethnography, African-based performance aesthetics, and Theatre for Social Change; the use of a jazz aesthetic among theatre artists with particular attention to Laurie Carlos, Daniel Alexander Jones, and Sharon Bridgforth; the work of The Austin Project—a collaborative venture among women of color artists, scholars and activists
Relevant Courses: TD 387D Performing Black Feminisms
Mary Celeste Kearney (Assistant Professor, Radio-Television-Film)
Research Interests: feminist critical/cultural media studies, specifically girl's media culture.
Relevant Courses: Undergraduate: RTF 359S/WGS 345 Gender, Sexuality, and Rock Culture; RTF 359S/WGS 345 Girls' Media and Cultural Studies; RTF 359S/WGS 324 Women and Media Culture. Graduate: RTF 386C/WGS 393 Feminist and Queer Film Theory; Feminist Popular Music Criticism; RTF 386C/WGS 393 Feminist Television Criticism, RTF 386C/WGS 393 Girls' Media and Cultural Studies; RTF 386C Youth Cultures and Media.
Ward Keeler (Associate Professor, Anthropology, Intercultural Studies in Folklore and Ethnomusicology)
Research Interests: Symbolic, psychological anthropology, language and culture, anthropology and the performing arts; Indonesia and Burma
Relevant Courses: ANTH 391 Cultural Constructions of Masculinity/Self and Emotion: Masculinities
Paul V. Martorana (Assistant Professor, Department of Management, McCombs School of Business)
Research Interests: dispute resolution, judgment and decision making, organizational behavior, organizational change and redesign, gender effects for mentoring
Relevant Courses: MAN 337 Art and Science of Negotiation; MAN 383 Art and Science of Negotiation (graduate)
Lynn C. Miller (Professor, Theater and Dance, Intercultural Studies in Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Women's and Gender Studies)
Research Interests: autobiographical performance; solo performance and performance art; gender and performance; performative writing; adaptation of texts for stage and screen
Relevant Courses: TD 387D Writing for Solo Performance
Lisa L. Moore (Associate Professor, English, Women's and Gender Studies, Comparative Literature)
Research Interests: transatlantic 18th century and Romantic literatures; Anglo-American women's literature (specializing in 20th century lesbian literature); feminist and queer theory and the history of sexuality
Relevant Courses: E316K Masterworks of Literature: Women's and Gender Studies Emphasis; E370W Gay and Lesbian Literature and Culture; GRS 390J Theory in Action, E389P Lesbian Genres
Martha Newman (Associate Professor, History, Religious Studies)
Research Interests: medieval history with an emphasis on religious mentalities; monastic miracle collections and monastic attitudes toward women and the poor
Relevant Courses: N/A
Yolanda C. Padilla (Professor, School of Social Work, Women's and Gender Studies, Center for Mexican American Studies)
Research Interests: Population studies focusing on racial and ethnic disparities in health and well-being with an emphasis on Mexican American children and families, poverty, immigration, and gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender families, and applications to social welfare policy development. Areas of practice specialization: policy analysis and community practice.
Relevant Courses: SW 360K Gays and Lesbians in American Society
Deborah Paredez (Assistant Professor, Theater and Dance, African and African American Studies, Center for Mexican American Studies, Women's and Gender Studies)
Research Interests: Latina/o performance and popular culture; race and American culture; cultural memory and performance;
performance as public practice
Relevant Courses: N/A
Ann Reynolds (Associate Professor, Art and Art History)
Research Interests: U.S. and European art, architecture, and visual culture after 1930; feminist theory; gender and sexuality studies; film.
Relevant Courses: FA 350 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies in the Fine Arts; ARH 359 Feminism and Visual Politics; ART 386P Feminism and Representation: The 1970s; ARH 386P Historical Memory and Models of Radical Practice; ARH 386P Film Cultures
Matt Richardson (Assistant Professor, English, African and African-American Studies, Women's and Gender Studies)
Research Interests: African American and Black British cultural studies; queer theory; feminist studies; film studies.
Relevant Courses: E 376M Contemporary African American Women's Fiction; E 389P Black Feminist Theory
Gretchen Ritter (Professor, Government, Asian American Studies; Director, Center for Women's and Gender Studies)
Research Interests: American politics, constitutional development, and gender politics from a historical and theoretical perspective; the impact of work-family issues on gender equity in the United States; social movements; constitutional politics
Relevant Courses: GOV 382M Feminist Theory; GOV 384N/LAW 397S/WGS 393 Gender and the Constitution; GRS 390J/WGS 393 Diversity, Politics, and Leadership; WGS 391 Foundations II: Feminist Theories
Enrique Rodriguez-Alegria (Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Latin American Studies)
Research Interests: archaeology, history, ethnohistory, colonial Mexico, Mesoamerica, Aztec civilization, the Spanish empire, colonialism, religious conversion, power, food, archaeometry (NAA and LA-ICP-MS), ceramic analysis
Relevant Courses: N/A
Lindsey E. Schell
Bibliographer for English Literature,
Women's and Gender Studies and Youth Literature
University of Texas Libraries
The University of Texas at Austin
PCL 3.317| Mail Code S5482 | PO Box P
Austin, Texas 78713-8916
Phone: 512-495-4119 | Fax: 512 495-4397
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Andee Scott (Assistant Professor, Theatre and Dance)
Research Interests: performance; choreography; ballet and contemporary technique; somatics; developing and performing aerial work; site-specific work; past projects: worked with Sharir+Bustamante Danceworks and Sally Jacques; international solo-commissioning project with choreographers Ann Carlson, Lenka Flory, Elizabeth Gillaspy, Claudia Lavista, and Kyung-Eun Lee.
Relevant Courses: N/A
Sonia Seeman, Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicology
Research Interests: the music of modern Turkey, the Ottoman Empire, and Southeastern Europe, specializing in Rom ("Gypsy") communities; emergent Turkish cultural expressions and ongoing configuration of ethnic and gendered identities in the wake of the European Union accession processes.
Relevant Courses: MUS 385J Music and Alterity
Alissa R. Sherry (Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology—Counseling Psychology Program)
Research Interests: Adult Attachment; Personality Disorders; LGBTQ issues;
ethics; family psychology; psychological assessment, particularly forensic psychology issues and family law.
Relevant Courses: N/A
Janet Staiger (Professor, Radio-Television-Film)
Research Interests: theory and history of American film and television; the Hollywood mode of production; the economic history and dynamics of the film industry and its technology; poststructural and postfeminist/queer approaches to authorial studies; the historical reception of cinema and television programs; cultural issues involving gender, sexuality, and race/ethnicity; historiographical practices in media studies; problems in the representation of gender (masculinity and queer studies) and sexuality and violence (slasher and sexually explicit films); theorization of emotions and genres
Relevant Courses: RTF 385K/WGS 393 Sexualities and U.S. Cinema; RTF 386C/WGS 393 Feminist and Queer Film Theory
Kathleen Stewart (Associate Professor, Anthropology, Intercultural Studies in Folklore and Ethnomusicology)
Research Interests: ethnographic writing; cultural studies; U.S. public culture and political imaginaries; affect; Deleuze; ordinary life Appalachia; Las Vegas.
Relevant Courses: ANT 394M The Ordinary
Allucquere (Sandy) Stone (Associate Professor, Radio-Television-Film)
Research Interests: New Media production, video production, performance, installation, gender and sexuality with emphasis on transgender, fantasy/science fiction
Relevant Courses: All ACTLab courses have at least partial LGBTQ content, including RTF 331R/RTF 390N/WGS 324/WGS 393 Trans: Dangerous Border Violations; RTF 331R/RTF 390N Weird Science; RTF 331R/RTF 390N Blackbox; RTF 331R/RTF 390N PostModern Gothic; RTF 331R/RTF 390N Death; Performance; When Cultures Collide; RTF 331R/RTF 393Q Dream and Delirium; RTF 331R/RTF 393Q Extreme Freestyle Hacking. See http://home.actlab.utexas.edu/courses.html for more information.
Sean M. Theriault (Assistant Professor, Government)
Research Interests: American politics; the U.S. Congress; American political development; political history; party polarization in the U.S. Congress; congressional elections.
Relevant Courses: GOV 312L The Politics of Marginalized Groups; FS 301 The Politics of the Catholic Church
Shane Whalley, LMSW (Lecturer, Social Work)
Research Interests: Long term psychotherapy with individuals, couples and groups. Areas of expertise include: women's issues, gay, lesbian, and gender identity issues, and social justice
Relevant Courses: SW 360K Gays and Lesbians in American Society
Christine Williams (Professor, Sociology, Women's and Gender Studies)
Research Interests: gender and sexuality in the workplace; men and women in nontraditional (gender atypical) occupations; persistent gender discrimination at work; sexuality and sexual harassment in a wide variety of workplace settings
Relevant Courses: SOC 333K/WGS 322 Sociology of Gender; SOC 340G/WGS 322 Sociology of Sexualities; SOC 395G/WGS 393 Readings in Gender and Sexuality
Zipporah Wiseman (Professor, School of Law)
Research Interests: commercial law, feminist legal theory, legal biography
Relevant Courses: LAW 379M Discrimination and Affirmative Action (undergrad); LAW 389G Gender and the Law (undergrad); LAW 381C Constitutional Law II: Sex and the Constitution; LAW 381C Constitutional Law II: Gender and the Constitution; LAW 397S Seminar: Nondiscrimination/Affirmative Action; LAW 397S Feminist Theory in Law
Stacy Wolf (Associate Professor, Theater and Dance, Intercultural Studies in Folklore and Ethnomusicology)
Research Interests: theatre spectatorship; performance pedagogy; musical theatre; performances of gender and sexuality in musicals of the 1960s in relation to cultural changes of the era; how musical theatre interacts with the larger culture; how theatre scholars can capture, document, and analyze a multivalent, ephemeral, visceral form like the musical
Relevant Courses: N/A