Department Co-Chairs
M. Soledad Caballero (English), B.A., Appalachian State University; M.A., Tufts University; Ph.D., Tufts University. British Romanticism, Travel Writing, Post-Colonial Literature, Literary Theory, Latino/a Literature.
Barbara Shaw (WGSS). B.A. Colby College, Graduate Certificate and M.A. University of Maryland, College Park; Research M.A., University of Birmingham (UK); Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park. Intersectional and transnational feminist and queer theory; critical perspectives in global women’s health; Caribbean (im)migration and diasporic cultures; social movements.
Steering Committee
Courtney Bailey (Communications), B.S.C., Ohio University; M.S., Ph.D., Indiana University. Rhetorical Studies, Media Studies, and Feminist/Queer Theory.
M. Soledad Caballero (English), B.A., Appalachian State University; M.A., Tufts University; Ph.D., Tufts University. British Romanticism, Travel Writing, Post-Colonial Literature, Literary Theory, Latino/a Literature.
Helen McCullough (Technology and Learning Commons), B.A., Allegheny College; M.Ed.IT, Edinboro University. Information Technology; Information Literacy; Contemporary Media Criticism.
Rebecca Oliver (Political Science) Ph.D. Northwestern University; B.S. Universite’ de Montre’al
Barbara Riess (Modern and Classical Languages), B.A., M.A., University of Connecticut; Ph.D., Arizona State University.
Barbara Shaw (WGSS). B.A. Colby College, Graduate Certificate and M.A. University of Maryland, College Park; Research M.A., University of Birmingham (UK); Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park. Intersectional and transnational feminist and queer theory; critical perspectives in global women’s health; Caribbean (im)migration and diasporic cultures; social movements.
Caryn Werner (Mathematics), B.A., SUNY–Binghamton; M.S., Ph.D., Colorado State University. Algebraic Geometry.
Selected Faculty Publications & Achievements
- “Female Suffrage in New Jersey, 1790-1807,” published in Women and Politics
- The Reproductive Unconscious in Medieval and Early Modern England, published by Routledge
- “Prophesying Daughters: Testimony, Censorship, and Literacy Among Early Quaker Women,” published in Critical Survey
- “Women’s Liturgical Manuscripts at Klosterneuburg,” published in The Early Drama, Art, and Music Review
- Dark Eden: The Swamp in 19th-Century American Culture, published by Cambridge Press
- “Women and Society in Pre-Colonial Iyede,” published in Anthropos
- “Oral Field Techniques and Women’s History: The Case of Owan, Nigeria,” published in Ufahamu
- “Environmental Justice from the Grassroots: Reflections on Gender, History and Expertise,” published in The Struggle for Ecological Democracy: Environmental Justice Movements in the United States
- “Gender Schema Theory Revisited: Men’s Stereotypes of American Women,” published in Sex Roles
- Unequal Justice, published by Simon and Schuster
- To Comfort the Heart: Women in Seventeenth-Century America
- Christina Rossetti: Faith, Gender and Time
- When Men and Women Mattered: A History of Gender Relations Among the Owan of Nigeria
- Chinese Feminism Faces Globalization, published by Routledge