Women's Studies Program The College of Staten Island/CUNY

WMS 385 (ENL 385) Women Author II
WMS 391 (ENL 391) Woman as Hero
WMS 222 (ENH 222) Women & Literature

Professor Bardsley teaches a variety of courses at CSI on women writers: surveys, thematic courses, and courses focusing on one or two major authors. At the CUNY Graduate Center she has taught Contemporary Feminist Thought and co-taught (with Catherine Lavender ) Transnational and Multicultural Feminisms.

Professor Bardsley works on cultural nationalism and Romantic-era British, specifically Scottish, writing. Her work focuses on the construction and representation of nationalism and alternative concepts of collective identity in and through literature -- largely, though not exclusively, by women. She has recently taken some farays into contemporary cultural criticism as well.

"Your Local Representative: John Galt's Provost", Scottish Literary Journal (Fall 1997).

"Girlfight the Power: Teaching Contemporary Feminism and Pop Culture" Feminist Teacher

Volume 16 • Number 3 (2006)

"Joanna Baillie Stages the Nation" in Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism eds. Davis, Duncan, Sorenson. Cambridge UP 2004

"Belief and Beyond: Nation, Law, and Joanna Ballie's Witchcraft," Yale Journal of Law and Humanities (June 2002)

"Novel and Nation Come to Grief: The Dead's Part in John Galt's The Entail," Modern Philology, 99:4 (May 2002)

"In and Around the Borders of the Nation in Guy Mannering" (forthcoming in Nineteenth-Century Contexts).

Sarah Benesch (Linguistics and ESL) Department of English, Speech and World Literature

ENL 422 Introduction to Linguistics
ENL 427 (SOC 427) Sociolinguistics
ENL 426 Language Acquisition and Psycholoinguistics
ENL 424 Language Change
ENG 686Teaching of Writing (MA)
ENG 687 Models of Second Language Acquisition (MA)
ENG 007 Developmental English of Non-Native Speakers
ENG 008 Developmental Writing for Non-Naive Speakers of English
ENG 037 Writing for Non-Native Speakers of English
ENG 009 Basic Reading for Non-Native Speakers of English
ENG 010 Developmental Reading for Non-Native Speakers of English
ENG 039 Reading for Non-Native Speakers of English

As an applied linguist, Professor Benesch's main research areas are second language acquisition and pedagogy. She is particularly interested in the application of critical and feminist theories to teaching linguistics and English for academic purposes (English as a second language in an academic setting). The relationship between gender and language, and eating disorders are two areas she has explored to bring together feminist theory and practice.

Critical English for academic purposes: Theory,Politics, and Practice. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001.

ESL in America: Myths and Possibilities. Editor. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Heinemann, 1991.

"Rights Analysis: Studying Power Relations in an Academic Setting." English for Specific Purposes, 18, 313-327, 1999.

"Anorexia: A Feminist EAP Curriculum." In T. Smoke (Ed.) Adult ESL: Politics, Pedagogy, and Participation in Classroom and Community Programs. (pp. 101-114). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1998.

Roslyn Bologh (Sociology), Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work

WMS 230 (SOC 230) Sociology of Women
WMS 330 (SOC 330) Women and Work
WMS 202 (SOC 202) Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Class

SOC 200 Sociological Theory (has a significant gender component)

3. Graduate Center Courses

Feminist Theory
Political Sociology and Feminist Theory
Dissertation Workshop (Women's Studies)

Professor Bologh is currently interested in the intersection of politics and economics. She is interested in economic policy and political efforts to promote production and prosperity and reduce or end poverty at the local level of the city and state and at the national level. She is interested in globalization and the danger or financial and economic crises: the effects of such crises on women (such as the trafficking in women) and men; how to prevent or solve such crises; and how to promote economic and social development globally.

Love or Greatness, Max Weber and Masculine Thinking, A Feminist Inquiry, Boston, London: Unwin Hyman (now Routledge), 1990.

Dialectical Phenomenology: Marx' Method, Boston, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979.

"The Spectre of Financial Crisis and the Failure of the Left," New Politics, Vol. VI, No. 4, pp. 141-150.,1998.

Review of "Gender, Power and Organization" by Paula Nicolson in Gender, Work, and Organization, Vol. 5, N. 3, pp. 192-193, 1998<>

Jeffrey Bussolini (Sociology)

Department of Sociololgy, Anthropology, and Social Work
Courses Taught
A concern with gender is an integral part of all Professor Bussolini’s courses.

Courses Cross-Listed with Women’s Studies

1.WMS 202 (SOC 202) Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Class
2.Other Courses

SOC 200 Sociological Theory
SOC 212 Criminiology
SLS 230 American Society

Research Interests

Professor Bussolini’s research is concerned primarily with critical legal sociology and the
sociology of science. He has conducted extensive participant ethnographic and historical
study of scientific institutions and their work, and he is particularly interested in the ways
that major changes in science and technology affect social existence, including gendered
existence. In legal sociology his research addresses racial profiling and abuses of state
Power under the heading of national security. Especially troubling is the way that notions
of international threat result in the persecution of ethnic minorities within the United States.

Selected Publications
"Comblement/Fulfillment: Toward an Ontological Ethics of Sex." In Marginal Groups and
Mainstream American Culture. Ed. Smith, Farr, Estes, Lawrence, Kansas University Press, 2000
with Jami Weinstein
"The Wen Ho Lee Affair: Between Race and National Security," Implicating Empire:
Globalization and Resistance in the 21^st Century World Order, ed. Stanley Aronowitz and
Heather Gautney, New York, Basic Books 2003
"Toward Cat Phenomenology: A Search for Animal Being, "Found Object Volume 8, Spring <>2000
"Review of Keith Ansell Pearson’s Viroid Life: Perspectives on Nietzsche and the Transhuman
Condition," New Nietzsche Studies 2:3/4. Summer 1998

Fairfid M. ("Lorie") Caudle (Psychology), Department of Psychology

1. Course cross-listed with Women's Studies

WMS 268 (PSY 268) Psychology of Women

(Professor Caudle has taught WMS 268 (PSY 268) as a Study Abroad course in London, England, and hopes to do so again. Developed for students from CSI and other CUNY colleges, this course explored women's issues using London's museums, galleries, historical sites, and dramatic performances as well as meetings with professional women in non-traditional careers.)

2. Other courses

PSY 100 Introduction to Psychology
PSY 214 Psychology of Advertising
PSY 352 History and Systems of Psychology

Professor Caudle's research interests in Women's Studies include gender stereotyping and gender roles in the media, particularly advertising, as well as portrayals of women in art and drama. Women in the history of psychology represent an additional interest.

"Eleanor J. Gibson." In A. E. Kazdin (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Psychology. Washington DC: American Psychological Association and Oxford University Press. (in press)

"Issues in the Psychology of Women: Explorations through Art." In L. T. Benjamin et al (Eds.), Activities Handbook for the Teaching of Psychology, Vol. 4, pp. 295-301, 1999.

"An Ecological View of Social Perception: Implications for Theatrical Performance." In G. Wilson (Ed.), Psychology and Performing Arts, PP. 45-57. Amsterdam/Lisse, The Netherlands: Swets & Zeitlinger, 1991.

"Eleanor Jack Gibson." In A. N. O'Connell and N. F. Russo (Eds.), Women in Psychology: A Bio-Bibliographic Source Book, pp. 104-116. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990.

Cynthia Chris (Communications), Department of Media Culture

Courses Taught

COM 150 Introduction to Communication
COM 201 History and Theory of Television
COM 200 Media and Culture
CIN 746 Cinema and Gender

Research Interests

Professor Chris' primary research interest is the cultural history of mass media, especially the institutional contexts shaping representations of gender and sexuality. Professor Chris' work in this area examines an array of interrelationships among media institutions, regulations and representations.

Selected Publications

Watching Wildlife. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (forthcoming 2006).

(Co-editor.) Cable Visions: Television After Broadcasting. New York: New York University Press (under contract).

“Can You Repeat That? Patterns of Media Ownership and the ‘Repurposing’ Trend,” Communication Review (forthcoming).

“All Documentary, All the Time,” Television & New Media 3 (1), January 2002, pp. 7-28.

Sandi E Cooper (History), Department of History

WMS 386 (HST 386) Recovery of Women's Past

HST 203 The World Since 1914
HST 276 History of Italy
HST 278 Twentieth-Century Europe

3. Graduate Center Courses

MALS International Studies

Professor Cooper's specialization is modern European history with an emphasis on peace movements and women, war and peace.

Patriotic Pacifism: Waging War on War in Europe, 1815-1914, Oxford U P, 1991.

"Peace as a Human Right: The Invasion of Women into the World of High International Politics," Journal of Women's History, 14.2 (Summer 2002).

"The Shaping of a Feminist Historian" in Eileen Boris and Nupur Chaudhuri (eds.), Voices of Woman Historians: The Personal, The Political, The Professional, Bloomington: Indiana U Press, 62-75, 1999.

"Women in War and Peace, 1914-1945" in Renate Bridenthal et al.,
(eds), Becoming Visible: Women in European History, 3rd ed., 439-460, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

Kate Crehan (Anthropology) Department of Sociology Anthropology and Social Work/co-ordinator Women Studies

Courses Taught

In all the courses Professor Crehan teaches particular attention is paid to questions of gender and the difference being a woman or a man makes.

1. Courses Cross-listed with Woman’s Studies

WMS 330 (SOC 330/ANT 331) Women and Work

2. Other Courses

ANT 201 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

LBS 720 Roots of Modern Society

3. Courses Taught at the Graduate Center

ANTH 72600 Ethnology and Ethnography of Africa

ANTH 71100: Reading Gramsci

Research Interests

Professor Crehan has carried out extensive fieldwork in Zambia. More recently she has written on the Italian Marxist, Antonio Gramsci. Currently she is carrying out an ethnography of a community arts organisation in Britain.Running though all her work is an interest in questions of power and in how power is gendered.

Selected Publications

Forthcoming (2005) ‘Culture’ (11,000 words) in Critical Term for Gender Study edited by Catharine R. Stimpson and Gilbert Herdt, University of Chicago Press

Gramsci, Culture and Anthropology, Pluto Educational Series: Reading Gramsci, Series Editor: Joseph A. Buttigieg, London: Pluto Press, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002

The Fractured Community: Landscapes of Power and Gender in Rural Zambia, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997

‘Of Chickens and Guinea Fowl: Living Matriliny in Northwestern Zambia in the 1980s’, Critique of Anthropology, Vol 17, No.2, June 1997, pp. 211-227

Kathleen (Katie) Cumiskey(Psychology), Department of Psychology

Courses Taught:

WMS 235: Gender and Sexuality

WMS 268: Psychology of Women

WMS 340: Mentoring and Psychological Development

WMS 598: Women's Studies Internship

WMS 594: Independent Study in Women's Studies

Other Courses Taught:

PSY 100: Intro to Psychology

PSY 212: Social Psychology

PSY 226: Personality Psychology

PSY 290: Death & Dying

PSY 334: Research Methods in Social and Personality Psychology

PSY 594: Independent Study in Psychology

Research Interests:

Professor Cumiskey is currently interested in the ways in which people make meaning of mobile technology. She is also involved in advocacy work for young women in the juvenile justice system. She plans to engage in work that looks at the intersection between the meaning of security and surveillance and its impact on women's lives. She also has an interest in the development of the meaning of "womanhood" within the field of psychology.

Selected Publications:

Cumiskey, K. M. (in press). "Making the bias explicit": Constantinople's rendering of psychology's misogynistic roots. Feminism and Psychology. # of MS pages: 10.

Cumiskey, K. M. (2005). "Surprisingly, nobody tried to caution her": Perceptions of intentionality and the role of social responsibility in the public use of mobile phones. In Rich Ling and Ped Pedersen (Eds.), Mobile Communications: Re-negotiation of the Social Sphere. Surrey, UK: Springer-Verlag, 225-236.

Cumiskey, K. M. (2002). Public Testimony to New York City Council. Hearings on Preliminary Budget for Dept. of Juvenile Justice, Fiscal Year, 2003. http://www.council.nyc.ny.us/pdf_files/reports/fy03part3.pdf

Deborah De Simone (Education), Department of Education

Courses taught

WMS 286 (HST 286) History of American Women
WMS 594 Independent Study in Women's Studies

COR 100 The United States: Institutions, Issues, and Ideas
EDE 302 Methods of Teaching Elementary Social Studies
EDS 301 Methods of Teaching Secondary Social Studies
EDS 401 Problems and Practices in Secondary Student Teaching

Research Interests

Professor De Simone's research interests include the study of educational ideas, particularly those which involve education outside of the school and particularly those regarding gender. Her work is focused on thinkers from the United States, though it certainly considers the influence of non-U.S. thinkers as well as the impact of U.S. educational thought on other nations. Presently her research focuses on the impact of internment on education, specifically the communities that developed within concentration camps during World War II.

Selected Publications

"Dewey Is Not Dead Yet: The Hows and Whys of Interdisciplinary Teaching." Social Education. (in press.)

"Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Educational Reform" in Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Optomistic Reformer. Val Gough and Jill Rudd, eds. Iowa City: Iowa University Press, 1999.

"Educational Challenges Facing Eastern Europe." Social Education. 60 (2), 1996.

"Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Feminization of Education." Willa. 4, 1995.

Janet Ng Dudley (English), Department of English, Speech and World Literature Courses Taught/Chairperson

Courses Taught

1. Courses Cross-Listed with Women's Studies

ENH 222 Women and Literature

2. Other Courses

ENH 207 Classics of Asian Literature
ENL 335 Modem Asian Literature
ENL 429 Autobiographical Writing
ENL 340 Autobiography and Biography

Research Interests

Professor Dudley's area of specialization is Chinese Literature of the 20th Century. Her current research is contemporary literature and culture of Hong Kong, particularly examining issues of the effects of notions of national culture on regional identity and expression.

Selected Publications

The Experience of Modem it v: Chinese Autobiographical Writine:s of Early 20th Cen!y!:'y. University of Michigan Press, 2003.

Modem Chinese Writers: Memoirs, (editor and translator) Hong Kong: Renditions Paperback, The Research Centre for Translation, Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 1996.

"A Moral Landscape: Reading Shen Congwen's Autobiography and Travelogues," in Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 23 (2001).

"Chen Hengzhe's Fiction of Aurality: The New Feminine Strategy," in Journal of Modem Literature in Chinese, 4-2 (2001).

Maryann Feola (English), Department of English, Speech and World Literature

A concern with gender is included in all Professor Feola's courses especially:

ENH 201 English Literature to 1800
ENL 318 English Literature to the Renaissance
ENL 320 English Literature of the Seventeenth Century
SLS 302 Medieval and Early Modern Culture

One of Professor Feola's research interests concerns the religion, social, and textual concepts that shaped bias in the early modern world.

"An Ethnic Passage: An Italian-American Woman in Academia, "Women in Literature and Life Assembly (WILLA) 2 (Fall 1993): 24-26. Rpt. In Curaggia: Writings by Woman of Italian Descent. Eds. N. Ciatu and D. Dileo et al, Toronto, Canada: women's press, 1998: 258-62.

"A Poniard's Point of Satire in Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris," English Language Notes 36.2 (June 1998): 6-12.

George Bishop: Seventeenth-Century Soldier turned Quaker. York, UK: William Sessions Ltd/The Ebor Press, 1996, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997.

"Using Drama to Develop College Students' Transaction with Text," The Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy 39.8 (May 1996): 624-28.

Michael S. Foley, (History), Department of History

Courses Taught

In all of the courses Professor Foley teaches, gender, race, and class
serve as critical points of analysis.

Other Courses

COR 100 American Issues, Ideas, Institutions
HST 245 US History, 1865-Present
HST 258 America and Vietnam, 1945-1975
HST 340 20th Century American Foreign Relations
HSS 502 Honors Social Science Seminar, The American Experience
HST 622 Cold War America
HST 726 Topics in US History since 1865 (Graduate Course)

Research Interests

Professor Foley specializes in Twentieth Century American history, with
particular expertise in social movements, reform and radicalism, war and
American society, and peace history in the post-1945 period. His work has
paid particular attention to gender dynamics in social movements, and he is
currently editing a collection of letters written by ordinary men and women
to Dr. Benjamin Spock, the pediatrician and peace activist, regarding the
Vietnam War.

Selected Publications

Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance During the Vietnam War,
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press (forthcoming February 2003).

"Sanctuary!: A Bridge Between Civilian and GI Protest Against the Vietnam
War," in Robert Buzzanco and Marilyn Young, eds., The Blackwell Companion
to the Vietnam War. Boston: Blackwell (forthcoming in October 2002).

"The 'Point of Ultimate Indignity' or a 'Beloved Community?': The Draft
Resistance Movement and New Left Gender Dynamics" in Paul Buhle and John
McMillian, eds., The New Left Revisited. Philadelphia: Temple University
Press (forthcoming in December 2002).

"Confronting the Johnson Administration at War: The Trial of Dr. Spock and
Use of the Courts to Effect Political Change," Peace & Change (forthcoming in January 2003).

Ismael García-Colón (Anthropology), Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work

Courses Taught

Other Courses

ANT 201 Cultural Anthropology

SOC 260 Class, Status, and Power

Research Interests

Professor García is currently researching and writing on power and state formation in Puerto Rico and Puerto Rican farmworkers in the U.S. Northeast. His areas of interest are historical and political anthropology, oral history, political economy, and Caribbean, Latin American and Latina/o studies.

Selected Publications

“Playing and Eating Democracy: The Case of Puerto Rico’s Land Distribution Program, 1940s-1960s,” Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Vol. 18, No. 2, Fall 2006, 166-189.

“Buscando Ambiente: Hegemony in Puerto Rico’s Land Reform and Subaltern Tactics of Survival, 1930s-1960s,” Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 33, No. 1, January 2006, 42-65.

“Transnationalism, Panethnicity, and Segmented Assimilation: Latina/o Community Formation in the United States,” review essay, American Anthropologist, Vol. 106, No. 2, June 2004, 391-395.

David Gerstner (Cinema StudieslMedia Culture), Acting Chair

Courses Taught

In his cinema and media classes, Professor Gerstner emphasizes the historical and
theoretical issues of gender especially in relation to questions of race and nationalism. Selected Courses

Cinema 100-Introduction to Film
Cinema 230-American Film and Myth
Cinema 746-Cinema and Gender

Research Interests

As a historiographer, Professor Gerstner's current research examines the discourses of masculinity that shape the contours of American culture and the popular arts. In what way does the cinema reinforce the national (and imperialist) project of America? His work draws upon a wide range of theory and methodologies to address questions of cinematic aesthetics, gender, and nation. Professor Gerstner also publishes on queer cinema and queer theory .

Selected Publications (Books Now Published)

Books

-Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema (Duke University Press,
in press, spring 2006).

-The Routledge International Encyclopedia Queer Culture (London: Routledge, 2006).

-edited with Janet Staiger, Authorship and Film, New York: Routledge, 2003,
Introduction, “The Practices of Authorship,” 3-25.

Recent Articles:

-De Profundis: A Love Letter from the Inside Man." The Spike Lee Reader. Editied by Paula Massood. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, scheduled, 2007

- "Queer Turns: The Cinematic Friendship of Marcel Duchamp and Charles Demuth." Marcel Duchamp and Eroticism. Edited by Marc Decimo. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007, in press.

- "Can't Take My Eyes off of you: Andy Warhol Records/Is New York." The City That Never Sleeps. Edited by Murray Pomerance. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007, in press.

Ellen Goldner (Department of English) Women's Center Coordinator

Courses Taught

1. Courses Cross-Listed with Women’s Studies

ENL 390/WMS 390 Studies in Women, Literature and the Arts
ENL 391/WMS 391 Woman as Hero

2. Other Courses (Most include work on gender studies.)

AMS 251 American Ideas
ENG 111 Communications Workshop
ENH 203 Literary History of the United States to 1855
ENL 330 American Renaissance
ENL 344 American Fiction through WW II
ENG 727 Nineteenth-Century American Literature
ENG 731 Studies in Fiction: American Women’s Fiction
ENG 808 Literary and Critical Theory
HSS 501 The American Experience: Humanities
SLS 230 American Society
WSCP 80802/MALS 772200 Contemporary Feminist Thought

Research Interests

Professor Goldner’s research focuses primarily on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American narrative and on nineteenth-century visual culture. She explores texts as they are enmeshed within cultural discourses, approaching them theoretically and historically. Her experience of a gendered world leads her to probe configurations of power. She is currently working on a book that highlights the construction of “race” through gender and class, as well as resistances to “race” in antebellum abolitionist texts, oral, written and visual.

Selected Publications

Racing and (E)racing Language: Living with the Color of Our Words. Edited with Safiya Henderson-Holmes. Syracuse University Press, 2001.

“Arguing with Pictures: Race and Class and the Formation of Popular Abolitionism in Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Journal of American Comparative Cultures. 24:1 (2001) 71-84.

"Slavery and Other(ed) Ghosts: Gothicism and the Bonds of Reason in Melville, Chesnutt, and Morrison." MELUS 24.1 (1999): 59-83.

Goldner, Ellen J. "The Lying Woman and the Cause of Social Anxiety: Interdependence and the Woman's Body in The House of Mirth." Women's Studies 21 (1992): 285-305.

Darryl Hill (Psychology), Department of Psychology

Courses Taught

1. Courses Cross-Listed with Women’s Studies
WMS 268 (PSY 268) Psychology of Women
WMS 235 (PSY 235) Gender and Sexuality
2. Other Courses

PSY 212 Social Psychology
PSY 226 Personality Theories
PSY 350 Prejudice and Social Identity

Research Interests

Professor Hill’s research is focused on how historical, social, and cultural contexts shape
gender and sex identities. His specific interests include: Gender identity disorder in
children and adolescents; the life stories of transsexuals, transgenderists, and
crossdressers; sexual experience of "feminine" heterosexual men; prejudice towards
gender non-conformists; gender and romantic relationship break-ups; and sexual self-
concepts. He has just begun an exploration of the connection between feminism and
animal rights activism.

Selected Publications

Hill, D.B., Rozanski, C., Carfaginni, J., & Willoughby, B. (in press). Gender identity disorder in children and adolescents: A critical review. Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality.

Hill, D.B., & Kral, M. (Eds.) (2003). About psychology: Essays at the crossroads of philosophy, theory and history. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

Hill, D.B. (2002). Genderism, transphobia, and genderbashing; A framework for

Interpreting anti-transgender violence. In B. Wallace & R. Carter (Eds.), Understanding and Dealing with Violence: A Multicultural Approach (pp. 113-136). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage

Hill, D.B. (2000). Categories of sex and gender: Either/or, both/and, and neither/nor. History and Philosopy of Psychology Bulletin, 12(2), 25-33.

Dalia Kandiyoti (English) Department of English, Speech, and World Literature

Courses Taught

Professor Kandiyoti teaches multiethnic, U.S. and world literature and women's writing in the English department and "Modern Culture" in Science, Letters, and Society. Her teaching and research interests overlap greatly.

Research Interests

Professor Kandiyoti's fields of research are in ethnic, racial, and gender studies in the Americas. Her current focus is on the literatures and cultures of diaspora and migration in the twentieth century with reference to nationalism and transnationalism. A comparatist by training and inclination, she has worked across several national and linguistic contexts, including U.S., Latin American, and Middle Eastern.

Publications

Consuming Nostalgia: Nostalgia and the Marketplace in Cristina Garcia and Ana Menendez" forthcoming in MELUS: Journal of the Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies.

“Host and Guest in ‘the Latino Contact Zone:’ Narrating Solidarity and Hospitality in Mother Tongue.” Comparative American Studies 2.4 (2004): 421-446.

“”Our Foothold in Buried Worlds: Post-Holocaust Narrative and Anne Michaels’s Fugitive Pieces.” Contemporary Literature, 45.2 (2004):300-330.

"Multiplicity and Its Discontents: Feminist Narratives of Transnational Belonging." Genders, 37, 2003.

Judith Kuppersmith (Psychology) Department of Psychology

Courses Taught

1. Courses Cross-listed with Women's Studies

WMS 340 ( PSY 340) Mentoring and Psychological Development
WMS 268 Psychology of Women

2. Other Courses

Psy 226 Theories of Personality
Psy 416 Group Dynamics
Psy 318 Child In the Community/Fieldwork
Psy 362 Approaches to Psychotherapy
Psy 598 Internship

Research Interests

As a clinical psychologist Professor Kuppersmith has done research in several clinical arenas: ethnic and gender identity, the mother/daughter relationship, psychotherapeutic interventions with women and girls, single motherhood, and the mentoring dynamic. Most recently, (November, 2002) she has completed the first of a three-part documentary series on girls growing up. The series is titled "Girls and More." Part one is about girls' sexuality development.

Selected Publications

"A Liberation Psychoanalysis for Russia". American Imago, 57,I, Spring 2000.

"The Double Bind of Personal Striving: Ethnic Working Class Women in Psychotherapy." In Ethnic Women: A Multiple Status Reality. Edited by Demos, V. and Segal, M. T. New York: General Hall Press, 1994.

"Single Mothers By Choice: A Family Alternative." In Women, Power and Therapy. Edited by Braude, M. New York: Harrington Park Press, 1987.

"New Challenge' for the Physician: The Single Adoptive Parent." Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality. February, 1987.

Catherine Lavender (History/American Studies), Department of History

WMS 100 (HST 182) Intro. to Women's History & Feminist Theory
WMS 286 (HST 286) U.S. Women's History
WMS 386 (HST 386) The Recovery of Women's Pasts
WMS 389 (HST 389) Themes in American Women's History

2. Other Courses

COR 100 American Issues, Ideas, and Institutions

HST 200 Introduction to Historical Method

HST 223 American Landscapes (also GEG 223)

SLS 230 American Society and Culture

AMS 241 Popular Culture & Mass Society

HST 291 The West and the World: The Americas Encounter Europe

HST 337 Early Republic

HST 338 Themes in United States History: 1877-1914 (Race & Class in Gilded Age/Progressive Era)

HST 339 Themes in United States History: 1914-1945 (American Modernism)

HST 401 Seminar in Advanced Historical Study

HSS 502 Honors Seminar: The American Experience (Frontiers & Borderlands)

HSS 506 Honors Seminar: The Western Experience (Utopias and Dystopias)

HST 624 U.S. History, 1900-1940

HST 622 Cold War America

HST 701 Historical Method and Historiography (CSI M.A. Program in History)

HST 726 The American Century: Twentieth-Century Cultural History (CSI M.A. Program in History)

3. Courses Taught at the CUNY Graduate Center

WMS/QS 717 Multicultural and Transnational Feminisms

WMS 802 Contemporary Feminist Thought

AMS U810 American Studies: Histories and Methods

Research Interests

Professor Lavender's training as a cultural historian and American Studies scholar has led her to an emphasis on the history of the Western United States, Women's History, and the emergence of Modernism in the American context. Her research has focused on Borders and Frontiers and the spaces people carve out in the interstices -- between genders, sexualities, regions, races, and rhetorics. As a result, her work has focused on the work of feminist anthropologists with Native American women informants, Tewa women in early twentieth-century New Mexico, man-women and Two Spirits, regionally-inscribed literatures, constructed landscapes, and interracial identities. Her current book project focuses on the meanings which lie behind the 1931 murder of a woman anthropologist on the Apache reservation in Arizona.

Selected Publications

Scientists and Storytellers: Feminist Anthropologists and the Ethnographic Construction of the American Southwest, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006.

The Western Women's Reader, Co-edited with Lillian Schlissel, New York: HarperCollins, 2000.

"Ruth Fulton Benedict: Culture, Pattern, and Personality in the Twentieth Century," in Paul Hansom, ed., Twentieth-Century American Cultural Theorists, (Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2004).

"Not-So-Plain Anne Ellis," Critical Introduction to Plain Anne Ellis, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997).

Giancarlo Lombardi (Italian), Department of Modern Languages

ITL 113 Basic Italian I
ITL 114 Basic Italian II
ITL 213 Continuing Italian I
ITL 215 Continuing Italian II
CIN 504 Postwar Italian Cinema*

1. Course Cross-Listed with Women's Studies

WMS 267 (LNG 267) Women in European Literature After the Renaissance

2. Other Courses

*It is possible for this course to count as a Women's Studies course with approval of the Women's Studies Coordinator

Professor Lombardi's research and teaching interests range from gender studies and cultural studies to Italian cinema and contemporary Italian, French, English, and American women writers.

Rooms with a View: Feminist Diary Fiction, 1952-1994. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002.

"A Memoria: Charting a Cultural Map for Women's Transition from Preistoria to Storia." Dacia Maraini: Critical Essays. Edited by Rodica Diaconescu-Blumenfeld and Ada Testaferri. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2000. 149-164.

"The Gift of an Italian Feu la Cendre: A Derridean Approach to Quaderno proibito." in Writing Beyond Fascism: Cultural Resistance in the Life and Works of Alba de Cespedes. Edited by Carole Gallucci and Ellen Nerenberg. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000. 198-221.

"Scambi d'identita. Il recupero del corpo materno ne L'amore molesto"
Romance Languages Annual 10 (1999):288-291.

Clara Melman (Sociology), Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work

WMS 230 (SOC 230) Sociology of Women

SOC 100 Sociology
SOC 260 Class, Status, and Power

Professor Melman works on issues of power in society, particularly those concerning gender inequalities.

Edward D. Miller (Communications) Department of Media Culture (Chairperson)

Gender issues are integrated into all my courses

COM 200 Media and Culture
COM 220 History of Broadcasting
COM 370 New Communication Technologies
COM 371 Minorities and the Media

Professor Miller's research is on media history, gender performativity, and the aesthetics and politics of sound, music, and noise in popular culture. His approach is influenced by psychoanalysis, semiotics, and queer and cyber theory as well as recent critiques of western philosophical traditions. He is a contributing editor for the Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Culture and the Culture Editor for the magazine Social Policy, where he also writes on media. He has just completed a manuscript on American radio entitled The Emergency Broadcast System.

"Stars and Sex Symbols" In Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Culture. Robert Gregg, Gary McDonogh & Cindy Wong, eds. London: Routledge. (Dec. 2000).

"The Matrix and The Medium's Message" (2000) Social Policy 30(4). (2000).

"The Switchboards of Desire: Storytelling on Phone Sex Lines". In Beyond the Lavender Lexicon: Authenticity, Imagination, and Appropriation in Lesbian and Gay Languages. William Leap, ed. New York: Gordon & Breach Publishers. Pp 3-18. (1996).

"Mourning and Performativity" Women and Performance 7(4). Pp 158-164. (1994)

Maurya Wickstrom (Drama) Department of Performing and Creative Arts/Coordinator, Drama Program

Courses Taught

1. Courses cross-listed with Women's Studies

DRA (523) Women and Performance

2. Other Courses

In all these courses Professor Wickstrom emphasizes gender equality and awareness of issues raised by gendered relationships.
In addition to these courses, Professor Wickstrom is implementing a new Drama curriculum and drama major which will offer opportunities to teach feminist performance and the contributions of women theatre artists to both historical and contemporary theatre.

DRA 320 Directing
DRA 110, 210, 310, 410 Acting
DRA 260 History of Theatre
DRA 213 Movement and DRA 270 Performance

Research Interests

Over the course of the past few years, Professor Wickstrom has been writing a book on how the corporate world uses the mimetic and identificatory processes of performance to ensure that consumers enact as their own fantasy the fictions created by the corporation. She is now turning to an investigation of the way that performance is articulated by and articulates processes of globalization and its violences, and intersects with the idea of the nomad. As part of this research, Wickstom is also concerned to see what critical languages might emerge as radical possibilies after the absorptions of poststructuralism as the very logic of the global market. Her new research will expand out from a study of the murders and disappearances of young workers in the maquiladora's in Juarez, Mexico, which she treats as a performance of violence and power.

Selected Publications

Performing Consumers: Theatrical Identifications in Corporate Cultures, due out from Routledge, Fall, 2006

"The Lion King, Mimesis and Disney's Magical Capitalism," in Rethinking Disney: Private Control, Public Dimensions, ed. MIke Budd, William Covino, and Max Kirsch, due out from Wesleyan Press, Fall, 2005

"Wonder in the Heart of Empire: Deborah Warner's Medea and The Angel Project," Modern Drama 47.2 (Summer, 2004)

"Commodities, Mimesis and The Lion King: Retail Theatre for the 90's, "Theatre Journal 51 (October, 1999).

Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong (Communication), Department of Media Culture

CIN 111 Basic Video Production
COM 150 Introduction to Communications
COM 203 Theories of Communication
COM 290 Internship in Media Production
COM (SOC 374) Mass Media in Modern Society
COM 450 Senior Seminar in Communications Research

Research Interests

Professor Wong research has focussed on grassroots community video, media practices in Hong Kong and the United States, and transnationalism in media and related public spheres. She studies media practices not only as texts, but also as social practices that encompass the production, distribution, exhibition and reception of media products. She is currently working on film festivals as nexus of global and local negotiation and continues to explore media and the creation of "the local" in Asia, North America and Europe.