contact through email Current research projects cover topics of women, women's rights and gender issues in Islamic societies (Middle East top Southeast Asia); gender identity and community in transnational settings (e.g. intergenerational feminisms and constructions of masculinities in Iranian refugee communities); senior women ethnographers ("patriarchy in anthropology"); gender and education. |
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contact through email I am primarily interested in American literary history and why we read the books we read. My current research is on the period after the Civil War when literature was professionalized and male critics established themselves as arbiters of taste. |
contact through email My teaching areas are performance theory, dance history, and women's studies. I am currently studying the choreography of Martha Graham through a feminist psychoanalytic framework. |
contact through email I am interested in the role of reading in women's lives; women's biography; women in the Progressive era; and in the connections among emotions, cognition, and culture in 19th and 20th century U.S. history. |
