Director: Paulina Bren;

Steering Committee:  Sole Anatrone (Italian Studies), Anne Brancky (French and Francophone Studies), Paulina Bren (International Studies), Katie Gemmill^a (English), Jean M. Kane (English), Elena Krell^a (Women, Feminist, and Queer Studies), Hiram Perez (English), Jeffrey Schneider (German Studies), Vinay Swamy (French and Francophone Studies), Kirsten Wesselhoeft (Religion), Kimberly Williams Brown (Education), 

Advisory Board: Mita Choudhury (History), Colleen Ballerino Cohen^b (Anthropology), Leslie C. Dunn (English), Susan Hiner (French and Francophone Studies), Lydia Murdoch (History), Peipei Qiu (Chinese and Japanese);

Participating Faculty: Sole Anatrone (Italian Studies), John Andrews (Sociology), Anne Brancky (French and Francophone Studies), Lisa Brawley (Urban Studies and Associate Dean of the Faculty), Paulina Bren (International Studies), Light Carruyo^a (Sociology), Kristin Sánchez Carter (Women, Feminist, and Queer Studies) Mita Choudhury (History), Colleen Ballerino Cohen^b (Anthropology), Lisa Gail Collins(Art), Darlene Deporto (Sociology), Eve Dunbar (English), Leslie C. Dunn (English), Rebecca Edwards (History), Katie Gemmill^a (English), Diane Harriford (Sociology), Susan Hiner (French and Francophone Studies), Jean M. Kane (English), Elena Krell^a (Women, Feminist, and Queer Studies), Molly S. McGlennen^b (English), Daniel Mendiola (History), Mootacem Mhiri (Africana Studies), Seungsook Moon (Sociology), Lydia Murdoch (History),  Barbara A. Olsen^a (Greek and Roman Studies), Sarah Pearlman (Economics), Hiram Perez (English), Allison Puglisi (History), Peipei Qiu (Chinese and Japanese), Claire Sagan (Political Science), Jeffrey Schneider (German Studies), Jill S. Schneiderman^b (Earth Science), Ashanti Shih (History), Vinay Swamy (French and Francophone Studies), Jasmine Syedullah (Africana Studies), Silke von der Emde (German Studies), Kirsten Wesselhoeft (Religion), Kimberly Williams Brown (Education), Eva Woods Peiró (Hispanic Studies), Susan Zlotnick (English).

^a On leave 2022/23, first semester

^b On leave 2022/23, second semester

Programs

Major

• •  Women, Feminist, and Queer Studies Major

Correlate Sequence in Women, Feminist, and Queer Studies

• •  Queer Studies Correlate Sequence
• •  Women’s Studies Correlate Sequence

Approved Courses

• •  Women, Feminist, and Queer Studies Approved Courses

Courses

Women, Feminist, and Queer Studies: I. Introductory

• •  WFQS 110 - Gender, Social Problems and Social Change
• •  WFQS 122 - Queer Italian American Media
• •  WFQS 123 - Women on the Italian Screen
• •  WFQS 130 - Introduction to Women’s Studies
• •  WFQS 160 - Issues in Feminism

Women, Feminist, and Queer Studies: II. Intermediate

• •  WFQS 201 - Introduction to Queer Studies
• •  WFQS 203 - Women in Greek and Roman History and Myth
• •  WFQS 205 - Arab Women Writers
• •  WFQS 206 - Gender Issues in Economics
• •  WFQS 210 - Domestic Violence
• •  WFQS 214 - Transnational Perspectives on Women and Work
• •  WFQS 218 - Literature, Gender, and Sexuality
• •  WFQS 221 - Captive Genders and Methods of Survival
• •  WFQS 222 - Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Islamic Spaces
• •  WFQS 230 - European Women’s Cinema
• •  WFQS 231 - Women Making Music
• •  WFQS 236 - The Black Freedom Struggle
• •  WFQS 237 - Gender and Sexuality in African America
• •  WFQS 240 - Gender and the Digital
• •  WFQS 241 - Topics in the Constructions of Gender
• •  WFQS 245 - Making Waves: Topics in Feminist Activism
• •  WFQS 250 - Feminist Theory
• •  WFQS 251 - Global Feminism
• •  WFQS 260 - Sex & Reproduction in 19th Century United States: Before Margaret Sanger
• •  WFQS 262 - Native American Women
• •  WFQS 269 - Gender and African American History
• •  WFQS 271 - Hello, Dear Enemy: Mounting an Exhibition of Children’s Experiences of War and Displacement
• •  WFQS 272 - Feminist Thought and Politics: Sex, Gender, Matter
• •  WFQS 277 - Feminist Approaches to Science and Technology
• •  WFQS 278 - Women’s History of Latin America
• •  WFQS 279 - Rethinking Gender in an Educational Context
• •  WFQS 284 - Gender and Environmentalism in the Ancient Mediterranean
• •  WFQS 288 - Women and/in Cinema: A French Perspective
• •  WFQS 290 - Community-Engaged Learning
• •  WFQS 297 - Reading Courses
• •  WFQS 298 - Independent Study

Women, Feminist, and Queer Studies: III. Advanced

• •  WFQS 301 - Senior Thesis or Project Intensive
• •  WFQS 302 - Senior Thesis or Project Intensive
• •  WFQS 320 - Studies in Literary Traditions
• •  WFQS 321 - Feminism, Knowledge, Practice
• •  WFQS 322 - Caribbean Spaces: Discourses of West Indian resistance, love and hope
• •  WFQS 336 - Black on Earth: Race, Gender, and the Environment
• •  WFQS 352 - Studies in Romanticism
• •  WFQS 355 - Childhood and Children in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• •  WFQS 360 - Religion, Sex, and the Modern State
• •  WFQS 362 - Women in Japanese and Chinese Literature
• •  WFQS 364 - Race, Class & Gender in the United States
• •  WFQS 366 - Art and Activism in the U.S.
• •  WFQS 369 - Masculinities: Global Perspectives
• •  WFQS 370 - Feminist Perspectives on Environmentalism
• •  WFQS 371 - Gender, Science and Politics
• •  WFQS 372 - New Materialism
• •  WFQS 375 - Seminar in Women’s Studies
• •  WFQS 379 - Muslim Feminist and Womanist thought and Praxis
• •  WFQS 381 - How Queer is That?
• •  WFQS 382 - Marie-Antoinette
• •  WFQS 385 - Women, Culture, and Development
• •  WFQS 399 - Senior Independent Study