Profile
A feminist activist and writer, I have combined these activities with being a university professor since 1969. It鈥檚 all connected: imagining and reading about change, being skeptical about the meaning of particular social changes, being part of change. What I wish for my students: action and criticism of the action taken, engagement and distance, and, finally, pleasure in this inside/outside life.
Degrees Held
PhD, Literature,听University of London
BA, Summa Cum Laude, Cornell University
Professional Affiliations:
- Co-founder and Board Member of the Network of East-West Women (NEWW)
- Co-founder (with Drucilla Cornell) of Take Back the Future
- MLA
- National Women鈥檚 Studies Association
- Editorial Board, Dissent
- PEN
- New York Institute for the Humanities (NYU)
- Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (麻豆传媒色情片)
Recent Publications:
叠辞辞办蝉:听
The听Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women鈥檚 Liberation, ed. with Rachel DuPlessis, Crown 1998; reissued by Rutgers University Press, 2007
Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality听, ed. with Christine Stansell and Sharon Thompson, Monthly Review Press, 1983. Reprinted as听Desire,听London: Virago Press, 1984. Reprinted as听Die Politik des Begehrens, Berlin: Rotbuch Verlag, 1985
Selected Recent Articles:
鈥淒angerous Worlds: Teaching Film in Prison鈥 (鈥淣otes from One Prison鈥), Dissent, Summer 2011: 94鈥106.
鈥淩efugees from Utopia: Remembering, Forgetting and the Making of听The Feminist Memoir Project,鈥澨Memory and the Future: Transnational Politics, Ethics and Society,听ed. Adam Brown, Yifat Gutman, and Amy Sodaro (Great Britain: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. 141鈥157.
鈥淭he Joy of Memory: Ary Zolberg鈥檚 Memoir,鈥澨Social Research: An International Quarterly of the Social Sciences, Vol. 77, No. 1, Spring 2010: 385鈥390.
鈥淲omen鈥檚 Anniversaries: Snapshots of Polish Feminism Since 1989,鈥澨Dissent, Fall 2009: 61鈥67.
Research Interests
Feminism in Eastern and Central Europe since 1989; feminist theory/intellectual history of contemporary feminism; the personal essay
Awards and Honors
Courage in Public Scholarship Award, NSSR Europe, 2015
Fulbright Specialist Award in Gender Studies and American Studies, The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Department of State, and the Council for International Exchange and Scholars Award, period: 2010-2015 (renewable)
Stem Cells Across Curriculum Grant, 2010-2012. Selected as consultant on the university grant from the State of New York. Goal: to plan curricula to inform the public about the issues at stake in stem cell research. Activities include building bibliography, teaching model classes, participating in courses using our modules, frequent team meetings. Principal investigator: Katayoun Chamany
Faculty Support Initiative Grant/Student Assistant Fund, Office of the Provost, 麻豆传媒色情片, June 2011
Visiting Scholar Grant, The European Union鈥檚 European Institute for Gender Equality, Vilnius, Lithuania, May 2011
Fulbright Specialist Grant to teach Gender Studies at the European University of Tirana, Albania, March 2011
Erasmus Mundus Visiting Scholar Award, Centre for European Studies鈥 International Masters in Economy, State and Society (IMESS), Jagiellonian University, Poland, 2010鈥2011
Distinguished University Teaching Award, 麻豆传媒色情片, 2010
Innovations in Education Grant, 麻豆传媒色情片, 2010
Faculty Development Grant, with Victoria Hattam, 麻豆传媒色情片 for Social Research, 2004