People: Core Faculty
These members of the Cornell faculty annually teach courses that are cross-listed with the Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program and are active in the program's governance and intellectual direction.
Alaka Basu, Professor, Development Sociology
Social demography; development; gender inequality; culture
Sandy Bem, Professor, Psychology
Social construction of gender and sexuality; clinical psychology and psychopathology
Lourdes Benería, Professor, City and Regional Planning; Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Gender and development; labor markets; women's work; globalization; European integration; Latin American development
Lynda Bogel, Senior Lecturer, English
Film; feminist criticism; autobiography; poetry
Debra Castillo, Emerson Hinchliff Professor of Hispanic Studies, Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow
Contemporary narrative from the Spanish-speaking world; women's studies; cultural theory
Shelley Correll, Associate Professor, Sociology
Gender inequality; social psychology; group processes; sociology of education
Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Associate Professor, English
Literatures of the Caribbean and Pacific; feminist theory and women's writing; post-colonial literature and theory
Illeen DeVault, Professor of Labor History
U.S. working class history; women's labor history; gender and class
Shelley Feldman, Professor, Development Sociology; Director, Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
State formation and nationalism; feminist epistemology and methods; political sociology; social inequalities; displacement and dislocation; social movements
Maria Fernandez, Assistant Professor, History of Art
History and theory of digital art; artificial life art; and the integration of media theory with post colonial and feminist theory
Joanne Fortune, James Law Professor of Physiology, Biomedical Sciences
Hormonal control of
ovarian development and function in mammals
J. Ellen Gainor, Professor, Theatre, Film, & Dance; Associate Dean, Graduate School
British and American drama; feminist theatre criticism and women playwrights
Durba Ghosh, Assistant Professor, History
Modern South Asia; gender; colonialism
Ellis Hanson, Professor, English
Victorian literature; decadence and aestheticism; lesbian and gay studies; psychoanalysis; film
Molly Hite, Professor, English
Twentieth-century fiction; literature by women; feminist criticism and theory; modernism; postmodernism; alternative constructions of twentieth-century literary history
Cary S. Howie, Assistant Professor, Romance Studies
Theoretical issues from sexuality to dialectic, apophasis to embodiment in the French and Italian Middle Ages; Old French narrative and contemporary queer culture; study of saints’ lives and pornography
Jane Juffer, Associate Professor, English; Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
feminist theory, Latino/a culture, cultural studies, and the corporate university
Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, Steven and Evalyn Milman Professor of American Studies, Government
Comparative and American politics; politics in India; gender issues; incarceration and race
Petrus Liu, Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature
Marxian economics, gendered subjectivities in (post-)colonial cul
tures; 19th- and 20th-century Chinese literary and intellectual thought; popular culture
Kathleen Perry Long, Professor, French Literature
Interdisciplinary approaches to French Renaissance culture, relative to questions of gender, monstrosity, and violence
Kathryn
March, Professor, Anthropology
Anthropology of sex and gender;
gender symbolism; life histories; women in development; social and cultural
anthropology; South Asia and Himalayas
Biddy Martin, Professor, German Studies; University Provost
Feminist theory; lesbian writing; German literature of the late 19th and 20th centuries
Sherry
Martin, Assistant Professor, Government; Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Political allegiance and alienation; mass political behavior and protest politics; comparative political party systems and political socialization; specialization on Japan and the US
Kate McCullough, Associate Professor, English; Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
American literature after 1865; women's literature; feminist literary criticism and theory; lesbian/queer theory
Mary Beth Norton, Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History
Women and gender in America before 1860
Judith Peraino, Associate Professor, Music
Issues of sexuality and music; medieval secular songs and motets; rock artists
Masha Raskolnikov, Assistant Professor, English
Middle English literature; allegory theory; medieval philosophy and rhetoric; contemporary critical theory; feminist and queer studies
Diana
Reese, Assistant Professor, German Studies; Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Comparative literature; 18th- to 19th-century literature and philosophy; feminist theory and gender studies; ethics, value, and globalization
Shirley Samuels, Professor, English
American literature and culture; 18th- and 19th-century American fiction; feminist criticism; American studies
Dawn Schrader, Associate Professor, Education
Exploration of the cognitive and metacognitive processes underlying human development and the actions and decisions made in real life settings
Suman Seth, Assistant Professor, Science & Technology Studies Program
History of the physical sciences in the 19th and 20th centuries; gender and science; science, colonialism, and nationalism
Amy Villarejo, Associate Professor, Theatre, Film & Dance; Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Film; cultural studies; queer theory; feminist theory; television
Sara Warner, Assistant Professor, Theatre, Film & Dance
Dramatic literature; performance studies; theater and social change; theories of gender and sexuality; instructional technology
Rachel Weil, Associate Professor, History
Gender; political culture in early modern England and Europe
Dagmawi Woubshet, Assistant Professor, English
African-American and Anglophone African literature and culture
