Teaching

Winter 2023

WGS 332 Contemporary Feminist Theories

-----------------

Fall 2022

WGS 498/ GSJ 598 On Complicity and Being Implicated: Difficult Questions for Social Justice

Informed by an intersectional-type framework, this seminar will look at the ways that feminists and other social justice advocates consider (or not) their implications in complex histories, structures, and practices of inequality. We will read theoretical and methodological work that considers multiple axes of oppression, for example, but not limited to, (settler) colonialism, classism, heteronormativity, white supremacy, the climate catastrophe, etc... We will grapple with the difficult knowledge of being implicated in modes and structures inequality and violence to consider how such knowledge can inform scholarship and activism for social change.

WGS 360 Gender, Race and Class

--------------------

Winter 2022

WGS 498/GSJ 598 Cultural Memory and Social Justice

The course explores how the memory of state supported or tolerated mass violence (genocides like the Holocaust, Settler Colonialism, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, but also Violence Against Women and Trans folks) might foster social movements towards greater social justice. Might memory and memorialization make a difference? Or, do days of commemoration or monuments tend to foster forgetting? How and what kind of memory constitutes a working through as opposed to a repetition? What role do art and activism play for memory to work for social justice? And what about the economies of memory (material, affective, social, relational)? The course offers an introduction to the vast field of cultural memory studies and its central readings while attending to a range of case studies.

------------------