Director: Paulina Bren;

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

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

Participating Faculty: John Andrews (Sociology), Leonisa Ardizzone (Education), Lisa Brawley (Urban Studies and Associate Dean of the Faculty), Light Carruyo (Sociology), Kristin Sánchez Carter (Women, Feminist, and Queer Studies), Mita Choudhury^b (History), Colleen Ballerino Cohen (Anthropology), Lisa Gail Collins (Art), Darlene Deporto (Sociology),Hiromi Dollase (Chinese and Japanese), Leslie C. Dunn^a (English), Rebecca Edwards^ab (History), Diane Harriford (Sociology), Susan Hiner^b (French and Francophone Studies), Tracey Holland (Latin American and Latinx Studies), Erin McCloskey (Education), Molly S. McGlennen (English), Daniel Mendiola (History), Mootacem Mhiri (Africana Studies), Seungsook Moon^ab (Sociology), Lydia Murdoch (History), Barbara A. Olsen (Greek and Roman Studies), Sarah Pearlman^ab (Economics), Allison Puglisi^ab (History), Peipei Qiu^a (Chinese and Japanese), Claire Sagan^a (Political Science), Jill S. Schneiderman^a (Earth Science), Ashanti Shih^b (History), Rachel Silverbloom (Philosophy), Jasmine Syedullah (Africana Studies), Silke von der Emde (German Studies), Eva Woods Peiró (Hispanic Studies).

^a On leave 2024/25, first semester

^b On leave 2024/25, second semester

^ab On leave 2024/25

Women, Feminist, and Queer Studies is a multidisciplinary program that explores gender and sexuality through queer and feminist methodologies. Using an intersectional framework, students explore gender and sexuality through multiple axes of power, including race, class, ethnicity, disability, and more. We offer a curriculum in which students study the way that gender and sexuality help organize the world (and in turn are organized by culture and society), but also how they constitute a methodological prism through which to transform it.

Through a variety of feminist analytics including transnational feminism, Black feminist thought, decolonial feminism, indigenous feminism, queer studies, and transgender epistemologies, WFQS interrogates the interconnectedness of global forces and local realities. We draw on activist efforts for knowledge-building toward a just society and political coalitions (not just individual solutions), and transformative pedagogical practices for undergraduate students.

We engage these frameworks to analyze human experience in its bodily, political, economic and cultural dimensions. Students learn to use a complex variety of theoretical and empirical research as well as anti-racist queer and feminist praxis to produce critical knowledges that envision possibilities for transformation and change.

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 106 - Philosophy & Contemporary Issues
• •  WFQS 122 - Queer Italian American Media
• •  WFQS 123 - Women on the Italian Screen
• •  WFQS 130 - Introduction to Women’s Studies

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 224 - Intersectionality in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
• •  WFQS 230 - European Women’s Cinema
• •  WFQS 231 - Women Making Music
• •  WFQS 236 - The Black Freedom Struggle
• •  WFQS 237 - Gender and Sexuality in Black America
• •  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 261 - Performance and Politics in 1970s Italy
• •  WFQS 262 - Native American Women
• •  WFQS 267 - Topics in Gender, Media, Culture
• •  WFQS 271 - Hello, Dear Enemy: Mounting an Exhibition on 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 290 - Community-Engaged Learning
• •  WFQS 297 - Reading Courses
• •  WFQS 298 - Independent Study

Women, Feminist, and Queer Studies: III. Advanced

• •  WFQS 303 - Senior Capstone: Interdisciplinary Research Methods and Writing Seminar
• •  WFQS 304 - Senior Capstone: Interdisciplinary Research Methods and Writing Seminar
• •  WFQS 321 - Feminism, Knowledge, Practice
• •  WFQS 322 - Caribbean Spaces: Discourses of West Indian resistance, love and hope
• •  WFQS 336 - Black Ecologies
• •  WFQS 352 - Studies in Romanticism
• •  WFQS 354 - Critical Issues in Women’s Health
• •  WFQS 355 - Childhood and Children in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• •  WFQS 357 - Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
• •  WFQS 360 - Religion, Sex, and the Modern State
• •  WFQS 362 - Women in Japanese and Chinese Literature
• •  WFQS 366 - Art and Activism in the U.S.
• •  WFQS 369 - Masculinities: Global Perspectives
• •  WFQS 371 - Gender, Science and Politics
• •  WFQS 372 - New Materialism
• •  WFQS 375 - Seminar in Women’s Studies
• •  WFQS 381 - How Queer is That?
• •  WFQS 382 - Marie-Antoinette
• •  WFQS 384 - Poetics of Possession: Hinduism, Literature, and Gender
• •  WFQS 385 - Women, Culture, and Development
• •  WFQS 399 - Senior Independent Study