Faculty
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Jodi BilinkoffProfessor I am interested in issues relating to religion, gender, life-writing, and constructions of authority in early modern Europe, especially Spain. After working for many years on women and/in Catholic culture more recently I have turned my attention to masculine identity, especially male clerical identity. |
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Elizabeth Chiseri-StraterProfessor Bio coming soon... |
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Emily EdwardsProfessor Emily D. Edwards received her Ph.D. in Journalism and Mass Communication and Master of Arts in Drama from the University of Tennessee Knoxville. She worked professionally as a news reporter, producer, copywriter for NBC and ABC affiliates. The writer, producer, director of more than twenty films, Edwards is also published in the areas of gender and media culture, popular music, the occult in film, and documentary filmmaking. Her feature films include Bone Creek (2009), Scripture Cake (2007), and Root Doctor (2005). She is also known for Deadheads: An American Subculture (Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1990); Wondrous Events (1995), and Wondrous Healing (2005). Edwards’ screenplays have received awards from: the Broadcast Education Association (BEA), University Film and Video Association (UFVA), Twin Rivers, and Bare Bone International screenwriting competitions among others. She has been a Nicholl Semifinalist. Her films have received awards from CINE, Moondance, UFVA, The George Lindsey Film Festival, Accolade, BEA, Indie Memphis, Pixal Academy, and Boomtown Film and Music Festival (among others) and have been exhibited at festivals and in television broadcast nationwide. She is currently the Director for the Center for Creative Writing in the Arts at UNCG. |
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Mary Ellis GibsonProfessor Bio coming soon... |
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Diane GillLinda Arnold Carlisle Distinguished Excellence Professor of Women's & Gender Studies, Professor Bio coming soon... |
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Jill GreenProfessor Bio coming soon... |
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Derek KruegerProfessor Bio coming soon... |
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Eugene RogersProfessor Educated at Princeton, Tübingen, Rome, and Yale, Rogers taught at Yale College and Divinity School, Shaw University Divinity School, St. Anselm College, and, from 1993 to 2005, at the University of Virginia, where for several years he chaired the Program in Theology, Ethics, and Culture. All eight of his finished Ph.D. students have had full-time employment in colleges or universities, six tenure-track. In 2002-03, he was the Eli Lilly Visiting Associate Professor of Christian Thought and Practice in the Religion Department at Princeton University. He has held fellowships or residencies from the Fulbright Commission, the Mellon Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the Lilly Foundation, the Center of Theological Inquiry at Princeton Seminary, the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University, Tantur Ecumenical Research Institute in Jerusalem, and the Templeton Foundation. He is author or editor of six books and some thirty-five articles and translations. His current project is called The Analogy of Blood. He joined the UNCG faculty in 2005. |
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Hephzibah RoskellyProfessor Hephzibah Roskelly received her PhD at the University of Louisville and taught at the University of Massachusetts Boston before coming to UNCG's English Department in 1989. Here she teaches a variety of courses in rhetoric and writing, including women's rhetoric, feminist theory and the teaching of writing. A former high school teacher, she works every summer with classroom teachers across he country to support their efforts in teaching literacy. In 2012, she received the University Board of Governors' Teaching Award. |
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Cathryne SchmitzProfessor Bio coming soon... |
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Rachel BrileyAssociate Professor Bio coming soon... |
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Katherine JamiesonAssociate Professor Bio coming soon... |
Janine JonesAssociate Professor My name is Janine Jones. I am an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at UNCG, where I teach Introduction to Philosophy, Philosophy of Race and Gender (which is cross-listed with WGS), Philosophy of the Arts, and Philosophy of Mind. I am also an adjunct faculty member of Women’s and Gender Studies. My publications include “The Impairment of Empathy in Goodwill Whites” in What White Looks Like, ed. George Yancy. Routledge 2004, “Illusory Possibilities and Imagining Counterparts” Acta Analytica (2004), and “Can We Imagine This Happening to a White Boy?,” which appears in Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics (Lexington 2012), a book I co-edited with George Yancy. My philosophical interests lie at the intersection of issues pertaining to imagination, language, socio-ontological reality, and race and gender. This includes problems related to intersectional or interlocking identities and analyses of oppression. |
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Elizabeth KeathleyAssociate Professor Bio coming soon... |
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Lisa LevensteinAssociate Professor Lisa Levenstein is Associate Professor of History. She is the author of A Movement Without Marches: African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia (UNC Press, 2009), which was co-winner of the Kenneth Jackson Book Award from the Urban History Association and received an Honorable Mention for the Frederick Jackson Turner Award from the Organization of American Historians. Levenstein has published award-winning articles in Feminist Studies and the Journal of Women’s History and recently co-authored, “The Big Tent of U.S. Women’s and Gender History: A State of the Field,” Journal of American History (December 2012). She has received several grants to support her two current projects on the displaced homemakers campaign of the 1970s and the Beijing Women’s Conference of 1995. |
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Alexandra Schultheis MooreAssociate Professor Moore works in postcolonial studies and on human rights in literature and film. She is the author of Regenerative Fictions: Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis, and the Nation as Family (2004) as well as numerous book chapters and essays, and co-editor, with Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg, of Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature (2012). They are also co-editing Doubling the Voice: Human Rights Workers and Survivors Address Torture (forthcoming) and Teaching Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies (under final review). Moore is currently completing a monograph on human rights as a mode of framing and reception in contemporary world literature. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on human rights; literature and globalization; postcolonial literature, film and theory; and postcolonial women's writing. |
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Nancy MyersAssociate Professor Nancy Myers earned her doctorate at Texas Christian University and is an Associate Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). She specializes in the history of rhetoric and composition pedagogy and served as 2010–2012 President of the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition. She received the UNCG Alumni Teaching Excellence Award in 2002. Recent publications include essays in Political Women: Language and Leadership (Lexington 2013), Women’s Oratorical Education (Routledge 2013), Rhetoric: Concord and Controversy (Waveland 2012), Silence and Listening as Rhetorical Arts (SIUP 2011), and Stories of Mentoring: Theory and Praxis (Palgrave 2008).
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Elizabeth NatalleAssociate Professor Bio coming soon... |
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Tracy NicholsAssociate Professor Bio coming soon... |
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Mark RifkinAssociate Professor Mark Rifkin is Associate Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies. He received his PhD from the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania in 2003. He is the author of three books: Manifesting America: The Imperial Construction of U.S. National Space; When Did Indians Become Straight?: Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty (winner of the 2012 John Hope Franklin prize for best book in American Studies); and The Erotics of Sovereignty: Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination. He also co-edited "Sexuality, Nationality, Indigeneity," a special double-issue of the journal GLQ (winner of the 2010 prize for best special issue from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals). Currently, he is completing a monograph on mid-nineteenth-century writing in the U.S. called Settler Common Sense: The Queer Career of Empire in the American Renaissance. |
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Carisa ShowdenAssociate Professor Carisa R. Showden is associate professor of Political Science and Women’s and Gender Studies. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She is a political theorist by training, doing interdisciplinary work that crosses contemporary and feminist political theory, gender and sexuality studies, women and politics, and law and society scholarship. She is the author of Choices Women Make: Agency in Domestic Violence, Assisted Reproduction, and Sex Work and co-editor (with Samantha Majic) of the forthcoming Power Plays: Rethinking the Politics of Sex Work. She has just finished writing a book with Marìa DeGuzmán titled Conjuring Worlds: A Queer Phenomenology of the Miniature and has begun a new solo book project provisionally titled Best in Show: Children, Dogs, and the Commodification of Innocence. She teaches Introduction to Political Theory, American Political Thought, Women and Politics, Women and the Law, and Controversies in Contemporary Politics. Showden is also the Director of Graduate Studies for the Women’s and Gender Studies Program (beginning Fall 2013).
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Paige Hall SmithAssociate Professor Bio coming soon... |
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Leila VillaverdeAssociate Professor Bio coming soon... |
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Karen WeylerAssociate Professor Bio coming soon... |
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Jennifer FeatherAssistant Professor Jennifer Feather is an assistant professor of English literature at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, specializing in early Renaissance literature with an additional interest in contemporary theories of gender and violence. Her book “Writing Combat and the Self in Early Modern English Literature: The Pen and the Sword” (Palgrave 2011) examines competing depictions of combat in sixteenth-century texts as varied as Arthurian romance and early modern medical texts to demonstrate the continued importance of combat in understanding the humanist subject and the contours of the previously neglected pre-modern subject. In addition, she has published essays on blood in Shakespeare’s Othello (forthcoming in Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England) and the importance of Brutus’s suicide in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (in Shakespeare and Moral Agency, ed. Michael D. Bristol. New York, NY: Continuum Books, 2010). |
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Sarah Jane CervenakAssistant Professor Sarah Jane Cervenak is an assistant professor, jointly appointed in the Women’s and Gender Studies and African American Studies programs at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Her areas of research and teaching are critical race theory, feminist theory, Black studies, performance studies and philosophy. Her current work queries the Black radical, feminist potential of devastation and deformity in the art of Leonardo Drew and Wangechi Mutu. She is the author of Wandering: Philosophical Performances of Racial and Sexual Freedom (tentative title; forthcoming with Duke University Press). She has also published in the academic journals Discourse, Palimpsest: Women, Gender and the Black International and Spectator as well as in anthologies on feminism and the African American novel respectively. |
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Cybelle McFaddenAssistant Professor Bio coming soon... |
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Susanne RinnerAssistant Professor Dr. Rinner is originally from Speyer, a small, yet historically significant town located in the south of Germany. After an apprenticeship at Brockhaus & Duden, publisher of the respected German dictionary Duden and the leading German encyclopedia, she began her studies in philosophy, literature, and law at the Freie Universität in Berlin. Experiencing feelings of Wanderlust, she continued her graduate studies in the US. After teaching at Allegheny College, Georgetown University, and George Washington University she joined the faculty at UNCG in 2007. With a focus on twentieth century and contemporary German literature, film and culture, her interdisciplinary research interests include cultural memory and social movements. Dr. Rinner is also interested in modern language pedagogy and curriculum development, and she enjoys working closely with students in and outside the classroom. With her scholarship and teaching, she contributes to the mission of the liberal arts in higher education. |
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Amy VetterAssistant Professor Bio coming soon... |
Christine WoodworthAssistant Professor Bio coming soon... |
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Mary KrautterHead of Reference & Instructional Services, University Libraries Bio coming soon... |
