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Gender Studies

Gender studies at the University of Chicago encompasses diverse disciplines, modes of inquiry, and objects of knowledge. It is not a concentration, but rather a cluster of courses linked by their attention to gender as an object of study, or by their use of gender categories to investigate topics in sexuality, social life, politics and culture, literature and the arts, or systems of thought. Students are encouraged to use this listing of faculty and class offerings as a resource: for the purpose of constructing an interdisciplinary concentration in gender studies (for example, in General Studies in the Humanities); for the purpose of designing programs within disciplines; as an aid for the allocation of electives; or the pursuit of a B.A. project. For further work in gender studies, students are also encouraged to investigate other courses taught by the resource faculty. For more information about gender studies, contact Kathleen Forde (HM 266, 702-0569).

Faculty

ELIZABETH ALEXANDER, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language & Literature and the College

LEORA AUSLANDER, Assistant Professor, Department of History and the College

MARY E. BECKER, Professor, the Law School

LAUREN BERLANT, Associate Professor, Department of English Language & Literature and the College

JAQUELINE BHABHA, Professor, the Law School

JAMES E. BOWMAN, Professor, Departments of Medicine and Pathology, Committees on African & African-American Studies and Genetics, and the College

CAROL BRECKENRIDGE, Senior Lecturer, Division of the Humanities and the College

MARY BRINTON, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and the College

WILLIAM L. BROWN, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language & Literature

GEORGE CHAUNCEY, JR., Assistant Professor, Department of History and the College

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JEAN COMAROFF, Professor, Department of Anthropology; Committee on Human Nutrition & Nutritional Biology, Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science & Medicine, and the College; Cochairman, Committee on African & African-American Studies

WENDY DONIGER, Mircea Eliade Professor, the Divinity School, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations, Committee on Social Thought, and the College

MARTHA FELDMAN, Assistant Professor, Department of Music and the College

NORMA M. FIELD, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations

RACHEL FULTON, Assistant Professor, Department of History and the College

SUSAN GAL, Professor, Department of Anthropology and the College

JAN E. GOLDSTEIN, Professor, Department of History and the College

WENDY GRISWOLD, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and the College

ELAINE HADLEY, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language & Literature and the College

MARY HANCOCK, Mellon Instructor, Department of Anthropology and the College

MIRIAM HANSEN, Professor, Department of English Language & Literature and the College

SARAH HARPER, Assistant Professor, Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies and the College

ELIZABETH HELSINGER, Professor, Department of English Language & Literature and the College

GILBERT HERDT, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and the College

RONALD INDEN, Professor, Departments of History and South Asian Languages & Civilizations and the College

JANET JOHNSON, Professor, Oriental Institute and Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations; Director, Oriental Institute

JANICE KNIGHT, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language & Literature and the College

LAURA LETINSKY, Assistant Professor, Department of Art, Committee on Art & Design

CHRISTOPHER LOOBY, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language & Literature and the College

MARY MAHOWALD, Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology

MARTHA MCCLINTOCK, Professor, Department of Psychology and the College

FRANçOISE MELTZER, Professor, Departments of Romance Languages & Literatures and Comparative Literature and the College

INGRID MONSON, Assistant Professor, Department of Music and the College

MALKA MOSCONA, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and the

College

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JANEL M. MUELLER, William Rainey Harper Professor in the Humanities; Professor, Department of English Language & Literature

GLORIA PINNEY, Professor, Departments of Art History and Classical Languages & Literatures, Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World, and the College

ELIZABETH POVINELLI, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and the College

LISA RUDDICK, Associate Professor, Department of English Language & Literature, Committee on General Studies in the Humanities, and the College

MARK SANDBERG, Lecturer, Department of Germanic Studies

LYNN SANDERS, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and the College

JULIE SAVILLE, Assistant Professor, Department of History and the College

LINDA SEIDEL, Associate Professor, Department of Art, Committee on General Studies in the Humanities, and the College

MICHAEL SILVERSTEIN, Samuel N. Harper Professor, Departments of Anthropology, Linguistics, and Psychology (Cognition & Communication), and Committee on Analysis of Ideas & Study of Methods

LAURA SLATKIN, Associate Professor, Department of Classical Languages & Literatures, Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World, and the College

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AMY STANLEY, Assistant Professor, Department of History and the College

LAUREN TAAFFE, Mellon Instructor, Humanities Collegiate Division; Associate Member, Department of Classical Languages & Literatures

KATIE TRUMPENER, Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic Studies and the College

WILLIAM VEEDER, Professor, Department of English Language & Literature, and Committee on General Studies in the Humanities

CANDACE VOGLER, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and the College

MARTHA WARD, Assistant Professor, Department of Art, Committee on Art & Design, and the College

ELISSA WEAVER, Professor, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures and the College

REBECCA WEST, Professor, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures and the

College

Courses

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Anthropology

Anthro 215. East European Societies. S. Gal. Winter.

Anthro 243/403. Medicine and Culture. J. Comaroff. Spring.

Anthro 306-2. Introduction to African Civilization II (=SocSci 227). R. Austen. Winter.

Art and Design

ArtDes 260. What's Love Got to Do with It: The Genres of Modern Romance (=Eng 235). L. Berlant, L. Latinsky. Winter.

Biological Sciences

BioSci 162. Evolution and Human Diversity. J. Bowman. Spring.

BioSci 286. Foundations of Gender and Gender Differences (=NCD 228, Psych 219). M. Moscona, M. McClintock. Spring.

BioSci 324 (=HumDev 324, Psych 318). Social Context of Vertebrate Reproduction. J. Altmann, L. Houck, M. McClintock. Winter.

East Asian Languages and Civilizations

EALC 205. Fifty Years Later: The Asian-Pacific War and Japanese Literature. N. Field. Autumn.

English

Eng 102-103. Problems in Gender Studies (=GS Hum 228-229, Hist 204-205, Hum 228-229, SocSci 282-283). E. Alexander, L. Berlant, Staff, Autumn; B. Povanelli, Staff, Winter.

Eng 212. Gender and Identity in Victorian Poetry. E. Helsinger. Winter.

Eng 219. Victorian Women Writers. E. Helsinger. Spring.

Eng 235. What's Love Got to Do with It: The Genres of Modern Romance (=ArtDes 260). L. Berlant, L. Latinsky. Winter.

Eng 252. American Embodiments, 1855-1905. W. Brown. Spring.

Germanic Studies

German 351 (=ComLit 360, GS Hum 378, Hum 278). Cinema and Culture of the 1930s: Germany and Europe. K. Trumpener. Winter.

German 399. Arts of Love and Books of Marriage from Sappho and Solomon to Freud and Lou (=GS Hum 384, Hum 283, JewStd 273). S. Jaffe. Spring.

History

Hist 132. History of Western Civilization. J. Goldstein. Winter.

Hist 136. America in Western Civilization. J. Saville. Winter.

Hist 197. European Intellectual and Cultural History. J. Goldstein. Winter.

Hist 204-205. Problems in Gender Studies (=Eng 102-103, GS Hum 205-206, Hum 228-229, SocSci 282-283). E. Alexander, L. Berlant, Staff, Autumn; B. Povanelli, Staff, Winter.

Hist 405. U.S. Women's History. A. Stanley. Spring.

Hist 616. Telling Women's Lives. S. Fitzpatrick. Winter.

Human Development

HumDev 353 (=Psych 301). Gender and Sexual Development. G. Herdt. Winter.

HumDev 320. Developmental Biopsychology (=EvBiol 320, Psych 217). M. McClintock. Autumn.

HumDev 324 (=BioSci 324, Psych 318). Social Context of Vertebrate Reproduction. J. Altmann, L. Houck, M. McClintock. Winter.

Humanities

Hum 131. Form, Problem, and Event. C. Looby. Winter.

Hum 142. Reading Cultures: Capitalist Cultures. Staff. Spring.

Hum 228-229. Problems in Gender Studies (=Eng 102-103, GS Hum 205-206, Hist 204-205, SocSci 282-283). E. Alexander, L. Berlant, Staff, Autumn; B. Povanelli, Staff, Winter.

Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations

Egypt 222/280. Women in Ancient Egypt. J. Johnson. Autumn.

Philosophy

Philos 310. Agents, Actions, and Ends (=GS Hum 307). C. Vogler. Spring.

Psychology

Psych 217. Developmental Biopsychology (=EvBiol 320, HumDev 320). M. McClintock. Autumn.

Psych 219. Foundations of Gender and Gender Differences (=BioSci 286, NCD 228). M. McClintock. Spring.

Psych 318. Social Context of Vertebrate Reproduction (=BioSci 324, HumDev 324). J. Altmann, M. McClintock, S. Goldin-Meadow. Winter.

Political Science

PolSci 222. Feminism and U.S. Politics. L. Sanders. Autumn.

PolSci 262. Race and Politics in the United States. L. Sanders. Autumn.

Romance Languages & Literatures

Ital 241/341. Il dialogo rinascimentale del Quattro e del Cinquecento: Alberti, Castiglione, e Fonte. E. Weaver. Autumn.

Social Sciences

SocSci 282-283. Problems in Gender Studies (=Eng 102-103, GS Hum 205-206, Hist 204-205, Hum 228-229). E. Helsinger, M. Ward, Staff, Autumn; B. Povanelli, Staff, Winter.

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