Gender and Women’s Studies

Faculty members explore issues relating to gender and sexual identities from literary, theoretical, and historical perspectives. This includes the study of women; of LGBTQ+ writers; and of the social, political, and linguistic forces that shape the creation of gender across varied cultural contexts. Topics of interest include women’s writing, feminism, gender-based identities, queer studies, and motherhood and other gendered roles.

early modern European culture; translation studies; history of Italian theatre and performance; the relationship between fact and fiction

Fabio Battista

Assistant Professor of Italian

Early modern European culture; translation studies; history of Italian theatre and performance; the relationship between fact and fiction

Literature and Culture, Film, Visual Arts, Memory and Trauma, Spanish Civil War, Women Writers, Cultural Studies, Transatlantic Studies, and Gender Studies

Ana Corbalán

Professor of Spanish

Literature and Culture, film, visual Arts, memory and trauma, Spanish Civil War, women writers, cultural studies, Transatlantic studies, and gender studies

Johannes Fröhlich

Instructor of German, German Undergraduate Advisor (M-Z)

Medieval and early modern literature and theater; gender and women’s writing; literary representations of military-historical events; spectacle and performance; print and manuscript history; prophecy and eschatology; rhetoric; intersections of Italian, Spanish, and French cultural production

Yunuen Gómez-Ocampo

Instructor of Spanish

Latin American, Latinx & Caribbean Studies, migration and Border Studies, gender studies, women writers, testimonial genres, translation studies, literary publishing

Gender Studies, Women Writers, Early Modernity, Social Justice, Hegemony and Power, Queer Theory

Xabier Granja

Associate Professor of Spanish, Spanish Undergraduate Director

Gender studies, women writers, Early Modernity, social justice, hegemony and power, queer theory

Barbara Gray

Instructor of Spanish

modern and contemporary Italian literature, culture, philosophy, and history, literary criticism, aesthetics, phenomenology, and gender and trauma studies

Alessandra Montalbano

Associate Professor of Italian

Modern and contemporary Italian literature, culture, philosophy, and history, literary criticism, aesthetics, phenomenology, and gender and trauma studies

Modernismo and women’s writing in Latin America; feminism, gender theory, aesthetics, and intellectual networks

Sarah Moody

Associate Professor of Spanish, Director of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies, Sigma Delta Pi Advisor

Modernismo and women’s writing in Latin America; feminism, gender theory, aesthetics, intellectual networks

Claudia Romanelli

Associate Professor of Italian, Italian Program Director, Italian Undergraduate Advisor

Italian cinema in a transnational context, film history and theory, screenwriting practices, international co-productions, collaborative authorship, contemporary Italian literature, postcolonial studies, mixed- and intermedia

20th and 21st century literature, ecocriticism, ecopoetics, queer theory, modernism, psychoanalysis

Gina Stamm

Associate Professor of French

20th and 21st century literature, ecocriticism, ecopoetics, queer theory, modernism, psychoanalysis

Cheryl Toman

Department Chair, Professor of French

African women’s writing (Central Africa and Mali), Arab women writers, feminisms, cultural studies, sociolinguistics, immigration

Homeric epics; women in Classical Antiquity, women’s social & political status in Antiquity, women in Greek democracy; archetypal literary criticism & myth criticism; ancient civilization & history

Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers

Associate Professor of Classics

Women and democracy, women and antiquity, gender studies, epic poetry, Greek tragedy