Biography Myra Marx Ferree is the Alice H. Cook Professor of Sociology as well as an active member of the Gender and Women’s Studies Department and European Studies Program. Her most recent books include Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions with Lisa Wade, Gender, Violence and Human Security with Aili Tripp and Christina Ewig, and Varieties of …
Biography Professor Pondrom is currently at work on research on Gertrude Stein’s Geography and Plays, on Women and the Rise of Modernism (including studies of H.D., Marianne Moore, Edith Sitwell, Gertrude Stein, Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, Mina Loy); on contemporary feminist poets in the United Kingdom. Selected Publications: “An Introduction to the Achievement of Gertrude …
Biography Ellen Samuels is an associate professor and a founding member of the UW Disability Studies Initiative. She is the author of Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race (NYU, 2014) and her critical work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Signs, Disability Studies Quarterly, Feminist Disability Studies, GLQ, MELUS, The Disability Studies Reader, …
Biography Curriculum Vitae Over the years I have presented scores of papers at various conferences and universities in the US, Canada, Britain, Italy, and Germany. These presentations have focused on medieval women saints, heroics of virginity, monasticism, policies of enclosure, gender and sacred space, pilgrimage and miracles, and medieval embroidery. In 2002 I designed a …