Elaine Cannell
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender & Women's Studies
Pronouns: she/her
Email: cannell@wisc.edu
Address:
3434 Sterling Hall
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Dr. Elaine Cannell is a visiting assistant professor in Gender and Women’s Studies. Her interdisciplinary research examines the cultural histories of liberatory activism in the United States and abroad, with particular interest in the mutual influences between performance art, drama, and social movement organizing. Dr. Cannell teaches courses in queer and feminist theory, twentieth and twenty-first century literature, and popular culture and performance.