Professor Evelyn Torton Beck: Ph.D. (1969) University of Wisconsin-Madison, M.A. (1955) Yale University, B.A. (1954) joined the department in 1984 and served as director until 1993. Before that she was Professor of Women's Studies, Comparative Literature, and German at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her books include Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology (1982, expanded edition 1989), The Prism of Sex: Essays in the Sociology of Knowledge, with Julia Sherman (1979), and Kafka and the Yiddish Theater: Its Impact on His Work (1972). Recent essays include "Teaching Women in the Arts," with Josephine Withers, Women's Studies Quarterly 15 (1987); "The Politics of Jewish Invisibility," NWSA Journal 1 (1988), reprinted in Transforming the Curriculum: Ethnic Studies and Women Studies, ed. Butler and Walter (1991); "To Make of Our Lives a Study: Feminist Education as Transformation," Storming the Tower, ed. Lie and O'Leary (1990); "Therapy's Double-Dilemma: Anti-Semitism and Misogyny," in Jewish Women and Therapy, ed. Siegel and Cole (1991); "Judaism, Feminism, and Psychology: Making the Links Visible," in Jewish Women Speak Out: Expanding the Boundaries of Psychology ed. Weiner and Moon (1995); "Out as a Lesbian, Out as a Jew: And Nothing Untoward Happened?" in Tilting the Tower: Lesbian Teaching in the Queer Nineties, ed. Garber (forthcoming); "Gender, Judaism, and Power: A Jewish-Feminist Approach to Kafka," in Approaches to Teaching Kafka's Short Fiction (forthcoming); "The Search for Language, Voice, and Home," in Language and Culture: A Transcending Bond, ed. Merrill and Cernyak-Spatz (1993). She is also a translator from the Yiddish of Isaac Bashevis Singer and has lectured widely on issues related to "difference," especially the intersection of anti-Semitism, racism, and homophobia, as well as Jewish Women's Studies, Lesbian Studies, feminist transformations of knowledge, and feminist pedagogy. She is currently working on two books: From "Kike" to "J.A.P.": Jewish Women and Anti-Semitism and Feminist Perspectives on Franz Kafka. In 1994 she received the University of Maryland Woman of the Year Award; in 1995-96 she was chosen as a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland College Park. eb13@umail.umd.edu
Professor A. Lynn Bolles: Ph.D. (1981) and M.A. (1978) Rutgers University, A.B. (1971) Syracuse University joined the department in 1989, after serving for eight years as the Director of Africana Studies at Bowdoin College. Her research focuses on the importance of economic analysis and on the impact of class on women in the English-speaking Caribbean. Her published works include We Paid Our Dues: Women Trade Union Leaders in the Caribbean (forthcoming); Sister Jamaica: A Study of Women, Work and Households in Kingston (forthcoming); Women of the Calabash: Gender and Social Change in the Caribbean (forthcoming); In the Shadow of the Sun, co-authored Deere et al. (1990); "From Common Ground of Creativity," in Conformity and Conflict, ed. Spradley and McCurdy (1993); "Doing it for Themselves: Women's Research and Action in the Commonwealth Caribbean," in Researching Women in the Commonwealth and the Caribbean, ed. Acost-Belen and Bose (1993); "Sand, Sea and the Forbidden: Media Images of Race and Gender in Jamaican Tourism," in Transforming Anthropology; "My Mother Who Fathered Me and Others: Gender and Kinship in the English-Speaking Caribbean" in Women and Development, Working Paper #175 (1988). From 1991-93, Dr. Bolles served as the Chair for the Africa and Africa in the Americas Committee. An active member of numerous professional organizations, she just ended her final term on the Executive Council of the Caribbean Studies Association, from 1993-95. Currently, she is the Program Chair of the 1996 American Ethnological Society meetings to be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She serves as an editor of Feminist Studies and Urban Anthropology.
Professor Bonnie Thornton Dill: Ph.D. (1979) and M.A. (1979) New York University, B.A. (1965) University of Rochester. Before coming to Women's Studies in the fall of 1991, Dr. Dill was a professor of sociology at Memphis State University, where she founded the Center for Research on Women and served as director from 1982-1988. She then became Research Professor in the Center. Her research focuses on African American women and families and she is currently conducting a research project studying single mothers in rural Southern communities. Her published works include: African Americans in the Rural South: The Persistence of Race and Poverty, with Williams (forthcoming); Women of Color in U.S. Society, ed. with Baca Zinn (1994); Across the Boundaries of Race and Class: An Exploration of Work and Family among Black Female Domestic Servants (1994); "The Truly Disadvantaged: A Limited Proposal for Social Reform," in Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare (1989); "Our Mothers' Grief: Racial Ethnic Women and the Maintenance of Families," in Journal of Family History (1988); "Making Your Job Good Yourself: Domestic Service and the Construction of Personal Dignity," in Women and the Politics of Empowerment, ed. Bookman and Morgen (1988); "The Costs of Exclusionary Practices in Women's Studies," with Baca Zinn, Higginbotham, & Cannon, in Signs (Winter 1986); "Race, Class and Gender: Prospects for an All Inclusive Sisterhood," in Feminist Studies (Spring 1983); and "The Dialectics of Black Womanhood," in Signs (Spring 1979). Her work has been reprinted in numerous edited volumes.
Assistant Professor Seung-Kyung Kim: Ph.D. (1990), Certificate of Women's Studies (1990) and M.A. (1987) City University of New York Graduate Center, B.A (1977) Yonsei University, Korea. Dr. Kim joined Women's Studies in 1990. Her research focuses on women factory workers in Korea. She is the author of a forthcoming book, Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Autonomy: Women Factory Workers in the Korean Economic Miracle, and also "'Big Companies Don't Hire Us, Married Women': Exploitation and Empowerment among Women Workers in Korea," in Feminist Studies (forthcoming); "Export Processing Zones and Worker Resistance in South Korea," in Anthropology, Industry, and Labor: Studies of the New Industrialization in the Late 20th Century, ed. Rothstein and Blim (1992). She was the recipient of a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.sk66@umail.umd.edu
Associate Professor Katie King: Ph.D. (1987) and B.A. (1975) University of California-Santa Cruz joined the department in 1986. Her publications include: Theory in its Feminist Travels: Conversations in U.S. Women's Movements (1994); "Local and Global: AIDS Activism and Feminist Theory," in Provoking Agents: Theorizing Gender and Agency, ed. Gardiner (1994); "Feminism and Writing Technologies: Queer Travels through Maps, Territories, and Pattern; That Is, A Pattern Which Connects Gender, Science, and Cultural Studies," in Configurations (Winter 1994); "The Situation of Lesbianism as Feminism's Magical Sign: Contests for Meaning and the U.S. Women's Movement, 1968-1972," Communication (Fall 1985); "Audre Lorde's Lacquered Layerings: The Lesbian Bar as a Site of Literary Production," in Cultural Studies (October 1988); "Bibliography and a Feminist Apparatus of Literary Production," in TEXT 5: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship (1991); and "Producing Sex, Theory and Culture: Gay/Straight Remappings in Contemporary Feminism," in Conflicts in Feminism, ed. Hirsch and Keller (1990). kk15@umail.umd.edu
Assistant Professor Melissa M. Matthes: Ph.D. (1994) and M.A. (1991) University of California-Santa Cruz, B.A. (1986) Williams College. Arriving at Maryland in the fall of 1994, Dr. Matthes has a joint appointment with Women's Studies and Government and Politics. Her papers and publications include: "The Rhetoric of Rape Narratives," University of Connecticut Women Studies Conference, April 1992; "The Rape of Lucretia in Machiavelli's La Madragola," Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, June 1993; "Sexual Violence and Republican Foundings: The Rape of Lucretia in Machiavelli's La Mandragola," History of Consciousness Colloquium Series, February 1994. Her teaching fields and interests include: feminist theory; classical, modern, and contemporary political theory; gender and political theory; theoretical constructions of violence against women; contemporary critical thought.
Chair and Professor Claire Moses: Ph.D. (1978) and M. Phil (1972) George Washington University, A.B. (1963) Smith College, has been with the department since 1977 and has been the Chair since 1993. She is the Editor and Manager of Feminist Studies, a leading journal of women's studies scholarship and theory, and has served as President of both the U.S. Conference Group on Women's History and Phi Beta Kappa, Gamma (UMCP) Chapter, and on the Council of the International Federation for Research in Women's History. Moses, whose research focuses on the history of feminist theory and activism and on the history of French women, is the author of French Feminism in the Nineteenth Century (1984), winner of the Joan Kelly Prize for the year's best book in women's history; Feminism, Socialism, and French Romanticism, with Rabine (1994); U.S. Women in Collective Struggle, ed. with Hartmann (1995); "Saint-Simonian Men/Saint-Simonian Women: The Transformation of Feminist Thought in 1830s' France," in Journal of Modern History (June 1982); "Debating the Present/Writing the Past: "Feminism" in French History and Historiography," Radical History Review (Winter 1991); and "'Equality' and 'Difference' in Historical Perspective: A Comparative Examination of the Feminisms of French Revolutionaries and Utopian Socialists," in Rebel Daughters: Women and the Revolution, ed. Meltzer and Rabine (1992).
Professor Deborah Rosenfelt: Ph.D. (1972) University of California, Los Angeles, M.A. (1965) Columbia University, B.A. (1964) Goucher College, served as Professor and Director of Women's Studies at San Francisco State University (1980-1989) prior to joining the department in the fall of 1989. In addition to teaching, Rosenfelt serves as Director of the Curriculum Transformation Project, which is charged with making the campus-wide curriculum inclusive of gender, ethnic, racial, cultural, and other aspects of human diversity. Her publications include "Tell Me A Riddle" (Tillie Olsen) (1995), a volume in the series Women Writers: Texts and Contexts; Feminist Criticism and Social Change: Sex, Class and Race in Literature and Culture with Newton (1986); "Women's Studies and Curriculum Transformation," with Schmitz, Butler, Sheftal, in Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education, ed. Banks and Banks (1995); a variety of essays on curricular change, and articles on 20th-century American women's literary and cultural history, including most recently "Rereading 'Tell Me A Riddle' in the Age of Deconstruction" in Listening to 'Silences': New Essays in Feminist Criticism, ed. Fishkin and Hedges. She is currently Project Director of "Women and Gender in an Era of Global Change: Internationalizing and 'Engendering' the Curriculum," funded by The Ford Foundation. dr49@umail.umd.edu
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