Professor Coralynn DavisCoralynn V. Davis

Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Anthropology

2A Marts Hall
(570) 577-1380
coralynn.davis@bucknell.edu

Coralynn V. Davis is associate professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Anthropology. Professor Davis has a B.A. from Wesleyan, M.A. and a Ph.D. from Michigan University at Ann Arbor. Professor Davis is interested in and has conducted research on Women's and Gender Studies, Anthropology, Feminist Theory/Method, Transnational Studies, Women and Development, Expressive Practices (folklore), South Asia, and Nepal.

Courses:

  • WMST 150 (Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies)
  • WMST 220 (Introduction to Feminist Theory in Practice)
  • WMST 251 (Women and Development)
  • WMST 270 (Gender in Culture, Power in Identity)
  • CAPS 431 (Women and the Penal System)
  • WMST/ANTH 273 (Women Writing Culture)


    Selected publications:

    "Talking Tools, Suffering Servants, and Defecating Men: The Power of Storytelling in Maithil Women's Tales." /Journal of American Folklore/ (2009) vol. 122 (485): 267-296.

    "Im/possible Lives: Gender, Class, Self-Fashioning, and Affinal Solidarity in Modern South Asia. /Social Identities/: /Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture /(2009) vol. 15 (2): 243-272.

    "Pond-Women Revelations: The Subaltern Registers in Maithil Women's Expressive Forms." /Journal of American Folklore/ (2008) vol. 121 (481):286-318.

    "Can Developing Women Create Primitive Art? and Other Questions of  Value, Meaning and Identity in the Circulation of Janakpur Art." /Tourist Studies/ (2007) vol. 7 (2): 193-223.

    "'Listen, Rama's Wife!': Maithil Women's Perspectives and Practices in the Festival of /Sa-ma--akeva-/." /Asian Folklore Studies /(2005) vol. 64 (1): 1-38.

    "Feminist Tigers and Patriarchal Lions: Rhetorical Strategies and Instrument Effects in the Struggle for Definition and Control over Development in Nepal." /Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism /(2003) vol. 3 (2): 204-249.