Women's and Gender Studies
Distinguished Speaker

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson2013 Distinguished Speaker
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Elaine Langone Center 272 - Forum

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is a professor of Women's Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia where her fields of study are feminist theory, American literature, and disability studies. Her scholarly and professional activities are devoted to developing the field of disability studies in the humanities and in women's studies.

Her most recent essay, "Misfits: A feminist materialist disability concept" appears in the 2011 summer issue of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. In addition, Garland-Thomson has written several books including Staring: How We Look (Apr 17, 2009), Extraordinary Bodies (Jan 15, 1997), Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of Extraordinary Body (Oct 1, 1996).

Garland-Thomson received the Society for Disability Studies Senior Scholar Award for 2010.


Lectures in recent years include:

2011-12

Gail Dines (Wheelock College)
Sex, Identity & Intimacy in a Porn Culture

2010-11

Gina Athena Ulysse (Wesleyan University)
When the Body is a Country's Archive: Some Women's Stories of Trauma, Stories of Will

2009-10

Anne Fausto-Sterling (Brown University)
Gender, Sexuality, and the Problem of Memory

2008-09

Helene Foley (Columbia University)
Classical Muses: How Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-centurey Women Re-imagined Greek Tradgedy for the U.S. Stage

2007-08

Janice Radway (Duke University)
What are Zines? And What Do Girls Do With Them?

2005-06

Michael Kimmel (Sociologist/Author)
Mars and Venus, or Planet Earth: Women and Men in a New Millennium (co-sponsored by CSREG)

2004-05

Christine Battersby ( University of Warwick )
Flesh Questions: Representational Strategies and the Cultures of Birth

2003-04

Cynthia Enloe ( Clark University )
The Militarization of Us and Them: American Civilians, American Soldiers and Iraqi Women

2002-03

Shahnaz Khan (Wilfred Laurier)
Finding Space Beneath My Feet: Post September 11 th Reflections of a Muslim Feminist

2002-03

Charis Thompson (Harvard)
Heterosex: The Human Embryo in the New Reproductive and Genetic Technologies

2000-01

Anila George (Centre for Development Studies, Kerala , India )
Violence Against Women: International Perspectives on Local Actions-
The Suryanelli Rape Case in India

1999-2000

Temma Kaplan (SUNY, Stony Brook)
Forgetting Social Movements: Women and the Transitions to Democracy