News & Events
Our gender, women's, and sexuality studies program is deeply interdisciplinary and we organize many events in collaboration with community and campus partners each year. Our faculty and students also share their research through conferences, academic journals and news media, contributing to public conversations about sexuality, race and gender in the U.S. and around the world.
Faculty Research News
"Avon, Race, and Capitalism"
Teaching Associate Professor Lindsey Feitz, PhD, recently presented at the Hagley Museum and Library as part of the conference Avon: An International Forum On Its Archive. Feitz's talk, "Avon, Race, and Capitalism," analyzed how Avon navigated issues of race and racial discord in the 1960s.
Watch the Presentation"The 'Motherhood Penalty': COVID's Impact on Working Women"
Lindsey Feitz, PhD, spoke to DU's RadioEd podcast about working and mothering during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Listen"Lost and Found Voices: Four Gay Male Writers in Exile"
This forthcoming book by Luc Beaudoin, PhD, looks at how four gay male writers have found their queer voices in cultures (and often languages) that are not their own. Given that émigré diasporas emphasize the future — future generations, future cultures — how do these men, whose identities are so bound to the present, navigate the tensions between their own pasts and futures? The book focuses on Witold Gombrowicz, Valerii Pereleshin, Abdellah Taïa and Slava Mogutin.
“Le corps poétique russe: masculinisme, féminisme, critique queer et genre,”
Luc Beaudoin, PhD, published “Le corps poétique russe: masculinisme, féminisme, critique queer et genre,” in Comment faire des études-genre avec de la littérature: Masquereading, edited by Guyonne Leduc and published by l’Harmattan in 2014. Beaudoin's chapter queers contemporary Russian poetry through the lens of Russia’s contemporary political and cultural dynamics. If queer voices are silenced for the most part, how can there be a queer poetics?