Rickie-Ann Legleitner, WGSC member and UW-Stout Professor in the English department, advis0r to the Women and Gender Sexuality Studies program, and inclusive excellence action plan coordinator, published a new book called, “Women Writing the American Artist in Novels of Development from 1850-1932: The Artist Embodied.” From 1850-1932, American women artists found their bodies and desires …
UW System Wisconsin and Gender Studies Consortium Member and University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Manitowoc Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies Jessica Van Slooten received the 2021 Faculty of the Year Award from the UWGB-Manitowoc campus. Professor Van Slooten has been a long-standing leader in the WGSC and previously participated in many critical efforts to grow …
Rickie-Ann Legleitner, WGSC member and UW-Stout Professor in the English department, adviser to the Women and Gender Sexuality Studies program, and inclusive excellence action plan coordinator, wrote a chapter called “Facilitating Difficult Discussions: Politics and Free Speech in the Classroom” in a book published last year. In the book titled “Civil Liberties in Real Life: …
Melissa Baca, Caregiving Task Force member and UW-La Crosse graduate was featured in the La Crosse Tribune on December 19, 2020, in a piece called “Single mom graduating from UW-L this weekend hopes to create a ripple from the support she received.” Baca completed her degree in the UW-L Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department …
Caregiving Task Force member and UW-Madison Biomedical Engineering faculty member Dr. Kristyn Masters has co-authored an article in PLOS Computational Biology, “Ten simple rules for women principal investigators during a pandemic.” Noting the evaporation of childcare options during the pandemic, which disproportionately increases the workload for large numbers of women, as well as the higher …
WGSC Director and Caregiving Task Force Co-Chair Dr. Stephanie Rytilahti was featured in a December 2020 article by The Badger Herald, “Women Face Additional Challenges Balancing Work, Home Life Amid Pandemic.” “I think that there are a lot of ingrained gender roles that are still embedded in the distribution of household labor…I definitely think the …
Dr. Dong Isbister, Professor and Program Coordinator of WGS at UW-Platteville, has published an anthology, “Chinese Women Writers on the Environment: A Multi-Ethnic Anthology of Fiction and Nonfiction.” This book’s genesis began in 2014 at a conference in Wisconsin entitled, “Gendered Planet: Ethics, Ecology, and Equity.” At the conference, Professor Isbister delivered a presentation on …
The Caregiving Task Force was highlighted in a piece called “Babar in the Room,” published in Inside Higher Ed in August 2020. The Inside Higher Ed piece lists the Caregiving Recommendations created in June 2020 by the Caregiving Task Force. Faculty parents are once again being asked to perform a miracle: Get their students and their …
The WGSC Published a Ms. Magazine article titled, “COVID-19, Disaster Capitalism and the Crisis in Women’s and Gender Studies.” This piece contextualizes some of the trends happening in GWS and higher education within Wisconsin in a larger national and historical context. “For those at the intersections of multiple identities, the current moment only enhances the …
UW System GWS Librarian Karla Strand has written a Ms. Magazine article titled, “The Ms. Q&A: Madame Gandhi on Creativity and Feminism—During COVID and Beyond.” This piece is a Q&A dialogue between Karla and Madame Gandhi. Below is an excerpt from Karla’s piece: In 2015, I read an article about a woman who ran the …