6000. Feminist Theory (offered each fall)

6100. Feminist Epistemologies and Methodologies (offered each fall)

6200. Graduate Seminar in Gender Studies (offered each winter)

6300. Feminism as Community 

6400-6420. Special Topics in Gender Studies

Other courses may be decided in consultation with the supervisor(s) and chosen from other disciplines.

Gender Studies graduate courses: Winter 2024

For additional course infomation such as slot, room number, and instructor, check Memorial Self-Service. 

Graduate Seminar (GNDR 6200)

Course description forthcoming.

Special Topics in Gender Studies (GNDR 6405)

Our definitions of “art”, “artist”, and “artwork” are cisheterogender terms that privilege masculinity, making lesser or invisible art done by women, gender minorities, art that is ‘feminized’, or art this is genderqueer. Sexism is built into the very concept of art (Nead). This seminar examines media theory and different media platforms such as print/language, photography, film, television, radio, digital video, and (to a lesser degree) computing as treated by feminist, critical race and queer theorists, and other scholars and artists who tend to work from the margins. Defined by its inter-disciplinary reach into cultural studies, film and television studies, political economy, and literary studies (among other fields), feminist media studies is a broad and deeply politicized intellectual field. This course explores the political focus and engaged investments in feminist visions of change that make this area of inquiry feminist. The study of media theory is an emerging field where traditional (masculinist, Euro-centric) approaches tend to assume universal relevance in their claims, thereby threatening to overtake critical endeavors that diversely and self-consciously come from, speak from or speak to specific communities. While the solid objects of culture and knowledge are the result of mediations that go all the ways down each level of their constitution, media theory often risks perpetuating given conclusions about them that sustain patriarchy, Eurocentrism and economic injustice. This course critiques some of the mainstream media-theory while building on or offering new methods of analysis and inquiry. It attends to current developments in feminist theory about feminist histories, new materialisms, and ideas of affect and emotional resonance in cultural/political life. Among other things, the pairing of new and older readings in feminist scholarship signals the deep and rich histories of a number of debates in the field and beyond.