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Upcoming Events:

December 1, 11-12:30, 139 Memorial Hall E. 
Student writing workshop. Come prepared to make comments, asks questions, and suggest possibilties for revision.

December 8, 11-12:30, 139 Memorial Hall East.  
"Lets talk about . . . " Sasha Baron Cohen's film Bruno

 

The Colloquium Series

 

Our Graduate Students

 


 

Stacey Weida

 

 

Stacy Weida
sweida@indiana.edu
Admitted: 2006

 

BA 2003 - Purdue University
Majors(s) - English; Minor(s): Women's Studies
and Religious Studies
MA 2005 - Purdue University
Major(s) - American Studies;
Minor(s): Women's Studies

 

Biography

Stacey Weida is currently entering her third year in the Gender Studies Department. She received her B.A. in English with a minor in Women's Studies and her M.A. in American Studies with a certificate in Women's Studies from Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN. She has taught Introductory Composition, Business Writing, Introduction to Women's Studies, and Gender, Culture, & Society, as well as Gender Studies special topics courses on technology and embodiment (G104: Rethinking the Gendered Body), ecofeminism and environmental justice (G104: Intersections of Gender and Nature), and masculinity and socioeconomic class (G205: Masculinities, Power & Money). Stacy has also recently had two encyclopedia entries accepted for publication in Jodi O'Brien's Encyclopedia of Gender and Society (Sage Press). Her research focuses primarily on gender in postwar America with an emphasis on feminist critical theory, conceptions of the gendered self, embodiment, socioeconomic class, feminist geography, and representations of "alternative" and postmodern masculinities.

 

Concentration

Cultural Representations and Media Practices

 

Areas of Interest

textual representations of the sexed and gendered body, especially the ways in which texts are used by institutions to formulate class-based appeals and to forge ideological solidarities among disfranchised groups; religious discourse; feminist theory and activism in a global and transnational context

 

Courses and Publications