Dr. Misri's research focuses on the relation between gender, violence, and representation in literary and cultural discourse in South Asia. Her book, 'Beyond Partition: Gender, Violence and Representation in Postcolonial India' was published by the University of Illinois Press' 'Dissident Feminisms' series in 2014. It won the Eugene M Kayden Book Award for 2016. Her current research focuses on literary and visual representations of militarized occupation in Indian-administered Kashmir. She has published a number of articles from this research in peer-reviewed journals.
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South Asia studies, feminist studies, literary studies, cultural studies, violence
ENGL 3767 - Feminist Fictions
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Summer 2018 / Fall 2018 / Fall 2019 / Fall 2020 / Summer 2021 / Summer 2022
Examines a series of literary texts to consider how writers across the world have used fiction to creatively stage and reimagine gender and sexuality. Attends to the formal and narrative techniques by which these texts call attention to the fictionality--and thereby the creative malleability--of gender itself. Some cinematic and performance texts will also be included. Same as WGST 3767.
WGST 2050 - Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Culture
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Fall 2018 / Fall 2019 / Fall 2022
Explores diverse cultural forms such as film, popular fiction and non-fiction, music videos, public art, websites, blogs and zines which are shaped by, and in turn shape, popular understandings of gender at the intersections of race, class, ability, religion, nation and imperialism.
WGST 3100 - Feminist Theories
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Spring 2018 / Spring 2019 / Spring 2020 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2023
Explores a variety of alternative systematic accounts of, and explanations for, gender inequities. Social norms of both masculinity and femininity are analyzed in relation to other axes of inequality such as class, sexuality, race/ethnicity, neocolonialism and the domination of nonhuman nature.
WGST 3767 - Feminist Fictions
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Summer 2018 / Fall 2018 / Fall 2019 / Fall 2020 / Summer 2021 / Summer 2022
Examines a series of literary texts to consider how writers across the world have used fiction to creatively stage and reimagine gender and sexuality. Attends to the formal and narrative techniques by which these texts call attention to the fictionality, and thereby the creative malleability, of gender itself. Some cinematic and performance texts will also be included. Same as ENGL 3767.
WGST 3930 - Women and Gender Studies Internship
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Spring 2018
Provides field experience in local and national government and non-governmental agencies focusing on women and gender-related issues. Supervision by approved field instructors. Students must relate their academic experience to their field work experience though a portfolio and a final paper. Department enforced prerequisite: 6 hours of course work in Women and Gender Studies and 30 cumulative credit hours.
WGST 6090 - Feminist Theories
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Spring 2018 / Spring 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2021
Explores how feminist theorists have understood gender and how it interrelates to our understandings of race, ethnicity, sexuality, embodiment and knowledge. Meets the requirements for the WGST certificate.
