Faculty and Staff
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Drs Luhmann, Meagher, Wallace, Okeke-Ihejirika, and Gotell |
Women's Studies Program
13-15 HM Tory Building
Edmonton, Alberta
T6G 2H4
phone: 492-7078
fax: 492-5273
PROGRAM CHAIR
Dr. Jo-Ann Wallace, Professor of English and Film Studies
Feminist literary history; women and modernism; late 19th and early 20th century progressive idealist movements in
Office: Tory 14-24, Phone: 492-0593
E-mail: jo-ann.wallace@ualberta.ca
FACULTY
Dr. Lise Gotell, Associate Professor
Feminist legal theory and practice; gender and public policy in Canada; women's movements; feminist theory; sexuality.
Office: Tory 14-23, Phone: 492-0326
Email: lise.gotell@ualberta.ca
Dr. Susanne Luhmann, Assistant Professor
Trauma and cultural memory; the formation and institutionalization of academic Women's Studies; queer cultural production; sexuality and gender studies; feminist poststructuralist, postmodern, psychoanalytic and queer theory.
Office: Tory 14-14, Phone: 492-0135
Email: luhmann@ualberta.ca
Dr. Michelle Meagher, Assistant Professor
Feminist cultural studies; contemporary philosophies of bodies and embodiment; visuality and visual culture; feminine and feminist self-representational practices in art.
Office: Tory 14-12, Phone: 492-7518
Email: michelle.meagher@ualberta.ca
Dr. Philomina Okeke, Professor
Gender and development (Africa); gender, race and class in education/work and development; political economy of feminist scholarship; international feminist debates; feminist theorizing.
Office: Tory 14-22, Phone: 492-9919
Email: pokeke@ualberta.ca
Dr. Mebbie Bell
Feminist theory; women's embodiment; media and popular culture; heath and medicine; cultural studies.
Office: 14-11, Phone: 492-5661
Email: mebbie.bell@ualberta.ca
ADJUNCT FACULTY
Dr. Betsy Boone, Art and Design
Dr. Judy Davidson, Physical Education and Recreation Studies
Dr. Cressida Heyes, Philosophy
Dr. Karen Hughes, Sociology and Business
Dr. Beverly Lemire, History and Human Ecology
Dr. Helen Madill, Health Promotion Studies
Dr. Val Napoleon, Law and Native Studies
Dr. Claudine Potvin, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Dr. Cressida Hayes, Philosophy
Dr. Katherine Binhammer, English and Film Studies
Dr. Claudine Potvin, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
Dr. Jennifer Kelly, Education
ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
Joanne Mackinnon
Erin Plume
