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Welcome to the
Women's and Gender Studies
Program
at Northern Arizona University
NAU’s Women’s and Gender Studies
program is interdisciplinary, with a particular focus on
transnational feminisms and the gendered experiences of US
ethnic and indigenous peoples. We offer a unique vantage point on those
experiences: our own glorious and embattered home on the Colorado Plateau.
Announcements: Welcome Dr. Arianne Burford!
We’re pleased to welcome Dr. Arianne Burford to NAU’s Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Professor Burford earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Arizona in 2007 and taught in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program there before coming to NAU. Her dissertation focused on histories of feminisms in the U.S. and how Mexican American, American Indian, and Anglo American women writers called for changes to the nineteenth-century women’s rights movement to include protests to injustices enacted by the U.S. government. Her essay in Genders (2008), “Cartographies of a Violent Landscape: Helena María Viramontes’s and Cherríe Moraga’s Remapping of Feminisms in Under the Feet of Jesus and Heroes and Saints,” examines border politics and Chicana feminist literature that protests gendered violence taking place against farm workers.
Social justice is at the root of all Dr. Burford’s work and fuels her interrogation of systems of power and the affects of these on peoples’ lives. She is interested in making connections between various forms of gendered violence locally and globally such as domestic violence, border violence, exploitation of workers in the U.S. and transnationally, rape, and compulsory heterosexuality. As such, her work looks at intersections between transnational feminisms, literature by women writers in a U.S. context, Queer Theory, Chicana literature and feminisms, Indigenous literature and feminisms, and relationships between theory, poetry, history, film, and stories to social justice activism and transformation.
Dr. Burford’s office is in SBSW 228. You can contact her by e-mail at Arianne.Burford@nau.edu or by telephone at 928/523-6719.
Internal Position Posting from the
Women’s and Gender Studies Steering Committee
Director, Women’s and Gender Studies Program
The NAU Women’s and Gender Studies Program is conducting an internal search for a Director. The Directorship, an administrative position equivalent to a department chair, will begin July 1, 2010. The Women’s and Gender Studies Program has a major, a minor, and a graduate certificate program.
We are looking for a Women’s and Gender Studies affiliate with an academic rank of Associate or Full Professor; Ph.D. or equivalent, interdisciplinary Women’s and Gender Studies experience or training, a demonstrated understanding of the importance of research and gender-related scholarship, and a commitment to innovative teaching in a multicultural environment. Previous involvement in Women’s and Gender Studies at NAU or at other university campuses and leadership and/or administrative expertise or potential are also desirable.
The WGS Director has primary responsibility for administration of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, including line and part-time faculty, curriculum development, programming, and long term planning for Women’s and Gender Studies. The Director also teaches one or more of the core Women’s and Gender Studies classes. Please consult the Women’s and Gender Studies web page for more information about the Program’s missions, curriculum, and faculty.
If you are interested, please send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, two samples of scholarship, and the names and email addresses of three professional references to the Steering Committee, Women’s and Gender Studies Director Search, Box 5695, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona 86011 (tel: 523-3300). Screening begins November 1, but will continue until the position is filled.
Women’s and Gender Studies Program
Box 5695
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ 86011
Telephone: 928-523-3300 ~ fax: 928-523-5560
womens.studies@nau.edu