Faculty Expertise by Faculty Member/Alphabetical Order

ALEMAN, Jesse (English), Chicana/o writers. Critical theory.

ANDRE, Laura (Art History), Queer theory, and gender/sexuality issues in visual culture, photo history in general of American post-war period, modern and contemporary European cultural studies.

ARCHULETA, Elizabeth (English), Contemporary Indigenous women's, literature Indigenous women's sociopolitical activism and nationalism

ATKESON, Lonna (Political Science), My areas of specialty include elections, campaigns, public opinion, political behavior, the media, political psychology, state politics, political attitudes and gender politics.

AXELROD, Melissa (Linguistics), Language and gender, women and language revitalization program, women and literacy. General linguistics and Native American languages.

BAACKMANN, Susanne (Foreign Literatures & Languages), Post-1945 German women's lit, issues of memory and commemoration, ecriture feminine, and imaginings of femininity in textual and visual material, as well as the Holocaust.

BEENE, Lynndianne (English), Areas of expertise: English Language Theory, Technical/Professional Writing, and Contemporary Literature.

BUICK, Kirsten (Art History), Art of the U.S. from colonial to mid-20th century; African American art; women as patrons and subjects of art; critical race, gender, class theory; popular culture, and colonial British American portraits.

CHAVEZ, Lisa (English), Chicana writers.

CHEEK, Pamela (Foreign Literature & Language), European History of Sexuality, the British and French Enlightenments, Contemporary Critical Theory.

CRAMER, Janet (Communication and Journalism), gender, race, and class in media, women's history, critical cultural theory, intersection of feminism and postcolonialism

CYRINO, Monica Silveira (Classics), Ancient Greek & Roman Poetry, especially erotic poetry. Classics & Popular Culture, especially cinema that reconstructs the ancient world.

DAMICO, Helen (English), Viking and Anglo-Saxon Women.

DENETDALE, Jennifer (History), History of Native and Navajo women, with interest in American colonialism, Indian nationalisms, and gender. Native American oral traditions.

Donovan, Leslie A. (University Honors), Women Saints' Lives, Old English
Literature, Tolkien Studies, Medieval Women, Celtic Studies, Old
Norse/Icelandic Literature.

DURAN, Bonnie, American Indian women's mental health, and the effects of trauma on mental health. Theoretically, public health theories of health problem etiology and change theories commonly used in "social ecologic framework" for assessing HIV/AIDS and violence literature regarding American Indian; "historical trauma" and its effect on health.

FOSS, Karen (Communication & Journalism), Feminist perspectives on communication, rhetoric, feminist rhetorical theories, gender and communication, women's movements/social movements, with current project on social change, focusing on various feminist activists who have adopted different approaches to change from what they started out with.

GALVAN, Ruth Trinidad (Language, Literacy & Sociocultural Studies), My research and work surround popular education programs and work with Mexico rural women and the effects globalization and transmigration have on Mexican rural communities. My work in this area is informed and shaped by feminist research and a mujerista lens.

GAUDERMAN, Kimberly (History), Women, gender, and ethno-history in pre-conquest and colonial Mexico and South America.

GODFREY, Anne (Landscape Architecture), My work in representation focuses on the impact of photographic representation on how we design for the landscape. I also teach design studios, theory, and courses in representation such as media, digital media and photography.

HOUSTON, Gail (English), 19th century British women writers, the Brontës, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Margaret Oliphant, Queen Victoria, Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Cultural Studies, feminism, bits of Marxism.

Hutchison, Elizabeth (History), Her book on women and work in early 20th-century Chile, entitled Labors Appropriate to their Sex: Gender Labor, and Politics in Urban Chile, 1900-1930 was published by Duke University Press in 2001. She has worked extensively with the Ford Foundation as a consultant on projects related to human rights and women’s studies in Latin America. Her current research examines domestic service in twentieth-century Chile.

ISAAC, Claudia (Architecture & Planning), Gender and development; globalization and the feminization of labor; conceptualizing women's agency in the face of capitalist penetration and globalization; "international division of labor"; women working for multinational corporations in Mexico.

JOHN-STEINER, Vera P. (Language Literacy & Sociocultural), My primary area is psycho linguistics with a focus on the relationship of language to thought and language acquisition. In the last 20 years I have written two books and a number of articles in the area of creativity; some of which focus on the challenges women face as creative contributors. Theoretically, my approach is a cultural historical one which views human development as an interaction of social and individual processes.

JUSSAWALLA, Feroza (English), Post-colonial women writers.

KELLS, Michelle (English), Feminist Rhetorics (with particular emphasis on the rhetorics of women of color). Peace Studies, Women and Discourses of Healing (rhetorical examination of discourses of women victims in recovery from violence, sexual abuse, political, social, and professional discrimination).

LAMPELA, Laurel (Educational Specialties), Issues of sexual identity in art curricula, more specifically addressing lesbian and gay artists and issues in the secondary art classroom. Teaches 'Art and Feminism' and 'Sexual Identity in Art and Art Education’; works on digital art (digital drawing and digital collage).

LAMPHERE, Louise (Anthropology), Women and work, working families, urban anthropology, anthropology and policy, medical anthropology.

LANCASTER, Jane (Anthropology), Human reproductive biology and behavior, human sex roles, primate social behavior.

LOPEZ, Kim (Spanish & Portuguese), Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Latin American Narrative.

LOPEZ, Nancy (Sociology), Race-gender; race-gender & education; Latinas; currently evaluating family centers run by parents, mostly Latina/Hispanic women at junior high schools as a part of the ENLACE program.

LOUGH, Nancy (Physical Performance & Development), Women and sport, women's leadership of sport organizations, marketing women's sport including corporate sponsorships and endorsements.

LUBIN, Alex (American Studies), African American Studies, racial formations, intersections of race and sexuality, the history and politics of interracial intimacy, comparative colonialism.

MALOOF, Judy (Spanish & Portuguese), I specialize in contemporary Latin American narrative. My research interests include the study of Latin American and Chicana women authors. I am the author of two books, Over Her Dead Body: The Construction of Male Subjectivity in Onetti and Voices of Resistance: Testimonies of Cuban and Chilean Women.

MARSHALL, Diane (Biology), My expertise is in plant ecology. Specifically, I work in plant reproductive ecology, studying patterns of mating and their consequences in plants.

MCFARLANE, Deborah (Political Science), Reproductive health and population policies and politics including birth control and abortion.

NIHLEN, Ann (Language, Literature, and Sociocultural), Sex, race and class studies in education; oral history study of the founders of Women Studies program at UNM.

NOLL, Elizabeth (Language, Literature, and Sociocultural), Women and writing. Currently conducting a study on the writing lives of women scholars.

OBERMEIER, Anita (English), Authorial strategies of female medieval mystics; representations of medieval women; the history of fertility and sterility in the Middle Ages. Images of Women in Middle English.

RACK, Christine, Conflict resolution, law, race-ethnicity & gender; gender in mediation and negotiation; relationship between war / violence and gender; 'women & work'; 'dynamics of prejudice' discussing discrimination/stereotypes, the whole range of social science perspectives on our situation as women.

REBOLLEDO, Tey Diana (Spanish & Portuguese), Latin American women writers, Chicana writers

RODRÍGUEZ, Ilia (Communication and Journalism), She teaches news writing and reporting, multiculturalism and media, and qualitative research methods. Her areas of research include the historical and comparative analysis of news discourse on ethnic minorities and the role of journalism in the construction of social knowledge about cultural diversity.

SCHARFF, Virginia (History), U.S. women's history, gender and environmental history.

SHIGEKUNI, Julie (English), Asian American women writers.

SLAUGHTER, Jane Women and Gender History -- survey courses; specialized topics; Women, War and Revolution and Women and the Military/Militarism primarily focused on 19th and 20th C., geographically, broadly comparative; Gender and Memory.

TIANO, Susan (Sociology), Gender and development; globalization and the feminization of labor; conceptualizing women's agency in the face of capitalist penetration and globalization; "international division of labor"; women working for multinational corporations in Mexico.

TORRES, Hector (English), Chicano/a writers.

WOODWARD, Carolyn, Enlightenment Studies, Development of Fiction 18th Century, British women writers17th/18th century. Theoretical approaches: Feminist, Cultural, Lit History, Gender. Sarah Fielding; 18th-century avant-garde fiction.

Faculty Expertise by Area of Study/Alphabetical Order

AMERICAN INDIAN/NATIVE AMERICAN
ARCHULETA, Elizabeth, Contemporary Indigenous women's, literature Indigenous women's sociopolitical activism and nationalism.

DENETDALE, Jennifer, History of Native and Navajo women, with interest in American colonialism, Indian nationalisms, and gender. Native American oral traditions.

DURAN, Bonnie, American Indian women's mental health, and the effects of trauma on mental health, health problem etiology and change theories commonly used in "social ecologic framework" for assessing HIV/AIDS and violence literature regarding American Indian; "historical trauma" and its effect on health.

CHICANA STUDIES
ALEMAN, Jesse (English)

CHAVEZ, Lisa. (English)

TORRES, Hector (Hector)

REBOLLEDO, Tey Diana (Spanish & Portuguese)

CULTURAL STUDIES
ANDRE, Laura (Art History)

BAACKMANN, Susanne, Post-1945 German women's lit, issues of memory and commemoration, ecriture feminine, and imaginings of femininity in textual and visual material, as well as the Holocaust.

HOUSTON, Gail (English)

WOODWARD, Carolyn (English)

LANGUAGE & LITERATURE AMERICAN

Jesse Aleman, Chicana/o writers

ARCHULETA, Elizabeth, Contemporary Indigenous women's, literature Indigenous women's sociopolitical activism and nationalism. Indigenous research methodologies (esp. Linda Tuhiwai Smith's Decolonizing Methodologies), Indigenous philosophies/intellectual traditions (including Pacific Islander/Maori) Law and southwest Indigenous literatures in the following areas: Decolonization; Indigenous philosophies/intellectual traditions (including Pacific Islander/Maori); Indigenous identity issues.

CHAVEZ, Lisa, Chicana writers

KELLS, Michelle, Feminist Rhetorics (with particular emphasis on the rhetorics of women of color). Peace Studies, Women and Discourses of Healing (rhetorical examination of discourses of women victims in recovery from violence, sexual abuse, political, social, and professional discrimination).

REBOLLEDO, Tey Diana (Spanish & Portuguese)

SHIGEKUNI, Julie, Asian American women writers.

TORRES, Hector, Chicana/o writers

LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
British

DAMICO, Helen, Viking Women.

HOUSTON, Gail, 19th century British Women Writers, the Brontes, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Margaret Oliphant, Queen Victoria, Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Cultural Studies, feminism, bits of Marxism.

OBERMEIER, Anita. Authorial strategies of female medieval mystics; representations of medieval women; the history of fertility and sterility in the Middle Ages. Images of Women in Middle English.

WOODWARD, Carolyn, Enlightenment Studies, Development of Fiction 18th Century, British women writers 17th/18th century. Theoretical approaches: Feminist, Cultural, Lit History, Gender. Sarah Fielding; 18th-century avant-garde fiction.

LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
Classics

LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
Colonial/Post-colonial

JUSSAWALLA, Feroza, post-colonial women writers, Muslim Women Writers, Women Writers of India.

NOCENTELLI-TRUETT, Carmen, Cross-cultural contacts and early modern colonial discourses, drama, travel literature, and epic poetry

LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
German

BAACHMANN, Susanne (FLL) (post-1945 German women's lit)

LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
Russian

KOLCHEVSKA, Natasha

LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
Spanish/Portuguese

REBOLLEDO, Tey Diana


FEMINIST THEORY

BAACHMANN, Susanne (ecriture feminine)

CHEEK, Pamela Cheek (FLL)

HOUSTON, Gail (English) (Feminist theory for undergraduates)

MALOOF, Judy Maloof (Spanish & Port)

WOODWARD, Carolyn, (English)COLONIZATION/DECOLONIZATION

DENETDALE, Jennifer (History) American colonialism

ARCHULETA, Elizabeth (English)GENDER/SEXUALITY

ANDRE, Laura (Visual Culture) Art History

DENETDALE, Jennifer (History) Gender

HEALTH
DURAN, Bonnie

HIV/AIDS

Holocaust Studies
BAAChMANN, Susanne (FLL)

Indigenous Women
ARCHULETA, Elizabeth, (English) (Contemporary Indigenous women's literature, sociopolitical activism and nationalism; Indigenous research methodologies; Indigenous philosophies/intellectual traditions (including Pacific Islander/Maori); Indigenous philosophies/intellectual traditions (including Pacific Islander/Maori) Indigenous identity issues

Law
ARCHULETA, Elizabeth (English) (research in law and southwest)

Linguistics - Native American
ARCHULETA, Elizabeth (English)

DENETDALE, Jennifer (History) of Native and Navajo women; Indian nationalisms, and gender.

Photography/Photo History
ANDRE, Laura (Art History)

Queer Theory
ANDRE, Laura (Art History)

Race and Gender
Lopez, Nancy (Sociology)

Race Theory

Theory
BAACHMANN, Susanne (FLL) (issues of memory and commemoration, issues of memory and commemoration, and imaginings of femininity in textual and visual material,)

German Literature
BAACHMANN, Susanne (FLL) ( post-1945 German women's lit)

Viking Women
DAMICO, Helen (English)

Visual Culture
BAACHMANN, Susanne (FLL) imaginings of femininity in textual and visual material