Elizabeth Corr is one of the first students to graduate with a degree from Illinois in Gender and Women's Studies in 2004. As the Director of Art Partnerships at the National Resources Defense Council in Chicago, she works with artists, architects, and designers to heighten public awareness of and interest in the environmental issues that face today’s communities. She launched NRDC’s Artist-in-Residence program and is expanding support for NRDC’s art and climate–related projects, from such organizations as the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the Public Concern Foundation, and Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts.
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Dear GWS Friends, Colleagues, and Students: We were deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Professor Berenice A. Carroll earlier this summer. As many of you know, she played a crucial role in the early history of our department, so she will always hold a special place in our memories. In addition to her influential feminist scholarship, her inspired teaching, and her unshakeable commitment to activism for justice and peace, she will be remembered for guiding the creation of an official Women’s Studies Program and the approval of a Women’s Studies Minor at the University of Illinois.
GWS 366This course explores the complex relationship between gender and disability, including the fraught connections that certain avenues of feminist, queer, and transgender politics have with disability.
GWS 333Explores the phenomenon of autobiography in the contemporary world. Students will read theories of autobiography, and ask questions about how writing about the self is gendered, and how representations of the self fare in the outside world.
GWS 363Aspects of popular culture, including television, magazines, newspapers, social networking sites, and internet sources to name a few, are ways that health information is disseminated. Students will examine how we define health and understand disease as related to popular culture.
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My research focuses the critical lens of transgender studies on questions of state power, science, and technology, and on transnational flows of knowledge, bodies, and capital. Currently, I am pursuing these interests through work on surveillance and security mechanisms and new research on the development and use of synthetic hormones. I earned a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from the University of California at Davis, and a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies (a substitute for Gender & Women’s Studies, which offered no major at the time of my degree!) from the University of Florida.
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