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The Women's and Gender Studies Program at Boston College is an interdisciplinary minor for undergraduate students that richly explores feminist and gender theories in relation to the political, cultural, and socioeconomic forces shaping our world. Through a global and transnational perspective, the program investigates the dynamic interplay between gender and other factors affecting our personal and communal identities, including race, class, culture, religion, sexuality, and location.

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Jess R. Pfeffer has been teaching in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program over the last 4 years at both Suffolk University and Tufts University. She has her B.A. in English from University of Pennsylvania, M.A. in English and American Literature from NYU, and she in her last year of her PhD Program at Tufts University.

She has taught "Introduction to Gender Studies" and "Women, History, and Culture" courses at Suffolk University. In addition, she created and taught a course at Suffolk called "Queer Narratives," the first course in the program to explicitly address queer identities. She has also acted as an adjunct lecturer in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Tufts University since Fall 2015, where she instructed "Introduction to Queer Studies" and "Trans Lives" courses. Her research interests are at the intersection of queer theory, gender and sexuality studies, and English Renaissance Literature.

Spring 2018 WGS Course at BC: Introduction to Feminisms - Mon/Wed @ 3:00pm

Annalyssa Murphy: As a Native American and a Jewish woman, the personal is not only political, it is pedagogical, and she sees teaching as an act of revolution. As an instructor, Murphy’s goal is to empower students to be agents of social change, to make this world better for them being in it. She is an activist and an academic and sees the two as inextricably linked. She is a mother of four daughters and has been teaching for nearly 20 years at many different colleges.

Courses she has taught include "Feminist Theory," "Gender and Society," "Sociology of Gender," "Native American Women from Myth to Reality," "Forgotten History of American women of Color," among many others. Her educational background is extensive, including an NEH Fellowship from Oxford University, Ph.D in Women’s and Gender Studies from Clark University, and B.A., in Women’s Studies and English from Hamline University.

Spring 2018 WGS Course at BC: Introduction to Feminisms - Tues/Thurs @ 4:30pm

Carolyn Salvi originally hails from Colorado, and first pursued a career in ballet before turning to academia. She received her BA in English at Colorado State University, graduating summa cum laude , and continued her education at Tufts University, where she completed a PhD in English literature with specializations in Gender Studies and Twentieth-Century Drama.

Carolyn is a Senior Lecturer in the Women and Gender Studies program at Suffolk University, where she has taught for over 5 years. She teaches multiple courses in the WGS Program, including "Women, History, and Culture," "Feminist Thought," "Feminism and Pop Culture," and "Women and Science Fiction," among others. She also works as a tutor in the Boston area. Her research interests include young adult literature, drama, pop culture, and speculative fiction.

Spring 2018 WGS Course at BC: Gender, Identity, and Sexuality

Tues/Thurs @ 9:00am

Brett Ingram is a returning professor who teaches courses in the WGS Program. He is an Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Communication Department at Boston College. He joined the department in 2013 after earning his PhD from UMass Amherst.

He regularly teaches Media and Cultural Studies, The Rhetorical Tradition, Critical Research Methods, Public Speaking, and Masculinity Studies. The Masculinity course examines constructions of masculinity and sexuality in Western society from a critical cultural perspective.

Spring 2018 BC WGS Course: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Difference - Tues/Thurs 12:00pm