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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Join us for a WGS Event to celebrate
Women's History Month!
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Other Events & Opportunities
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Museum of Fine Arts: Written by Women
Thursday, March 8, 2018, 7:00 – 8:30 pm
Barbara and Theodore Alfond Auditorium (Auditorium G36)
The publication of Mary Wollstonecraft’s manifesto
A Vindication of the Rights of Women
(1792) marked the beginning of the modern women’s movement in England. The century that followed saw an explosion of writing by women, fueled by an increase in literacy and access to education, as well as new ideals of democracy and equality. From the creation of a new kind of monster in Frankenstein, written by Wollstonecraft’s daughter Mary Shelley, to the trials of the marriage market in Jane Austen’s
Pride and Prejudice
; from George Eliot’s meditations on the status of women in
Middlemarch
to the metaphysical puzzles of Olive Schreiner’s T
he Story of an African Farm
, English women wrote themselves into history and into our literary heritage. This presentation and conversation traces the arc of a century of women’s writing, accompanied by images from the MFA’s collections.
Laura Green, associate dean, Teaching, Learning, and Experiential Education; acting director, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; professor, English and WGSS, Northeastern University
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Boston College Zen Meditation Group
Silent meditation in the Zen Buddhist tradition, no previous experience or special beliefs required. All are welcome!
Wednesday, March 7th, 1:10-1:45pm
Multi-Faith Center 66 Commonwealth Ave, Boston College
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Natasha Trethewey: Beyond Katrina
Natasha Trethewey served two terms as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014). She is the author of four collections of poetry:
Thrall
(2012);
Native Guard
(2006), for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize;
Bellocq’s Ophelia
(2002); and
Domestic Work
(2000), which was selected by Rita Dove as the winner of the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African American poet and won both the 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize and the 2001 Lillian Smith Award for Poetry. Her book of nonfiction,
Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
, appeared in 2010. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Beinecke Library at Yale, and the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. At Emory University she is Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing. In 2012, she was named Poet Laureate of the State of Mississippi and in 2013 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Co-sponsored by the Park Street Corporation Speaker Series.
Wednesday, March 14 at 7:00pm
Gasson Hall 100
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Name: Andrew Timmons,
MA in English and WGS Graduate Certificate
Andrew was first introduced to Women's and Gender Studies when he was in undergrad at Loyola University Chicago. It was through the WSGS department at LUC that he was first given the language to ask the questions that have since determined his academic trajectory. When Andrew began his program at Boston College, he knew that he wanted to continue engaging those questions and be introduced to new questions within a likeminded academic community.
Andrew believes the WGS certificate program adds depth to his degree -- it shows that his interest in literary studies is informed and constituted by questions of gender and sexuality.
Andrew is interested in the ways that sexuality and gender shape literature, film, and popular culture, and how literature, film, and popular culture are shaped by experiences of sexuality and gender. He is particularly interested in the ways queerness is embedded within artistic representations through various stylistic techniques.
Andrew highly recommends enriching any degree program through an engagement with Women's and Gender Studies.
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Women's and Gender Studies | Boston College | 617-552-4198 | gender@bc.edu | www.bc.edu/wgs
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