Center for Feminist Research

2011-12 New Directions in Feminist Research Seminar
Center for Feminist Research

The Center for Feminist Research is pleased to announce that the 2011-12 New Directions in Feminist Research Seminar, led by Professor Macarena Gomez-Barris, will focus on "Race, Sexuality and Resistant Bodies." In addition to Gomez-Barris, Associate Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity, next year's seminar will include the following group of faculty and graduate students:

1. María Elena Martínez, Associate Professor of History. Her project "Law and Religion in Colonial Latin America" addresses the production of knowledge about the body through colonial racial and sexual classificatory systems.

2. David Lloyd, Professor of Comparative Literature and English. His project, "Four Poets: Violence and Sexuality in the Long Modernist Period" reads decolonizing poetry to figure the conditions of the colony and the racialized self.

3. Jack Halberstam, Professor of English. His project "The Traffic in Genders: Transgenderism in a Global Frame" is an examination of the meaning of cross-gender identification within a global context.

4. Jih-Fei Cheng, Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies & Ethnicity. His project, "Parallel Dislocations: Bodies of Refuse" focuses on the visual representations and kinship networks of various queer populations within the continental U.S. and Hawaii.

5. Gretel Vera Rosas, Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies and Ethnicity. Her project is "Maternal Illegalities: Screenings of Latin/a American Transnational Motherhood," which analyzes undocumented migration, sex work, and/or trafficking through film.

The CFR's "New Directions in Feminist Research" is organized annually around a particular theme.  The seminar offers participants an opportunity to work collectively on thematically linked projects, and also creates public events--invited speakers, panels, conferences--that engage the broader feminist community of faculty and students at USC. Stay tuned for announcements of such events in 2011-12.

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Graduate Fellowships:

Diana Meehan Fellowship in Feminism and Communications

The Center for Feminist Research will award two $2000 Fellowships to two advanced graduate students working in the general area of feminism and communication. Applicants should be advanced students who are working either on a dissertation or on an original creative project.

Please check the CFR website for application deadlines. To apply, submit:

·       a cover letter explaining how your circumstances meet the criteria specified

·       a curriculum vita

·       a three-page, 750-word description of your dissertation/creative project, and/or a sample of your creative work (e.g. a script or film)

·       two letters of recommendation

·       an unofficial transcript

Cagney and Lacey Fellowship

The Center for Feminist Research will award one $2000 fellowship to a returning woman student who is enrolled in a graduate program in the USC School of Cinema/Television. The student may be in any year of study except her final year. Please note, a returning student is one who has had a break of several years between her undergraduate training and matriculation in graduate school; she is usually of non-traditional school age.

Please check the CFR website for application deadlines. To apply, submit:

• a cover letter explaining how your circumstances meet the criteria specified
• a curriculum vita, which should reflect your circumstances as a woman student who has returned to academia
• a three-page, 750-word description of your dissertation/creative project, and/or a sample of your creative work (e.g. a script or film)
• two letters of recommendation
• an unofficial transcript

All queries and applications should be sent to: cfr@usc.edu