By Thabisile Griffin In the late 18th century, people in the Caribbean were constantly reproducing and recalibrating hierarchies of difference. The last decade of the century was especially significant, as […]
by Clementine Bordeaux In 2018, the number of American Indian women producing, writing, and directing for the stage was at an all time high in contemporary American theatre. Playwrights like […]
By Tony Wei Ling When I presented a paper on Jamie Berrout’s Incomplete Short Stories and Essays at a graduate conference last year, I was talking about a book that […]
By Becky Nicolaides Back in 2006 when I made the tough decision to walk away from a tenured faculty position at UC San Diego, I knew in the back of […]
Mahsa Mohebali’s Negarān nabāsh, or Don’t Worry, follows Shadi, a rich, disillusioned junkie, in the course of a single day as she roams through a crumbling Tehran in search of […]
By Sara Murdock In March 2018 I served as a delegate to the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women on behalf of Graduate Women International . I attended […]
By Jessica Cook Novelist George Eliot is arguably the single most paradoxical and polemical female figure of the nineteenth century. “Why,” in essence, as Kate Flint summarizes, “should a woman […]
By Kathleen Sheldon When I lived in Beira, Mozambique, for two years in the early 1980s while pursuing my dissertation research, I kept a daily journal about my experiences. My […]
by Chantal Jones “Why are you interested in law schools? You are not a lawyer.” My dissertation is a discussion with law school graduates and a continuation of the Educational […]
by Eva R. Melstrom In October 2013 the Ethiopian government banned its citizens from traveling to the Middle East to work as domestic and unskilled laborers. This prohibition followed international […]
