University of Amsterdam Dr. Marie-Louise Janssen lectures in the areas of gender and sexuality studies, migration and human trafficking and ethnographic research methods and techniques at the department of Cultural Anthropology of the University of Amsterdam. She got her master degree in Cultural Anthropology in 1991. In 2007 she completed her [...]
Maastricht University Dr. Louis van den Hengel is Assistant Professor at the Department of Literature and Art and the Centre for Gender and Diversity at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. He holds an MA in classics and Mediterranean archaeology (cum laude), and specialized in contemporary gender and diversity studies, [...]
Liesbeth Minnaard is Assistant Professor of Film and Literary Studies at Leiden University. Her research focuses on the manifold cultural effects of migration and globalization, from a comparative & gender perspective. Current research projects explore exoticist configurations in fin-de-siècle literature and ambivalent notions of community in contemporary Dutch literature. Her publications [...]
University of Groningen. The project concerns the role elite women played in the development of social movements and civil society at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth century. This approach offers a new perspective within the study of political culture, family culture, elite studies and women’s history. Its main [...]
Yale University, Connecticut Inderpal Grewal is Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Most recently she has taught at University of California, Irvine, where she was director of Women’s Studies and of the PhD Program in Culture and Theory. Her research interests include transnational feminist theory; gender and globalization, human [...]
University of California, Santa Cruz Donna Haraway, Ph.D., (b. 1944 in Denver) taught as a Professor of Feminism and Technoscience at the European Graduate School EGS. Donna Haraway is an internationally recognized feminist theorist and philosopher of science and technology. Her seminal work, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of [...]
Linköping University, Sweden Nina Lykke is professor of Gender Studies with special reference to Gender and Culture at Linköping University, Sweden. She is director of an international Centre of Gender Excellence, GEXcel, as well as scientific leader of a Nordic and a Swedish-International Research School in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies. She [...]
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Joan Scott's work has challenged the foundations of conventional historical practice, including the nature of historical evidence and historical experience. Drawing on a range of philosophical thought, as well as on a rethinking of her own training as a labor historian, she has contributed to [...]
City University of New York, New York Nancy K. Miller is professor of English, French and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She worked on a project about the experience of girls and young women in the American 1950s, about private life and middlebrow culture; also a project on [...]
University of York, York Writes both in English and in French. Fictions: Le Spectre du gris (in English: Shades of Grey, Virago, 1981); L'Entremise, and short stories in various collections. Critical Essays: Baudelaire (Macmillan's, 1983); Colette (Harvester Press, 1987) ; Un Homme nommé Zapolski, translated into English as The Streetcleaner: [...]
London School of Economics, London Anne Phillips joined the LSE in 1999 as Professor of Gender Theory, and was Director of the Gender Institute until September 2004. She subsequently moved to a joint appointment between the Gender Institute and Government Department. She is a leading figure in feminist political theory, [...]
University of California, Santa Cruz Karen Barad is Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her Ph.D. is in theoretical particle physics. She held a tenured appointment in a physics department before moving into more interdisciplinary spaces. She is the [...]
