Affiliated Faculty
Rebecca Alpert
Rabbi Rebecca T. Alpert is Associate Professor of Religion and Women's Studies at Temple University. She is the co-author of Exploring Judaism: A Reconstructionist Approach, author of Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition and Whose Torah? A Concise Guide to Progressive Judaism and editor of Voices of the Religious Left: A Contemporary Sourcebook as well as numerous articles. She teaches in the areas of religion and contemporary social issues: sexuality, the politics of race and gender, and medical ethics and is currently at work on a book on Jews in Black Baseball.
Beth Bailey
Beth Bailey is a Professor in the department of history; her research focuses on the history of gender and sexuality in the United States, and on 20th century US social and cultural history. Her current research is a social-cultural history of recruiting the all volunteer army, focused on questions about what it means to rely on mass market advertising for recruiting purposes, how gender and race and ethnicity are portrayed in recruiting campaigns, and why that matters; and how public recruiting campaigns represent the meaning of military service and the relationship between the citizen and the state. She recently edited an issue of the
Organization of American Historians magazine focused on teaching about sexuality in high school and undergraduate classrooms. She teaches undergraduate courses on gender and sexuality in US film and on the history of youth and sex in post-WWII America. Graduate courses include "Masculinities" and "The History of Sexuality in America."
Therese Dolan
Therese Dolan is Interim Dean at Tyler School of Art and a modernist art historian who specializes in 19th century French art and has also published on contemporary art. She has authored two books, Inventing Reality: The Paintings of John Moore for Hudson Hills Press, 1996 and Gavarni and the Critics for University of Michigan (UMI) Press in 1981. In 2006 she also contributed an essay to Women in Impressionism, an exhibition at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen and a chapter in L’Oeil Écrit. Études sur des rapports entre texte et image, 1800-1940. Currently she is working on a book entitled Artworks of the Future: Manet, Wagner and Liszt on the subject of art and music in nineteenth-century France. She has also published numerous articles in refereed scholarly journals, including Word & Image, Print Quarterly, Nineteenth Century French Studies, Art Bulletin, Women's Art Journal, the Gazette des Beaux Arts, and Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide among others. She has received numerous awards for her research and teaching. She currently serves on the board of the Art Historians of the Nineteenth-Century Association, affiliated with the College Art Association.
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Rachel Blau DuPlessis is an American poet-critic and a Professor in English at Temple University. Her critical writing includes Blue Studios: Poetry and Its Cultural Work (2006), The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice (2006) both from University of Alabama Press, along with Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934 (Cambridge University Press, 2001). Earlier work includes Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers (1985) and H.D.: The Career of that Struggle (1986), as well as an edition of The Selected Letters of George Oppen (1990). DuPlessis’s long poem project, begun in 1986, is collected in Torques: Drafts 58-76 (Salt Publishing, 2007) as well as in Drafts 1-38, Toll (Wesleyan U.P., 2001) and Drafts 39-57, Pledge, with Draft unnumbered: Précis (Salt Publishing, 2004).She has co-edited three anthologies including The Objectivist Nexus and The Feminist Memoir Project.
Abbe Forman
Abbe Forman is a lecturer in the CIS department. Her research interests include almost anything that falls under the umbrella of "Computer Ethics" including digital piracy, online privacy and trust, the impact of technology on society, the digital divide, and women and technology.
Suzanne Gauch
Suzanne Gauch is Assistant Professor in English. Her research and teaching interests include postcolonial studies, with a focus on literary and cultural exchanges between the Islamic world and Europe, gender studies, and the cinemas of the global South. She has published and has forthcoming articles on the politics of literary borrowing in the global marketplace, feminism in Moroccan film, the limits of self refashioning in the post-independence nation-state, exile and representational authority, reconfigurations of agency in post-independence Anglophone and Francophone writing, the Algerian war of independence in French film, and the resistance of the body in Frantz Fanon's revolutionary dialectics. Her book, Liberating Shahrazad: Feminism, Postcolonialism, and Islam (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), analyzes how contemporary North African writers and filmmakers legitimate their own artistic practices and political engagements--and navigate increasingly complex circuits of transnational exchange--by paying tribute to the legendary storyteller of the Thousand and One Nights.
Eli Goldblatt
Eli Goldblatt is an Associate Professor of English at Temple. His interests include community literacy, personal writing, and poetry. Composition/rhetoric work includes Round My Way: Authority and Double Consciousness in Three Urban High School Writers (University of PittsburghPress, 1995) and Because We Live Here: Sponsoring Literacy beyond the College Curriculum (Hampton Press, 2007) as well as articles in Writing on the Edge, College English, Linguistics and Education, and College Composition and Communication. His book-length collections of poetry include Sessions 1-62 (Chax Press, 1991), Speech Acts (Chax Press, 1999), and Without a Trace (Singing Horse Press, 2001).
Dustin Kidd
Dustin Kidd is Assistant Professor in Sociology. He is interested in the sociology of art and popular culture, social theory, and qualitative methods. He has published work on arts controversies, government funding for the arts, and popular literature, in publications that include The Journal of Popular Culture, The Hedgehog Review, Afterimage, and Research in Political Sociology.
Mary Ann Mannino
Mary Ann Mannino is currently teaching in the First-Year Writing Program. She is both a fiction writer and a poet.
Her poem "Jimmy Fahey" took first prize in the 2001 Allen Ginsberg poetry awards. Her primary research is in the field
of Italian American Literature. Her first book Revisionary Identities: Strategies of Empowerment in the Writing of
Italian/American Women was published by Peter Lang in 2000. In 2003, along with Justin Vitiello, she edited an anthology
Breaking Open: Reflections on Italian American Women's Writing in which prominent women writers discussed ethnic
influences on their creative works. She continues to publish her research in this growing area of American Literature.
Aneta Pavlenko
Dr. Aneta Pavlenko is Associate Professor in the CITE Department, College of Education. Her work examines the
relationship between gender and multilingualism in the context of globalization and transnational migration. She
has co-edited two volumes (Multilingualism, second language learning and gender, 2001, Mouton De Gruyter; Gender and
English language learners, 2004, TESOL) and published several articles and book chapters on these issues.
Sheryl Burt Ruzek
Sheryl Burt Ruzek, PhD, MPH, Professor of Public Health co-directs the Center for Women’s Health Research, Leadership and Advocacy in the Office of the Vice-President for Research and Strategic Initiatives. Her research has focused on the social and behavioral aspects of women’s health and gender differences in health. She has published books and articles on the women’s health movement and its impact on doctor-patient communication and medical decision-making. Currently, she is researching gender differences in cancer communication with support from a National Cancer Institute grant that uses perceptual mapping methods to study and develop patient decision aids for people with limited literacy.
Miriam Solomon
Miriam Solomon is Professor of Philosophy. Her research and teaching interests include philosophy of science, gender and
science, feminist epistemology, bioethics (including feminist topics and approaches), medical epistemology.
Kathryn M. Stanchi
Kathryn Stanchi is an Associate Professor at Temple Law School. She specializes in legal issues related to the
intersection of writing, persuasion and gender. She has published numerous articles on writing, advocacy and
feminism, and also served as the associate editor of Pennsylvania's Rules of Evidence. She currently serves on
the Editorial Board of the Journal of Legal Writing, a peer edited law journal, and works on pro bono legal matters,
primarily in the area of environmental preservation. Professor Stanchi teaches legal research and writing, law
and feminism, civil pre-trial litigation and appellate advocacy.
Christine Woyshner
Christine Woyshner is Associate Professor of Education in Temple’s College of Education. She is a historian of
education who studies the role of women’s voluntary organizations in public education in the early twentieth
century and also conducts research on gender in the school curriculum. In addition to publishing numerous articles and book chapters, she co-edited the volumes Minding Women: Reshaping the Educational Realm (Harvard Educational Publishing Group, 1998), Social Education in the Twentieth Century: Curriculum and Context for Citizenship (Peter Lang Publishers, 2004), and The Educational Work of Women’s Organizations, 1890-1960 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). Woyshner served on the editorial board of the Harvard Educational Review and Theory and Research in Social Education. Her book on the history
of the racial policies and practices of the National PTA will be published by Ohio State University Press in 2009.