Wesleyan portrait of Victoria  Pitts-Taylor

Victoria Pitts-Taylor

Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Allbritton Center, 220
860-685-2264

Chair, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Allbritton Center, 220

Professor, Science in Society

Allbritton Center, 220
860-685-2264

Professor, Sociology

Allbritton Center, 220
860-685-2264

vpitts@wesleyan.edu

BA Ohio University
PHD Brandeis University

Victoria Pitts-Taylor

Victoria Pitts-Taylor studies how the body is understood and modified by medicine, science and culture. Professor Pitts-Taylor is author of The Brain’s Body: Neuroscience and Corporeal Politics (Duke University Press, 2016), which won the Philosophy of Science Association's Women's Caucus Prize in Feminist Phiolosophy of Science and the Robert K. Merton Book Prize from the Science, Knowledge and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association. She is also author of In the Flesh: the Cultural Politics of Body Modification (2003, Palgrave Macmillan) and Surgery Junkies: Wellness and Pathology in Cosmetic Culture (2007, Rutgers University Press). She is the Editor of the two-volume Cultural Encyclopedia of the Body (2008, Greenwood Press), and Mattering: Feminism, Science, and Materialism (NYU Press, 2016). She is a past recipient of the American Sociological Association’s Advancement of the Discipline Award and a former co-editor of WSQ (Women's Studies Quarterly). She served as the first elected chair of the American Sociological Association's Section on the Body and Embodiment. Her most recent articles are published in the journals Science, Technology and Human Values, Sexualities, and Health

Academic Affiliations

Office Hours

For Spring 2024, my classes are held in person, but I am holding office hours on zoom, Mondays 3:30 - 4:30 and by appointment, https://wesleyan.zoom.us/j/110776457 

Courses

Spring 2024
CHUM 379 - 01
Gendered Belonging