Research
Leaders in their fields, Wesleyan’s Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies faculty publish influential research and shape public discourse. Beyond teaching and mentoring students, faculty often share their research with students, hiring them as research assistants and regularly mentoring student-led research projects.
Gender, Race and Class Shape Institutions
Analyzes how gender, race, and class shape institutions that claim to help marginalized populations but function as mechanisms of control, including drug courts as sites of "therapeutic governance," anti-trafficking frameworks that police sex workers, and—in his current book project—how the colonial commodity of "drugs" organizes who receives care and who is abandoned to die.
The Body in Culture, Science, Medicine and Law
Examines performance and identity politics, with particular attention to queerness, global diasporic formations, and contemporary reconfigurations of South Asian dance, focusing on the layered inscriptions of the queer body within global performance contexts.
Meet Prof. Pitts-TaylorHistory of Sexuality in Russia and Eurasia
Studies how queer sexualities were articulated through literature, fine arts, and the moving image in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the countries that came after. Of special importance is understanding the applicability and adaptability of the term "queer" in illiberal societies.
Performance and Identity Politics
Investigate performance and identity politics, with particular attention to queerness, global diasporic formations, and contemporary reconfigurations of South Asian dance.
Meet Prof. KrishnanDiasporic Masculinity in Media and Culture
Studies the histories and aesthetics of Asian/diasporic masculinity and sexuality in global popular cultures.
Meet Prof. MinaiTransgender Embodiment
Understand transgender embodiment, especially trans, gender nonconforming, and intersex people as they are represented in African American and African diasporic literature and performance.
Meet Prof. Duncan