Facilitated by Jessica Mertz, Director of Sexual Assault Prevention and Education at Penn, and Litty Paxton, Director of the Penn Women's Center If a student discloses an occurrence of sexual violence, would you know what to do? What resources are available to your students and…

Speaker: Diana Henderson (Professor of English at Massachusetts Institute of Technology), whose scholarship on women's writing, performance and media has been of great importance to scholars of gender and culture in the Renaissance. The author of Collaborations with the Past…

This workshop focuses on various ways instructors can teach theory in a humanities classroom. This discussion puts pressure on the divide between primary texts and theory by asking: How can we guide students to theoretical concerns through source materials? How do we teach close…

In this lecture Prof. Johnson will share excerpts from his current creative nonfiction research on black southern women who love women to demonstrate how he employed performative and creative writing as a feminist method for conducting oral histories.

Despite making major inroads into national legislatures over the last 20 years, female politicians still do not attain parity either in national legislatures or in “P-Suite” positions, that is, as party leaders, president, prime minister, chair of powerful committees, or members…

Comparative literature's "Theorizing" colloquium series brings together established scholars in a variety of fields to discuss current theoretical trends, A talk with Yannik Thiem, of Villanova University who will speak on "Liquid Identities and Bedrocks of Desire: Queer Rituals…

Sponsored by the Department of English in partnership with the Alice Paul Center This event is free and open to the public. Leo Bersani is an internationally renowned scholar who has worked in a variety of fields including gender/sexuality studies, literary studies…

See the film that examines how women are being jailed, physically violated and even put at risk of dying as a radical movement tightens its grip across America. Birthright: A War Story explores the accelerating gains of the crusade to control pregnant women and the fallout that…

APC Works in Progress Seminar with Jasbir Puar, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick In partnership with the Department of English In this talk, Puar reflects on the last ten years of homonationalism and its effects. She is especially…

Sponsored by the Department of English in partnership with the Alice Paul Center Free and open to the public Jasbir K. Puar is Associate Professor of Women's & Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She has also been a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Performance Studies at…