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Melissa Sanchez, incoming APC/GSWS Director and Donald T. Regan Professor of English, received recognition from the Modern Language Association (MLA) for her book Queer Faith: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition. The book received an honorable mention for the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies, given annually to an outstanding scholarly work that is written by a member of the association and that involves at least two literatures.

APC/GSWS Program Coordinator Shana Bahemat has just launched their newsletter Words in Practice.

GSWS is proud to announce that senior Annah Chollet has been awarded the 2021 Marshall Scholarship. Annah, who is currently completing her honors thesis through the GSWS Program, was the 2020 recipient of the Truman Scholarship. Upon graduation from Penn, Annah plans to attend Oxford University. Read more about Annah's accomplishment here. Congratulations, Annah!

Check out this latest article from 34th Street in which SP2 and PennDesign Professor Amy Hillier Talks about Race, Sexuality, and Education.
 
https://www.34st.com/article/2020/11/professor-amy-hillier-education-eq…

Below are comments made on behalf of Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies at Penn at the University Council Open Forum on December 2, 2020

Melissa E. Sanchez received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine. Her research and teaching focus on feminism, queer theory, and sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, and she has been a Core Faculty member in Penn's Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program since 2006. 

Maddie Hopfield reviewed The Sis Uprising with Arien Wilkerson and Richardo Bracho for thINKing DANCE. Read the review here.

Join us on Wednesday, October 28th at 12 pm ET for the GSWS Program's Course & Majors Fair session. Meet GSWS Faculty, Staff, and current students. Zoom information below.
Zoom Meetinghttps://upenn.zoom.us/j/93942343011?pwd=WU9YemZIVGN5UndrQkJ2V2pjN0VQQT09
Meeting ID: 939 4234 3011Passcode: 210166

Joan DeJean, Trustee Professor of Romance Languages in the department of French and a core member of GSWS faculty, was made a Fellow of the prestigious British Academy for the humanities and social sciences.