Women's & Gender Studies

Margaretmary Daley, Ph.D. (Yale University)
Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature

European women writers (especially German); contemporary women's poetry; feminist literary criticism

Marie Lathers, Ph.D. (Brown University)
Treuhaft Professor in Humanities and French

Women and the visual arts; 19th-century French literature and art;
gender, science, and technology; feminist theory

Jacqueline C. Nanfito, Ph.D. (University of California, Los Angeles)
Assistant Professor, Spanish and Comparative Literature

Colonial and 19th century Latin American literature; Golden Age Hispanic literature; literary theory; Chicano literature; contemporary Latin American women writers

Cheryl Toman, Ph.D. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Assistant Professor, French

Sub-Saharan and Middle Eastern Women's Writing, women and immigration

Gabriela Copertari, Ph.D. (Georgetown University)
Assistant Professor, French

Contemporary Latin American culture, literature, and film