The Advisory Committee serves as the executive committee for the Gender Studies Program, and includes core and affiliate faculty members.
Nicola Beisel (Gender Studies & Sociology)
Nicholas Davis (Gender Studies & English)
Mary G. Dietz (Gender Studies and Political Science)
Jillana Enteen (Gender Studies)
Lane Fenrich (History)
E. Patrick Johnson (Performance Studies)
Tessie Liu (Gender Studies & History)
Jeffrey Masten (Gender Studies & English)
Ann Orloff (Gender Studies & Sociology)
Alexandra Owen (Gender Studies & History)
Frances Freeman Paden (Gender Studies & Writing Program)
Helen Thompson (English)
Jane Winston (Gender Studies & French)
Linda Zerilli (Gender Studies & Political Science)
Program Directors
Jeffrey Masten (j-masten@northwestern.edu) (Director)
holds a joint appointment in Gender Studies and English. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. Prof. Masten's work on gender and sexuality includes articles on early women writers in English, as well as scholarship on the history of sexuality in Renaissance Europe. He is the author of Textual Intercourse: Collaboration, Authorship, and Sexualities in Renaissance Drama (Cambridge, 1997); his essays on gender and sexuality have appeared in The Body in Parts, Early Women Writers 1600-1720, "Feminism in Time" (Modern Language Quarterly) , GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, and Queering the Renaissance. His Gender Studies courses include "The Drama of Homosexuality" and "Early Modern Sexualities." In 2006, Masten was named Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence. Prof. Masten's work in gender studies began as an undergraduate at Denison University, where he received the Women's Studies Thesis Prize in 1986. He is currently writing a book entitled Spelling Shakespeare, and Other Essays in Queer Philology.
Amy Partridge (a-partridge@northwestern.edu) (Associate Director and Director of Undergraduate Studies) is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Gender Studies, where she also serves as Honors Coordinator. She received a Ph.D. in Performance Studies and a Graduate Certificate in Gender Studies from Northwestern University. Partridge's teaching and research interests include topics in the history of medicine, sexuality studies, feminist science studies, gender and labor history, and cultural studies. A former Research Associate at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London, her research focuses on popular public health education campaigns, past and present. She is currently working on two book-length projects: Performing the Sanitary Idea in Victorian Britain, which examines the use of popular performance forms in public health campaigns targeted at working-class audiences in Victorian Britain, and a documentary history of the 1970s Women's Health Movement in the United States.
Program Assistant
Katy Weseman (gender@northwestern.edu) (Program Assistant) graduated from Carleton College in 2002 with a major in Women's and Gender Studies. At Carleton she was active in the Women's and Gender Studies Program and served as a leader in the Collective for Women's Issues, thus bringing knowledge of and commitment to Gender Studies to Northwestern. Katy has previously worked in the Youth Program at the Center on Halsted/Horizons Community Services in Chicago and as the Aquatic Director at the Lake View YMCA, also in Chicago. She is currently enrolled in the Master of Science in Education Program with a concentration in Higher Education Administration and Policy at Northwestern.
