Fall 2007/Spring 2008 Schedule
November 30, 2007
Presenter: Daniela Deluna '08
Political Science Major/Gender Studies Minor
Winner of a 2007 Genevieve D. Willis Gender Studies Senior Thesis grant
Title: "Bebé a Bordo: Teenage Pregnancy among Mexican-American Girls"
Thesis Advisors: Heidi Ardizzone and David Klein
February 1, 2008
Presenter: Stacey Williams '08
Psychology Major/Gender Studies Major
Title: Objectivity and Gender in Science: Implications for Psychology
Thesis Advisor: Krista Duttenhaver
February 29, 2008
Presenter: Samara Cahill
Ph.D candidate in 18th-century English literature
Gender Studies Pre-doctoral Fellow-Academic Advisor in 2006-07
Graduate Presidential Fellow, English
Title: “the Mahometan Richardson”: Virtue, Education, and the Nation in the letters of Richardson’s Female Readers
March 14, 2008
Presenter: Professor Julia Viglione Douthwaite
Romance Languages and Literatures
Fellow, Nanovic Institute for European Studies
Title: " Engendering Displacement, or How the 1789 Women's March on
Versailles Left its Imprint on French Literature"
Location: 339 O'Shaughnessy
March 28, 2008
Presenter: Krista Duttenhaver
Ph.D candidate in Systematic Theology
Gender Studies Pre-doctoral Fellow-Internship/Study Abroad Advisor in 2006-07, 2007-08
Title: "Psychic Matter, Embodied Spirit: Simone Weil’s Concept of the Relational Self"
April 11, 2008
Presenter: Jamie Grebowski '08
Economics Major/Gender Studies Major
Winner of a 2007 Genevieve D. Willis Gender Studies Senior Thesis grant Title: "Segregation by Sex: Estimating the Effects of Single-Sex Education on Further Education"
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Kasey Buckles
April 25, 2008
Presenter: Belkys Torres
Ph.D. Candidate English Dept. / Institute for Latino Studies
Title: "Tomorrow They Will Kiss: A Melodrama of the Cuban-American Exilic Condition"