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Interim Director: Jody Lisberger
Jodi Lisberger
Jody Lisberger has a Ph.D. in English (Boston University, 1991), with a specialty in feminist narrative theory. She also has an M.F.A. in Writing (Vermont College, 1999), and a B. A. in anthropology (Smith College, 1975). She has designed two new courses at URI-"Race, Class, and Sexuality Seen Through Literature" and "Violence and Nonviolence in Theory and Fiction: Feminist Alternatives." She also teaches Feminist Theory and Methodology, with an emphasis on narrative, film, medicine, and law, and Introduction to Women's Studies. In November 2006, she presented a paper called "DES and Diflucan: Pharmaceutical Marketing Choices--Why Women Should Take Heed." She is also on the faculty of the brief residency M.F.A. in Writing Program at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky. Her stories have been published in Michigan Quarterly Review, Fugue, Confrontation, Thema, and the Louisville Review. She also has a new story collection, Remember Love, published by Fleur-de-Lis Press.

Donna M. HughesDonna Hughes

Donna M. Hughes is a leading international researcher on trafficking of women and children. She has completed research on the trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation in the United States, Russia, Ukraine, and Korea.
She does research and writing on women's rights. Her topic areas include: violence, slavery, sexual exploitation, Islamic fundamentalism, and women's organized resistance to violence and exploitation. She also works on issues related to women, science and technology.

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Karen SteinKaren Stein *Sabbatical leave 2008-2009*

Professor of English and Women's Studies, received her B. A. from Brooklyn College in 1962, her M. A. from Pennsylvania State University in 1966 and her Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in 1982. She was one of the co-founders of the Women's Studies Program at URI. She has written and spoken about women as writers and subjects of literature. Her current research interests include Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, American women poets, utopian fiction by women, and women and science. Her recent book Margaret Atwood Revisited focuses on the Canadian novelist, critic and poet. From 1995-97 she served as Chair of the English Department at URI.

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Jenn Brandt

Jenn Brandt, TA in the WMS Program

Jenn Brandt has a BA in English from Drew University and a MA in Popular Culture from Bowling Green State University. Currently she is working toward her PhD in English at the University of Rhode Island. Jenn's work focuses on gender and cultural studies in popular film, literature, and television. She has previously published articles about Sex and the City and The Da Vinci Code.



Affiliated Professors

Sona Aronian, Russian and Comparative Literature Barbara Luebke, Journalism
Laura Beauvais, Management Helen Mederer, Sociology
Winnie Brownell, Dean of Arts and Sciences Jean Miller, Nursing
Josie Campbell, English Kathryn Quina, Psychology
Mary Cappello, English Nedra Reynolds, College Writing Program
Dorothy Donnelly, English Wendy Roworth, Art
Wilfred Dvorak, Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences James Starkey, Economics
Cynthia Hamilton, African and African-American Studies Sharon Strom, History
Sandra Ketrow, Communication Studies Jean Walton, English
Carolyn Livingston, Music

Associate Professors

Ann Davis, Music RosaMaria Pegueros, History
Lynne Derbyshire, Communications Joelle Rollo-Koster, History
Nancy Eaton, Mathematics Andrea Rusnock, History
Susana De Los Heros, Languages Catherine Sama, Italian and Film Studies
Valerie Karno, English Marie Schwartz, History
Doris Kirchner, Languages Kathleen Torrens, Communication Studies


Assistant Professors

Kim Hensley Owens, Writing and Rhetoric

Lecturers

Jody Lisberger, Women's Studies
Rosaria Pisa, Sociology/ Anthropology


Adjunct Faculty

Barbara Barker, Biology Jen Moio, Violence Prevention
Jenn Brandt, English Holly J. Nichols, Counseling Center
Noel-Anne Brennan, Sociology Laura Pisaturo, Esq., Day One RI
N. Adria Evans, English Kristen Quinlan, Psychology
Mary Gormley Jeannette Riley, Women's Studies
Janet Hagen, Women's Studies Brett Rutherford, English
Heather Johnson, English Denise Saran, Women's Studies
Eva Jones, English Ted Shear, Talent Development
Alexia Kosmider, Women's Studies Agata Stepien, English
Mailee Kue, Psychology Eugenia Wild, Counseling
Keith Labelle, Violence Prevention


        Emerita/us WMS Faculty

Judith Anderson, Communication Studies Bernice Lott, Psychology
Sally Burke, English Marilyn J. Malina, English
Greta Cohen, Physical Education Jim Miller, Ocean Engineering
Lois Cuddy, English Gwenneth Rae, Human Development & Family Studies
Ira Gross, Psychology Mary Ellen Reilly, Sociology
Stephen Grubman-Black, Communication Studies Karen A. Schroeder, Human Development &
Mathilda Hills, English Family Studies
Janet Hirsch, Nursing Gail Anne Shea, Sociology
Albert J. Lott, Psychology Jim Starkey


Women's Studies Office: 318 Eleanor Roosevelt Hall, 90 Lower College Rd, Suite 13,  Kingston, RI 02881 
Interim Director: Jody Lisberger - E-mail:WMSDIR@ETAL.URI.EDU   Phone: 401-874-5150      Fax: 401-874-4527