Faculty
Director: Jody 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. Her essay,"DES and Diflucan: Pharmaceutical Marketing Choices--Why Women Should Take Heed," was recently published in (Re)Interpretations: The Shapes of Justice in Women's Experience (2000). 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 story collection, Remember Love, published by Fleur-de-Lis Press, 2008.
Donna 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.
Karen Stein
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 and Director from 2003-2007. 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.
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 a feminist reading of The Da Vinci Code. Her most recent publication is "Here's To Not Being Fake: Bravo's The Real Housewives and the Postfeminist Heroine" in Foregrounding Postfeminism and the Future of Feminist Film and Media Studies. Courses she teaches include WMS 150: Introduction to Women's Studies, WMS 301: Women's Professional Development and Leadership, WMS 320: Feminist Thought Into Action, and WMS 350: Women and Film.
Affiliated Professors
Sona Aronian, Russian and Comparative Literature
Laura Beauvais, Management
Winnie Brownell, Dean of Arts and Sciences
Josie Campbell, English
Mary Cappello, English
Dorothy Donnelly, English
Wilfred Dvorak, Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences
Sandra Ketrow, Communication Studies
Carolyn Livingston, Music
Barbara Luebke, Journalism
Helen Mederer, Sociology
Jean Miller, Nursing
Kathryn Quina, Psychology
Nedra Reynolds, College Writing Program
Wendy Roworth, Art
Sharon Strom, History
Jean Walton, English
Associate Professors
Ann Davis, Music
Lynne Derbyshire, Communications
Nancy Eaton, Mathematics
Susana De Los Heros, Languages
Valerie Karno, English
Doris Kirchner, Languages
RosaMaria Pegueros, History
Joelle Rollo-Koster, History
Andrea Rusnock, History
Catherine Sama, Italian and Film Studies
Marie Schwartz, History
Kathleen Torrens, Communication Studies
Assistant Professors
Kim Hensley Owens, Writing and Rhetoric
Jody Lisberger, Women's Studies
Lecturers
Rosaria Pisa, Sociology/ Anthropology
Adjunct Faculty
Barbara Barker, Biology
Jenn Brandt, English
Noel-Anne Brennan, Sociology
Laurie Carlson, English
N. Adria Evans, English
Mary Gormley
Janet Hagen, Women's Studies
Heather Johnson, English
Eva Jones, English
Alexia Kosmider, Women's Studies
Mailee Kue, Psychology
Keith Labelle, Violence Prevention
Phyllis Littlejohn Brown, Women's Studies
Lee Marshall, Writing and Rhetoric
Jen Moio, Violence Prevention
Holly J. Nichols, Counseling Center
Janet Oberndorfer, Women's Studies
Laura Pisaturo, Esq., Day One RI
Kristen Quinlan, Psychology
Jeannette Riley, Women's Studies
Alison Rose, Women's Studies
Brett Rutherford, English
Natascha Saunders, Women's Studies
Ted Shear, Talent Development
Laura Wild, English
Emerita/us WMS Faculty
Judith Anderson, Communication Studies
Sally Burke, English
Greta Cohen, Physical Education
Lois Cuddy, English
Ira Gross, Psychology
Stephen Grubman-Black, Communication Studies
Cynthia Hamilton, African and African American Studies
Mathilda Hills, English
Janet Hirsch, Nursing
Albert J. Lott, Psychology
Bernice Lott, Psychology
Marilyn J. Malina, English
Jim Miller, Ocean Engineering
Gwenneth Rae, Human Development and Family Studies
Mary Ellen Reilly, Sociology
Karen A. Schroeder, Human Development and Family Studies
Gail Anne Shea, Sociology
Jim Starkey, Economics
