News and Announcements

Dr. Phillips-Cunningham teaches first TWU-Spelman College cross-listed course

6/10/21

Dr. Danielle Phillips-Cunningham, Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies Program Director, taught a new course about labor in the spring semester. It was entitled “Covid-19 & Black Workers: Race, Gender, and Labor.” It was also the first cross-listed course between TWU and Spelman College (a historically Black women’s college founded in 1881 in Atlanta, Georgia).

Agatha Beins discusses the job market for MWGS grads with Zippia.com

5/27/21

Zippia.com recently interviewed Associate Professor Agatha Beins, PhD, on what recent graduates can expect from today's job market. "Because WGS and ethnic studies graduates are well-trained to analyze power within institutions, they are ideal candidates for positions within such programs, as well as within human resources more generally. It is also important to note the growing creative economy, which encompasses careers in areas like fine arts, media, advertising, and public relations," Beins said. "These fields are especially amenable to people with interdisciplinary training in cultural and media literacy, which WGS and ethnic studies provide."

New issue of Films for the Feminist Classroom now available

5/11/21

We are thrilled to announce that the latest issue of Films for the Feminist Classroom, published through the Department of Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies at Texas Woman’s University.

Issue 10.2 opens with the special feature “When Class Time Is Screen Time,” which joins the pedagogical conversations about education during the pandemic. FFC Editorial Assistant Shamethia Webb introduces this group of short essays that centers the experiences of students as learners. The film reviews in this issue give us much to consider when constructing our syllabi and activities for students. Several reviews offer a more “meta” perspective about how we know what we know, guiding us through films about the importance of scientific and media literacy, as well as how our sources of information may arrive with powerful biases—all topics that feel especially salient in the current moment.

Additional films explore the different scales at which people grapple with the intersection of social, cultural, political, and economic forces through topics such as worker rights, public school education, LGBTQ+ communities, recording and remembering histories, religion, refugee experiences, and reproductive justice.

Doctoral candidate Shamethia Webb authors introduction to FFC special feature

5/12/21

MWGS doctoral student Shamethia Webb wrote the introduction to the special feature "When Class Time Is Screen Time" published in the spring 2021 issue of Films for the Feminist Classroom. Writing from the perspective of a student and an educator, Shamethia offers a powerful pedagogical framework for understanding these student essays about the ways that screens have mediated their learning experiences.

Alumna, faculty co-author yoga in college classrooms article

5/11/21

MWGS PhD program alumna Dr. Audrey Lundahl and Dr. AnaLouise Keating co-authored an article, “Embodied Pedagogies for Transformation: Bringing Yoga Strategies into College Classrooms,” that was published in The Journal of Contemplative Inquiry. They argue We argue that "incorporating a yogic pedagogical approach in college classrooms, specifically classrooms that cover issues of race, gender, sexuality, and violence, allows an instructor and thus their students to focus on embodiment and specifically how our bodies hold physical and psychological wounds of oppression while creating new methods to understand oppression more deeply."