Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Events

Nell Scovell is a television and magazine writer, and producer. She is the creator of the television series Sabrina the Teenage Witch, which aired from 1996 until 2003. As a television writer, Scovell wrote for David Letterman and The Simpsons.

Lillian Hellman?s powerful and groundbreaking tale of two young women caught in a scandal that will throw their lives into turmoil and destroy everything they hold dear.

Dr. Jewett, is a NOAA scientist with diverse science and management experience in ocean acidification and coastal hypoxia (low oxygen) research programs, and the first director of NOAA?s Ocean Acidification Program.

Explore your options for summer study abroad!

Elizabeth Spires, Co-Director of the Kratz Center for Creative Writing and Professor of English, holds Goucher?s Chair for Distinguished Achievement. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review and other magazines and anthologies. 

Jean Comaroff is the Alfred North Whitehead Professor of African and African American Studies, Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. Her talk is titled, "Personhood, Performance, and The Law:  The Return of Khulekani Khumalo, Zombie Captive."

Lydia E. Kavraki is the Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science, professor of Bioengineering, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rice University. 

Adrienne Mayor is an independent folklorist/historian of science who investigates natural knowledge contained in pre-scientific myths and oral traditions. She will deliver the Lee Lecture, titled, "The Amazons: Warrior Women in Myth, Art, and Archeology."

COLL 300 visiting speaker Professor micha c?rdenas will describe her work in video games, virtual reality, and electronic art.

Deborah Denenholz Morse is the Sara E. Nance Professor of English. She specializes in Victorian studies, English novel, the animal in Victorian literature, feminist studies. Her lecture is titled, ?Resistance, Art and Animals in Anne Bront?.?

Mary Silber, Professor of Statistics (The University of Chicago) will discuss "Being a Mentor. Being a Mentee. Building a Professional Community"

A wonderful opportunity for members of the W&M community to grab some free food and resources!

Professor Silber is an applied mathematician who currently contributes to the Computational and Applied Mathematics Initiative (CAMI) at the University of Chicago. 

Elizabeth Barnes, Professor of Philosophy, Corcoran Department of Philosophy, University of Virginia, teaches Metaphysics, Social Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, and Ethics. She will speak at a Philosophy Colloquium in the Fall.