Institute for Advanced Feminist Research

• IAFR Steering Committee

• Past Steering Committeee

IAFR Faculty / Steering Committee

Anjali Arondekar is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at UCSC. Her research engages with the poetics and politics of sexuality, colonialism and historiography in South Asia. She has published most recently in GLQ, Journal of Asian Studies, Interventions, Victorian Studies, Feminist Studies and The Journal of the History of Sexuality. Her book For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India is forthcoming from Duke University Press. She is currently working on a second book-project, provisionally entitled, Caste-ing Sex: On Devadasis in Colonial Western India.

Gina Dent is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Legal Studies and Director of the Institute for Advanced Feminist Research at the University of California, Santa Cruz; editor of Black Popular Culture ([1993] New York: The New Press, 1998); and author of articles on race, feminism, popular culture, and visual art. Her forthcoming book Anchored to the Real: Black Literature in the Wake of Anthropology (Duke University Press) is a study of the consequences—both disabling and productive—of social science’s role in translating black writers into American literature. Her two current book projects grow out of her work as an advocate for human rights and prison abolition—Prison as a Border, on prisons and popular culture, and Movement in Black and Red: The Life of Charlene Mitchell, an oral history and memoir.

Carla Freccero is professor of Literature, Women's Studies, and the History of Consciousness at UCSC, where she has taught since 1991. She is currently chair of the Literature department. She specializes in Renaissance history and literature and in US popular culture, feminist and queer theory. Her books include: Premodern Sexualities (co-edited with Louise Fradenburg) and Popular Culture: An Introduction.

Jennifer Gonzalez is Associate Professor in the History of Art and Visual Culture department. Her scholarly essays and reviews about race, gender and contemporary art have appeared in art magazines and journals, including Frieze, World Art, Diacritics, Inscriptions, Art Journal and Aztlan. She has contributed chapters to The Cyborg Handbook, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, With Other Eyes: Looking at Race and Gender in Visual Culture and Race in Cyberspace.

Lisbeth Haas is Associate Professor of History at UCSC.

Norma Klahn is Professor of Literature, Affiliate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, and Co-founder and first Co-director of the Chicano/Latino Research Center at UCSC. Her research and publications focus on Latin American literary and cultural studies (specialization Mexico), Chicano/Latino literature from a cross-border perspective, poetics and politics, border and feminist theories. She is co-editor and contributor of several critical anthologies including Los novelistas como críticos Vol.I and II (Fondo de Cultura Económica, with W. Corral) , Las Nuevas Fronteras del Siglo XXI /New Frontiers of the 21st Century on U.S. Mexico Relations (La Jornada Editores, with A. Alvárez, F. Manchón and P. Castillo), and Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader (Duke U Press, with G. Arredondo, A.Hurtado, O. Nájera, P. Zavella), due June, 2003. Her book in progress, entitled "Resurgent Mexico," is on the novel and the post-national condition.

B. Ruby Rich is assistant professor in the Community Studies Dept. and its Social Documentation Program. Her research focuses on the intersection of film and social meaning, with specific interests at present in the histories of New Queer Cinema, the precedents and repercussions of 9/11 representations, the politics of film festivals and exhibition, documentary strategies, Latin American cinemas, and independent film in general. Her publications include: Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement (Duke University Press) and The Rise And Fall of The New Queer Cinema (forthcoming). She remains active as a journalist and cultural commentator. She is on the editorial board of Cinema Journal.

Lisa Rofel is Associate Professor of Anthropology at UCSC. She specializes in postcolonial feminisms, transnational sexualities, and contemporary Chinese culture. She is the author of Other Modernities: Gendered Yearnings in China After Socialism (University of California Press) and co-editor of Engendering China: Women, Culture and the State (with Christina Gilmartin, Gail Hershatter, and Tyrene White; Harvard University Press). She is currently at work on a collection of essays about desire, cosmopolitanism and cultural citizenship.

Anna Tsing Professor of Anthropology at UCSC is the author of In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place (Princeton University Press) and co-editor of Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture (Beacon Press, with Faye Ginsburg) and Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projets in South and Southeast Asia (Duke University Press, with Paul Greenough). Her forthcoming book on environmental politics is entitled "Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection."

PAST STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Helene Moglen is Presidential Chair in Literature and former Director of the Institute for Advanced Feminist Research. She has held a variety of administrative positions at UCSC, where she is a professor of Literature and Women's Studies. Her research specialties are in the English novel and feminist and psychoanalytic theory. She is the author of the Philosophical Irony of Laurence Sterne (Florida University Press), Charlotte Bronte: The Self Conceived (Norton), and The Trauma of Gender: A Feminist Theory of the English Novel (University of California Press.) She has co-edited several books, including Female Subjects in Black and White: Race, Psychoanalysis, Feminism (University of California Press, with Elizabeth Abel and Barbara Christian).

Vanita Seth is an Assistant Professor in the Politics department at UCSC. She is currently completing her manuscript tentatively titled "Genealogies of Difference: European Representations of the New World and India, 1500-1900" and is on the US editorial board for the Postcolonial Studies journal.

Neferti X. M. Tadiar is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at Barnard College. Her book, "Fantasy-Production: Sexual Economies and Other Philippine Consequences for the New World Order" is forthcoming from Hong Kong University Press and Ateneo de Manila University Press. She is currently finishing another book project, entitled "Things Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization." Her teaching and research areas include third world feminisms and globalization, racism and imperialism, postcolonial theory and Asia-Pacific cultural studies.