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<blockquote type="cite" cite>From: Andi Sutton
<arsutton@MIT.EDU><br>
Subject: Please Distribute: GCWS Fall course information and location
change</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 15:36:08
-0400</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite> GCWS classes are available
to graduate students in all departments at MIT.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Thank you for spreading the
word!</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Andi Sutton</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>GCWS Program Coordinator</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Dear GCWS community,</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>We are still accepting student
applications for our Fall GCWS courses: <b>Feminist Inquiry,
Contesting Gender and Sexuality, Making Early
Christianity, </b>and our bi-weekly year-long <b>Workshop
for Dissertation Writers in Women's and Gender
Studies. </b></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Apply online at: <a
href="http://web.mit.edu/gcws/apply/index.html"
>http://web.mit.edu/gcws/apply/index.html</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Graduate students and advanced
undergraduates doing work in Women's and Gender Studies are encouraged
to apply. Courses are by application, and the applications
are reviewed by the individual faculty teams. For
more information about the application process and the GCWS, contact
Andi Sutton, GCWS Coordinator, at <a
href="mailto:arsutton@mit.edu">arsutton@mit.edu</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Also, <b>the GCWS office has moved
to a new location at MIT. </b>The new office address
is:</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Graduate Consortium in Women's
Studies <br>
Building <b>14N</b> Room <b>211</b>, MIT<br>
77 Massachusetts Avenue<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Please update your records
accordingly.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><b><br></b></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="+2"><b>FALL 2010 COURSE
DESCRIPTIONS:</b></font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="+2"><b>SP.690 Workshop for
Dissertation Writers in Women's and Gender Studies</b></font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>FALL & SPRING, Wednesdays, 5:00 -
8:00 PM <br>
September 14, 2010 - May 4, 2011<br>
Meets every other week at MIT, Building 4 Room 144</b><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>This workshop will provide
intellectual and practical guidance for for students at any stage in
the dissertation process. Class sessions will be structured with four
primary goals:</b><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>- to address challenges in the
conception and completion of a dissertation;<br>
- to explore the methodological and theoretical issues attendant on
discipline-based and interdisciplinary feminist research;<br>
- to foster the professional development of participants; and<br>
- to provide a structure of group work, hands-on exercises, and peer
review that will help students move most effectively through their own
projects.</b><br>
<b></b></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>Flexibly shaped to meet the needs of
its participants, the dissertation workshop will entail minimal
reading assignments so that the majority of the students' time can
be directed to their own projects. The class will provide a forum for
working out problems of conceptualization and structure, the use of
evidence, the development of individual chapters, techniques for
effective research, drafting and revising, and preparing abstracts. We
will also discuss and practice techniques for presenting conference
papers, publishing articles, and preparing for the academic job
market.</b><br>
<b></b></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>FACULTY</b><br>
<b></b></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>Sue Lanser is Professor of
English, Comparative Literature, and former chair of the Women's and
Gender Studies at Brandeis University. She has written or edited five
books and published over fifty essays in disciplinary and
interdisciplinary journals. She has extensive experience in teaching
research seminars, directing dissertations in several disciplines, and
serving as an editor or editorial consultant for journals and
presses.</b><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="+2"><b>SP.691 Contesting Sex
and Gender, <br>
Making Early Christianity</b></font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>FALL: Tuesdays, 4:00 - 7:00 PM <br>
September 7, 2010 - December 7, 2010<br>
*Class meets at the Harvard Divinity School. Building and room TBA<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Religion has been and remains a critical
site both for constructing and for contesting sex/gender identities,
roles, and sexualities. Women's relationship with religion has been
particularly fraught. We will examine early Christian and
contemporaneous texts through different lenses, drawing upon: feminist
biblical interpretation and hermeneutics, literary and legal theory,
anthropology, historical-critical studies, theology, lesbian-feminist
theory, rabbinics, and classics. We will give special attention to
critical theories of religion in gender/feminist studies, emphasizing
the plural possibilities, contestations, and instability of religious
texts. We will introduce various resources for critically engaging
constructions of sex/gender/sexuality of both "orthodox" and
"heretical" materials in conversation with Greek, Roman, and Jewish
materials. The aims are to promote analytic reading strategies that
engage the constructed, contested, and multi-perspectival character of
varied religious materials and to discuss both the limits and the
possibilities that this material offers for imagining a more expansive
sphere for human flourishing today.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>FACULTY<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>Bernadette J. Brooten</b>, Kraft-Hiatt
Professor of Christian Studies and of Women's and Gender Studies at
Brandeis University, is founder and director of the Brandeis Feminist
Sexual Ethics Project. She has written Women Leaders in The Ancient
Synagogue: Inscriptional Evidence and Background Issues (1982) and
Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism
(1996), for which she received three awards.<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>Karen L. King</b> is the Hollis
Professor of Divinity at Harvard University in The Divinity School.
Her publications include <i>The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus
and the First Woman Apostle</i>; <i>What is Gnosticism?; The
Secret Revelation of John; Images of the Feminine in Gnosticism
(</i>ed.)<i>;</i> and <i>Women and Goddess Traditions in
Antiquity and Today</i> (ed.).<br>
</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>SP. 693 Feminist Inquiry<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>FALL: Wednesdays, 6:00 - 9:00
PM <br>
September 8, 2010 - December 8, 2010<br>
MIT Campus, Building 4 Room 253<br>
</blockquote>
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This course investigates theories and practices of feminist inquiry
across a range of disciplines. Doing feminist research involves
rethinking disciplinary assumptions and methodologies, developing new
understandings of what counts as knowledge, seeking alternative ways
of understanding the origins of problems/issues, formulating new ways
of positing questions and redefining the relationship between subjects
and objects of study.<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>All research grows out of complex
connections between epistemologies, methodologies and research
methods. We shall explore how these connections are formed in the
traditional disciplines and raise questions about why the traditional
disciplines are inadequate and/or problematic for feminist inquiry.
What, specifically, are the feminist critiques of these disciplines?
The course will consider methodology, i.e., the theory and analysis of
how research should proceed. We shall be especially attentive to
epistemological issues-pre-suppositions about the nature of
knowledge. We shall examine the theoretical positions our authors
take, and evaluate the usefulness of their methodological
approaches.<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>FACULTY<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>Renee Bergland </b>is Professor
of English and Gender/Cultural Studies at Simmons College. She teaches
courses in American literature and culture, gender studies, and
literary and cultural theory. Her books include <i>The National
Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American
Subjects </i>and <i>Computer of Venus: Maria Mitchell and
the Sexing of Science.</i><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>Frinde Maher </b>is Professor
Emerita of Education at Wheaton College, where she directed the
Secondary Education Program. She has taught Women's Studies courses
for many years, including, for the past decade, Feminist Theory. She
has published widely in the fields of feminist pedagogy and women in
education, and is co-author, with Mary Kay Tetreault, of two
books: <i>The Feminist Classroom</i> (1994: second edition
2001) and <i>Privilege and Diversity in the
Academy </i>(2007)<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>___________________<br>
Andrea Sutton<br>
Program Coordinator<br>
Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies <br>
Building 14N Room 211, MIT<br>
77 Massachusetts Avenue<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139<br>
(617) 324-2085<br>
<a
href="http://web.mit.edu/gcws">http://web.mit.edu/gcws</a></blockquote>
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