[bioundgrd] GCWS Fall course information and location change

[Janice Chang]

>From: Andi Sutton <arsutton at MIT.EDU>
>Subject: Please Distribute: GCWS Fall course information and location change
>Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 15:36:08 -0400

>    GCWS classes are available to graduate students in all departments at MIT.
>
>Thank you for spreading the word!
>Andi Sutton
>GCWS Program Coordinator
>
>
>
>Dear GCWS community,
>
>We are still accepting student applications for our Fall GCWS 
>courses: Feminist Inquiry, Contesting Gender and Sexuality, Making 
>Early Christianity, and our bi-weekly year-long Workshop for 
>Dissertation Writers in Women's and Gender Studies. 
>
>Apply online 
>at: <http://web.mit.edu/gcws/apply/index.html>http://web.mit.edu/gcws/apply/index.html
>
>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 <mailto:arsutton at mit.edu>arsutton at mit.edu
>
>Also, the GCWS office has moved to a new location at MIT.  The new 
>office address is:
>
>Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies 
>Building 14N Room 211, MIT
>77 Massachusetts Avenue
>Cambridge, MA  02139
>
>Please update your records accordingly.
>
>FALL 2010 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS:
>
>SP.690 Workshop for Dissertation Writers in Women's and Gender Studies
>
>FALL & SPRING, Wednesdays, 5:00 - 8:00 PM 
>September 14, 2010 - May 4, 2011
>Meets every other week at MIT, Building 4 Room 144
>
>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:
>
>- to address challenges in the conception and completion of a dissertation;
>- to explore the methodological and theoretical issues attendant on 
>discipline-based and interdisciplinary feminist research;
>- to foster the professional development of participants; and
>- to provide a structure of group work, hands-on exercises, and peer 
>review that will help students move most effectively through their 
>own projects.
>
>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.
>
>FACULTY
>
>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.
>
>
>SP.691 Contesting Sex and Gender, 
>Making Early Christianity
>
>FALL: Tuesdays, 4:00 - 7:00 PM 
>September 7, 2010 - December 7, 2010
>*Class meets at the Harvard Divinity School. Building and room TBA
>
>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.
>
>FACULTY
>
>Bernadette J. Brooten, 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.
>
>Karen L. King is the Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard 
>University in The Divinity School. Her publications include The 
>Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle; What 
>is Gnosticism?; The Secret Revelation of John; Images of the 
>Feminine in Gnosticism (ed.); and Women and Goddess Traditions in 
>Antiquity and Today (ed.).
>
>
>
>SP. 693 Feminist Inquiry
>
>FALL: Wednesdays, 6:00 - 9:00 PM 
>September 8, 2010 - December 8, 2010
>MIT Campus, Building 4 Room 253
>
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>FACULTY
>
>Renee Bergland 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 The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American 
>Subjects and Computer of Venus: Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of 
>Science.
>
>Frinde Maher 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: The Feminist Classroom (1994: 
>second edition 2001) and Privilege and Diversity in the 
>Academy (2007)
>
>
>___________________
>Andrea Sutton
>Program Coordinator
>Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies 
>Building 14N Room 211, MIT
>77 Massachusetts Avenue
>Cambridge, MA  02139
>(617) 324-2085
><http://web.mit.edu/gcws>http://web.mit.edu/gcws
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