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Melinda Lemke
Associate Professor of Educational Policy and Affiliated Faculty, GGSS
Lemke, M., Miles Nash, A, Mackey, H., & Young, M. D. (Eds.) (2025). Beyond now: Feminist politics, policy, and research futures in education. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 38(8), 1095-1291. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tqse20/38/8
In this special issue, Beyond Now: Feminist Politics, Policy, and Research Futures in Education, co-editors and contributors examine how the field of education engages feminist thought and what this means for advancing critical inquiry, theorizing, and research praxis. The collection was designed to situate individual ruminations within a period representing widespread democratic backsliding, and in doing so, offer a chronicling of feminist situatedness to such historical moments—a looking back to reenvision research considerations for those who engage this work. The urgency of feminisms in education, and adjacent fields, is considered in 10 articles by scholars who advance a range of critical theoretical and methodological frameworks. Curated across diverse disciplinary, epistemic, generational, geographic, and professional backgrounds these articles contemplate necessary political, policy, and research futures beyond now—a horizon of possibility that resists the constraints of the present and insists on future-making grounded in abolitionist, decolonial, and feminist commitments. In addition to the editor’s introduction, contributors (in order of appearance) include: Jessica Masterson, Katherine Rodela, Katherine Leigh-Osroosh, Susan Faircloth, Sylvia Mendoza Aviña, Dolores Delgado Bernal, Ana Luisa Muñoz-García, Kyuttzza Gómez-Guinard, Fernanda Rojas Muller, Julie Kasper, Jill Koyama, Adnan Turan, Sabrina Curtis, Venus Evans-Winters, Jaylene Patterson, Cheryl Matias, Sherri Castillo, Angela Valenzuela, Chesley Hinds, and Wanda Pillow.
Elizabeth Scarlett
Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
“Gender and Adaptation in the Filmic Legacy of Emilia Pardo Bazán.”
Bulletin of Spanish Studies vol. 101, no. 10, 2024, pp. 1421–44.
This monographic essay studies film and telefilm adaptations of works by Emilia Pardo Bazán, highlighting gender inequalities. Though a key figure in discourses of gender in Spain, she is underrepresented in cinema. The few times her fiction has been adapted, her perspective as a woman writer has been disregarded. La sirena negra (1947) by Carlos Serrano de Osma, based on her 1908 novel, and the four-part miniseries by Gonzalo Suárez (1985), based on Los pazos de Ulloa (1886) and La madre naturaleza (1887), are examined as case studies alongside adaptations of other writers for comparison. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14753820.2024.2430098
Cody Mejeur
Assistant Professor of Game Studies
Historiographies of Game Studies brings together diverse perspectives to examine how the field of game studies has been shaped, sustained, and contested. As game studies continues to flourish with its own conferences, journals, and disciplinary reach, this volume asks critical and timely questions: When did game studies begin? Who and what defines its center, and who or what gets excluded? How do we account for the disciplinary boundaries we’ve inherited or created?
In 32 essays and interviews, contributors explore the field’s construction from multiple vantage points — geographic, disciplinary, methodological, and institutional — offering provocative insights into its pasts, presents, and potential futures. Featured interviews include thought-provoking reflections from scholars who have made major contributions to the field.
Available Open Access and in Print:
https://punctumbooks.com/titles/historiographies-of-game-studies/
Jasmina Tumbas
Associate Professor, Department of Global Gender & Sexuality Studies
"Queering Yugoslav (Dis)integration: Damir Avdagić’s Passages between 1980–2021," an essay published in the artist book, Damir Avdagić. PROJECTS: 2014-2024 (Archive Books, 2025), along with essays by art historian Sabeth Buchmann, feminist writer and journalist Slavenka Drakulić, and and feminist visual artist Mary Kelly: https://www.academia.edu/128698319/Queering_Yugoslav_Dis_integration_Damir_Avdagic_s_Passages_between_1980_2021_Catalogue_Text_ENGL
Jasmina Tumbas
Associate Professor, Department of Global Gender & Sexuality Studies
"Disintegrating the Borders of the YU Self: Šejla Kamerić’s EX YOU at Fotografiska, Berlin," in FRÄULEIN (May 2025).
Jasmina Tumbas
Associate Professor, Department of Global Gender & Sexuality Studies
A monographic essay for a catalogue published on the occasion of the solo show of feminist artist Tanja Ostojić at the Contemporary Art Gallery Subotica, in Serbia. The essay is called “Big Time Sensuality: Tanja Ostojić’s Immersive Feminism,” and was published in Tanja Ostojić: Women’s Health, Body Politics, Labour, Sexuality, Wellbeing, Menopause, Ageing and Agency (October, 2024). The essay was also translated into Serbian and Hungarian. The full catalogue can be downloaded here: http://www.seecult.org/sites/default/files/attachments/tanja-ostojic-sgs_katalog.pdf
Jasmina Tumbas
Associate Professor, Department of Global Gender & Sexuality Studies
A short text about the curator Dunja Blažević, which was published in Texts and Contexts from the History of Feminism and Women’s Rights East Central Europe, Second Half of the Twentieth Century, (Central European University Press, 2024), an important collection edited by Zsófia Lóránd, Adela Hîncu, Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc, and Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz, eds. This book is available on CEU PRESS's website via: OPEN ACCESS.
Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
Professor of Anthropology
2024 (with Fabien Le Bonniec) “Queering the Spirit of the Law: Mapuche Shamanic Justice in Judge Karen Atala’s LGBT child custody case against the Chilean state.” Journal of Anthropological Research 80(2): 143-176.
Cody Mejeur
Assistant Professor of Game Studies
A special issue of the journal Narrative co-edited by Cody Mejeur (UB Media Study and Gender Institute Affiliate) and Chiara Pelligrini (Newcastle University) on trans narratives and narrative theories has recently been published. The outcome of a series of symposia and conferences in recent years, the special issue explores the forms, contexts, and possibilities of trans narratives. The article is available here.
Marla Segol
Associate Professor of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies
Marla Segol, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Students in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, has recently published "God’s Magical Womb: Pregnancy, Power, and the Feminized Divine in Jewish Ritual Texts" in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. The article explores the ritual functions of medical and mythical embryologies in Jewish ritual texts from late antiquity to the present.
Marla is a Gender Institute Affiliate and was awarded a GI Faculty Fellowship in Fall 2022.
Meghana Joshi
Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Berghahn Books, 2023.
Irus Braverman
Professor of Law & Adjunct Professor of Geography
Minnesota Press, 2023.
Carole Emberton
Associate Professor of History
W. W. Norton & Company, 2022.
Miriam Thaggert
Associate Professor & Associate Chair of English
University of Illinois Press, 2022.
Victoria W. Wolcott
Professor, Department of History
University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Jasmina Tumbas
Associate Professor, Department of Global Gender & Sexuality Studies
Manchester University Press, 2022.
Mishuana Goeman
Professor of Gender Studies, Chair of the Indigenous Studies
NYU Press, 2021.
Despina Stratigakos
Professor, School of Architecture
Princeton University Press, 2022.
Katja Praznik
Associate Professor, Arts Management Program
