Faculty & Staff
Professor of English and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Stephanie Bennett-Smith Chair of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Interdisciplinary Program Coordinator, Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Specialties:
- Postcolonial Studies
- Critical Theory
- Transnational Feminisms
- Queer Theory
- Environmental Humanities
(804) 289-8308
Dr. Miriam Gonzales
She/Her
Assistant Director, will program
Affiliated Faculty, Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies
Contact: (804) 289-8578
Dr. Rhiannon Graybill
She/Her
Professor of Religious Studies
Marcus M. and Carole M. Weinstein & Gilbert M. and Fannie S. Rosenthal Chair of Jewish Studies
Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- Hebrew Bible
- Feminist biblical interpretation
- Queer biblical interpretation
- Literary approaches
(804) 289-8692
Professor of Theatre
Affiliate faculty in the American Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexualities Studies Programs
Associate Dean, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB)
Specialties:
- Theatre as Social Change
- 20th and 21st Century American Theatre and Performance
- Latina/o Cultural Productions
- Solo Performance
- Documentary Theatre
- Gender and Performance
- Hip Hop Performances
(804) 287-6352
Associate Professor of Theatre and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- Theatre history
- Directing
- Acting
- Gender studies
(804) 287-6662
Professor of Leadership Studies and Psychology and the Colonel Leo K. & Gaylee Thorsness Endowed Chair in Ethical Leadership; Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- Beliefs Systems (e.g., Mindsets, Stereotypes, and Ideologies)
- Stigma, Stereotyping, and Discrimination
- Social Inequities
(804) 287-6825
Stephanie Bennett-Smith Chair of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Emerita
Specialties:
- 20th Century French & German Philosophy
- Queer Theory
- Political Theory
(804) 289-8423
Professor of Rhetoric
Specialties:
- Rhetorical Theory
- Histories and historiographies of rhetoric; Histories and historiographies of ideas
- Ancient Greek Rhetorical Theory, Texts, and Culture
- Interdisciplinary Studies: rhetoric and writing, philosophy, political theory, women's studies, classics, culture/al studies, science/technology, humanistic inquiry
(804) 287-6513
Associate Professor of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- Latin American crónica
- Southern Cone and Brazilian women writers
- Transnational Feminist Theory and Practice
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
(804) 287-6043
Director, will Program
Associate Dean, Social Justice Engagement and Practice, Westhampton College
Affiliated Faculty, Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Contact: (804) 289-8578
Associate Professor of Political Science
Specialties:
- Race and Ethnicity
- Gender
- Political Communication
(804) 289-8739
Assistant Professor of English
Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Advisory Board Member
Coordinator, Humanities in Arts & Sciences
Specialties:
- Modern Narrative, primarily British and American
- Literary Theory and Continental Philosophy
- Affect Theory and Biopolitics
- Social and Cultural Foundations of Education, Critical Pedagogy, Literacy Studies
- Sexuality and Gender Studies
(804) 289-8300
Associate Professor of History and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- Early Modern Europe
- 18th Century France
(804) 289-8339
Associate Professor of Classical Studies and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Specialties:
- Roman Poetry of the Augustan Period
- Sexuality and Gender in Antiquity
- History of the Body
- Roman Graffiti
(804) 289-8080