Faculty & Staff

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Dr. Julietta Singh
Professor of English and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Stephanie Bennett-Smith Chair of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Interdisciplinary Program Coordinator, Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
  • Postcolonial Studies
  • Critical Theory
  • Transnational Feminisms
  • Queer Theory
  • Environmental Humanities
Contact:
(804) 289-8308
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Dr. Mia Reinoso Genoni
She/Her
Dean of Westhampton College
Associate Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences
Affiliated Faculty, Art and Art History; Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Contact:
804-289-8468
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Casey Butler
They/Them
Associate Director of LGBTQ+ Campus Life
Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
  • LGBTQ+ Student Support
  • LGBTQ+ Programming & Events
  • Lavender Living Community
  • Affirming Space Training Program
Contact:
(804) 484-1653
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Nick Dease
He/Him
Film and Humanities Librarian
Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Advisory Board Member
Contact:
(804) 289-8453
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Dr. Miriam Gonzales
She/Her
Assistant Director, will program
Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Advisory Board Member
Contact:
(804) 289-8578
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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
Contact:
(804) 289-8692
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Dr. Patricia Herrera
Professor of Theatre
Affiliate faculty in the American Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexualities Studies Programs
Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Advisory Board Member
Associate Dean, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB)
Specialties:
  • Theatre for Social Change
  • Late 20th & 21st American Theatre and Performance
  • Latinx Cultural Production
  • Solo Performance
  • Documentary Theatre
  • Feminist Performance
  • Hip Hop Theatre
  • Devised Theatre
Contact:
(804) 287-6352
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Dr. Dorothy J. Holland
Associate Professor of Theatre and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
  • Theatre history
  • Directing
  • Acting
  • Gender studies
Contact:
(804) 287-6662
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Dr. Crystal L. Hoyt
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
Contact:
(804) 287-6825
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Dr. Mari Lee Mifsud
Professor of Rhetoric
Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Advisory Board Member, ex-officio
Specialties:
  • Rhetorical Theory
  • Critical Theory
  • Feminist Praxis, Intersectional and Post-Colonial
  • History and Historiography of Rhetoric
  • Homeric and Classical Rhetoric
  • Comparative Rhetoric
Contact:
(804) 287-6513
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Dr. Mariela Méndez
Associate Professor of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Specialties:
  • Latin American Performance and/as Activism
  • Latin American Periodical Literature 20th Century
  • Latin American crónica
  • Southern Cone and Brazilian Women Writers
  • Decolonial Feminist Theory & Praxis
  • Feminist New Materialisms
  • Black Feminist Thought & Praxis in Brazil & the US
Contact:
(804) 287-6043
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Dr. Melissa Ooten
She/Her
Director, will Program
Associate Dean, Social Justice Engagement and Practice, Westhampton College
Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Advisory Board Member
Contact:
(804) 289-8578
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Ms. Nancy Propst, CAP, PACE
She/Her
Academic Administrative Specialist
Contact:
(804) 287-6693
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Dr. Kathleen Roberts Skerrett
She/Her
University Professor
Specialties:
  • Christian Tradition
  • Contemporary Religious Thought
  • Theory in Gender and Women's Studies
  • Religion and Political Theory
Contact:
(804) 289-1743
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Dr. Nathan Snaza
Director, Humanities Center
Assistant Professor of English
Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Advisory Board Member
Interdisciplinary Program Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Studies
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
Contact:
(804) 289-8300
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Kaylin Tingle
They/Them
Healthy Relationships and Violence Prevention Educator
Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Advisory Board Member
Contact:
(804) 289-8654
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Dr. Sydney Watts
Associate Professor of History and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Specialties:
  • Early Modern Europe
  • 18th Century France
Contact:
(804) 289-8339
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Dr. Erika Zimmermann Damer
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
Contact:
(804) 289-8080

Emeriti Faculty

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Dr. Ladelle McWhorter
Stephanie Bennett-Smith Chair of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Emerita
Specialties:
  • 20th Century French & German Philosophy
  • Queer Theory
  • Political Theory
Contact:
(804) 289-8423