JHU Program in WGS

We have issued a joint statement on anti-Asian violence with East Asian Studies and the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship. We mourn the victims of the Atlanta mass shooting, and call for an end to the gendered violence of white supremacy. The full text is below, and can also be accessed on our website:
https://krieger.jhu.edu/wgs/2021/03/25/eas-ric-wgs-joint-statement-on-anti-asian-violence-and-the-killing-of-asian-women-in-atlanta/

TEACHING FELLOWSHIPS 2018-2019

This year, WGS is offering five teaching fellowships for graduate students in years 3+, for proposals to teach a course relevant to their own interests, with a fellowship grant of $8,000. Interested grads must contact co-director Todd Shepard on or before Monday, Nov. 27th, to be connected to a WGS board member who will then ensure your application speaks to our needs.

The five fellowship categories into which your course may fall are:
• Fellowship #1: Feminist & Q***r Theory (300-level [advanced] course): proposals can emphasize feminist or q***r theory, or both. We also welcome proposals that focus on feminist and/or q***r literatures or histories. (To be taught Spring 2019).
• Fellowship #2: Gender & S*xuality Beyond the Global West (300-level course). To be taught Fall 2018.
• Fellowship #3: Politics & Poetics of S*x (300-level course): Proposals can emphasize the literary/artistic or the political, or both. (To be taught fall 2018).
• Fellowship #4: Social Justice, Community Health/Organizing, and/or Social Work (400-level course): this course should address some or all of the issues listed, from perspective in dialog with feminist and q***r studies. Students in this course will be taking an Internship Practicum, with a Baltimore community group/organization. We are interested in innovative methodological/theoretical approaches. (To be taught Spring 2019.)
• Fellowship #5: Prize Teaching Award (300-level course): a course devoted to the topics of gender, sexuality, and/or feminism. The subject area is open. (Course can be taught in either Fall or Spring 2018-19.)
--NB. Competition is particularly difficult for Fellowship 5: courses that explicitly address the concerns of Fellowships 1-4 are especially welcome.
--NBB. You may signal in your application that your proposal should be considered for more than one fellowship.

Final applications will then be due by Friday, December 15th, and must include:
•• a letter of application;
••2pp course description;
••draft syllabus; and
•• letter of reference (to be sent separately by referee, in consultation with whom grad should work to develop this proposal).

Decisions on fellowships will be announced in Jan./Feb. 2018. We hope you apply!

As many of you know, every year, WGS is able to give a handful of students research fellowships for pursuing issues related to gender and sexuality. This year's research fellows will present their projects next Wednesday, Nov. 15th at 5pm in Gilman 400. The panel will include:

Joshua Rhinier (English, undergrad) -- "Between the Objects of Virginia Woolf: An Epistemology of the Ordinary"

Xiaoqian Ji (History, graduate student) -- "Cosmetic Practices in Early Modern China: Gender, Medicated Cosmetics, and Materiality"

Connie Scozzaro (English, graduate student) -- "Sisters Uncut: talking, making, a South London garden"

Respondent: Elisa Santuccci (GRRL, grad student)

We hope to see you and any drop-in visitors to hear this great research!

*Please contact either of the Co-Grad Liaisons if you wish to know more about our new disability accommodation option.*