Recent Publications

The WGSS department is home to faculty who have produced award-winning books, journal articles, films, public exhibits, and creative works. Read the latest research from our department.

Books

Book cover- Chabelitas Heart by Isabel Millan

Chabelita’s Heart/El Corazón de Chabelita 
(Reflection Press, 2022)

Isabel Millán

Book cover- Teaching Black by Ana-Maurine Lara

Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature 
(University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021)

Edited by Ana-Maurine Lara and Drea brown

Book cover- Beauty Diplomacy by Oluwakemi M. Balogun

Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation 
(Stanford University Press, 2020)

Oluwakemi M. Balogun

Book cover- Queer Freedom by Ana-Maurine Lara

Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty 
(SUNY Press, 2020)

Ana-Maurine Lara

Book cover- Streetwalking by Ana-Maurine Lara

Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic 
(Rutgers University Press, 2020)

Ana-Maurine Lara 

Book cover- Care Across Genertions by Kristin Yarris

Care Across Generations: Solidarity and Sacrifice in Transnational Families 
(Stanford University Press, 2017)

Kristin Yarris

Book cover- Kohnjehr Woman by Ana-Maurine Lara

Kohnjehr Woman 
(RedBone Press, 2017)

Ana-Maurine Lara

 

 


Oluwakemi “Kemi” Balogun

Africa Every Day: Fun, Leisure, and Expressive Culture on the Continent, Ohio University Press (co-edited with Lisa Gilman, Melissa Graboyes, and Habib Iddrisu, 2019)

"Beauty and the Bikini: Embodied Respectability in Nigerian Beauty Pageants" African Studies Review 62(2): 80-102 (2019)

Gabriela Martínez

Peru's Counterterrorism Law in Post-Conflict Times. Book Chapter in Counter-Terrorism Laws and Freedom of Expression (2021). Lexington Books

"Mapping the promises and perils of distance education during the COVID-19 pandemic: Peru's case" (with Keya Saxena). Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, No. 60 (Spring 2021)

Political Economy of Media Industries: Global Transformations and Challenges. (co-editor with Randy Nichols). (2020). Routledge

Isabel Millán

"Latinx," in Keywords for Comic Studies, edited by Ramzi Fawaz, Shelley Streeby, and Deborah Whaley, 134-139. New York: New York University Press, 2021

Judith Raiskin

Norton Critical Edition of Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (New York: WW Norton & Co., 1999). Second editon forthcoming 2019

Raiskin, Judith and Alison Gash, ‘Parenting without Protection: How Legal Status Ambiguity Affects Gay and Lesbian Parenthood,’ Law & Social Inquiry, (Vol. 43, Issue 1, Winter 2018), pp. 82-118

“’No One Belongs Here More Than You’: Travel Ads, Colonial Fantasies, and American Militarism,” Cross/Cultures: Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English (Rodopi, 2015), pp. 269-304

Yvette Saavedra

"Speaking for Themeselves: Rancheras and Respectabilty in Mexican California, 1800-1850," (California History, Spring 2023)

"Of Chicana Lesbian Terrorists and Lesberadas: Recuperatin the Lesbian/Queer Roots of Chicana Feminism, 1970-2000" (Feminist Formations, Summer 2022)

Carol Stabile

The Broadcast 41: Women and the Anti-Communist Blacklist (2018) London: Goldsmiths Press


Digital Humanities and Public Exhibits

Judith Raiskin

Outliers and Outlaws - The Eugene Lesbian History Project is a community-based, digital humanities project that preserves and shares the unique history of the lesbian community in Eugene, Oregon. The project includes filmed oral histories with 83 narrators, a digital exhibit, a museum exhibit, and a documentary film.

Ana-Maurine Lara and Alaí Reyes-Santos

The Healers Project - The Healers Project: Decolonizing Knowledge Within Afro-Indigenous Traditions is a collaborative research project built as a result of our journeys within Caribbean communities throughout the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Pacific Northwest region.


Films

Judith Raiskin and Linda Long (Project Directors)

Outliers and Outlaws is a full-length documentary that uncovers the history of the large and vibrant lesbian community of Eugene, Oregon. Women who migrated to Eugene in the 1960s-80s candidly share stories that reveal the power of courageous and creative living. Branded as outsiders, they forged an alternative community that ultimately transformed mainstream culture and politics.