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Women and Gender Studies Program

Over 30 years of transformative teaching, scholarship and social change

Welcome USM Students, Faculty, and Friends,

Women and Gender Studies (WGS) at USM is the longest standing feminist studies program in northern New England and continues to be one of the most vibrant.  With a faculty drawn from across the university, WGS engages in transformative teaching, scholarship, and social change on campus and in the surrounding community. WGS not only contributes many courses to the university’s general education curriculum, it also offers a socially-engaged and academically rigorous major and minor.  This semester, WGS faculty are teaching such courses as Arab Women Writers; Gender, Race, Class and the City; and Species, Sex, Gender and Science Fiction.  In addition,WGS students are completing capstone experience internships at such community partners as Learning Works, Safe Space Shelter, and Spiral Arts. Over the summer, WGS will offer two sections of Introduction to Women and Gender Studies as well as three online electives: Gender in African Literature and Film; Gender and Aging; and Cinema and Women.

News & Events

Susan Feiner
Posted June 12, 2013
During her year-long sabbatical, Women and Gender Studies & Economics Professor, Susan Feiner is writing a book with the working title "Grave Robbers, Inc: the Insatiable Appetite of the Senior Housing/Assisted Living Industry."
Professor Nancy Gish
Posted June 7, 2013
NANCY GISH, professor of English and founding Director of the USM Women and Gender Studies Program, was recognized by her peers on the Women and Gender Studies Council with an award named in her honor. The Nancy K. Gish Award for Excellence in Feminist Social, Intellectual, Political, or Cultural Practice was dedicated as such for Gish's work as a sustaining force of feminist academics and engagement on campus, in the community, and in the world.
Outstanding Graduate of Women and Gender Studies Award recipent Julia Davidson
Posted June 7, 2013
The University of Southern Maine Women and Gender Studies Program announced the winners of their annual awards at a reception held earlier this month.
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