Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies Faculty
Chair
Associate Professor
Email: JOHNSOLA@grinnell.edu
Lakesia D. Johnson is Associate Professor of Gender, Women’s, & Sexuality Studies and English at 51²è¹İapp College. Johnson received a bachelor’s from Smith College. She earned her J.D., M.A., and Ph.D. in Women Studies from the Ohio State University. Her areas of teaching and research include Black...
Assistant Professor
Email: allenleah@grinnell.edu
Leah Claire Allen is Assistant Professor in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) and English at 51²è¹İapp College. Her current book project In Praise of Bad Critics revisits feminist critics from the 1960s and 1970s who have been labeled “bad critics†or “bad feminists†both within and...
Professor
Louise R. Noun Chair in Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies
Email: beauboeuf@grinnell.edu
Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant (known as “Dr. B†on campus) is a womanist sociologist. She came to 51²è¹İapp in fall 2019 and teaches the three core courses (Intro, Theory and Methods, and Senior Seminar) as well as the electives Growing up Girl, Feminist Educations, and Beyond the Little Mermaid: Race...
Associate Professor
Email: lewiscar@grinnell.edu
Carolyn Herbst Lewis is Associate Professor of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies and History. She joined the faculty at 51²è¹İapp College in 2013. Professor Lewis is a specialist in the fields of American women’s history and the histories of sex, sexuality, and medicine in the United States...
Instructor
Email: montague@grinnell.edu
Clara Montague is a lecturer in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies at 51²è¹İapp College as well as a doctoral candidate in Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her dissertation project, Women’s Studies Worldwide, examines the transnational history of this interdisciplinary...
Assistant Professor
Email: torralbas@grinnell.edu
Dr. stef torralba is Assistant Professor of English and Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies at 51²è¹İapp College. Their pedagogy centers the intellectual lessons of queer studies; trans studies; queer and trans of color critique; crip and mad studies; critical and comparative race and ethnic...