Elizabeth Currans
Professor and Department Head, Women's and Gender Studies
Expertise: Feminism, Gender Studies, Sexuality Studies, Queer Studies, Public Protest, Music Festivals, Intersectionality
About
Elizabeth (Beth) Currans was hired in 2010 and received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her first book, Marching Dykes, Liberated Sluts, and Concerned Mothers: Women Transforming Public Space was published in 2017 by University of Illinois Press. The text explores how participants in public protests in the contemporary U.S. coordinated and attended primarily by women claim and remake public spaces, and the ways that gender, sexuality and race influence our understanding of public space.
Her research and teaching interests include:
public protest
grassroots activism
trans-inclusive women's festivals
cultural geography and explorations of public space
performance studies
feminist, queer, and critical race theory
disability studies
the intersections of gender, sexuality and race in cultural life
Her new book project explores trans-inclusive women's festivals, focusing on attempts at and failures in solidarity across gender and racial lines.
Education
- PhD
