Feminist Studies

Program Director:
Professor Heather Hadlock
650.723.0626
Heather Hadlock, Associate Professor of Musicology, is a specialist in French and Italian romantic opera, with an emphasis on feminist criticism and gender studies. She is the author of Mad Loves: Women and Music in Offenbach's "Les contes d'Hoffmann" (Princeton, 2000) and of numerous articles on the representation and performance of gendered identities in vocal and dramatic music. Her current research is on how operatic representations of heroic masculinity changed during the nineteenth century, and how contemporary feminist and queer challenges to hetero-normative codes have enabled the revival of operas and heroic "trouser roles" that were once dismissed as "weak," "effeminate," and theatrically non-viable.

She has been involved with Feminist Studies in many capacities, including teaching courses on "Women Making Music," opera and gender, and feminist/queer theories in musicology. She has directed FS Honors College, and taught her "Men, Women, and Opera" course in Sophomore College 2006 and 2007.

Zamora Program Administrator:
Zamora
zamoram@stanford.edu
Zamora is a Chicana feminist writer trained in transnational feminisms and poscolonial theory at the New School for Social Research where she received her M.A. in Gender Studies and Feminist Theory. Zamora is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Modern Thought & Literature here at Stanford. Her dissertation work examines female knowledge and leadership in Mexica culture, specifically in spiritual and performance traditions. Zamora’s work traces a genealogy of ideas about the body’s relationship to spirit, as well as art/performance as energy movement, from the precolombian Indigenous painted books of Central Mexico to their expression in current MeChicano/MeXicano cultural productions including Danza Azteca, and Chicana-Indígena visual and literary arts.

Practicum Director:
Kathleen Coll
kcoll@stanford.edu
Kathleen Coll is a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on issues of immigration, gender, and cultural citizenship in the U.S. Her book in progress, "Remaking Citizenship: Latina Immigrants and New American Politics," is an ethnographic study of the impact of national immigration and welfare reform legislation on immigrant women’s lives, activism, and local community in San Francisco. Her post-doctoral research focuses on community-based efforts to regain the right to vote at the local level for non-citizens in the U.S.

After graduating from Stanford in 1990, Kathy worked for a Central American solidarity organization in San Francisco, researched women's health in Mexico, and taught Anthropology, Women's Studies, and Ethnic Studies at San Francisco City College and DeAnza College. After completing her PhD in Anthropology at Stanford in 2000, Kathy was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, received a post-doctoral fellowship from the Social Science Research Council, and taught Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Harvard, as well as Feminist Studies at Stanford.

Program Mentor:
Karli Cerankowski
karlic@stanford.edu

Karli Cerankowski is a PhD candidate in the Modern Thought and Literature program here at Stanford. Her areas of concentration are in queer studies, feminist studies, and performance studies. Her current research is in queer performance in the United States. She is particularly interested in how U.S. regional cultures affect and are affected by the performative spaces where queer performance artists articulate ways of being and identifying that complicate and/or revise queer politics. In addition to performance art, Karli also explores how regional cultures are played out in queered public spectacles like at Pride Parades and nightclubs to further trouble notions of visibility and space through narrative and performance.

Honors Mentor:
Jakeya Caruthers
jakeyac@stanford.edu

Jakeya Caruthers is a fourth year doctoral student in Anthropology and Education with interests in critical race theory, body and sexuality, performance, feminist knowledge and the notion of discursive possibility within the global political economy. Outside of her dissertation work exploring black laughter and the political, pedagogic potential of comic conversations between the black subject and the subject of terror, she has written on bodies and narratives of obesity as they relate to national(ist) pathologies of black motherhood, and she is currently refining a conference paper that explores subjective ventriloquism and the violently ambivalent narratives of black girlhood through a reading of international and movement response to the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, juxtaposed with literary representations of black girlhood. She’s also planning future research on feminism and the politics of transgression within Church of Christ doctrine and practice and an auto-ethnographic performance piece on women’s genealogies called “Begat.”

NEW Office Location
Feminist Studies
@ Serra House
589 Capistrano Way
Stanford, CA 94305-8640

Phone: (650) 723-2412
Fax: (650) 723-2925
Mail Code: 8640

Office Hours

Program Mentor (Karli) :
Tues 11-1pm; Weds 2-4pm & by appointment

Program Administrator (Zamora):
Mon-Thurs, 11am-4pm & by appointment