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Feminist Studies Staff

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.

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, “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:
Ingrid Fernandez

Ingrid Fernandez is a Ph.D. Candidate in The Program in Modern Thought & Literature, and is a multidisciplinary scholar who focuses on bodily representation and identity construction through images in popular Western Culture. She is currently working on Dead Body Studies. Unlike studies dealing with cultural rituals aimed at the disposal of the dead, which have much more to do with the living, Dead Body Studies solely focus on the space of the corpse as a material presence in society. This in turn allows scholars to find unexpected places in which certain unmediated images of corpses arise. Other research interests include: bio-politics and bio-ethics; photography and art history; representation of cadavers in literature, film and television; and forensic sciences.

Queer Studies Post-Doctoral Fellow:

Shana Goldin-Perschbacher

Shana Goldin-Perschbacher, (Ph.D. 2008, University of Virginia), is Stanford’s first Queer Studies Postdoctoral Fellow. Her scholarship and teaching theorize identity and affect through analysis of sonic, visual, film, and social media, feminist and queer theory, ethnography, and history. She is working on a book entitled Sincerely Queer: Musical Gender Transgression at the Turn of the Millennium. From 2009-2011 Shana was the postdoctoral fellow in music in the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities, teaching graduate and undergraduate seminars in music and queer studies. This year Shana is working closely with Heather Hadlock to create more opportunities for queer studies pedagogy and intellectual community at Stanford and to strengthen Feminist Studies’ relationships with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, and Stanford Alumni Pride. She will be offering ‘Queer Popular Culture’ in the spring. shana.goldin-perschbacher@stanford.edu . Her office is in Serra House .