Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies

Danielle DeMuth

Brooks College Faculty Member
Danielle DeMuth Associate Professor demuthd@gvsu.edu Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies Women and Gender Studies

TEACHING FOCUS:
I routinely teach “Global Feminisms,” “Lesbian Gay Queer Literature,” the capstone course for majors, and “Introduction to Gender Studies.” Over the past six years, I’ve led study abroad programs in Women and Gender Studies to Egypt and to South Africa, where students were involved in service learning as part of their coursework.

RESEARCH FOCUS:
My research interests include lesbian and queer literature and feminism in the Arab world. My long-term research is on the trajectory of lesbian literary theory and history as exemplified in the case of Gale Wilhelm, who wrote We Too Are Drifting (1934), the first lesbian novel in the United States.

RECENT AWARDS AND HONORS:

Student Award for Faculty Excellence (SAFE). Student Senate, Grand Valley State University, 2011.
Civic Engagement Fellow, National Women’s Studies Association, Teagle Foundation, 2010-2011.
Pew Teaching Excellence Award. Grand Valley State University, 2010.
Celebrated Faculty Member Award. Office of Housing and Residence Life, Grand Valley State University, March 2009.
Summer Research Stipend and Grant-in-Aid, Grand Valley State University, Summer 2007.
Phil Zwickler Memorial Grant for Research on Sexuality, Cornell University, 2004-05.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:

Publications

“Theorizing, Teaching and Creating Change: Feminism, Rhetoric and Activist Pedagogy for Women’s Studies.” Atlantis: Women’s Studies Journal 35.2 (Spring 2011).

“Caramel and Under the Bombs.” Signs: Films for the Feminist Classroom 3.1 (2011).

Unsexing Gender, Engendering Activism: Readings in Gender Studies. Edited with Julia Mason. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, 2009.

“The Lesbian Novel.” Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States. Emmanuel S. Nelson, editor. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2009.

“The Furies,” “Nancy Toder,” “Alice Bloch,” “Camarin Grae,” “Noretta Koertge” and “Judith McDaniel.” John Hawley, editor. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2008.

“Del Martin.” Significant Contemporary American Feminists. Jennifer Scanlon, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999.

“Gale Wilhelm,” “Marcia Freedman, ” “Carol Seajay,” and “Dee Mosbacher.” Gay and Lesbian Biography. Michael Tyrkus, editor. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 1997.

Recent Presentations

“Beyond the Classroom Walls: Civic Engagement in Women’s Studies.” NWSA, Atlanta, GA. 2011.

“Collaborating to Develop Short-Term Faculty-Led Feminist Study Abroad Experiences.” NWSA PAD Pre-Conference, Atlanta, GA. 2011.

“Autoethnography in Feminist Pedagogy, Theory and Writing.” NWSA, Denver, CO. 2010.

“Twentieth Century Lesbian Literature in the Twenty-First Century: Lesbian Literary History and the Future of Gale Wilhelm.” SSAWW, Philadelphia, PA. 2009.

“’I thought we agreed about these things’: Feminist Expectations in the Reception of Arab Feminists From/Back to the Arab World.” NWSA, Charleston, IL. 2007.

“Feminist Reception of Arab Feminist Memoirs.” ACLA Convention, Puebla, Mexico. 2007

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