Core Faculty

Theresa Braunschneider, Assistant Professor of English
Research Interests: Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature; history of sexuality and gender; feminist theory; literature by women
Email: braunt@wlu.edu

Alexandra Brown, Professor of Religion
Research Interests: Christianity from its origins to late antiquity; pilgrimage, monasticism, mysticism, and notions of the body and gender in religious traditions of the West.
Email: browna@wlu.edu

Genelle Gertz-Robinson, Assistant Professor of English
Research Interests: medieval and early modern women writers; the Reformation; republicanism and the English revolution; prophecy, mysticism and heresy trials; the politics of reading.
Email: gertz-robinsong@wlu.edu

Sascha L. Goluboff, Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Research Interests: the former Soviet Union (Russia and Azerbaijan), anthropology of Jews and Judaism; gender; ritual and religion; death studies; ethnicity; post-socialist states and markets.
Email: goluboffs@wlu.edu

Louise Halper, Professor of Law and Director, Frances Lewis Law Center 

Research Interests: Islamic Feminism, Islamic Law

Email:  halperl@wlu.edu                                                                                  

Robin M. Le Blanc, Associate Professor of Politics
Research Interests: Japan; Japanese democracy and citizenship; gender and power in local politics.
Email: leblancr@wlu.edu

Ellen Mayock, Associate Professor of Spanish, Associate Dean of the College
Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century Spanish literature; Spanish women writers; Latin American women writers; bilingualism and biculturalism
Email: mayocke@wlu.edu

Deborah Miranda, Associate Professor of English
Research Interests: poetry; Native American women's literature; literatures of U.S. populations whose work has been traditionally overlooked; indigenous erotics.
Email: mirandad@wlu.edu

Qudsia Mirza, Professor of Law, University of East London and Scholar-in Residence at W&L School of Law, 2007-2008

Research Interests:  Islamic Feminism

Email:  mirzaq@wlu.edu

Domnica Radulescu, Professor of Romance Languages and Program Head, Women's Studies (2005-2008)
Research Interests: women's studies and feminism; French literature, theater, and culture.
Email: radulescud@wlu.edu

Roberta Senechal, Associate Professor of History
Research Interests: collective violence, especially such unilateral forms of group violence as rioting, lynching, vigilantism, and terrorism; the development of general theory on the varying likelihood and severity of these forms of violence from one conflict to the next.
Email: senechalr@wlu.edu

Pamela Simpson, Professor of Art History
Research Interests: American art and architecture, modern art and architecture, vernacular architecture, African-American art, art by women
Email: simpsonp@wlu.edu

Lesley Wheeler, Professor of English, Chair of the Women's Studies Advisory 2003-2005
Research Interests: American, British, and Irish poetry from 1900 to the present; gender and the lyric poem; literature by women
Email: wheelerlm@wlu.edu

Julie Woodzicka, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Research Interests: issues of stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination; how targets of prejudice (e.g., women, African Americans) are affected by everyday instances of unfair treatment; nonverbal communication of emotion; the intersection of social and clinical psychology.
Email: woodzickaj@wlu.edu

Melina Bell, Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Research Interests:  political and social philosophy, philosophy of law, feminist theory, ethical theory, applied ethics, philosophy of education.
Email: bellm@wlu.edu

Leslie Cintron, Assistant Professor of Sociology
Research Interests: cultural sociology and organizations, defining cultural boundaries, British national culture, work and life balance in America.
Email: cintronl@wlu.edu

Edwin Craun, Professor of English
Research Interests: Medieval literature; justice and law in Medieval and Renaissance literature; virtues and vices; social reform in the Middle Ages
Email: crawne@wlu.edu

Kimberly Jew, Assistant Professor of Theater
Research interests: Modern dramatic literature and history, American and Asian American theaters, avant-garde theater, gender and theater, stage direction
Email: jewk@wlu.edu

Mohamed Kamara, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages
Research Interests: French literature; 18th century French women writers; African and Diaspora literatures; Québécois fiction
Email: kamaram@wlu.edu

David Novack, Professor of Sociology, Chair of the Sociology/Anthropology Department
Research Interests: urban ethnicity, sociology of knowledge, interpersonal interaction, deviance, gender relations.
Email: novackd@wlu.edu