Veanne Anderson teaches courses in the Psychology of Women and Human Sexuality. Her research interests include women's and men's attitudes toward and experiences with parenting, and women and health. Click here for additional information provided by Veanne Anderson.
Gary Daily first taught his "Women in the U.S." course in 1972. He also teaches "Hollywood History: Women and African Americans in the Movies" and the "Introduction to Women's Studies" courses. His current (and long continuing) research is on Terre Haute's Ida Husted Harper, a turn-of-the-century journalist and suffragist. Click here for additional information provided by Gary Daily.
Mary Jean DeMarr is interested in American literature, especially women's issues and women authors, detective fiction (especially by women and using women protagonists), Midwest literature (especially by women and about women's lives and situations). She has taught in all three areas and has published most frequently in the two latter specializations. Click here for additional information provided by Mary Jean DeMarr.
Jennifer Drake teaches "U.S. Women Writers" and "Multicultural American Literature" as well as poetry. She is also interested in performance and the visual arts, and in how contemporary multicultural women writers use performative and visual "logics" or methods to structure written texts. Theorizing "third-wave" feminism(s) is another. Click here for additional information provided by Jennifer Drake.
Myrna Handley
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Rosetta Haynes is particularly interested in African American women's writing and history, but she also has interests in cross-cultural women's writing. Courses that she teaches include those in African American and American literature. Click here for additional information provided by Rosetta Haynes.
Jean Kristeller's research interests include eating disorders and women and health. Click here for additional information provided by Jean Kristeller.
Jolynn S. Kuhlman's area of interest is women in sport. She teaches undergraduate "Socio-behavioral Aspects of Sport" and hopes to develop a "Women in Sport" class within the next year. She has done research on the affect of sport experience upon certain motor performance variables with regard to gender. Click here for additional information provided by Jolynn S. Kuhlman.
Harriet McNeal is interested in women artists, particularly of the past and the reasons for their neglect and unequal representation in art history. She has taught a course in women artists every year since 1978. Click here for additional information provided by Harriet McNeal.
Ann Rider has taught the Introduction to Women's Studies Course and is currently developing a course which she hopes will be crosslisted with Women's Studies entitled "Cultural Anxieties: Weimar and Fascism in German Culture." Click here for additional information provided by Ann Rider.
Sharon Russell is interested in women in various areas of film, horror, and mystery fiction. Click here for additional information provided by Sharon Russell.
Thomas Steiger teaches two courses cross-listed with Women's Studies: "Sociology of Sex Roles" and "Social Classes." He is currently developing a course which we hope will be cross-listed, "Work, Employment, and Society". His research interests lie principally in the area of gender relations in the workplace and women's work experiences. Click here for additional information provided by Tom Steiger.
Maryann Valiulis is Director of the Women's Studies Program and Professor of History. Email her at wsvali@amber.indstate.edu