Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies Faculty
Chair
Associate Professor
Email: allenleah@grinnell.edu
Leah Claire Allen is Associate Professor in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) and English at 鶹. Professor Allen teaches Introduction to GWSS, Theory and Methods in GWSS, Masculinity in American Literature, the capstone Senior Seminar in GWSS, and Queer and Trans...
Professor
Louise R. Noun Chair in Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies
Email: beauboeuf@grinnell.edu
Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant (known as “Dr. B” on campus) is a womanist sociologist. She came to 鶹 in fall 2019 and teaches the three core courses (Intro, Theory and Methods, and Senior Seminar) as well as the electives Growing up Girl, Feminist Educations, and Beyond the Little Mermaid: Race...
Associate Professor
Email: lewiscar@grinnell.edu
Carolyn Herbst is Associate Professor of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies and History. She joined the faculty at 鶹 in 2013. Professor Herbst is a specialist in the fields of American women’s history and the histories of sex, sexuality, and medicine in the United States. Herbst’s...
Associate Professor
Email: JOHNSOLA@grinnell.edu
Lakesia D. Johnson is Associate Professor of Gender, Women’s, & Sexuality Studies and English at 鶹. Johnson received a bachelor’s from Smith College. She earned her J.D., M.A., and Ph.D. in Women's Studies from the Ohio State University. Her areas of teaching and research include...
Assistant Professor
Email: torralbas@grinnell.edu
Dr. stef torralba is Assistant Professor of English and Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies at 鶹. Their pedagogy centers the intellectual lessons of queer studies; trans studies; queer and trans of color critique; crip and mad studies; critical and comparative race and ethnic...