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Casey O'Brien

Lecturer
Women's & Gender Studies
 Curtin Hall

Published 2015, updated to 2010 to sort list

Education

PhD Candidate, English (Rhetoric and Composition)
Graduate Certificate in Women’s & Gender Studies
MA, English (Modern Studies)

Courses Taught

WGS 150: Multicultural America
WGS 192: First Year Seminar: Women’s Graphic Memoirs – Fall 2020
WGS 192: First Year Seminar: Gender and Consumer Culture in America
WGS 201: Introduction to Women’s & Gender Studies: A Humanities Perspective (online and face-to-face)
WGS 211: Foundations in Women’s & Gender Studies Writing and Research

Academic Interests

Feminist Pedagogies, Feminist Rhetorics, Feminist Theory
Women’s Autobiography and Memoir
19th Century American Literature
American Domesticity

Recent Publications/Articles and Conference/Presentations

With Anne Basting. “Slightly Bigger Women? How Little Women Inspired an Arts-based Look at Gender Across the Generations.” Public: A Journal of Imagining America. 4. 1 (2017) Online

“Inclusive Teaching Practices” UW-System Office for Professional and Instructional Development Council Meeting. Madison, WI. Feb. 2017

“Gender Journals as Epistemological Devise in Women’s and Gender Studies.” UW Summit on Women, Gender, and Well-Being. Madison, WI. Apr. 2016

“Exploring Feminist and Queer Pedagogical Engagement with Creative Materiality in the Classroom.” UW Summit on Women, Gender, and Well-Being. Madison, WI. Apr. 2016

“Using Rich Media to Facilitate Discussion and Foster Community Engagement in Online Women’s and Gender Studies Classes” University of Wisconsin’s Annual Office for Professional and Instructional Development Conference. Green Lake, WI. Apr. 2016

“Uncontained Bleed: Teaching Graphic Memoirs in Women’s and Gender Studies.” National Women’s Studies Association. Milwaukee, WI. Nov. 2015.