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Core Faculty

  • Melina Bell
    Assistant Professor of Philosophy
    Baker Hall 222
    (540) 458-8899
    bellm@wlu.edu

    Political and Social Philosophy, Ethical Theory, Philosophy of Law, Feminist Theory

    Curriculum Vitae
  • Theresa Braunschneider
    Associate Professor of English
    Payne Hall 22
    (540) 458-8762
    braunt@wlu.edu

    Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature and culture; history of sexuality and gender; feminist theory.
  • Alexandra Brown
    Jessie Ball duPont Professor of Religion
    Baker 106
    (540) 458-8789
    browna@wlu.edu

    Christianity from its origins to late antiquity; pilgrimage, monasticism, and notions of the body and gender in religious traditions.
  • Genelle Gertz
    Assistant Professor of English
    Payne Hall 32G
    (540) 458-8763
    gertzg@wlu.edu

    Medieval and early modern women writers; the Reformation; republicanism and the English revolution; prophecy, mysticism and heresy trials; the politics of reading.
  • Sascha L. Goluboff
    Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology
    Baker 310
    540-458-8807
    goluboffs@wlu.edu

    Research Interests: intersections of gender, religion, ritual, and ethnicity/race; ethnographic research on Jewish religious revival in Moscow, Russia; Mountain Jewish death rituals and lamentation in Northeastern Azerbaijan; and Black church culture in Southwestern Virginina.

    Personal Homepage | Curriculum Vitae
  • Robin Le Blanc
    Professor of Politics
    Holekamp 107
    (540) 458-8612
    leblancr@wlu.edu
  • Ellen Mayock
    Professor of Spanish
    Tucker 403-A
    (540) 458-8816
    mayocke@wlu.edu

    The Novel in Spain and Latin America; Literary Naturalism: Women Writers of Spain, Latin America, and the U.S.; Feminist Theory; Immigrant Populations in the U.S.

    Personal Homepage
  • Deborah Miranda
    Associate Professor of English
    Payne Hall 32E
    (540) 458-8755
    mirandad@wlu.edu

    Poetry; Native American women's literature; literatures of U.S. populations whose work has been traditionally overlooked; indigenous erotics.
  • David R. Novack
    Professor of Sociology
    Baker 111
    540-458-8792
    novackd@wlu.edu

    Research Interests: college students’ attitudes toward gender issues, sexual behaviors, gender responsibility, and sexual assault and rape.

    Curriculum Vitae
  • Roberta Senechal
    Professor of History
    Baker Hall 313
    (540) 458-8456
    senechalr@wlu.edu

    Teaching Areas: U.S. social history, Violence, Women in America
  • Pamela Simpson
    Professor of Art History
    Wilson Hall 3017
    (540) 458-8857
    simpsonp@wlu.edu
  • Lesley Wheeler
    Professor of English
    Payne Hall 23
    (540) 458-8758
    wheelerlm@wlu.edu

    Twentieth-century and twenty-first-century poetry in English: sound, voice, performance, gender.
  • Julie Woodzicka
    Assoc. Professor of Psychology
    Parmly 234
    (540) 458-8834
    woodzickaj@wlu.edu

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