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 Debra Anderson (College of Nursing)
Ph.D., Oregon Health Sciences University, 1993
danders@uky.edu
859-257-3410
Debra Anderson received her M.S.N. in Community Health Nursing from Indiana University and a Ph.D. in Family Nursing from Oregon Health Sciences University. Her dissertation, "Homeless Women: Their Perceptions About Their Families of Origin," was supported by a National Research Service Award.
Anderson expanded on her dissertation research with an AREA grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research, "Factors Influencing Homelessness in Women" (1998-2001). Her work in this field has been published in the Western Journal of Nursing and Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing. Her recent study, "Violence and Stress Experienced by Female Long-Haul Truckers," focuses on a group that is borderline homeless in society. This work provided pilot data for a three-year R01 study funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health on workplace violence among both male and female long-haul truckers.
Anderson is a certified community health nurse. She is a member of the American Public Health Association and currently serves as chair of the Public Health Nursing section. She teaches courses in public health nursing and community health nursing in the graduate program.
Recent Publications
Al-Modallal, H., Anderson, D., & Peden, A. (In press). Impact of physical abuse on adulthood depressive symptoms among women. Issues in Mental Health Nursing.
Heaton, K., & Anderson, D. (In press). Epworth Sleepiness Scale. Journal of Nursing Measurement.
Research
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 Mary K. Anglin (Anthropology)
manglin@uky.edu
Mary K. Anglin is Associate Professor in Anthropology and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Behavioral Science in the College of Medicine. Her research interests include feminist perspectives on health and social justice, as well as ethnographies of gender, ethnicity, and class in Southern Appalachia. Her book, Women, Power, and Dissent in the Hills of Carolina (University of Illinois Press, 2002) concerns women's factory labor in Southern Appalachia. |
 Joanna M. Badagliacco (Sociology)
jmb@uky.edu
Joanna M. Badagliacco is Associate Professor of Sociology, and Director of UK's Discovery Seminar Program. Dr. Badagliacco examines women's lives with respect to issues of reproduction, family planning, abortion, poverty, genomics, social justice, and social inequalities. Her current research focuses on homeless mothers in Kentucky. Dr. Badagliacco is a Fulbright Senior Specialist in teaching and methods. She is also the chair-elect of the Board of Directors of Planned Parenthood of the Bluegrass. One of her life passions is gardening, and she is certified by the state of Kentucky as a Master Gardener. She devotes many hours to community service. |
Ihsan Bagby (MCL, Literatures and Culture)
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Malachy Bishop (Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling)
mbishop@uky.edu Malachy Bishop is an associate professor in the Rehabilitation Counseling Program in the Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling. Research interests include the psychosocial aspects of disability, and specifically the impact on quality of life of chronic illness and acquired disability, questions related to the impact of gender and gender-based differences in perceived life quality, and the utility of models of quality of life in conceptualizing adjustment and adaptation to disability. |
 Katherine Black (Library Special Collections)
kjblac01@uky.edu
Kate Black is the curator of the University's Appalachian Collection and she teaches in the Appalachian Studies program. For Gender and Women's Studies she has taught courses on women in Appalachia, on women and AIDS, and, most recently, about women and war. She also produces a film series each semester for GWS that considers womens' experiences by exploring themes such as war and the body, to name a few. |
Jeannine Blackwell (MCL, Litratures, and Culture)
blackwell@uky.edu
Jeannine Blackwell is Dean of the Graduate School and Professor of German Literature and a former Director of the Gender and Women's Studies Program. She specializes in European women's literary culture from 1500 to 1900, with emphasis on women in the Reformation and Post-Reformation, religious autobiography and confessions, witch trial
testimony, the Bildungsroman, and fairy tales. Dr. Blackwell was formerly the President of Women in German and was chair of the Publications Committee of Modern Language Association. |
 Virginia Blum (English)
vblum1@uky.edu
She is Professor of English and Director of the Committee on Social Theory. She received her Ph.D. from Brown University. Her areas of specialty are in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Fiction, Women's Literature and Gender Studies, Psychoanalytic Theory, and Critical Theory. She has published two books, Hide and Seek: The Child Between Psychoanalysis and Fiction (Illinois, 1995) and Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery (California, 2003). She is currenty writing on intimacy. |
Anna Bosch (English and Linguistics)
bosch@uky.edu Anna Bosch is an Associate Professor of English and Linguistics. Dr. Bosch obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1991. Her interests lie in Phonological theory, Celtic Languages and Linguistics, Dialectology. |
 Francie Chassen-Lopez (History)
frclopz@uky.edu
Francie Chassen-López, Professor of History and Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences (2008-2009), specializes in Latin American history with an emphasis on gender and ethnicity. She teaches History 563 Women in Latin America and a new course on Women and Power in History. She received her Ph.D. from the National University of Mexico (1986) and taught in Mexican universities for ten years before returning to the U.S. Her book, "The View from the South: from Liberal to Revolutionary Oaxaca, Mexico 1867-1911" (Penn State University, 2004) won the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies Thomas McGann Prize for the Best Book published in 2004.
Among her articles are:
- "Distorting the Picture: Gender, Ethnicity, and Desire in a Mexican Telenovela (El Vuelo del Aguila) Journal of Women's History 20: 2 (2008): 106-29;
- "Patron of Progress: Juana Catarina Romero, Cacica of Tehuantepec Hispanic American Historical Review 88:3 (2008): 393-426;
- "La mujer en la construcción de la nación en el siglo XIX: Juana Catarina Romero, Cacica de Tehuantepec in Brian Connaughton, ed. Prácticas populares, cultura política y poder en México, Siglo XIX (Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and Imprenta Juan Pablos, 2008), 489-517;
- "From Casa to Calle: Latin American Women Transforming Patriarchal Spaces" Journal of Women's History, 9:1 (1997)
- "Cheaper than Machines: Women in Agriculture in Porfirian Oaxaca" in Mary Kay Vaughan and Heather Fowler Salamini, eds. Creating Spaces, Shaping Transitions: Women of the Mexican Countryside, 1850-1990 (Tucson: University of Arizona, 1994), 27-50.
She is currently writing the biography of political boss, Juana Catarina Romero, in order to demonstrate how women participated in nation building in Mexico. She has recently embarked on a new research project that will study women, gender, and war in nineteenth century Mexico. |
 Deb Crooks (Anthropology & Behaviorial Science and Nutrition)
dlcrooks@uky.edu Deborah L. Crooks is Associate Professor of Anthropology. Her current research interests include livelihood and food security; the political-economy of child growth and nutrition; international health and nutrition; human adaptability; and biocultural theory and method. She and colleague, Lisa Cliggett, are currently involved in research with migrant Gwembe Tonga people of Zambia, that seeks to understand the complexity of livelihood strategies within households, and the success of those strategies in achieving individual and household well-being. |
Patricia Ehrkamp (Geography)
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Janet Eldred (Writing Initiative and English)
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Denise Fulbrook (English)
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Ellen Furlough (History)
furloug@uky.edu Ellen Furlough is an Associate Professor of History. Her teaching interests include Modern French History, Women in Modern Europe, comparative consumer cultures, urban history, and the history of sexualities. Her research focuses on the history of consumerism in France, and her published work includes books and articles on the consumer cooperative movement, gender and consumption, "Americanization," and mass tourism. Her current project is entitled "France on Vacation: Tourism and Consumer Culture in France, 1930s-1970s." |
 Judy Goldsmith (Computer Science)
goldsmit@cs.uky.edu Judy Goldsmith is a Professor of Computer Science. In her engineering hat, she studies planning under uncertainty, stochastic modeling, knowledge elicitation, and complexity theory. She received the 1998 American Association for the Advancement of Science Mentoring Award, for "aggressively helping and encouraging women and other scholars in computer science and mathematics."
She regularly teaches theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence, has taught Introduction to Cognitive Science (CGS 500); she is on sabbatical in '06--07. She is a contra dance caller and also teaches morris dancing. You can see her galumphing around a may pole on May 1st at sunrise in the UK arboretum. |
Beth Goldstein (Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation)
bethg@uky.edu
Beth Goldstein is Associate Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation and currently Co-Director of the University of Kentucky Asia Center. Dr. Goldstein studies questions of educational policy from perspectives of cultural anthropology and feminist theory. She's particularly interested in cross-cultural contexts of education, especially in family literacy and in international higher education. Her current research projects include ones on educational partnerships explored in cultural contexts, and Welfare to Work Case Management. |
 Stacey Greenwell (Library Information Technology)
stacey@uky.edu Stacey Greenwell is the Interim Director of the Information Commons (the Hub) at the University of Kentucky Libraries. Her research interests include women in information technology and technology-related issues such using social software in higher education. She is Past Chair of the Information Technology division of the Special Libraries Association. |
 Debra Harley (Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling)
dharl00@uky.edu Debra A. Harley, Ph.D., CRC, CPC, is Associate Professor in the Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling. Her areas of research include substance abuse, cultural diversity, gender, and ethics. She is Editor for the Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling, Associate Editor for the Journal of Rehabilitation Administration, and Consulting Editor for the journal, Infants and Young Children. |
Rosalind Harris (Sociology)
soc028@ukcc.uky.edu
Rosalind Harris is Associate Professor of Rural Sociology. Dr. Harris draws heavily on feminist and postcolonial theorizing and her own experiences as a community organizer in distressed communities to study rural and regional inequality in the United States and internationally. She offers courses in these areas, along with courses in the sociology of health, qualitative research methods, and the sociology of development. |
 Claudia Heath (Human Environmental Sciences)
cjheath@uky.edu
Dr. Heath is well established as a researcher specializing in issues related to the economic well-being of families, individuals, and, specifically, women. Her educational background in economics, combined with a focus on family economics, supports her interest in labor force participation, poverty, welfare reform issues, and public policy issues of women, children, and families.
She and colleagues at the University of Kentucky are studying the effects of welfare reform on women in the Lexington-Fayette County area. According to Dr. Heath, "It is necessary that employment provide a living wage, medical benefits, and economic resources sufficient to purchase adequate food, housing, and child care if welfare reform is to promote outcomes of a preventive nature.” Women who were surveyed at the onset of welfare reform will participate in follow-up interviews in an effort to determine their well-being after a two to three year period.
Dr. Heath's recent scholarly activities focus on women, welfare, and work. In 1998 she presented a paper on Women and Welfare Reform at the 35th National Meeting of the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) in Washington, D.C. Other scholarly and public service presentations addressed the Economic Status of Women; Employment of Women; Women, Wages, and Well-Being; and Women and Welfare.
In addition to her research activities and service as editor of a national, refereed journal, she serves as manuscript reviewer for associations, conferences, and journals. Dr. Heath has a history of leadership and service through election to regional and national offices, recognitions, and awards. Among these are President, Missouri Valley Economic Association; Vice-President of the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS); member of the Board on Human Sciences/Steering Committee Member of Association of Administrators of Human Sciences/National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC); President of American Council on Consumer Interests; appointment to the Steering Committee of the Research, Education, and Economics Information System/CSREES/USDA; and 1997 Leader Award from AAFCS. [From the College of Human Environmental Science] |
 Pearl James (English)
pearl.james@uky.edu
Pearl James came to the University of Kentucky in 2006. She teaches courses on American literature and gender, war literature, American modernism, and introductory film courses. Her research interests center on how the violence of World War I was represented, mourned, and assimilated into the post-war culture of the 1920s and 1930s. Her edited collection of essays on World War I posters, Picture This!, will be out in the fall of 2009. |
 Lee Ann Jung (Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling)
ljung@uky.edu Lee Ann Jung is a faculty member in the department of special education and rehabilitation counseling and is program chair for the department’s Interdisciplinary Early Childhood Education program. Lee Ann’s area of expertise is early intervention services for families of children birth to three who have disabilities and developmental delays. She is particularly interested in families experiencing multiple risk factors and those who live in rural areas. Through a variety of work experiences in the field of early intervention, Lee Ann developed a research interest in planning and providing early intervention in home-based settings. |
Kathi Kern (History)
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Linda Levstik (Curriculum and Instruction)
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Ana S.Q. Liberato (Sociology)
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Susan Michelman (Merchandising, Apparel, and Textiles)
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Tad Mutersbaugh (Geography)
mutersba@uky.edu
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 Melanie Otis (Social Work)
mdotis00@uky.edu Melanie Otis is an Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the College of Social Work. She holds bachelors and masters degrees in Social Work and a Ph.D. in Sociology. Her research interests include examining the individual and community-level impact of homophobia, heterosexism, racism, classism, ethnocentrism, and sexism in the lives of LGBT people. Additionally, her work explores strategies for social change and advocacy around issues affecting members of disenfranchised groups. Dr. Otis is a steering committee member of the Bluegrass Chapter of the Kentucky Fairness Alliance. |
 Karen Petrone (History)
petrone@uky.edu Karen Petrone received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1994. She is Associate Professor of History with a specialization in Russia and the former Soviet Union. She is author of Life has Become More Joyous Comrades: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin (Indiana University Press, 2000); Dr. Petrone has written articles on Stalinism and women's emancipation in the Soviet Union. She has explored Russian and Soviet masculinity in articles such as, "Family, Masculinity, and Heroism in Russian Posters of the First World War," in Bordelines: Genders and Identities in War and Peace, 1880-1930, 1998; and "Imperial and Soviet Masculine Heroes and Patriotic Cultures," in Russian Masculinities, edited by Barbara Evans Clements, et. al., 2002.
In 2006, Dr. Petrone received a research grant from the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research to complete a book entitled The Memory of World War I and the Culture of Soviet Militarism. |
Suzanne R. Pucci (MCL, Literatures and Culture)
spucci1@uky.edu
Suzanne R. Pucci is Professor of French. Dr. Pucci's research and teaching interests include: literary and cultural transformations of domestic intimacy from the eighteenth century to the present in France and the United States; writing the woman's voice in eighteenth-century fiction; and questions of representation in French Enlightenment literature, art, and culture.
Her publications include Sites of the Spectator: Emerging Literary and Cultural Practice in Eighteenth-Century France (Oxford University: l'Institut et musée Voltaire/The Voltaire Foundation, 2001); Jane Austen and Co: Remaking the Past in Contemporary Culture (State University of New York Press, 2003), co-edited with James Thompson; and Diderot and a Poetics of Science, Peyre Institute for the Humanities, CUNY Interdisciplinary Series "Reading Plus," edited by Mary Ann Caws (New York: Peter Lang, 1986). She has published articles on Montesquieu, Beaumarchais, exoticism in the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Watteau, and Diderot. |
Sue Roberts (Geography)
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Ellen Rosenman (English)
rosenma@uky.edu Ellen Rosenman is Professor of English and former Director of the Gender and Women's Studies Program. Dr. Rosenman's book Unauthorized Pleasures: Accounts of Victorian Erotic Experience was published by Cornell University Press in 2003. She is now at work on a book project about fiction written for the Victorian working classes. |
Sharon Rostosky (Education and Counseling Psychology)
rostosk@uky.edu
Sharon Scales Rostosky is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology in the College of Education. |
Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby (MCL, Literatures, and Culture)
jrouhie@uky.edu Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby is Associate Professor of Russian and Eastern Studies and Linguistics. She specializes in Russian language pedagogy, linguistics, and folklore. Her folklore research is on on women's roles in Russian rituals and in oral literature, particularly epics and folk tales. Her interests in linguistics focus on cognitive approaches to the semantics of the Russian verbal system and the gender patterns of Russian nouns. |
Nancy Schoenberg (Behavorial Science)
nesch@uky.edu
Nancy E. Schoenberg received a PhD from the University of Florida in Medical Anthropology. She is the Marion Pearsall Endowed Associate Professor in the College of Medicine, Department of Behavioral Science, Anthropology, and Internal Medicine. She is also an Associate with the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, the Department of Communication, and the Center for Health Services Management and Research.
Dr. Schoenberg is an elected Fellow with the Society for Applied Anthropology and the Gerontological Society of America. She is member and on the Editorial Board for The Journal of Applied Gerontology and The Gerontologist, and a past Editorial Board member of the Human Organization. Dr. Schoenberg’s work has been published in such journals as Journal of Women and Health, Journal of Aging and Health, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Social Science and Medicine, Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Aging and Anthropology Quarterly, Journal of Substance Use & Misuse, and Journal of the Kentucky Medical Association. She co-published a volume, “Qualitative Gerontology” (Springer, 2002) with Graham Rowles in 2002. Her ongoing research includes several projects for the NIH/National Cancer Institute on cancer in Appalachia related to screening, control and cancer prevention involving faith communities, provider practices, and research networks. She is a regular reviewer for the National Institutes of Health and a consultant on national and international projects.
Dr. Schoenberg also teaches several graduate seminars: Psychosocial Issues in Health and Aging, Seminar in Women, Health and Aging, Research methods in Medical Behavioral Science, and Seminar in Health Inequities, the latter of which examines the powerful social, political and economic forces that contribute to health inequities. She also teaches Patients, Physicians, and Society, a two year course for medical students. |
Shaunna Scott (Sociology)
soc247@uky.edu Shaunna Scott is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Appalachian Center. She has recently done fieldwork involving interviewing participants in cross-community women's festivals aimed at furthering the peace process in Northern Ireland. Dr. Scott's research also includes study on class identity among Harlan County, KY coal miners and gender roles on Appalachian Kentucky family farms. |
Anna Secor (Geography)
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Marie-Antoinette Sossou
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 Kimberly Miller Spillman (Merchandizing and Textiles)
kspill@uky.edu Kimberly Miller-Spillman is Associate Professor of Merchandising, Apparel and Textiles. She received her PhD in 1990 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is co-editor of The Meanings of Dress, 2nd edition (2005). Her research focuses on dress as a symbol of the self. Current interests include costuming among historic re-enactors and theory development of dress and the Public, Private and Secret Self Model. Currently, Dr. Miller-Spillman teaches two courses that support the Undergraduate Minor/Topical Major and/or Graduate Certificate in Gender and Women's Studies: (1) MAT 247 Dress and Culture, and (2) MAT 547 Social and Psychological Aspects of Apparel. |
Juana Suárez (Hispanic Studies)
juana.suarez@uky.edu
Juana Suárez is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Film and Visual Culture. Her current research focuses on Colombian cinema. It analyzes some sixty films through the lens of cultural studies: the interdisciplinary focus combines historical, anthropological, and sociological approaches with theories of film analysis and audience reception. The work analyzes the narrative function and mediating representations of power, race, gender, and social class in Colombian filmmaking, giving rise to a discussion of how cinema has constructed a discourse of identity and otherness that participates extensively in the formulation of a national imaginary.
Her other areas of research include violence, urban studies, testimonio and social activism in Latin America. |
Anita Superson (Philosophy)
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 Robert S. Tannenbaum (Undergraduate Education)
rst@uky.edu
Robert S. Tannenbaum is Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies. He holds faculty appointments in the College of Engineering (Computer Science) and the College of Education (Instructional Systems Design). His areas of interest and research include all aspects of multimedia, especially its use in instructional systems. His responsibilities include finding and supporting ways for undergraduates to engage in research and scholarly activities beyond their regular classroom experiences.
He administers several research-related scholarship programs and edits Kaleidoscope, the University of Kentucky Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship. He has taught in the Discovery Seminar Program for four years. In the Fall of 2006, his seminar will focus on Civil Liberties and the Bill of Rights.
Dr. Tannenbaum is a member of the Board of Directors of the Kentucky chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and a member of the Advisory Committee for its Reproductive Freedom Project. |
 Karen Tice (Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation)
kwtice01@uky.edu Karen W. Tice is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation where she teaches courses on gender, education, and popular culture. She also teaches regularly in the Women’s Studies program including Feminist Theory (WS 650) on a regular basis. Her book, Tales of Wayward Girls and Immoral Women: Case Records and the Professionalization of Social Work (Illinois 1998) explores the construction of professional authority in social work and how the writing of case narratives created clients, authorities, problems, and solutions. Her published work includes articles on social reform and settlement work, women’s activist organizations, feminist pedagogy, and beauty pageantry as well as a manuscript under review on the makeover/pageant show The Swan. She is currently finishing a book manuscript titled “Queens of Academe: Campus Beauty Pageantry and Student Life.” Growing out of this book project is new research on Reality TV programs for adolescent girls as well as religion, beauty, and body work. Her previous work experience includes having served as director of two women’s community-based agencies. |
 Michael Trask (English)
matras2@uky.edu Michael Trask works at the intersections of queer theory and feminism, high and low culture, and social theory and traditional literary criticism. His first book, Cruising Modernism: Class and Sexuality in American Literature and Social Thought, was published by Cornell University Press in 2003. He is currently working on a book called “Camp Stories: Mass Culture, School Culture, and the New Social Movements,” which treats authors as diverse as Elizabeth Bishop and Jacqueline Susann with forays into Pop Art, manifesto culture, avant-garde cinema, campus novels, and the rise of the shadow government. Dr. Trask earned his Ph.D. in English from the Johns Hopkins University in 1998 and taught for seven years at Yale before joining the UK in English department in 2004. |
 Monica Udvardy (Anthropology)
udvardy@uky.edu Monica Udvardy is Associate Professor of Anthroplogy. She received her PhD from Uppsala University, Sweden, in 1990. Dr. Udvardy is a cultural anthropologist with a specialization in the anthropology of gender. She approaches gender from both symbolic and applied perspectives. Her other specialties include medical anthropology and the life-course. Dr. Udvardy's regional specialty is Africa, primarily East Africa, Kenya and Tanzania. |
Doris Wilkinson (Sociology)
soc166@uky.edu
Doris Wilkinson, is Director, Project on the African American Heritage, Department of Sociology. Professor Wilkinson's interests include organizations and professions, medical sociology, history of social thought, race and ethnic relations, and theory including structural and conflict theories.
Dr. Wilkinson's most recent work appears in Feminist Foundations, American Sociologist, and Sociological Forum. Dr. Wilkinson is currently analyzing historical trends in employment differentials among high school graduates by race and gender in the South as well as examining demographic changes and their impact on university cultures. |
Linda Kraus Worley (MCL, Literatures, and Cultures)
lworley@uky.edu Linda Kraus Worley is Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, has directed the university's Teaching and Learning Center and served as Associate Dean of Undergradute Studies. She specializes in cultural of the German-speaking lands around 1900, in particular the role of time/space in the works of women writers as well as the intersecting discourses concerning the female body. She is currently working to understand the images that graduate students who wish to become professors have of the profession. |