Kathleen Dixon, professor of English and long-standing member of the Women Studies Program, has taken the reins from previous director, Wendelin Hume, associate professor and chair of the Department of Criminal Justice.
Professor Dixon has taught a number of courses in women and gender studies since her arrival at UND in 1991 and has published scholarly books and essays in these fields, including Making Relationships: Gender in the Forming of Academic Community (Peter Lang, 1997) and, with UND graduate student Daniela Koleva, “Baudrillard and History: the Hyperreal on Television, Or Some Women of the Global Village” (International Journal of Baudrillard Studies 4.2 (July 2007). Rowman, Littlefield has just published professor Dixon’s third book, “The Global Village Re-visited: Art, Politics, and Television Talk Shows,” which features case studies of three television talk shows from three countries. Gender differences are central to Dixon’s study of The Oprah Winfrey Show and of Jan Publiek, a Flemish public TV talk show.
The new Women Studies Director wishes to invite all faculty with expertise in women or gender studies to become women studies affiliates. Affiliates may contribute in many ways to the program, but chiefly supply it with courses that students may take for WS credit. Affiliates inform the program of courses they teach that offer topics in feminism or gender studies.
For more information on becoming a women studies affiliate and for help with the process, please email inquires to kathleen.dixon@und.edu.
