Laura Gillman
Associate Professor
Joined Virginia Tech 1989
EDUCATION:
| B.A. (Spanish) | UC San Diego |
| M.A. (Spanish) | New York University |
| Doctorate (Spanish) | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
CURRENT RESARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
Feminist Pedagogy
Multiracial feminisms
Intersectionality and Constitutive Models of Identities
Transanational
Dimensions of Latina and Womanist Thought
Race, Space,and Migration
RECENT AWARDS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
- College Diversity Award recipient.
- Research: global/diasporic theories, Black/Latina women's issues
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
“Beyond the Shadow: Re-Scripting Race in Women’s Studies,” Meridians 7.2 (June 2007): 117-42.
“The Whole Story Is What I’m After: Womanist Revolution and Feminist Revelations through Biomythography and Emancipatory Historiography” with Stacey Floyd-Thomas. Journal of Black Theology 3.2 (July 2005): 176-99.
“Heuristic Metaphors of Interdisciplinarity: Theory and Practice in an Interdisciplinary Classroom,” with Katherine Allen and Stacey Floyd- Thomas. Issues in Integrative Studies 20 (2002): 1-26.
“Subverting Forced Identities, Violent Acts and the Narrativity of Race: A Diasporic Analysis of Black Women’s Radical Subjectivity in Three Novel Acts” with Stacey Floyd-Thomas. Journal of Black Studies 32.5 (May 2002): 528-56.
“Con un Pie a Cada Lado/With a Foot in Each Place: Mestizaje as Transnational Feminisms in Ana Castillo’s So Far from God,” with Stacey Floyd-Thomas. Meridians 2.1 (Nov. 2001): 158-75.
“Teaching to Transform: From Volatility to Solidarity in an Interdisciplinary Family Studies Classroom” with Katherine Allen and Stacey Floyd-Thomas. Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Studies 50.4(2001): 317-25.
“Revisiting Identity Politics in Contemporary Mestiza Thought: The Case of Domesticana.” In Identity, Migration and Women’s Bodies as Sites of Knowledge and Transgression. Ed., Ed Silvia Castro Borrego and Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz. Oviedo, Spain: KRK Ediciones, 2009.
“Feminist Studies/Women’s Studies.” An Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies. Ed., Michael Herndon. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall Hunt, 2004. 53-60.