Feminist Mentoring and Undergraduate Research

• In Event: Mobilizing Feminist Classrooms for Social Justice: Knowledge Production, Pedagogy and Activism

Abstract

In this presentation I will talk about feminist pedagogy vis-à-vis undergraduate research. Presently I teach global and cultural studies. Of the seven classes I teach annually only one is a WGSS course. In this session I will talk about my approach to teaching and mentoring undergraduate students to do feminist research even in “non-WGSS” courses, focusing on their successes as manifest in publications. Ironically, neither class which served as the spring board for each student’s publication I discuss today was a WGSS class but as recipients of feminist pedagogy they mobilized their research and critical inquiry skills toward knowledge production.

Presenter

• Julie Shayne, University of Washington, Bothell