Gender & Queer Studies Board Members
Meet the Board
Prof. Austin publishes regularly, serves on the boards of two international scholarly organizations, and won a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship.
Regina Duthely-Barbee
Assistant Professor, English and Co-director, Gender and Queer Studies
email
rduthely@pugetsound.edu
Prof. Duthely specializes in black feminist culture and digital rhetoric. Her work has been presented at a variety of conferences, and her courses focus on rhetoric, writing, language, and power.
Tanya Erzen
Associate Professor, Religion, Spirituality, and Society and Director, Freedom Education Project Puget Sound
email
terzen@pugetsound.edu
Prof. Erzen researches American politics and religion, specializing in criminal justice and social movements. She teaches courses in religious studies and gender and queer studies, and directs the FEPPS program.
Prof. Freeman has published a variety of writings on contemporary playwrights and alternative British theater. She works as a director and dramaturg on campus and is active in local theater communities.
Jairo Hoyos Galvis
Assistant Professor, Hispanic Studies and Director, Latina/o Studies
Prof. Hoyos Galvis specializes in 20th-century Latin American and Latinx cultural, gender, and literary studies, with a focus on transnational histories of art, science, and sexuality.
Laura Krughoff
Associate Professor, English, and Director, Gender and Queer Studies
email
lkrughoff@pugetsound.edu
While working on both fiction and essay writing, Prof. Krughoff's scholarly and teaching interests include law and literature, the history of marriage, and the representation and effects of marriage equality.
Prof. Naveira examines the intersections of gender, postcolonialism, and peripheral nationalism with the context of memory politics in contemporary Spain.
Using songbirds, Prof. Rouse studies the ways in which hormones affect and alter behavior, in particular how hormones, the brain, and reproductive behavior interact.
An accomplished writer, essayist, and poet, Prof. Renee Simms teaches courses in African American literature, black feminist theory, and fiction writing.
Prof. Soumaré's scholarship and teaching focus on Francophone Literature and Culture, French and Francophone Cinema, as well as 20th-21st-century French literature and culture.
Specializing in American religious history with a focus in 20th-century social movements, sexuality, and gender, Prof. White teaches courses in feminist and queer studies, the history of politics and religious freedom, and more.