“Occupying All Sides of the Desk: A Feminist Methodological Approach to Teaching, Research, and Mentoring” has been accepted in the Journal of Feminist Scholarship. This piece focuses on Dr. David Powers Corwin’s research collaboration with Lindsay Lowry, (an INTS student with a WGST concentration alum), Angelica Lovelace (an INTS with a Social Sciences for Education alum and former WGST center mentor), and Siri Lalukota (an Oakton High School alumn and now UCLA student). They worked together to revise INTS 374/WMST 374: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Television; Dr. Powers Corwin’s Section of INTS 347: Gender Representation in Popular Culture; and INTS 319: Contemporary Youth Studies. The first course has now been revamped to focus on what is now called “the Radical 1950s-1990s,” which is being taught this semester. Dr. Powers Corwin’s section of INTS 347 will focus on 2000s-present television and hone in on the wide array of options for diverse audiences in the post-network era while still having so much work to do for certain identity groups. Lastly, the third course has a gender and sexuality in teen television theme which starts with how shows like The Wonder Years, The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air, Dawson’s Creek, and continues with shows like Glee, Heartstopper, On the Block, Riverdale and others have shaped current teen television.
This project was funded through OSCAR research assistant and CHSS Term Faculty Development funds and took place over the last two years. Our work took place together over the last two years and recently concluded as folks have moved on to college, graduate school, and the workforce. In our article, we argue that our curriculum collaboration is a feminist methodology in and of itself as it decenters power, benefits and features marginalized voices, and becomes a product that isn’t necessarily a publication and has created rhetorical products for students and us as researchers rather than an academic publication. Read the publication here.
March 04, 2025