Janell Hobson is Assistant Professor
and the current Graduate Director of Women's Studies at the University
at Albany. In 2001, she received her Ph.D. in Women's Studies at
Emory University; shortly after, she joined the Women's Studies
core faculty. Hobson has since devoted her research, teaching,
and service to multiracial and transnational feminist issues in
the discipline.
Hobson is the author of Venus in the Dark:
Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture and is co-editing
an anthology, with Ime A. S. Kerlee, titled Are All the Women
Still White? Globalizing Women's Studies. Her research interests
continue to explore literary, cinematic, and popular representations
of women of African descent, resulting in a number of refereed
articles and book chapters. She plans on developing these works
and combining them with new essays for a second book project.
In addition, she has begun an oral history project concerning
a ferryboat disaster on August 1, 1970 between the Caribbean
islands of St. Kitts and Nevis in which more than 200 islanders
- many of whom were women - lost their lives. Hobson expects
this project to result in both a volume of oral history and a
documentary film.
Among the various courses Hobson regularly teaches is the unique
course, "E-Journal
Editing and Publishing," which
requires as a final project the production of a student-run electronic
journal, which made its debut in May 2004 as transcending
silence... , the result of an Innovations in
Teaching grant awarded in 2003 (with Vivien Ng and Vivien E. Zazzau).
She also supervises the annual Women's Studies Student Conference.
EDUCATION
- Ph.D.,
Emory University (2001)
- M.A., Teachers
College, Columbia University (1995)
- A.B., University
of Georgia (1994)
GRADUATE
COURSES
- Feminist
Theory
- Research
Seminar
- Feminist
Pedagogy
- Race, Gender,
and Global Popular Culture.
UNDERGRADUATE
COURSES
- Classism,
Racism, and Sexism.
- Feminist
Social and Political Thought.
- Race, Gender,
and the Body (Special Topics in Women's Studies).
- Women and
the Media.
- E-journal
Publishing and Editing
- Narratives
and Counter-narratives
SELECTED
PUBLICATIONS
BOOK
Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty
in Popular Culture (New
York: Routledge, 2005).
ARTICLES
"Digital Whiteness, Primitive Blackness: Racializing the
'Digital Divide' in Film and Art." Feminist
Media Studies 8: 2
(June 2008), forthcoming.
"Everybody's Protest Song: Music as Social Protest in the
Performances of Marian Anderson and Billie Holiday." Signs:
Journal of Women in Culture and Society (Winter 2008), forthcoming.
"The Personal is Global: Teaching Global Feminist Consciousness."
Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship
and Pedagogy (Fall 2006): 96-104 .
"The 'Batty' Politic: Toward an Aesthetic of the Black Female
Body."
Hypatia 18: 4 (Fall/Winter 2003): 87-105.
"Viewing in the Dark: Toward a Black Feminist Approach to
Film."
Women's Studies Quarterly 30: 1 & 2 (Spring/Summer
2002): 45-59.
EDITED VOLUME
"Representin': Women, Hip Hop, and Popular Music," special
issue for Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism (Fall
2007), guest co-edited with R. Dianne Bartlow, forthcoming.
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