Janell Hobson is Associate Professor
and the current Graduate Director of
Women's Studies at the University at Albany. She joined the core
faculty shortly after receiving her Ph.D. in Women's Studies at Emory
University. 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. Hobson's
research
involves an oral history project on women in the Anglophone Caribbean
(specifically Nevis and its diaspora). She is also currently at
work on a
second book project exploring world history narratives and black
women's
representations in historical and globalized discourses on race
and
gender. Overall, Hobson uses a transnational lens to highlight
women's
iconography and experiences in global or black diasporic perspective.
Apart from teaching diverse courses on intersections of race,
class,
gender, media, popular culture, and feminist theory, Hobson co-advises
with Vivien Ng the undergraduate e-journal, transcending silence...,
and
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
- Black Diasporas, Feminisms, and Sexual Politics
UNDERGRADUATE
COURSES
- Classism,
Racism, and Sexism
- Feminist
Social and Political Thought
- Women and
the Media
- Electronic
Publishing in Women's Studies
- Gender and Nation in World Cinema
- Narratives
and Counter-narratives
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)" 111-126.
"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):
443-448.
"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.
BOOK CHAPTERS
"Militarizing Women in Film: Toward a Cinematic Framing
of War and
Terror." In Security Disarmed: Critical
Perspectives on Gender, Race, and Militarization, 367-387.
Barbara Sutton, Sandra Morgen, and Julie Novkov, eds. New Brunswick:
Rutgers University Press, 2008.
"Searching for Janet in Cyberspace: Race, Gender, and the
Interface of
Technology." In Techknowledgies: New Imaginaries
in Humanities, Arts, and Techno-sciences. Mary Valentis,
ed. London: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.
EDITED VOLUME
"Representin': Women, Hip Hop, and Popular Music," special
issue for Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism 8:
2 (2008),
guest co-edited with R. Dianne Bartlow.
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