Choreographer, dancer,and writer, Foster began presenting concerts of her own work in 1977. Since that time she has created several solo concerts which she has toured in the United States, Canada and Europe. She is the author of Reading Dancing (University of California Press, 1986), Choreography and Narrative (Indiana University Press, 1996) and Dances That Describe Themselves: The Improvised Choreography of Richard Bull (Wesleyan University Press, 2003). She is also editor of Choreographing History (Indiana, 1995) and Corporealities (Routledge, 1996).

Browner's research interests lie principally at the intersection of gender, reproduction, and health. Since 1989, she has worked mainly in the U.S. on issues surrounding the medicalization of pregnancy and prenatal care, particularly the impact of genetic information on reproductive experience. Other research has concerned how Latino couples make decisions about condom use; the meanings associated with cervical cancer held by women and men living on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border; and the use of reproductive health services by homeless women in Los Angeles. She teaches courses in medical anthropology; the anthropology of the human body; the politics of reproduction; anthropological perspectives on genetics, genetic testing, and genetic knowledge; and research design and methods to graduate and undergraduate students.

A past editor of Theatre Journal, Case has published widely in the fields of German theatre, feminism and theatre, performance theory, and lesbian critical theory. She has published over thirty articles in journals such as Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, differences, and Theatre Research International and in many anthologies of critical works. Her books include Feminism and Theatre and The Domain-Matrix: Performing Lesbian at the End of Print Culture. She has edited several anthologies of critical works and play texts, including The Divided Home/Land: Contemporary German Women's Plays; Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance; Performing Feminisms, and many others. Along with Philip Brett and Susan Leigh Foster, she edits a book series with Indiana University Press entitled Unnatural Acts. Professor Case has been an invited professor in residence at Swarthmore College, Stockholm University, and the National University of Singapore. Her work has received several national awards. Her most recent book is entitled Performing Science and the Virtual, published by Routledge Press.

Gaspar de Alba is Professor of Chicana/o Studies, Women’s Studies, and English, and is the current Chair of the Cesar E. Chavez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies. She has published 8 books, and teaches courses on Chicana feminism, lesbian literature, bilingual creative writing, Chicana/o popular culture, and border studies. Her research interests are Chicana art, border culture, femicide, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, and the New England witchcraft trials. For more about Alicia’s work and publications, see www.aliciagaspardealba.net.

Hale’s research interests are in gender and social movements (especially Islamist movements and communist and/or liberation movements in the Middle East and Africa); women, war, conflict, and genocide; gender and citizenship; cultural studies; and international gender studies. She has also been working on a book on Sudanese art and artists in exile. Her regional areas of interest are the Middle East and Africa.

Harding's current work is on identifying the gender, science, and technology issues for women living in the Third World.  A book to appear from Duke University Press in 2007 examines how Western ideals of modernity and its progressiveness both distort Western understandings of Third World women's so-called development needs, and also obscure Westerner's understandings of the bad effects of science and technology transfer to the Third World.  Also in process is a reader on postcolonial science and technology studies.

Le Guin's current research interests are in Spanish music as it developed in Spain in the later part of the 18th century, particularly with reference to comic genres in the Madrid public theaters. She is looking at how Spaniards of that time saw themselves reflected in the interestingly self-aware experiments in identity-formation that one can trace in period theater, before the disastrous invasion of Napoleon in 1808. An intersection with women's studies comes around questions of agency among the women performers of musical comedy, who were immensely popular with the public, though often vilified by the Church (even after the Inquisition was expelled from Spain in 1766!) These women  lacked formal training as singers, but the evidence makes it clear that some had considerable vocal gifts. Their presence and stylishness as actresses can be inferred from the surviving texts. And a significant number of them ended up as directors of acting companies.

Rachel Lee Rachel Lee, Associate Professor, English and Women's Studies, UCLA, specializes in Asian American literature and performance culture. She is the author of The Americas of Asian American Literature: Gendered Fictions of Nation and Transnation (Princeton University Press, 1999), which addresses current debates on the relationship among Asian American ethnic identity, national belonging, globalization, and gender. Her essays on location, territory, and critical regionalism in the context of Asian American cultural criticism have appeared in The Women's Review of Books, Cultural Critique, boundary 2, and various anthologies. Her more recent work includes an essay on women of color in relation to the institution of women's studies (Meridians, Fall 2000; reprinted in Women's Studies on Its Own: A Next Wave Reader in InDuke Universitystitutional Change, Press), and a collection of edited essays on Asian Americans and cyberspace entitled Asian America.Net (Routledge University Press, 2003).

McClendon's research focuses on Tudor-Stuart England and her publications include The Quiet Reformation: Norwich Magistrates and the Emergence of Protestantism in Tudor Norwich (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999).

McClure is interested in historically inflected political theory, principally from the Renaissance to the present. Since the Renaissance, however, pivoted around the rediscovery of antiquity, her interests necessarily extend to the Greek and Roman literatures that so fascinated early modern European political writers. Professor McClure's seminars over the years have focused on modern and contemporary political theory, the history and historiography of political literatures, contemporary literary theory, and feminist theory. They have included courses on such particular thinkers as Locke, Machiavelli and Rousseau, or Bakhtin, as well as more general topical explorations of "History and Theory," "Politics, Theory, and Narrative," "Politic Reading: the Problem of the Historical Text in Political Theory and Literary Studies," and "The Subject of Rights." Her current research focuses on "History, Theory, and the Subject of Rights." As the 2001-2002 William Andrews Clark Professor she will be directing the Clark Library and Center for Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Studies Core Program, on this topic, and offering related graduate seminars in Fall 2001 and Spring 2002. In addition to "Judging Rights: Lockean Politics and the Limits of Consent" (Cornell, 1996)

McHugh teaches in the Department of English and in the Cinema and Media Studies program of the Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media at UCLA.  Her most recent book is Jane Campion (University of Illinois Press, 2007), which examines the subversive style of the woman who has become one of the world’s greatest film directors. She is the author of American Domesticity: From How-To Manual to Hollywood Melodrama (Oxford University Press, 1999), the co-editor of South Korean Golden Age Melodrama: Gender, Genre and National Cinema (Wayne State University Press, 2005), and the co-editor of a special issue of SIGNS on "Film Feminisms."  She has published articles on domesticity, feminism, melodrama, the avant-garde, and autobiography in Cultural Studies, Jump Cut, Screen, South Atlantic Quarterly, and Velvet Light Trap. 

Mellor's current research focuses on women writers in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries--with a special interest in the ways in which certain writers (Marianna Starke, Elizabeth Inchbold, Hannah Cowley) developed a more sophisticated and profound concept of "cosmopolitanism" than did their male peers (including Immanuel Kant). They insisted that to be a true cosmopolitan, one must be the hybidized child of a transnational, transracial, and interfaith marriage. She is also working on the ways in which women responded to the scientific revolution of the nineteenth century, calling attention to the arrogance of the master-narratives of natural history promoted by Gilbert White, Linnaeus and Buffon (in the case of Charlotte Smith) and of physical chemistry promoted by Sir Humphrey Davy (in the case of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein). Professor Mellor regularly discovers and promotes the works of non-canonical women writers in her teaching and research, most recently the work of the Whig historian Lucy Aikin, who revised the account of human creation in Genesis (in her Epistles on Women, 1810) to suggest that it was Cain, rather than Eve, who caused the fall from paradise. She recently completed a study of the female-authored British elegy (1660-1830) for the Oxford Handbook of the Elegy which analyses the ways in which women grieve differently from men, both in practice and in verse.

Nussbaum is a specialist in British literature
(1660-1800), postcolonial and Anglophone studies, and gender studies. She is completing a book on actresses, performance, and material practices in eighteenth-century British theatre. She hopes to show how the first and second generations of women on the English stage transformed ideas about celebrity, property relations, and nation. Along with Saree Makdisi, she is editing a collection of essays on The Arabian Nights in historical context. She is the author, most recently, of The Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly, Race, and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century (Cambridge UP), and editor of The Global Eighteenth Century (Johns Hopkins UP).

Shu-mei Shih
Professor, Comparative Literature, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Asian American Studies
shih@humnet.ucla.edu
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Shih is the author of The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937 and Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific. She is also the co-editor of Minor Transnationalism and Creolization of Theory.  Her other significant editorial project was a special issue of PMLA entitled "Comparative Racialization" (October 2008).

Sobchack is currently working on tracking the history of The Maltese Falcon movie prop(s). Her book, Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image Culture, was published in 2004 by the University of California Press. Many of the essays in the book touch on gender, particularly two essays: one called "Breadcrumbs in the Forest: Three Meditations on Being Lost in Space" and one called "Scary Women: Cinema, Surgery, and Special Effects."

Stemple’s research and advocacy interests focus on human rights, sexual violence, HIV/AIDS, and prisons. Outside of the law school, Stemple has taught UCLA courses on human trafficking and on health and human rights. In 2004 Stemple served as a Rockefeller Post Doctoral Fellow at Columbia University’s Program on Sexuality, Gender, Health and Human Rights. In 1998 she was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University.

Traweek's first book was Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physicists (Harvard University Press, 1988, paperback 1992). She is working on a book about Japanese big science and another on cultural studies of science, technology, and medicine; she has also published more than 25 articles in books and journals of anthropology, Asian studies, communications, cultural studies, history, and women's studies.

Tucker is a principal investigator on these current research grants: Family Formation, Context and Well-Being: A Reinterview; Consortium on Transitions, Families and Mental Health; Research Training in Transitions, Families and Mental Health; Travel Support for FRC IV Summer Institute on Life Span Transitions, Families, and Mental Health (San Juan, Puerto Rico); Travel Support for FRC IV Summer Institute on Trauma, Stress, and Difficult Life Transitions:  Crossing Borders, Crossing Boundaries (New Orleans, LA); Travel Support for Conference on Geographic Transitions and Family Mental Health (Spokane, Washington); Examining the needs of Adult family and Close Ties of Incarcerated Persons in LA. County. She is also a co-principal investigator for the research project on Mid-life in Two Mildly Retarded Samples:  A 20 year Follow-up.

Juliet Williams
Associate Professor, Women's Studies
jawilliams@women.ucla.edu
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Williams is the author of Liberalism and the Limits of Power (2005) and co-editor of Public Affairs: Politics in the Age of Sex Scandals (2004).