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Dr. Asma Abdel Halim   Assistant Professor; Women's Studies       (419) 530-2602 asma.abdel-halim@utnet.utoledo.edu

Dr. Jamie Barlowe   1990, Professor of  Women's and Gender Studies and  English, B.A. Indiana University; M.A., Ph.D., The Ohio State University   (419) 530-2635 jbarlow@utnet.utoledo.edu

Dr. Sharon Barnes   Dr. Sharon Barnes earned a PhD in English from The University of Toledo in 1998.  Her focus of study was in feminist and literary theory and 20th C. American women writers, with a special emphasis on African-American women poets.  She has continued to pursue research focused on her doctoral dissertation, entitled A Marvelous Arithmetics:  The Poetry and Prose of Audre Lorde.  After a stint at Kent State University, she returned to UT in 2000 as an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary and Special Programs and an affiliate of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies.  She divides her professional energies between working with underprepared students, where she teaches a pre-composition I Academic Writing course, and Women’s Studies, where she often teaches Issues in Women’s Studies, a global, non-western, writing-intensive course open to all students.  Other areas of expertise and interest include women’s music and culture, queer theory and sexualities studies, “third wave” feminism, ecofeminism, and feminist spirituality.  She is also interested in community organizing, in particular Toledo’s Take Back the Night event. (419) 530-6206 sbarnes@utnet.utoledo.edu

Dr. Nandini Bhattacharaya, Chair  Dr. Nandini Bhattacharya teaches in and chairs the department of Women’s and Gender Studies at The University of Toledo, U.S.A.. Her research is on diaspora and film, globalization and women’s studies, and eighteenth-century British literature, gender and postcolonial discourses.   Select Publications:   Monograph: Reading the Splendid Body: Gender and  Consumerism in Eighteenth-century British Writing on India (University of Delaware press, 1998) Work in progress: The Aesthetics of TransNation: Slavery, Gender,  Connoisseurship and Collection in Late Eighteenth-Century British Literature (forthcoming from Ashgate press) Book-length project: Gender and Media Project -- South  Asian Diaspora, Self-representation, Activism and Film Book-length project: A Survey of Bollywood and Its  Reception in India as grounded in ideologies of religion and sexuality Courses taught: Issues in Women’s Studies (exploration of global women’s issues) Methods of Literary Criticism and Research (Critical Theory) Pastoral and Civilization: the Poetics of Space, Gender and  Work (gender and work from Virgil to our times) Asian and Middle Eastern Literatures and Cultures (Area  Studies, Global Studies, and Regional Cultures theme) Identities: Investigating the Subject (graduate level humanities seminar): Literatures of Exile (graduate level humanities seminar) Voyages and Discoveries: Ancient, Early Modern and Postmodern Travel: The Public and the Personal: Explorations in Theory and  Praxis (graduate level humanities seminar) Awards and Grants:   She has received grants and fellowships from the Huntington Library (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, spring 1997) and from the Regional Worlds Program of the Globalization Project (Ford Foundation) at the University of Chicago Humanities Institute, 1996-97. (419) 530 2233 Nandini.Bhattacharya@utoledo.edu

Dr. Pat Groves  Patricia Groves, 1979, Associate Professor, B.A. Bowling Green State University; M.S.W., University of Michigan; Ph.D. The Ohio State University, (419) 530 2792 pgroves@utnet.utoledo.edu

Dr. Pat Murphy, C.R.C., Interim Director of the Catharine S. Eberly Center for Women  Dr. Patricia A. Murphy obtained her B.A. degree in English Literature from the University of Minnesota, her M.S. degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from St. Cloud State University, and her Ph.D. Women’s Studies and Rehabilitation from the Union Institute & University.  She holds the Certified Rehabilitation Counselor credential from the Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification.  Dr. Murphy’s faculty appointment is in the Department of Women’s & Gender Studies. Classes Taught:  Feminism and Disability  WGST 4210,  Feminism, Disability, & Representation  MLS 6010/6500, Disability in the United States DST 2020,  Definitions of Disability DST 3020, Issues in Disability Studies DST 3030, Research and Methodologies in Disability Studies DST 4890, Internship in Disability Studies DST 4940,  Research Interests:   Dr. Murphy’s research interests include feminism and disability, violence against women with and without disabilities, the impact of violence on women’s educational and career aspirations and achievements, and disability history  Current Achievements:   Dr. Murphy’s recent achievements include the development of the Disability Studies Program in the College of Arts & Sciences.  The Program offers an interdisciplinary minor and a concentration found within the B.A. Program in Law and Social Thought.  The Ability Center of Greater Toledo (a local independent living center for people with disabilities) funded the Program in a gift of $1.9 million.  Publications (partial listing): The Dynamics of Trauma & Disability.  Book in progress. Review of Disability Protests: Contentious Politics – 1970-1999.  For Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries.  2/06/02.   Quality of life: A comprehensive model for rehabilitation assessment in litigation. (with John M. Williams).  Journal of Forensic Vocational Experts, (December 2000), 3:1, pp. 31-46. Assessment of Rehabilitative & Quality of Life Issues in Litigation (with John M. Williams). 1998. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. (Lead author). Recovering from the effects of domestic violence: Implications for welfare reform policy. Journal of Law & Society, (April, 1997), 19:2, pp.  169-182. The Edge of A Large Hole:  Writings On Reasonable Accommodation Under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. (1994).  Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Center for Research on Women and Gender. A Career & Life Planning Guide for Women Survivors:  Making the Connections Workbook.1996.  Delray Beach, FL:  St. Lucie Press. (Includes writing on disability and traumatic abuse). Making the Connections:  Women, Work & Abuse 1993.. Delray Beach, FL:  St. Lucie Press. (Includes writing on disability and traumatic abuse). (419) 530-8570 pmurphy@utnet.utoledo.edu http://www.homepages.utoledo.edu/pmurphy/

Dr. Ashley Pryor   2000, Assistant Professor, B.A. University of Delaware; M.A. DePaul University; Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, (419) 530-2642   apryor@pop3.utoledo.edu