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Dr. Janet L. Badia

Women's Studies Associate Professor & Program Director

  • Office: Women's Studies, Classroom-Medical, Room 35E
  • Phone: 260-481-6895
  • E-mail: badiaj@ipfw.edu

Education

  • Ph.D. Ohio State University, English Studeis, 2000
  • M.A. Ohio State University, English Studies, 1996
  • B.S. Wheeling Jesuit College, English literature, summa cum laude

Research Interests

  • The history of women's readings; feminist theory; girl culture; women and popular culture; rhetorics of gender in academia; and American women writers, most notably, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I am currently finishing a manuscript on Sylvia Plath and women readers, while also beginning work on a conference paper about how women are constructed in academic self-help guides like Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Guide to Women in Academia.

Upcoming Courses

  • WOST - W304: Feminist Theories (fall 2009)
  • WOST - W400: Disciplining Women's Studies (spring 2010)

Background

  • Before joining the Women's Studies Program in July 2009, I taught at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virgina for nine years.

IPFW is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access University.