The Center educates about issues of gender and sexuality, promotes interdisciplinary research, and engages in community building to provide access and opportunity for all students.
The Center educates about issues of gender and sexuality, promotes interdisciplinary research, and engages in community building to provide access and opportunity for all students.
Kimberly (Kim) Kotel (she/her) is a visiting lecturer in American Studies for the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. She has a Ph.D. in English with a Graduate Minor in Gender Studies from the University of Mississippi, an M.A. in English and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Chapman University, and a B.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona. Her dissertation research explored asexual impulses in early 20th century French, American, and English literature during heightened periods of pronatalism. She teaches a graduate class in advanced academic writing and undergraduate classes in American literature and U.S. history and culture.
Over the past five years, the demand for Gender Studies classes has been growing significantly. Due to this, the Center was approved to add two new permanent positions, one in-person and one online, starting this fall. We are excited to introduce Dr. Pip Gordon and Dr. Daniel McCarthy Howard, both of whom will take on instructional assistant professor roles within the department.
