Ann Braithwaite

 

Teaching

Dr. Braithwaite is the recipient of the 2005 Hessian Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching -- one of 3 awarded among the university faculty for the year, and of the 2008 Janet Pottie Murray Award for Educational Leadership.

Dr. Braithwaite teaches the core courses in Women's Studies:

  • WS 101 Gender, Equality, and Difference
  • WS 102 Gender in Transnational Perspective
  • WS 302 Constructing Identity and Difference
  • WS 403 Theorizing Feminisms

in addition to a variety of electives in Women's Studies:

  • WS 205 Sex and Culture
  • WS 206 Bad Girls and Transgressive Women
  • WS 210 Selected Topics: Food, Identity, and Culture
  • WS 311 Identity and Popular Culture
  • WS 412 Theories of the Body
  • WS 491 (Directed Reading) Advanced Feminist Theories
  • WS 491 (Directed Reading) Advanced Cultural Studies
  • WS 491 (Directed Reading) Postcolonial and Transnational Feminisms
  • WS 491 (Directed Reading) Queer Theory

 

Professional Activities

  • 2006-present: Website Manager, Canadian Women's Studies Association/l'Association canadienne des études sur les femmes CWSA/ACEF
  • 2004-2006: President/Présidente, Canadian Women's Studies Association/l'Association canadienne des études sur les femmes CWSA/ACEF; term expired May 31, 2006
  • External Reviewer, Institute for Women's Studies/l'Institut d'études des femmes, University of Ottawa, May 2006

Recent Publications

  • Braithwaite, Ann. "Origin Stories and Magical Signs in and for Women's Studies." In Barbara Crow and Lise Gotell, eds. Open Boundaries: A Canadian Women's Studies Reader. Toronto: Pearson, 2007

  • "'Where We've Been and Where We're Going': Reflecting on Reflections about Women's Studies and 'the women's movmeent.'" In Braithwaite, Ann, Susan Heald, Susanne Luhmann, and Sharon Rosenberg. Troubling Women's Studies: Pasts, Presents, and Possibilities. Toronto: Sumach Press, 2004; see here for more info and ordering details.

  • Braithwaite, Ann. "Politics and/of Backlash." Journal of International Women's Studies 5, no.5 (June 2004).

  • Braithwaite, Ann. "The Personal, the Political, Third Wave, and Post Feminisms." Feminist Theory: An International Interdisciplinary Journal 3, no. 3 (December 2002

Selected Recent Presentations and Papers

  • "Constructing and Defining Women's Studies: (Re)examining the introductory course - Panel," NWSA (National Women's Studies Association) - general conference and Program Administrators' Preconference, Cincinnati, OH, June 2008
  • "Key Terms and Narrative Contexts of Women's Studies - Panel," CWSA/ACEF (Canadian Women's Studies Association) and NWSA (National Women's Studies Association), Vancouver B.C., and Cincinnati, OH, May/June 2008
  • "'Feminist Theory/Theorizing Feminisms': at the core (of a degree in Women’s Studies) - Panel," CWSA/ACEF (Canadian Women's Studies Association), Vancouver, BC, May 2008
  •  “Changing Boundaries and Identities in Women's Studies: Current Challenges and Future Possibilities - Panel,” CWSA/ACEF (Canadian Women’s Studies Association/L’Association canadienne des études sur les femmes) and NWSA (National Women’s Studies Association), Saskatoon, SK, and Chicago, IL, May/June 2007
  • “Stories, Practices and (De)Constructing a Field – or, why troubling Women’s Studies Matters,” UPEI Faculty of Arts Research Series, March 2007
  • Presidential Session - Roundtable Participant: “Locating Women’s Studies Futures.” NWSA (National Women’s Studies Association) conference, Oakland, CA, June 2006
  • Critical Issues Seminar Series - Seminar Leader: “Examining the Possibilities of Women’s Studies.” NWSA (National Women’s Studies Association) conference, Oakland, CA, June 2006

  • Public Talk: “’the stories we tell ourselves’ or, why ‘Troubling Women’s Studies’ matters.” Department of Women’s Studies, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, NS, March 2006

  • Public Talk: “Troubling Women’s Studies: Of ‘the women’s movement,’ disciplinarity, and ‘women’” Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, March 2005

Scholarly Projects and Interests

  • a co-edited (with Catherine Orr and Diane Lichtenstein) book project entitled Locating Women's Studies – exploring some of the unquestioned terms and narratives in Women’s Studies and their stakes or consequences for thinking about the field’s futures
  • ‘passing on’ women’s studies—exploring current attempts to secure meaning for the present and future of Women’s Studies through structuring narratives of women’s movements’ pasts; I have a co-authored book on this topic, published in December 2004, entitled Troubling Women’s Studies: Pasts, Presents, and Possibilities
  • postfeminisms/third wave feminisms/backlash for feminist critiques of popular culture; popular feminisms and feminisms in popular culture
  • ‘cyborg feminisms’—the tensions between the promise of the makeover or making over the body and the anxiety generated by new technologies that increasingly suggest the possibility of making bodies