Leadership

Program Director

Dr. Iveta Jusová has led the Women’s and Gender Studies in Europe program since 2004. She received her Ph.D. in English and Cultural Studies from Miami University, Oxford, OH, in 2000 and her M.A. from Palacky University, Olomouc, the Czech Republic.

Dr. Jusová’s research interests include: Continental feminist philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminist theories of nation and gender, post-colonial and global feminisms, feminist epistemology, queer theory, and English and Czech nineteenth-century women’s writing. Her book The New Woman and the Empire (2005) examines the ways in which late nineteenth-century British women writers approached national, racial, and ethnic difference. Her current research examines the possibilities and challenges entailed in the present-day encounters between European feminist discourses and the growing immigrant population into Europe from former colonies.

As the WGSE Program Director, Dr. Jusová leads seminars in feminist theory and feminist methodology, guides students’ independent research projects, and evaluates their work. She also team-teaches the situated feminisms course with local feminist scholars and activists (see WGSE Affilliated Faculty below). She is assisted in her duties by Resident Coordinators in each country visited and by a Program Assistant, who is usually a program alumnus/a.

Published Book

The New Woman and the Empire: Gender, Racial, and Colonial Issues in Sarah Grand, George Egerton, Elizabeth Robins, and Amy Levy. The Ohio State University Press, October 2005.

Selected Articles

"Hirsi Ali and van Gogh’s Submission: Reinforcing the Islam vs. Women Binary." Forthcoming in Women’s Studies International Forum (2008): 31:2.

"Said, Reuben Sachs, and Victorian Zionism" (co-authored with Dan Reyes). Social Text 87 (a memorial issue on the legacy of Edward Said) (Summer 2006): 35-46.

"Gabriela Preissová's Women-Centered Texts: Subverting the Myth of the Homogeneous Nation." Slavic and East European Journal 49:1 (Spring 2005): 63-78.

"Re-Inflecting Femininity on the Czech Fin-de-Siècle Stage: An Analysis of Hana

Kvapilová's Acting Style." Theatre History Studies 24 (June 2004): 35-56.

"Feminismus na Národním divadle? Prípad Hany Kvapilové." ["Feminism at the National Theatre? The Case of Hana Kvapilová."] Divadelní revue [Theatre Review] 3/2002 (September 2002): 3-17 (Prague).

"George Egerton and the British Colonial Project." Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 19:1 (Spring 2000): 27-55.

"Imperialist Feminism: Colonial Issues in Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins and The Beth Book." English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 43:3 (September 2000): 298-315.

"Women in ‘Democratic’ Czechoslovakia." The Womanist 3:1 (Spring 1992): 41-42.

WGSE Affiliated Faculty

The Netherlands: Dr. Rosi Braidotti (University of Utrecht), Dr. Rebecca Gomperts (Women on Waves), Dr. Rosemarie Buikema (University of Utrecht), Dr. Gloria Wekker (University of Utrecht), Dr. Marta Zarzycka (University of Utrecht), Iris van der Tuin, ABD (University of Utrecht), Mariska Majoor (Prostitution Information Center), Joanna Semeniuk, M.A. (European Feminist Forum), Marijke Huisman, ABD (Roterdam University)

The Czech Republic: Dr. Jirina Siklova (Charles University & Gender Center), Vera Chytilova (film director), Dr. Vera Sokolova (Charles University), Gabriela Hrabanova, M.A. (Roma Information Project), Michaela Marksova-Tominova (Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs), Petra Burcikova, M.A. (LaStrada), Dr. Denisa Kera (Charles University), Katerina Jonasova, M.A. (freelance journalist)

Poland: Dr. Slawomira Walczewska (Efka), Beata Kozak, M. A. (Efka), Dr. Justyna Wlodarczyk (University of Warsaw), Dr. Anna Gruszczynska (Campaign against Homophobia), Dr. Marta Raczek (Jagiellonski University), Julie Land, ABD (Jagiellonski University), Marzena Konopka, M. A. (Auschwitz), Natalia Sarata, M. A. (Efka).

Germany: Nivedita Prasad (Ban Ying), Dr. Sabine Grenz (Humboldt University), Julia Ehrt, ABD (Transgender Network Berlin), Dr. Laura Meritt (sex workers’ activist), Patricia Schneider (Big Project), Koray Yilmaz-Gunay and Ipek Ipekcioglu (Gays and Lesbian aus der Turkei), Karin Heisecke, M.A. (United Nations Population Fund), Ilona Bubeck (Querverlag), Carolyn Gammon and Katharina Oguntoye (Joliba), Dr. Eva Gerlach (Paula-Panke)

The United Kingdom: Dr. Nira Yuval Davis (University of East London), Cassandra Balchin (Women Living Under Muslim Laws), Dr. Gabrielle Griffin (University of Hull), Del Lagrace Volcano (gender terrorist photographer), Heidi Reitmaier (Tate Britain), Tracey Jensen, ABD (London School of Economics)

Administrative Support

The Antioch Education Abroad (AEA) office at Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio provides primary administrative and financial support for the planning and execution of the program. Questions involving application, preparation, program content and crediting may be addressed to Professor Jusová at AEA.