The LGBTQ Studies program posits sex and sexuality as central analytical categories within many different fields of inquiry. This emerging discipline scrutinizes the cultural production, dissemination, and vicissitudes of sexuality while attempting to decipher the meanings inscribed in the practices and discourses of sex. We may say that LGBTQ Studies does for sex and sexuality what women's studies does for gender. It has grown out of women's and gender studies, cultural studies, and the post-1969 discourse on the politics of sexuality both in the public sphere and the more limited arena of scholarly endeavor.
Faculty
Heather Montes Ireland, PhD
Acting Program Director
Associate Professor, Women's and Gender Studies
Affiliated Faculty
Barrie Jean Borich, MFA
Professor, English and Creative Writing
Gary Cestaro, PhD
Associate Professor, Modern Languages
Michael DeAngelis, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Continuing and Professional Studies
Dustin Goltz, PhD
Associate Professor, Communication
Bill Johnson González, PhD
Associate Professor, English
Kelly Kessler, PhD
Associate Professor, Communication
Allison McCracken, PhD
Associate Professor, American Studies
Donald L. Opitz, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Continuing and Professional Studies
Francesca Royster, PhD
Professor, English
Ann Russo, PhD
Professor, Women's and Gender Studies
Lourdes Torres, PhD
Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies
In Memoriam
Douglas Bruce, PhD (1963-2024)
Associate Professor, Health Science & Public Health