Category: Books

▶ UO Today with Novella Carpenter – YouTube

Published on May 20, 2015 Novella Carpenter, a writer and urban farmer in Oakland, California. Her memoir Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer was published in 2009. Carpenter was a keynote author in “Our Daily Bread: Women’s Stories…

▶ UO Today with Diana Abu-Jaber – YouTube

Published on May 15, 2015 Diana Abu-Jaber, author of four novels Arabian Jazz, Crescent, Origin, and Birds of Paradise; as well as a memoir The Language of Baklava. Abu-Jaber was a keynote author in “Our Daily Bread: Women’s Stories of…

New book by philosophy professor Naomi Zack tackles black rights

Source: New book by philosophy professor Naomi Zack tackles black rights | Around the O CSWS faculty affiliate Naomi Zack’s newest book, White Privilege and Black Rights: The Injustice of U.S. Police Racial Profiling and Homicide, was published in April…

Dr. Sangita Gopal Chosen as Incoming CSWS Associate Director

April 16, 2015—Dr. Sangita Gopal, whose research, as she describes it, “is located at the intersection of feminist media studies, postcolonial studies and globalization,” has been chosen for a two-year term as associate director of the Center for the Study…

Former Jane Grant winner publishes anthology on Irish Women Dramatists

In the mid-1980s, CSWS awarded Eileen Kearney the Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship to help with her doctoral work and research on the 1930s Irish playwright, Teresa Deevy. She received her doctorate in theatre arts in 1986 and has subsequently taught theatre…