NWSA Feminist Pedagogy Series

About the Series

This Association webinar series aims to build feminist pedagogy networks nationally across Gender Studies Units, provide resources and co-develop strategies for educational resistance and liberation, and offer sanctuaries for faculty, staff, students, and community members who teach Women's Gender, and Sexuality studies (WGSS) - what we consider Feminist Studies - both in the formal classroom and in community-learning spaces. The Feminist Pedagogy Series is an effort of our Governing Council's Community Spaces initiative!

In this series, we'll host dialogues with scholar-practitioner-activists about the ways they've navigated teaching WGSS and invite attendees to participate in hands-on, applied workshops that seek to nurture feminist learning and teaching with peer educators and students. We take particular care to center graduate teaching assistants, contingent and junior faculty, and related educators who are vulnerable to administrative, political disruption and censorship in their classrooms and whose work oftentimes underpins the survival of WGSS departments, programs, and gender equity centers.

Our aspiration is to create a space where WGSS educators can discuss real, ongoing challenges related to teaching at their respective institutions and community spaces, and immerse ourselves in pedagogical joy to survive and thrive through them together. 

Our Workshops

In this pedagogy workshop, co-editors and contributors to the volume, Transnational Feminist Pedagogies: Meanings, Methods, Experiences, disussed practical ways to apply transnational feminist pedagogies in the Gender and Women’s Studies classroom.

Participants were invited to learn more about integrating place-based learning, exploring and utilizing new media, and leveraging emotion and affect while centering transnational feminist principles in our pedagogical practices.

This workshop featured: 

  • Debjani Chakravarty, Associate Professor of Gender Studies, University of Utah & co-editor, Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies
  • Ela Przybyło, Associate Professor of English & core faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Illinois State University
  • Samantha L. Vandermeade, Assistant Professor of American Cultural Studies, University of Wyoming

Quick Links

Connect & Participate!

📌Interested in attending workshops in this series? Be sure to subscribe to the NWSA newsletter and check out our Upcoming Events to stay up to date and register!

📌If you'd like to present on a subject related to feminist pedagogy, please contact Dr. Melinda Chen, NWSA Member-at-Large 2025-2027, at mchen@ou.edu or melindachen33@gmail.com.

📌You may also wish to join the Pedagogy Interest Group. Click this link to join the Feminist Pedagogies Interest Group!