Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality

Important message of support from the WGS Department

The Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality affirms the importance of respecting and supporting all students, faculty, and staff at the University of Virginia, including those of us who are transgender, nonbinary, or gender questioning. We believe that maintaining the excellence of the University as a public institution necessitates a positive affirmation of gender-inclusivity and the investment of resources to ensure that trans and nonbinary people thrive.

Pugh

Allison Pugh is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality at the University of Virginia. Her research and teaching focus on how economic trends – from commodification to job insecurity to automation – shape the way people forge connections and find meaning and dignity at home and at work.

Congratulations to Professor Matthew Chin!

Please join the WGS Department in congratulating Professor Matthew Chin on the publication of his article, “Between abolition and opium: civility and force across Asian and Caribbean British imperialisms,” in the journal Globalizations.

WGS Open Rank: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor

Picturing Loss: A Talk with Jennifer Nash

This talk studies the prominent place of the photograph in contemporary Black feminist writing. While the presence of the photograph could be interpreted as conveying Black feminists’ sense of the limits of the written word itself—the photograph appears as a sign or symbol of what words cannot describe or will not capture—this talk argues that beautiful Black feminist writing has performed its work through the creation of a black feminist grammar that is always both discursive and visual.

WGS Watches: Every Body

Join WGS Watches for a viewing of Every Body, and look forward to a conversation with Sean Saifa Wall afterwards!

Black and Indigenous Feminist Futures Institute Postdoc Position at UVA

Position Description

As part of the Black and Indigenous Feminist Futures Institute (BIFFI), sponsored by the Mellon Foundation and the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, the UVA Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality seeks to hire a Post-doctoral Research Associate whose work engages the intersection of Black and Indigenous Feminist Studies. We seek a candidate who will have received their Ph.D. degree between August 24, 2020, and August 24, 2024. This position is expected to be in person, however hybrid and remote options are possible.

WGS Reads

TRESSIE McMILLAN COTTOM NYTimes Op-ed writer, MacArthur “Genius” grant winner,
and author of Thick: And Other Essays, The First Annual WGS Reads selection Free books available!*

Wednesday, March 20, 2024 3:30-7:00pm Nau 101 Refreshments provided

WGS Reads is an annual spring event, in which the WGS community – faculty, students, majors and minors, and Friends of the department – read a selected book together, discuss it in and out of the classroom, and host the author for a book talk and reception.

Therí Pickens

Professor Pickens is a Professor of English, specializing in African American, Arab American and disability literatures and theories. She is the author of two books: New Body Politics (Routledge, 2014) and Black Madness :: Mad Blackness (Duke 2019). You can find her public scholarship in Ms. Magazine, The Root, and Medium (@tpickens).