Gita Rajan, the Jane Watson Irwin Visiting Associate Professor of
Women's Studies and three students will be participating in this year's
national Women's Studies Conference hosted by Southern Connecticut
State University in New Haven. Rajan will be serving as panel chair and
the presentations will be given by students Emily Tobin '06, women's
studies/creative writing major; Sarah Stern '07, comparative
literature/women's studies major; and Renny Usbay '06, economics
major.
Over the summer, Rajan worked on the panel and submitted a proposal to conference organizers. The panel is titled Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Teheran: Sycophancy at its Finest. The three students will be delivering papers on different angles of the panel topic; Tobin's paper is Nafisi's Rape of Nabokov's Lolita, Stern's is Women as Trophies in the National Imaginary: Nafisi's Race to the Top and Usbay's paper is Nafisi's Traffic of Women: Marketing Islam via an Economics of Gender.
"I am very proud that our students will be presenting in such an interesting academic venue," said Rajan about the interdisciplinary, national conference. Rajan and her panel of students will be doing a trial run for the Women's Studies and English department's faculty and students on Wednesday, Oct. 12, in the Browsing Room.
Over the summer, Rajan worked on the panel and submitted a proposal to conference organizers. The panel is titled Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Teheran: Sycophancy at its Finest. The three students will be delivering papers on different angles of the panel topic; Tobin's paper is Nafisi's Rape of Nabokov's Lolita, Stern's is Women as Trophies in the National Imaginary: Nafisi's Race to the Top and Usbay's paper is Nafisi's Traffic of Women: Marketing Islam via an Economics of Gender.
"I am very proud that our students will be presenting in such an interesting academic venue," said Rajan about the interdisciplinary, national conference. Rajan and her panel of students will be doing a trial run for the Women's Studies and English department's faculty and students on Wednesday, Oct. 12, in the Browsing Room.
