Instructor: Workshop for Dissertation Writers in Women’s and Gender Studies 2022-2023

The Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality (GCWS) is seeking a faculty member for our full year Workshop for Dissertation Writers in Women’s and Gender Studies in 2022-2023. This course meets every other week over the course of the academic year and is worth the equivalent of one graduate course. Tenure, tenure-track, and lecturers are welcome to submit a proposal and teach with the GCWS.

This course will provider dissertators in interdisciplinary women’s and gender studies a collaborative environment to pursue their writing goals. Instructor responsibilities include helping students to understand methodological and theoretical issues related to interdisciplinary feminist research and to apply those concerns in their own dissertations; providing feedback to student works-in-progress; and helping facilitate peer review of each other’s work.

Faculty from our member institutions (Boston College, Boston University, Brandeis, Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, Simmons, Tufts, and UMass Boston) are welcome to submit a proposal. The instructor will determine the day and time the workshop meets. Previous syllabi and course descriptions are available for review. The faculty member will ideally have substantial experience teaching and mentoring Ph.D. students.

The GCWS has a memorandum of agreement with our member institutions which allows faculty members to teach a course for us as part of their regular teaching load or to receive a stipend.

Interested faculty members should send questions and/or submit a current CV and syllabus for Dissertation Writers in Women’s and Gender Studies to GCWS Program Manager Stacey Lantz atslantz@mit.edu.

Sample syllabi can be found here.