Dr. M. Catherine Jonet, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies
Office: Science Hall, Rm. 289
Office Phone: 575.646.7694
Email: mjonet@nmsu.edu
Office Hours Fall 2009: Tuesday and Thursday, 11:45-1:15 and by appointment
Education: Ph.D., English (Critical Theory and Cultural Studies) with a Graduate Minor in Women's Studies, 2007 (Purdue University); M.A., English with a Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies, 2001 (Indiana State University); M.A., The Humanities, 2000 (Indiana State University); M.A., French, 1995 (Indiana State University); B.A., French, 1993 (Indiana State University)
Teaching Interests: Theory (gender/feminist, queer, postcolonial, critical race, postmodern); Cultural Studies (alternative forms of popular culture produced in multiethnic feminist and queer movements; representations of women and queers); temporality; graphic narrative; music cultures; 20th and 21st century literatures; postmodern literatue; experimental texts by women
Courses Taught: Feminist Theory; Gender, Feminism, and Popular Culture; Feminism and Queer Theory; Gender and Graphic Narrative; Cyberfeminisims: Feminist Digital Cultures; Postmodernism and Gender; Introduction to Women's Studies
Research Interests: representations of female same-sex desire in visual culture and literature; queer temporality; zines, riot grrrl, and other forms of feminist cultural production; women's experimental texts (fiction/visual culture); representations of France and "Frenchness" in US literature; representations of queer domesticity; female coming of age narratives; culture signification of female monsters or "monstruous women" and other she-creatures; mourning and melancholia in queer texts and texts by female cultural producers; graphic narrative by women, espeically memoir
Select Upcoming Presentations in 2009-2010
- "Electra Becomes Queer Mourning: Grief and the Father in Bechdel's Fun Home and Gottlieb's Jokes and the Unconscious" The Third Biennial International Conference of the Contemporary Women's Writing Network In Collaboration with San Diego State University, July 2010
- "Of the Domesticity of Queers: Reimaging Family in Stacey D'Erasmo's A Seahorse Year" 8th Annual Cultural Studies Association Conference at Berkeley, California, March 2010
- "Wild West II: Mythologizing Europe in Inglourious Basterds" Southwest/ Texas Popular Culture/ American Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, February 2010
- "Revolutionary Assemblages: Riot Grrrl and the Making of Postmodern Feminist Culture," Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association, Boston, MA, November 2009.
Select Publications
- "‘Everything else is the same': Configurations of The L Word." Televising Queer Women. Ed. Rebecca Beirne. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
- "‘She Doesn't Know the Truth About Me': ‘The shaping presence' of the Closet in Amma Darko's Beyond the Horizon. Critical Essays on Gender and Sexuality in African Literature and Film. Ed. Ada U. Azodo. Trenton: Africa World Press, 2006
- "‘Divan of Tamarit' by Federico García Lorca." in Comparative Criticism Vol. 22. Ed. E.S. Shaffer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000
Teaching Honor
The Teaching Academy at NMSU has selected Dr. Jonet's teaching philosophy to be featured on their website.
Creative Work
Link to Common's video "Make My Day" created by Dr. Jonet for Current TV's video callout competition.
