gender studies – Faculty

Hanna S. McGaughey

Hanna S. McGaughey — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 12:17:25 +0000

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Hanna McGaughey (she/they) joined �ֲ��ý in 2023 for her expertise in premodern Japanese culture and literature. She teaches Japanese language and cultural studies courses as well as offerings in Japanese history. Her research interests include gender history, intellectual history, performing arts, and digital humanities.

Growing up in Oregon, she was dissatisfied with what she considered a Euro-centric high school curriculum and decided to study Japanese language and literature at Smith College. Since then, she has lived in Japan on and off for more than a decade, including working as first an English teacher and then a translator and completing a Master’s degree at the University of Tokyo. With a grounding in the close reading of historical texts she gained there, Dr. McGaughey returned to her maternal home in Germany and the Universities of Tübingen and Trier. At the latter, she finished her Doctorate in Japanology about the onstage construction of gender in noh theater as described by noh performer, playwright, director, and critic Zeami (ca. 1363 – ca. 1443) in his critical writings. She came to �ֲ��ý from a position as a postdoctoral researcher at Hosei University in Tokyo, where she digitized manuscripts from the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries constituting a part of Zeami’s textual heritage.

She is happy to have found a place at �ֲ��ý where she can put all the books she has collected on her travels around the world and into the past and talk about them with whoever will listen. She came to Maine with her family and enjoys the outdoors and discovering Maine ingredients for Japanese cuisine.

Anelise H. Shrout

ashrout — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 11:01:39 +0000

I explore the intertwined relationships between history and data. My book, Aiding Ireland: The Great Famine and the Rise of Transnational Philanthropy focuses on the nineteenth-century origins of international humanitarianism, and particularly the ways in which philanthropic donations were used as proxies for arguments about governance in the middle decades of the nineteenth century.

I’m also working on a digital archiving project that explores the lives of immigrants who were medically incarcerated in New York in the nineteenth century. This project uses computational methods to understand the forces working on those immigrants, as well as the communities they were able to form within institutions.

I’m also interested in how the ‘internet age’ changes the way we interact with sources and with students – and in how the digital humanities shape what we do both as scholars and as teachers.

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Therí Pickens

tpickens — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 15:25:10 +0000

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). Shs is also on Twitter (@TAPPhD) and at .