Women's Studies Department Faculty

CHRISTINE CYNN

Term Assistant Professor

Research and Teaching Interests:

Feminist theory, Asian American Studies, critical race theory and film studies

Publications:

Scholar/Feminist Online. Co-editor with Kim F. Hall of special edition on
Africana Gender Studies. Forthcoming Spring 2009.

“‘Nou mande jistis! (We demand justice!)’: Reconstituting Community and Victimhood in Raboteau, Haiti.” Women’s Studies Quarterly 36.1 & 2 (Spring/Summer 2008): 42-56.

“Sighting Color: Asian American and African American Identifications in
Sui Sin Far’s ‘Letters from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian’ and
Plessy v. Ferguson.” Revue ivorienne d’études anglaises. Accepted for
publication.

Videos:

Director, producer, editor: Un corps encore: Confronting HIV in Côte
d’Ivoire (in production)

Director, co-producer, editor: SIDA Pa Diskriminé—Al testé ! [HIV/AIDS
does not discriminate—Get tested!] (2005).

Co-producer, Pote Mak Sonje: The Raboteau Trial (2003).

Women's Studies Teaching:

WMST BC3136 Asian American Women

WMST V3111  Feminist Texts I

WMST V3112  Feminist Texts II

WMST W4304 Advanced Topics in Women's & Gender Studies: Gender, HIV & AIDS

Activist Interests