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Join the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies Workshop for Dissertation Writers in Women's and Gender Studies participants on the first Wednesday in May as the workshop students formally present their dissertation works in progress.

Students in the Dissertation Workshop are at all stages in the dissertation process. The workshop, taught by Lisa Lowe, Professor of English at Tufts University, provides an environment for to discuss theoretical considerations and practical ones relating to the writing of an explicitly Women's and Gender Studies-focused dissertation. Over the course of one workshop session which is open to the public, student participants will give a formal talk on their research and subject matter. Topics and student presenters are listed below.

Deanna Malvesti Danforth, "Disguised in Words and Apparel: The Transformation of Pyrocles/Zelmane from Prose Romance to Drama"

Cristina Jo Pérez, "Violent Poetics: The Sensate Nation and the Wounding Migrant"

Oyenike Balogun-Mwangi, "Embracing the Hottentot Venus: An Examination of Body Image among African Women"

Amanda Blair Runyan, "Staging Colonialism in Contemporary Art"

Ryan David Weberling, "Race and Empire in the Age of the Wilde Picture"

Asimina Ino Nikolopoulou, "Graph-ing the Female In Flight: Ruminations on Citizenship and Abjection from Persepolis to the Syrian Refugee Crisis"

Julianne Siegfriedt, "From Victim to Volunteer: Institutional Influences Throughout the Life Course for Those Who Have Sold Sex"

For more information about the presentations please contact Andi Sutton, GCWS Program Manager.

Presentations will be announced closer to the event date:

Location: Building 4 Room 146

Directions to building 4 room 146: To get to building 4 from the Kendall Square T stop, walk up Main Street to the intersection of Main Street and Ames Street. Turn left on Ames Street and walk up until you see the List Visual Arts Center on your left. To your right you will see an opening with a drive and sidewalk leading to a central campus quad. Turn right here. Walk past a black abstract sculpture (on your left) and keep walking until you get to the end of the quad with a bank of buildings in front of you. You will see a stone staircase to the left in front of you. Walk up the staircase and into the building. This is the beginning of the "infinite corridor", the hallway that connects several buildings on MIT's main campus. Walk down the hall until you see a staircase which is in front of a rose/mauve-colored wall. A hallway extends to your left. Turn left and walk down this hallway. This is building 4. Look for room 146 on your right.