• PHD Women's and Gender Studies, University of Maryland at College Park 2005
World Area Of Focus:
• Latin America 50%-74%
Specialization:
Critical theory; Caribbean literature and cultural studies
Relevant Experience:
• Overseas Experience: the Caribbean • 2017-2017 Report on the Humanities in the Public Square Grant, NEH • 2016-2016 International Women’s Day
Distinctions:
• 2013-2013 University Research Council Publication • 2013-2013 Junior Faculty Development Award
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
3
Relevant Courses Taught:
• WMST 064 Plantation Lullabies • WMST 066 World Literature by Women • WMST 101 Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies • WMST 350 Spitting into the Wind: “American” Women, Art, and Activism • WMST 352 Rahtid Rebel Women • WMST 695 Principles of Feminist Inquiry
Recent Publications:
• 2015 Shields, Tanya, editor. Into the Postcolonial Moment: The Legacy of Eric Williams (editor). “Introduction” Tomeiko Ashford Carter, Tanya Shields, and William Darity. Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press. 2015 Forthcoming
• 2014 Bodies and Bones: Feminist Rehearsal and Imagining Caribbean Belonging. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press. 2015 Forthcoming
• 2011 “There Once was an Indian Woman Who Imagined Elsewhere and Others” in The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature. Edited by Michael A. Bucknor and Alison Donnell. New York: Routledge Press. 2011
• 2009 Shields, Tanya, "Who Belongs? Caribbean Citizenships, Nationalisms, and Selected Works of Paul Gilroy," In Conference Proceedings, UNC Press (2009).
• 2008 Shields, Tanya, Slocum, Karla, “Critical Explorations of Gender and the Caribbean: Taking it into the Twenty First Century,” Identities Global Studies in Culture and Power, Volume 15 Issue 6:p 687-702 (2008).
• 2008 Shields, Tanya, “The Amerindian Transnational Experience in Pauline Melville’s The Ventriloquist’s Tale.” Constructing Vernacular Culture in the Trans-Caribbean. Holger Henke and Karl Heinz Magister (eds.) New York, NY: Lexington Books, (2008).
• 2008 Shields, Tanya, “Critical Connection: Method, Power, Knowledge,” Enculturation 6.1 (2008).
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