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Ruby Tapia, Associate Professor Women's Studies and Comparative Studies
Department of Comparative Studies: http://comparativestudies.osu.edu/Department of Women's Studies: http://womens-studies.osu.edu/
Office Information
436 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: tapia.14@osu.edu
Phone: 614-292-9939
Fax: 614-292-6707
436 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: tapia.14@osu.edu
Phone: 614-292-9939
Fax: 614-292-6707
Education:
Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies, University of California at San Diego B.A. in English, Joint Major in Africana Studies, Cornell University
General Background:
My research and teaching focuses on women in/and visual culture, engaging in a sustained way the experiences, representations, and cultural production of women of color, as well as the theoretical formulations of critical race feminism and feminist media studies. I teach courses such as "Race, Memory, and Motherhood in Visual Culture," "Death and Dying in Visual Culture," and "Women and Visual Culture," in which students and I examine how the discursive technologies of race, sexuality, gender, and class produce not only images but visualities : ways of seeing. My current projects include a monograph entitled Breeding Ghosts: Race, Death, and the Maternal in U.S. Visual Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2010), and a co-edited anthology, Interrupted Life: The Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the U.S. (University of California Press, 2009).
