WGS at SFSU Needs Lecturers!

Attention! U WGS at SFSU is hiring lecturers for this fall. 

At WGS, we strive to create a collegial and productive teaching environment for all instructional staff, whether temporary or full time.

These courses can be great CV builders for ABD or recent PhD instructors who wish to teach heterogeneous classes full of interested and engaged students.

WGS 150: Women and Gender in U.S. History and Society
Section 01: Tuesday/Thursday 8:10 am -09:25 am
Section 02: Monday/Wednesday/Friday 12:10 pm – 1:00 pm
NOTE: Each section is its own, independent 100-student course with its own instructor. Please indicate which sections you are free to teach.

Description: Historical development of institutions and ideals and the evolution of economic, political, and social processes in the U.S. since colonization; roles and status of women. (Fulfills the U.S. History component of the U.S. History and Government Requirement).

This is a lower-division, 100-student lecture, general education classes. The instructor must be able to manage a large lecture course (both its logistics and grading workload) and be comfortable communicating complex college-level ideas to a large group of students in their first or second semester of college. The instructor should approach US gender history within constitutive frameworks such as settler colonialism, transnational circuits of enslavement and immigration, and the intersecting politics of gender, race, sexuality, ability, and labor.

WGS 485: Women and Media
Tuesdays 2:10 pm – 4:44 pm
Description: Analytic modes, including feminist, psychoanalytic, and economic criticism, to assess both how women are represented in mass media and the status of women employed in mass media. (Cross-listed with BECA department and fulfills general education requirements for American Ethnic & Racial Minorities; Social Justice; Arts/Humanities)
This is an upper-division, 35-student course that serves WGS and BECA majors and minors, as well as general education students from across the campus. The instructor should be able to integrate theoretical and topical concerns for a broad student audience at the junior/senior level, to consider constructions of gender and the politics of mass cultural representations in a transnational feminist framework, and to coach students towards engaged analysis with media and culture. 

WGS 534: Gender and the Law                                                         
Monday/Wednesday 11:00 am -12:15 pm
Description: Study of feminist legal thought and analysis of the role law plays in maintaining or transforming gendered societies. Topics include family law, LGBT rights, and reproductive rights, affirmative action and equal protection laws, and law, culture, and international human rights. (Fulfills general education requirements for American Ethnic & Racial Minorities; Social Justice; Social Sciences)
This is an upper-division, 35-student course that serves WGS majors, minors, and general education students from across the campus. The instructor should be able to integrate theoretical and topical concerns for a broad student audience at the junior/senior level, addressing issues of law from a critical transnational feminist perspective in a seminar/lecture-discussion format.

In WGS at SFSU, we teach WGS from an interdisciplinary, intersectional and transnational perspective and all WGS courses should be designed to emphasize critical thinking, reading and writing. Ideal candidates will have their PhD or be ABD in either Feminist/Gender/Women’s Studies or with significant WGS experience in an interdisciplinary degree program such as Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, American Studies or relevant discipline.

Candidates should send a short cover letter and a C.V. to Deborah Cohler (dcohler@sfsu.edu) as soon as possible. Please indicate which course(s) are of interest to you in your cover letter. I will review applications and then conduct interviews immediately, until the positions are filled.