Join us for the inaugural talk of Visionary: The Jean C. Robinson Distinguished Lecture in Feminism and Leadership, titled “The Rage of Tradwives: Affective Economies and Romanticizing Retreat” by Dr. Sarah Banet-Weiser.
Sarah Banet-Weiser is the Walter H. Annenberg Dean and Lauren Beriant Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Pennsylvania. Her teaching and research interests include gender in the media, identity, citizenship, and cultural politics, consumer culture and popular media, race and the media, and intersectional feminism. Committed to intellectual and activist conversations that explore how global media politics are exercised, expressed, and perpetuated in different cultural contexts, she has authored or edited eight books, including Believability: Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt (Polity Press, 2023), the award-winning Authentic™: The Politics of Ambivalence in a Brand Culture (NYU Press, 2012), Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny (Duke, 2018), and dozens of peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and essays. In 2019-2020, she had a regular column on popular feminism in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Her research is deeply interdisciplinary, as is her scholarly editorial work. She was formerly the editor of the flagship journal of the American Studies Association, American Quarterly, as well as co-editor of the International Communication Association journal, Communication, Culture, Critique, and was the founding co-editor of the New York University Press book series, Critical Cultural Communication Studies. Banet-Weiser has been the recipient of international fellowships and visiting professorships at, among others, the Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme in Paris, France; the Gulbenkian Foundation and the University of Portugal in Lisbon, Portugal; Microsoft Research New England (the social media collective); and McGill University in Montreal (Media@McGill Scholar). She is also a Fellow of the International Communication Association.
Jean C. Robinson is an emeritus professor in Political Science, who devoted a remarkable career to exemplary scholarship and service through administration. In addition to outstanding scholarly work on gender and inequality in the US and cross-nationally, she served IU in many critical leadership roles. These include Associate Executive Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs, Interim Dean of the Hutton Honors College, Dean for Women’s Affairs, and Director of Women’s Studies. Jean Robinson has in every way been a visionary in her own right, creatively working to establish scholarly and institutional networks that support social justice.
This lecture series is presented by the Department of Gender Studies and the College Arts and Humanities Institute, with generous support from the College of Arts and Sciences and the Media School.
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