WGS Faculty
Affiliations
Dr. Karey Harwood
Coordinator of Women’s & Gender Studies
Interests
Bioethics
Feminist Ethics
Reproductive Technologies
Reproductive Freedom
Publications
“On the ethics of social egg freezing and fertility
preservation for non-medical reasons” Medicolegal and
Bioethics.Volume 5. (August 2015), p. 59-67.
“Bad Habit or Considered Decision? The Need for a
Closer Examination of Prospective Parents’
Views,” International Journal of Feminist Approaches
to Bioethics. Volume 7, Number 1. (Spring 2014), p. 4650.
“Egg Freezing: A Breakthrough for Reproductive
Autonomy?” Bioethics, Volume 23, Number 1. (January
2009), p. 39-46.
The Infertility Treadmill: Feminist Ethics, Personal
Choice, and the Use of Reproductive Technologies.
Chapel Hill: UNC P, 2007.
http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=1426
karey_harwood@ncsu.edu
Dr. Barbara Bennett
Interests
Contemporary Literature
American Literature
Southern Literature
Women's Literature
Environmental Literature
Publications
Scheherazade's Daughters (Peter Lang Pub., 2012)
Soul of a Lion (National Geographic Books, 2010)
Understanding Jill McCorkle (University of South Carolina Press,
2000)
Comic Vision, Female Voices (Louisiana State University Press,
1998)
Education
PhD in American Literature from Arizona State University
http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/faculty_staff/babennet
http://www.Facebook.com/BennettAuthor
barbara_bennett@ncsu.edu
Dr. Sinikka Elliot
Interests
Family
Inequality
Gender
Sexuality
Feminist Theory,
Qualitative Research Methods
Publications
Elliott, Sinikka. 2012. Not My Kid: What Parents Believe
about the Sex Lives of Their Teenagers. New York: New
York University Press.
Education

PhD in Sociology from University of Texas at Austin,
2008

MA in Sociology from University of Texas at Austin,
2002

BA (with honors) in Sociology from Dalhousie
University, 1992
http://socant.chass.ncsu.edu/faculty_staff/sgelliot
sinikka_elliott@ncsu.edu
sinikka_elliott@ncsu.edu
Dr. Mary Wyer
Interests
Higher Education
Gender
STEM
Career Commitments
Faculty Women
Curriculum Innovation
Selected Publications
Wyer, M., Barbercheck, M., Giesman, D., Ozturk, O.O., and
Wayne, M. (Eds.) (2nd edition, 2009). Women, science
and technology. New York: Routledge.
Wyer, M. (2008). Feminism/feminist science studies. In S.
Rosser, ed.,Gender myths and beliefs in scientific
research. New York: ABC-CLIO.
http://ids.chass.ncsu.edu/faculty_staff/mbwyer
http://psychology.chass.ncsu.edu/faculty_staff/mwyer.php
mary_wyer@ncsu.edu
Dr. Amy Halberstadt
Interests
Socialization of emotional experience and expression in
the family, and embedded within cultural cues.
Things I dislike: Sexism, racism, and chiggers.
Selected Publications
McElwain, N., Halberstadt, A. G., & Volling, B. (in press).
Mother- and father-reported reactions to children’s
negative emotions: Relations to young children’s
emotional understanding and friendship quality. Child
Development.
Thompson, J. A., & Halberstadt, A. G. (2005). Sibling
jealousy and implicit beliefs. Social Development.
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~halbers/index.html
http://psychology.chass.ncsu.edu/faculty_staff/aghalberstadt.php
Amy_Halberstadt@ncsu.edu
Dr. Leila S. May
Interests
Nineteenth-century British novel and culture, with a
particular focus on gender issues and women's roles
and representations.
Publications
In ELH, Studies in English Literature, Philosophy and
Literature, Criticism, Philological Quarterly and
Modern Language Review
Disorderly Sisters: Sibling Relations and Sororal
Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Lewisburg: Bucknell UP and London: Associated
University P, 2001.
The Paradox of Duplicity: The Dialectics of Secrecy and
Disclosure in the Victorian Novel (In progress)
Education
Ph.D. in English Literature from University of California,
Berkeley, 1994
http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/faculty_staff/leila
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~leila/index2.htm
leila@ncsu.edu
Dr. Ashley Simons-Rudolph
Interests
Reproductive health
Feminist economics
International women’s issues
Education
NC State Alumna
Ph.D. in Gender and Social Policy from The George
Washington University in Washington, DC
Currently, Director, NC State Women’s Center
http://oia.ncsu.edu/dice/person/view/personId/458
http://ids.chass.ncsu.edu/faculty_staff/apsimons
http://oied.ncsu.edu/womens-center/about-us/staff/
apsimons@ncsu.edu
Dr. Laura Severin
Interests
Contemporary Scottish women poets
Publications
Poetry Off the Page: Twentieth-Century British Women Poets in
Performance. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.
Stevie Smith's Resistant Antics. Madison: University of Wisconsin
Press, 1997.
Numerous articles on twentieth-century and recent British
literature.
Education
Ph.D. in Twentieth-Century British Literature from Indiana
University, 1989
http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/faculty_staff/lrs
laura_severin@ncsu.edu
Dr. Cat Warren
Interests
English
Journalism
Media
Gender Studies
Cultural Studies
Higher Education
Publications
Editor of Academe, the magazine of the American Association of
University Professors, 2009-2012.
Reporter for several newspapers across the United States, including
the Hartford Courant.
What the Dog Knows: The Science and Wonder of Working Dogs
(2013/Touchstone)
http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/faculty_staff/cwarren
http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/
cat_warren@ncsu.edu