Keynote Talk by Dr. Carol Mason - KYGWS Conference

Dr. Mason is a Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, and English at the University of Kentucky. She is also affiliate faculty at the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies at University of California and serves on the editorial board of American Studies at University of Kansas.Her areas of interest are 20th-century American culture and literature; critical studies of whiteness; race and reproduction; theories of gender and sexuality; and Right-Wing Movements. She has published multiple scholarly articles and books on these topics.

To learn more about Dr. Mason, please visit: https://gws.as.uky.edu/users/cama239

To register for this webinar and rest of the KYGWS Conference panels, please visit: https://kygws.as.uky.edu/registration-form-zoom

For information visit: https://kygws.as.uky.edu/ or email us at kygwsconference@gmail.com.

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