Director of Women's and Gender Studies and Assistant Professor of English
Alison Piepmeier is director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program and assistant professor of English at the College of Charleston. She earned her Ph.D. in English from Vanderbilt University in 1999, and she was the associate director of Vanderbilt's Women's Studies Program before coming to the College of Charleston.
Her publications include Out in Public: Configurations of Women's Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America (2004) and Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century (edited with Rory Dicker, 2003), and she is currently working on a book about feminist zines called "Revolution Grrrl Style" (under contract with NYU Press). Her research interests include third wave feminism, nineteenth-century American women's writing, and violence against women.
She teaches a service-learning seminar on gender and violence, courses on 19th and 20th century American women's writing, and the introduction to Women's and Gender Studies. For more information, see her C.V.
Some of her essays are available online:
Postfeminism vs. the Third Wave
Exploding the Myth of Balance, or Superwoman Bites the Dust
And she's been quoted in
Fight Club
Roller Grrrls: They're Tough, Fast, and Back on Track
Marriage Name Change: What's a Woman to Do?
Total Crap: Banned from Everyday Low Prices