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Stephanie O'Hara, PhD she/her

Associate Professor

Global Languages and Cultures

Associate Professor

Women's & Gender Studies

Contact

508-999-8336

508-910-6646

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Liberal Arts 352

Contact

508-999-8336

508-910-6646

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Liberal Arts 352

Education

2003Duke UniversityPhD
1998Duke UniversityMA
1995Wellesley CollegeBA

Teaching

  • French language, literature, and culture
  • Women's and Gender Studies

Teaching

Courses

Survey of the cultural history of food in France from the Middle Ages to the present day using primary and secondary sources. How did food and wine become such integral parts of France¿s cultural identity? What role did colonialism play in this process? What are the origins of traditional French cuisine and gastronomy?

Survey of the cultural history of food in France from the Middle Ages to the present day using primary and secondary sources. How did food and wine become such integral parts of France¿s cultural identity? What role did colonialism play in this process? What are the origins of traditional French cuisine and gastronomy?

Basic concepts and perspectives in Women's Studies, placing women's experience at the center of interpretation. With focus on women's history and contemporary issues, the course examines women's lives with emphasis on how gender interacts with race, class, sexual orientation, and ethnicity. The central aim is to foster critical reading and thinking about women's lives: how the interlocking systems of oppression, colonialism, racism, sexism, and ethnocentrism shape women's lives; and how women have worked to resist these oppressions. This course satisfies a social science distribution requirement and the general education diversity requirement.

Contemporary feminist movement that reaches beyond the traditional goal of gender equality to include multiple intersecting categories such as race and class. Intersectional feminism is a theoretical lens for understanding how sexism, racism, and other oppressive frameworks, can overlap and affect people in multiple ways by reinforcing social inequalities and upholding systems of privilege.

Teaching

Online and Continuing Education Courses

Topics will be determined by the faculty member and will therefore vary.
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A critical analysis of selected topics or issues in European history which are not otherwise offered in the standard catalog courses.
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Research

Research interests

  • Early modern European literature and culture
  • History of medicine
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