Please join the Center for Gender and Sexuality for our next session of Behind the Publication, a behind-the-scenes workshop series on faculty research in gender and sexuality.

The series continues with Dr. Denise Taliaferro Baszile, Professor and Dean of the College of Education. Dr. Taliaferro Baszile’s work focuses on understanding curriculum as racial/gendered text with an emphasis on disrupting traditional modes of knowledge production, validation, and representation. Her scholarship draws on curriculum theory, critical race theory, Black feminist theory, and contemplative practice, and ultimately seeks more equity, more justice, and more peace for more people. Her current projects include Loving Blackness: A Pedagogical Imperative in an Anti-Black/Anti-Human World and Steal A/Way: Stories of Black Feminist Fugitivity in the Academy. Among her many publications, her favorites include “Democracy in the Break: A Riff in Support of the Movement for Black Lives,” “ReWriting/re-curricularizing as a matter of life and death: The coloniality of academic writing and the challenge of Black mattering therein” and “Another Lesson Before Dying: Toward a Pedagogy of Black Self Love.” This talk is entitled “Toward a Black Feminist Aesthetic in Academia.”

This talk will be followed by a reception celebrating the Black Feminisms Research and Curriculum initiative. 

About the series: The central goal of this series is to offer graduate and undergraduate students a series of informal workshops where faculty encourage and demystify research by sharing their own experiences. We invite WSU faculty members to share a little about the genesis of their current or recent research. We ask them to discuss the joys and frustrations of the project; to elaborate on the decisions around the scope of the work; to assess methodological questions; to discuss writing practices; to highlight the importance of colleagues, librarians, friends, and other interlocutors more generally for their work; and to offer tips and strategies to help students through their own projects.