News in WGST
Vagina Monologues raises money for the Teal House
In February 2019 on the Statesboro campus, the Vagina Monologues, the annual fundraiser for Georgia Southern University’s chapter of the National Organization of Women, raised $1170 and donated the proceeds to the Teal House, a community based sexual assault response center that serves Bulloch and several surrounding counties. Every Vagina Monologues performance also donates a […]
Author to present “Pray the Gay Away: The Extraordinary Lives of Bible Belt Gays”
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Our Mothers’ Gardens
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Professor’s new book explores next generation Holocaust survivors
The recent, explosive rise of global antisemitism, Holocaust denial, and American white nationalism has created a dangerous challenge to Holocaust public memory on a scale without precedent. Dr. Lisa A. Costello’s new book, American Public Memory and the Holocaust, Performing Gender, Shifting Orientations, is a timely exploration of how next generation Holocaust survivors combine old […]
Costello presented at inaugural Comicana Conference
Dr. Lisa A. Costello, a longtime scholar of rhetoric, gender, and the Holocaust and was recently invited to present at the Inaugural Comicana Conference at Ole Miss University in Oxford, MS in October 2019. As part of a group of invited scholars chosen to punctuate this week long, cutting edge interdisciplinary conference on comics and […]