Willey awarded humanities fellowships at Rice, Dartmouth

Angela Willey, assistant professor in Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, has been named a Rice University Humanities Research Institute Fellow in a year-long seminar on “Materialism and New Materialism Across the Disciplines,” starting Sept. 1.

Willey will be working on a project titled “Feminist Genealogies for New Materialism,” which aims to disrupt a story that positions what has been termed “new materialism” as an intervention in feminist and critical theory and instead charts its genealogies within those traditions.

This summer, Willey will be a Dartmouth Leslie Center for the Humanities Fellow at an institute called “Towards a Global History of Sexual Science, 1880-1950.”  At Dartmouth, she will be working on a project titled “Anti-Islamism and the Making of Sexology: Coupling and Nationalism in Krafft-Ebing’s Psychopathia Sexualis.”  The project is a close reading of intertwined themes of nationalism and coupling in Psychopathia Sexualis in light of Krafft-Ebing’s legacy in the making of modern sexual subjectivities.