Giavanna Munafo
Senior Lecturer, Women's and Gender Studies
Giavanna has taught WGSS 10, Sex, Gender & Society, for many years and this fall is teaching a topics course called #MeToo: Intersectionality, Hashtag Activism & Our Lives. She works at The Family Place (a parent-child center) in Norwich VT, teaching English and Social Studies in the high school completion program there. Giavanna is also a consultant (Giavanna Munafo Diversity & Inclusion Consulting) and a poet.
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Department(s)
Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Interdisciplinary Programs, Arts + Sciences
Education
- B.A. University of Virginia
- M.F.A. University of Iowa
- PhD, University of Virginia
Selected Works & Activities
“Identity, Visibility & Publicity: The Power of Print Materials” in Journey Toward Equity: The Handbook for University and College Women’s Centers, ed. Sharon Davie (Greenwood Publishing, 2002).
“‘Colored Biscuits’: Reconfiguring Whiteness and the Boundaries of ‘Home’ in Kaye Gibbons’s Ellen Foster,” in Narratives of Relocation and Dislocation: Twentieth-Century American Women’s Fiction, ed. Susan Roberson (University of Missouri Press, 1998).
“‘No Sign of Life’: Marble-Blue Eyes and Lakefront Houses in The Bluest Eye,” Lit: Literature, Interpretation, Theory 5.3-4 (Spring 1995).
Giavanna's poems have appeared in The Nearest Poem Anthology (Ed. Sophia Starnes), Bloodroot Literary Magazine, The New Virginia Review, Talking Writing, Glint, SLAB, and others.