Associate Professor Pamela Thoma has been named director of the new Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and will lead affiliated faculty in building an interdisciplinary, collaborative undergraduate curriculum. Thoma brings more than 20 years of higher education experience
Pamela Thoma, associate professor in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies at WSU, will teach American studies courses at University of the Ryukyus and Meio University in Okinawa, Japan, as a Fulbright fellow from September 2016 through February 2017. Her project, “Gender and Citizenship in Asian American Literature and Culture,” includes teaching […]
A WSU expert in Asian American studies has received a Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to teach courses at two Japanese universities this fall and to help the institutions build their American studies programs.
Pamela Thoma, associate professor in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies, published a new book exploring the conditions of cultural and political belonging for Asian American women depicted in popular fiction. Asian American Women’s Popular Literature; Feminizing Genres and Neoliberal Belonging examines the ways Asian American female writers address various family and […]