The Instructors

Dr. Amy Peloff is the Assistant Director of the Comparative History of Ideas Program and an Affiliate Assistant Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. Her work examines the role that popular culture has played in disseminating feminist ideas beyond the organizations and activists that identified as feminist in the United States, particularly during the second wave of feminism. A voracious consumer of female detective stories, sci-fi and fantasy television series, and Hollywood gossip, she continually studies the ways in which ideas about identities are created, presented, and shared through media and popular culture. You can email her at apeloff [at] uw.edu.

Naraelle Hohensee is a doctoral candidate in the Art History Department at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where her areas of specialization are architectural history and the history of photography. She earned her MA in Media, Culture and Communication from New York University in 2008, and worked previously as a video editor and producer. Her research centers on the ways that our visual surroundings shape our perception of ourselves as individuals and as members of communities. You can email her at naraelle [at] uw.edu.