Dr. R. Danielle Egan
St. Lawrence University News
Submitted by degan on Wed, 05/07/2008 - 14:42.
Professor and Coordinator of Gender and Sexuality Studies
Courses I teach regularly:
Gender and Feminist Theory; Making Sexualities; Gender and Society; Sexuality, Society and Culture; Feminist Postcolonial Theory; Dreams, Desire and Madness in Literature and Film and FYP
My research interests:
My current research interest is on cultural constructions of childhood sexuality. My book with Gail Hawkes, Theorizing the Sexual Child in Modernity (2010, Palgrave) is a discourse analysis of childhood sexuality in medical, reform and academic discourse from the mid 19th to early 20th century. This research is also featured in several scholarly articles. I am in the process of finishing my forthcoming book entitled Becoming Sexual: A Critical Appraisal of Sexualization and Childhood (Polity 2013) which explores the assumptions and implications of the popular literature on the sexualization of childhood. My previous research focused on the sex industry in general and exotic dance more specifically.
In addition to my work in sexuality and cultural studies, I am undertaking analytic training at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. This training informs my teaching (most specifically in my Dreams, Desire and Maddness seminar), my current research as well as my clinical interest in the area of psychosis and neurosis.
Sample student projects I have supervised:
Virginity: A Meta-Literature Review, 1970-2010
Co-Supervised: Able-ing Ambiguous Desire: A Multi-Layered Memorial of Queerness and Disability
The Role of Social Networking Websites in the Presentation of Female Sexuality
Examples of presentations, exhibitions, performances and published work:
R. Danielle Egan and Gail Hawkes. 2010. Theorizing the Sexual Child in Modernity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
R. Danielle Egan and Gail Hawkes. 2012. “Sexuality, Youth and the Perils of Endangered Innocence: How History Can Help Us Get Past the Panic” Gender and Education
R. Danielle Egan and Gail Hawkes. 2010. “Childhood Sexuality, Normalization and the Social Hygiene Movement in the Anglophone West” Social History of Medicine 23 (1) 56-78.
R. Danielle Egan and Gail Hawkes. 2009. “The Problem with Protection: Or, Why We Need to Move towards Recognition and the Sexual Agency of Children” Continuum Journal of Media and Cultural Studies. 23 (3) 389-400.
R. Danielle Egan and Gail Hawkes.2008. “Endangered Girls and Incendiary Objects: Unpacking the Discourse on Sexualization” Sexuality and Culture Special Issue on Sexuality, Sexualization and the Contemporary Child 12 (4) p. 291-311.
R. Danielle Egan and Gail Hawkes. 2007. "Producing the Prurient through the Pedagogy of Purity: Childhood Sexuality and the Social Purity Movement" Historical Sociology 20 (4) p. 443-461.
R. Danielle Egan. 2006. Dancing for Dollars and Paying for Love: The Relationships between Exotic Dancers and their Regulars. Palgrave Macmillan Press.
R. Danielle Egan. 2006. "Resistance Under the Black Light: Exploring the Use of Music in Two Exotic Dance Clubs" Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 35 (2) p. 201-219.
R. Danielle Egan, Katherine Frank and Merri Lisa Johnson (eds) .2006. Flesh For Fantasy: Producing and Consuming Exotic Dance. Thunder's Mouth Press
Some ways I connect with students outside the classroom:
By taking students to conferences, meeting for coffee to discuss classes, directing fellowships and going to various activities organized by our minors.
Examples of connections between my research and my teaching:
My current project on childhood sexuality is directly linked to my FYS seminar, Not in Front of the Children
My teaching philosophy:
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Ways I offer service to my discipline and/or the University:
I co-edit the book series Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality for Palgrave Press with Patricia Clough
I am on the editorial board of the journal, Sexuality and Culture
I am a member of the research network ONSCENITY Sex, Commerce, Media and Technology in Contemporary Society
I am the Co-Principle Investigator for the Wabash Project which examines the best practices for student learning. Specifically, we are examining diversity learning and informational literacy.
Examples of my work as a visiting scholar or guest at another institution:
"Girls, Sexuality and the Strange Carnalities of Advertisements: Deconstructing the Discourse of Sexualisation" with Gail Hawkes, Lecture for the Department of Sociology University Lancaster, UK
"Reading from Dancing for Dollars and Paying for Love" at Hallwalls Art Space. Buffalo, New York. April 2007.
Visiting Research Fellow at the UNEsex Research Institute University of New England Armidale, New South Wales Australia
My hobbies and/or personal interests:
Mountain biking, hiking, cooking, and gardening
My current projects:
I am working on my forthcoming book for Polity Press entitled Becoming Sexual: A Critical Appraisal of the Sexualization of Childhood.
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