A warm welcome to all members of the SPAN community! With Steve and Héctor on sabbatical this year, I am delighted to step in and serve as Interim Director of SPAN for the 2016-17 academic year. As SPAN enters its seventh year of operation, I’d like to inform/remind everyone of various opportunities that the project offers and to give a heads-up concerning events planned for the coming months.
This year SPAN will continue to provide a range of funding opportunities for faculty and graduate students, including small grants for students to present sexualities-related work at academic conferences, summer research awards for graduate students, dissertation fellowships, and faculty research grants. We will also hold a faculty/graduate student reading group during Winter Quarter. Details about all of these opportunities will be posted on this website.
We are particularly excited to announce that the keynote address for this year’s SPAN Workshop will be delivered by the acclaimed gender and sexualities scholar Kane Race (University of Sydney). More information about the theme of the workshop and the lineup of speakers will be available soon. Please note that the workshop will take place on April 20-21, 2017.
We are also delighted to welcome our two new SPAN postdocs, AJ Lewis and Mitali Thakor! You can read more about them elsewhere on our website.
We look forward to seeing you all at events this year, and we always appreciate your feedback and suggestions.
Best,
Gregory Ward
Professor of Linguistics, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and Philosophy
Interim Director, the Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN)