Contact

Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 1991
farrell@dickinson.edu
Denny 306
717 245 1869

Employment
Chair, Women's Studies, 2007-2008
Chair, American Studies, 2004-2007
Professor of American Studies, 1998-present
Coordinator of Women’s Studies, 1991-2002
Assistant Professor of American Studies, 1991-1997
Visiting Fellow, 1999-2000
University of East Anglia, School of English and American Studies
Norwich NR4 7TJ England

Education
1991 Ph.D. University of Minnesota
American Studies and The Center for Advanced Feminist Studies
1988 M.A. University of Minnesota
American Studies
1985 B.A. Ohio University
English Language and Literature

Courses Taught
AmSt 101: U.S. Cultural Diversity
AmSt 201: Introduction to American Studies
AmSt 200: Mass Media and American Culture
AmSt 202: Workshop in Cultural Analysis
AmSt 401: Senior Seminar on Theories and Methods
AmSt 402: Senior Seminar "Mass Media and American Culture”
WoSt 200: Introduction to Women's Studies
WoSt 220: History of American Feminism
WoSt 250: Methods in Women’s Studies
WoSt 400: Senior Seminar in Women's Studies: “Feminism & Diversity”
Freshman Seminar: “Whose America? National Identity & Multiculturalism”
At the University of East Anglia:
The Making of Americans: U.S. Immigration and Multiculturalism
Gender and Popular Culture
U.S. History 1865-Present
At the University of Minnesota:
Introductory and Advanced Expository Writing
Feminist Writing
Introduction to American Studies: 1865-Present

Teaching Awards
1995 Kappa Sigma-Pi Beta Phi (Dickinson Chapters)
Distinguished Professor Award

Honors, Grants, Fellowships
2003-2004 Wood Institute Research Grant
College of Physicians of Philadelphia
2002-2003 Pennsylvania Humanities Council Commonwealth Speaker
2002-2003 Dickinson College Sabbatical Supplement Grant
2001 Dickinson College Summer Scholar Award
1999/2000 Dickinson College Travel to Collections Grant
1995/96 Aspen Institute Research Grant $20,000
1992 National Endowment for the Humanities
Travel to Collections Grant
1992 Dickinson College Research and Travel Grant
1990 Doctoral Dissertation Special Grant, University of Minnesota
1990 Dissertation Writing Grant, American Studies, University of Minnesota
1990 McMillan Travel Grant for Dissertation Research, University of Minnesota
1989 Schlesinger Library Dissertation Grant, Radcliffe College
1989/1988 University of Minnesota, American Studies, Travel Grants
1986/87 University of Minnesota, Graduate School Scholarship
1985/86 University of Minnesota, Graduate School Fellowship
1985 Ohio University, Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellowship
1984 Ohio University, Honors Tutorial College Scholarship
1984 Phi Beta Kappa; Phi Kappa Phi
1983/84 Ohio University, Distinguished Professor Fellowship

Publications
2004 “Claiming Afghan Women: The Challenge of Human Rights Discourse for
Transnational Feminism” with Patrice McDermott, forthcoming in Just Advocacy? Women’s Human Rights, Transnational Feminism, and the Politics of Representation; Wendy Hesford and Wendy Kozol, eds. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
1998 Yours in Sisterhood: Ms.. Magazine and the Promise
of Popular Feminism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
1996 Review of The Dream of a New Social Order: Popular Magazines in
America, 1893-1914, by Matthew Schneirov. Contemporary
Sociology, Vol. 25, No. 5, Sept. 1996:690-691.
1995 "Feminism and the Media: Introduction." Signs, Vol. 20 , No. 3 , Spring
1995: 642-645.
1994 "Desire and Consumption: Women's Magazines in the 1980s." Book
Review of Ellen McCracken's Decoding Women's Magazines
(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993) in American Quarterly, Vol.
46, No. 4, December 1994: 621-628.
1994 "'Like a Tarantula on a Banana Boat': Ms. Magazine 1972-1989." In
Feminist Organizations: Harvest of the New Women's Movement, edited by Myra Marx Ferree and Patricia Y. Martin. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995.
1994 "A Social Experiment in Publishing: Ms. Magazine, 1972-1989." Human
Relations, Vol. 47, No. 6, 1994: 707-730.
1989 Personal Narratives Group, ed. Interpreting Women's Lives: Feminist
Theory and Personal Narratives. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press. (I co-edited all essays and co-authored all
chapter introductions.)

Publications in Process
Fat Shame: A Cultural History of Stigma, Dieting, and the Fat Acceptance Movement (book-length manuscript)

Scholarly Presentations
2003 “The Feminist Majority, Ms., and RAWA: Who Belongs in the Feminist Family Tree?” American Studies Association Annual Conference, Hartford, Connecticut, October 15-19.
2002 “Shrinking Our Measurements: America’s Dieting Industries and the War on Fat”, Mid-Atlantic American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, March 22-23
2001 “Refusing to Apologize: Fat!So?, FatGiRl, and the Fat Activism
Movement”; Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., Nov. 8-11
2000 “’The Crying Evil of Obesity:’ The Denigration of Fat and the Birth of the Dieting Industry in 19th and Early 20th Century England and U.S.”;
Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Detroit, Michigan, October 12-15
2000 “Are You Corpulent?’: Fat and the Origins of the Diet Industry in the
U.S.” Annual Meeting of the British Association for American Studies Conference, Swansea, Wales, April 6-9
1999 “Hungry Consumers: Women and the Diet Industry in the U.S.” Annual Meeting of the National Women’s Studies Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 17-20
1998 “The Future of American Studies Association and the American Quarterly.” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Seattle, Washington, November 19-22
1997 “Notes from a Small Liberal Arts College: Successes and Challenges
as We Build the New Curriculum,” Conference Entitled “Inclusive and Interdisciplinary: Building the New Curriculum,” sponsored by the University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, September
1995/96 Invited Talks “Beijing & Beyond: Thoughts on the Fourth World Conference on Women.” Common Hour, Dickinson College, Sept. 1995; Women’s Studies Forum, Gettysburg College, Feb. 29, 1996;
CPC Women’s Studies Conference, Dickinson College, March 2,1996; YWCA Women’s Conf., Keynote Address, March 9, 1996.
1995 Comment, "Dirty Laundry" (on violence against women and the
Clothesline Project); Fourth World Conference on Women, Huairou, China.
1993 "Self-Help and Sisterhood: The Limits to Feminist Discourse in Ms. Magazine, 1972-1989," The Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Vassar College, June.
Invited Talks
University of Pittsburg Medical Center Women’s Clinic; April 1, 2003
Unitarian Universalists of the Cumberland Valley, Boiling Springs, PA, February 7, 2003
Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois, March 28-29, 2002
Rutherford Center, Harrisburg, PA March 4, 2002
YWCA, Carlisle, PA March 2002

Service
NEH Reviewer, NEH Fellowship, Summer 2005
Dean of Students Search Committee, 2005
Chair, President's Commission on the Status of Women, 2004-present
Young Ambassadors Institute for Middle Eastern and North African Students Summer 2003
Steering Committee for Dickinson Magazine 2000-present
Advisory Committee for the Dickinsonian, student newspaper 2000-2002
Academic Program Committee 1998-1999
Chair, U.S. Diversity Subcommittee of APC 1998-1999
Coordinator of Women’s Studies 1997-2002; 1991-1995
Working Group on Multicultural Affairs 1997
Dean's Search Committee 1994/95
Clarke Center Steering Committee 1997-present; 1993-1995
American Mosaic 1993-1998
General Education Committee 1992/93
Sub-Committee on Writing 1992/93
Phi Beta Kappa Chapter 1991-present