USF Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

USF Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Enhancing knowledge about gender studies through historical, cultural, racial, class, and other paradigms. What is Women's and Gender Studies?

The Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Florida follows the mission of the National Women’s Studies Association and is an institutional member of that body.

“NWSA is committed to support and promote feminist teaching, research, and professional and community service at the pre-K through post-secondary levels. Integral to this commitment is understanding the politic

al ramifications in our teaching, research and service.” For more information, please visit their website at http://www.nwsa.org

Save the dates!
08/05/2026

Save the dates!

You may have noticed a recent rise in conversations around the book title “Communion”. Before diving into newer works wi...
07/14/2026

You may have noticed a recent rise in conversations around the book title “Communion”. Before diving into newer works with the same name, get to know bell hooks’ “Communion: The Female Search for Love”.
Published in 2002, “Communion” continues hooks’ exploration of love, relationships, and self-discovery through a feminist lens. The book examines how women navigate intimacy, community, and social expectations while asking readers to imagine what love and connection can look like in a more equitable world.
Whether you’re revisiting bell hooks’ work or encountering it for the first time, “Communion” offers an opportunity to reflect on the ways gender, identity, and culture shape our relationships.
Have you read “Communion”? What themes resonated with you?

Social Practice Apprenticeship - Opportunity for interdisciplinary arts-interested undergraduate students, grad students...
06/15/2026

Social Practice Apprenticeship - Opportunity for interdisciplinary arts-interested undergraduate students, grad students or recent grads!

Engage with WGSS student work in the Botanical Entanglements zine - just released! Visit https://publuu.com/flip-book/36...
05/14/2026

Engage with WGSS student work in the Botanical Entanglements zine - just released! Visit https://publuu.com/flip-book/361412/2468341.

From Dr. Tatsiana Shchurko:
"One of the things I value most in teaching is creating spaces where feminist research becomes collaborative, experimental, and materially grounded. I’m excited to share this zine created by students in my Feminist Research Methods course, developed through a collaboration with the USF Herbarium. This beautiful collective project invites us to think with plants - not simply as botanical specimens, but as beings embedded in social, political, cultural, and ecological histories. Through feminist inquiry, archival exploration, and creative experimentation, students traced the many lives of plants and transformed their research into this thoughtful and inspiring artifact. I’m deeply grateful to my students and collaborators for making this project possible, and proud to share a glimpse of what interdisciplinary feminist pedagogy can make possible in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies."

Dr. Ana Maria Pérez joined WGSS in the Fall of 2025 as a visiting assistant professor of instruction. Learn about her ap...
05/11/2026

Dr. Ana Maria Pérez joined WGSS in the Fall of 2025 as a visiting assistant professor of instruction. Learn about her approach to teaching in the WGSS newsletter: available at tinyurl.com/wgssnews2026 or click the link in our bio.

Here are some of the courses you can take with Dr. Pérez:

Summer B
* WST 2600 Human Sexual Behavior
* WST 3015 Intro to Women’s Studies

Fall
* WST 3015 Intro to Women’s Studies
* WST 3601 Intro to LGBTQ+ Cultures
* WST 4336 Feminist Media Studies and Pop Culture

Send us your email! If you’d like to receive periodic emails from WGSS about events and news, send us your email address...
05/08/2026

Send us your email! If you’d like to receive periodic emails from WGSS about events and news, send us your email address! We’ve lost touch with many WGSS alumni since USF stopped letting you keep your USF email address after graduation. So, drop us an email and we’ll add you to our email list (and we promise not to fill your inbox)! You can email us at [email protected] or send us a DM with your email.

Congratulations to all of the WGSS students who are graduating USF this week! We couldn't be more proud of you all!
05/07/2026

Congratulations to all of the WGSS students who are graduating USF this week! We couldn't be more proud of you all!

05/07/2026

We are so lucky to have Dr. Tatsiana Shchurko as part of WGSS!

"WGSS... was what I always wanted my education to consist of: questioning both the purpose and the functionality of syst...
05/05/2026

"WGSS... was what I always wanted my education to consist of: questioning both the purpose and the functionality of systems of power in our society."

Read more of WGSS student reflections in the WGSS newsletter, available at tinyurl.com/wgssnews2026.

Read a recent article by Dr. Milton Wendland on the Norton Learning Blog at tinyurl.com/mwendland.
05/01/2026

Read a recent article by Dr. Milton Wendland on the Norton Learning Blog at tinyurl.com/mwendland.

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