Christina Owens' Courses

CHRISTINA D. OWENS
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IDH 2403 Domestic, Factory, and Sex Work: Feminist Perspectives on Globalization

By focusing on the roles that domestic workers, factory workers, and sex workers play within the global economy, this course engages feminist debates about the ethics of globalization, the challenges of transnational activism, and the potential complicities of U.S. citizens in maintaining global structures of inequality.

[Requirements Satisfied: Cross-Cultural Studies (X), E-Series, Ethics, and Social Sciences.]

IDH 2108 Radical Visions of Freedom: Imagining Black and Queer Liberation

This course explores how U.S. intellectuals, artists, and activists have responded to the devaluation of black and queer lives by creating radical visions of freedom that call into question the foundations of our social, economic, and legal institutions.

[Requirements Satisfied: Diversity in Western Experience (Y), E-Series, Humanities and Cultural Practice, and Scholarship in Practice.]

IDH 2113 America abroad: US empire in pop Culture

This course will examine the history of U.S. empire by analyzing how popular culture has depicted, supported, or challenged American expansion and interventions abroad.

[Requirements Satisfied: Diversity in Western Experience (Y) E-Series, and History.]

ISS 2937 YOUTH SUBCULTURES

What is the role of youth subculture in challenging and reproducing structures of inequality? We will address this question by examining how youth subcultures are embedded within their particular sociohistorical contexts, indexing not only intergenerational difference but also changing race, gender, sexuality, and class relations.

[Requirements Satisfied: Diversity in Western Experience (Y), Scholarship in Practice, and Social Sciences.]

Christina D. Owens received her PhD in Cultural Studies at the University of California, Davis, where she also completed a Designated Emphasis in Feminist Theory & Research. Professor Owens is from rural South Carolina and is coming to FSU after teaching interdisciplinary courses in American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in California, Ohio, and New York. Her research explores the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality in expatriate communities, especially within contemporary Japan. She also has published articles about transnational pedagogy and her scholarship has appeared in Transformations, American Quarterly, and American Studies. Professor Owens enjoys collecting vintage fashion, engaging the arts, and traveling the world.