May 2 - Tucker Table
Tucker Table – "Lesbians, the WNBA, and the Cultural Politics of Normativity"
Friday, May 2
noon - 1:00 p.m.
110 Cooke Hall
Tiffany Muller Myrdahl, Ph.D. in Geography and Feminist Studies, will present "Lesbians, the WNBA, and the Cultural Politics of Normativity" in lieu of the previously scheduled talk by Nicole LaVoi and Chelsey Rodd. Dr. Muller Myrdahl is a feminist urban geographer who specializes in contemporary urban social geography. Her research interests focus on the cultural politics of leisure landscapes, and feminist and queer theorizations of identity politics. Dr. Muller is a Visiting Instructor at Macalester College, and will begin a position as assistant professor at the University of Lethbridge (Alberta) in 2008. Click here for the abstract [.pdf].