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Aimee Wilson
Election
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Name
Aimee Wilson
Candidate statement
Associate Professor, Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Kansas
I am Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas. I have been a member of the Modernist Studies Association since 2008. My research applies feminist and queer lenses to literary depictions of pregnancy, birth control, abortion, and other reproductive topics. I have also written about harassment and sexual abuse as it relates to modernism. My essays have appeared in Modernism/modernity, Modern Fiction Studies, Genre, and The Space Between journal, among other venues. My research focus and my position in a WGSS department keep issues of inequity at the forefront of my mind at all times. I acknowledge the fact that sexism, racism, ableism, antisemitism, colonialism, and precarity create patterns of systemic oppression, and that these patterns structure academia. If elected, I would use this awareness to guide my approach to the Membership and Elections Chair position. My goal would be to continue and expand the MSA’s efforts to diversify the membership and to foster conversations about ways to improve the diversity – broadly understood – of our membership.
Relevant publications:
Masculine Pregnancies: Modernist Conceptions of Creativity and Legitimacy, 1918-1939. SUNY Press. In production. Anticipated publication Dec. 2023.
“We Need a Movement, Not Just a Moment: Modernism and Me Too.” Modernism/modernity Print Plus special issue on “#MeToo, Eliot, & Modernist Scholarship,” edited by Megan Quigley, vol. 5, cycle 2, 2020.
Conceived in Modernism: The Aesthetics and Politics of Birth Control. Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
“Modernism, Monsters, and Margaret Sanger.” MFS Modern Fiction Studies special issue on “Women’s Fiction, New Modernist Studies, and Feminism,” edited by Anne Fernald, vol. 59, no. 2, 2013, pp. 440-60
I am Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas. I have been a member of the Modernist Studies Association since 2008. My research applies feminist and queer lenses to literary depictions of pregnancy, birth control, abortion, and other reproductive topics. I have also written about harassment and sexual abuse as it relates to modernism. My essays have appeared in Modernism/modernity, Modern Fiction Studies, Genre, and The Space Between journal, among other venues. My research focus and my position in a WGSS department keep issues of inequity at the forefront of my mind at all times. I acknowledge the fact that sexism, racism, ableism, antisemitism, colonialism, and precarity create patterns of systemic oppression, and that these patterns structure academia. If elected, I would use this awareness to guide my approach to the Membership and Elections Chair position. My goal would be to continue and expand the MSA’s efforts to diversify the membership and to foster conversations about ways to improve the diversity – broadly understood – of our membership.
Relevant publications:
Masculine Pregnancies: Modernist Conceptions of Creativity and Legitimacy, 1918-1939. SUNY Press. In production. Anticipated publication Dec. 2023.
“We Need a Movement, Not Just a Moment: Modernism and Me Too.” Modernism/modernity Print Plus special issue on “#MeToo, Eliot, & Modernist Scholarship,” edited by Megan Quigley, vol. 5, cycle 2, 2020.
Conceived in Modernism: The Aesthetics and Politics of Birth Control. Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
“Modernism, Monsters, and Margaret Sanger.” MFS Modern Fiction Studies special issue on “Women’s Fiction, New Modernist Studies, and Feminism,” edited by Anne Fernald, vol. 59, no. 2, 2013, pp. 440-60
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