Faculty Profile
Katie Schweighofer
(she/her/hers)Director, Women's & Gender Resource Center; Contributing Faculty in Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Adjunct Faculty in American Studies (2020)
Contact Information
Landis House 2nd Floor, Room 10
717-245-1966
Education
- B.A., Princeton University, 2001
- M.A., New York University, 2005
- M.A., Indiana University, 2011
- Ph.D., 2015
2024-2025 Academic Year
Spring 2025
WGSS 208 Intro to Sexuality Studies
Cross-listed with HEST 250-01. This course explores how practices, identities, behaviors, and representations of sexualities shape and are shaped by political, cultural, social, religious, medical and economic practices of societies across time and space. We will center contemporary Western sexuality in our analysis as we address how sexuality is shaped by sex, gender, race, ethnicity, class, age, ability, nationality and geography. Students will explore the shifting historical and social meanings of sexual activities, and how sexual meanings influence institutional forces and social phenomena. Topics include sex education, racialized sexuality, disability and sex, bisexuality and polyamory, sex work, pornography, sexual violence, and reproductive justice.
HEST 250 Intro to Sexuality Studies
Cross-listed with WGSS 208-01.This course explores how practices, identities, behaviors, and representations of sexualities shape and are shaped by political, cultural, social, religious, medical and economic practices of societies across time and space. We will center contemporary Western sexuality in our analysis as we address how sexuality is shaped by sex, gender, race, ethnicity, class, age, ability, nationality and geography. Students will explore the shifting historical and social meanings of sexual activities, and how sexual meanings influence institutional forces and social phenomena. Topics include sex education, racialized sexuality, disability and sex, bisexuality and polyamory, sex work, pornography, sexual violence, and reproductive justice.