Shirley Glines

Women’s Studies courses brought together many passions for me, and eventually led to my now being in an M.Ed. program in order to teach women’s history at the college level.
- Shirley Glines ’00, interdisciplinary studies major, women’s studies minor

Karolyn Kinane

Karolyn Kinane

Associate Professor, Medieval and Early Modern Literature; Sabbatical SP2013-FA2013

BA, SUNY-New Paltz; PhD, University of Minnesota
Email: kkinane@plymouth.edu

Dr. Karolyn Kinane writes, “An undergraduate professor named Carole Levin simultaneously sparked my interest in Women’s Studies and Medieval Studies with her interdisciplinary course ‘Saints, Witches, and Madwomen,’ which I was fortunate to have taken as a junior at SUNY New Paltz. As a graduate student at the University of Minnesota, I studied medieval women’s religious practices and volunteered with the Oral History Project at the St Paul Women’s News. After two years as a Visiting Professor at Wabash College, an all-male college in central Indiana, I became interested in Gender Studies more broadly. There I taught a course entitled ‘Sword and Song: Masculinities from Beowulf to Middle Earth’ and worked with the student organizations sh’OUT, (for gay, bi-sexual, questioning and supportive students) and the Green Corps. I look forward to learning more about PSU this year and hope to develop an interdisciplinary course linked to the Forum that focuses on women’s lives in Medieval and Renaissance Europe.”

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