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Amanda Martin Sandino
Lecturer
Email: amartins@ucsd.edu
Office Location: HSS 2041Fall Quarter 2022
CGS 2A: Intro to CGS – Key Terms & Concepts
CGS 121: Selected Topics in CGS – Gender, Sexuality & Horror
CGS 130: Queer PerformativityWinter Quarter 2023
CGS 111: Gender & the Body
CGS 113: Gender & Sexuality in the Arts
CGS 125: Women of Color WritersSpring Quarter 2023
CGS 112/ETHN 127: Sexuality & Nation
CGS/ETHN 137: Latina Issues & Cultural ProductionResearch Interests and Education
A second-generation Chilenx American, Amanda Martin Sandino is a scholar of disability, gender, race, and futurity. She received her Ph.D. in Literature and MFA in Writing from UC San Diego, her MA in Cultural Studies from UW Bothell, and her BA in Asian Studies from Seattle University. Her first book, Looking Beyond the Curtain: Disability Futurity and the Literary Wonderland, is scheduled for publication by McFarland Press in 2021. -
Leila Whitley
Lecturer
Email: lwhitley@ucsd.edu
Office Location: HSS 2041Fall Quarter 2022
CGS 101: Gender & Globalization
CGS 106: Gender & the Law
CGS 127: Feminist Border StudiesWinter Quarter 2023
CGS 2B: Intro to CGS – Social Formations
CGS 105: Queer Theory
CGS 123: Gender & Reproductive PoliticsSpring Quarter 2023
CGS 100B: Conceptualizing Gender - Methods & Methodology
CGS 109: Sexual Violence
CGS 128: Transnational FeminismsResearch Interests and Education
Leila Whitley’s research interests include feminist and queer theory, critical race feminisms, and the relationships between borders and bodies. She completed her PhD in Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, her MA in Cultural Studies also at Goldsmiths, and her BA at McGill University. From 2016-18 she was a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg of the University of Konstanz, Germany, and before this was based in the Centre for Feminist Research at Goldsmiths, University of London.