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Christina (Christy) Holmes

Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

christinaholmes@depauw.edu
(765) 658-1041

Statement on Scholarly or Artistic Work

Christy Holmes (she/her) is an Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ with areas of focus in intersectional and decolonial ecopedagogies; ecofeminisms and environmental justice; Chicana and Latinx studies; WGSS field formation, and interdisciplinary research methodologies. Her first book, Ecological Borderlands: Body, Nature, and Spirit in Chicana Feminism (University of Illinois Press, 2016) brought all of these topics together and she is completing a book on the urgency of integrating environmental feminist analyses of climate justice across environmental studies and WGSS curricula.

Educational Background

  • PhD in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Ohio State University
  • MSt in Women's Studies, Oxford University
  • BA in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Philosophy, The College of New Jersey

Teaching Interests

Transnational Feminisms, Gender and Climate Justice, Feminist Inquiry (research methods and ethics), Feminist Theory, Introduction to WGSS, Women of Color in the US, Feminist Approaches to Environmentalism, Chicanx Feminisms, Rethinking the Environment, Queering Nature with Feminist Ecologies (experiential May term)