Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
CultureWomen's StudiesGender Studiesnonheternormative sexualitiesPopular CultureMedical AnthropologyFolklore and Mythology
Scholarship and Biography
Keridwen N. Luis is currently a lecturer at Brandeis University, where she took her Ph.D. in Anthropology in 2010. Her most recent book, Herland: Exploring The Women's Land Movement in the United States, came out from the University of Minnesota Press in 2018. Her current research, "Fan Bodies and Fan Performance: Community, Identity, and Intersecting Selves," is a fieldwork and interview project examining gender, sexuality, race, and disability in science fiction and media fandom, and a book on this research is under contract with Palgrave-MacMillan.
Organizational Affiliations
Senior Lecturer,
Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University
Senior Lecturer,
Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University