Teach Feminist: Pedagogy,Politics,and Process in Women’s Studies

Abstract

The authors reflect on organizing Teach Feminist, an interdisciplinary conference for faculty and students organized within theWomen’s Studies program at Queens College–City University of New York. By focusing on the implications of certain forms used in organizing—in particular, the use of a Listserv, efforts to focus attention explicitly on pedagogy, and understandings of faculty work within the academy—the authors consider how their work as organizers was limited by certain institutional logics, and they advocate forms of understanding that can articulate how educators inhabit institutions, while also recognizing that there must be sites of intervention that exceed institutional forms and logics, strategies that engage the possibility of exceeding the structures within which they emerge.