Dr. Jeannie Ludlow (she/her)
Professor of English; Director, Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Office: 3139 - Coleman HallEmail: jludlow@eiu.edu
Website: https://www.eiu.edu/women/
INTRODUCTION
Fall 2024 office hours:
MW 1-3 pm in Coleman 3139; F 1-3 pm on zoom
Education & Training
Ph.D. American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University, Ohio
M.A. English Literature, Bowling Green State University, Ohio
Conference Presentations
“Follow the Science, There IS Evidence for GOD: the Religious DNA of Antiabortion,” accepted for the Popular Culture and American Culture Association Conference, Chicago, IL, Mar. 27-30, 2024
“Surplus Violence and Feminist Resistance: Roundtable” proposed with Modhumita Roy, accepted for the Northeast MLA conference, Boston, MA, Mar. 7-10, 2024
“Impossible Motherhood(s): Pregnancy, Abortion, and Genealogies of Colonization in Caribbean Literatures” presented at the Midwest MLA conference, Cincinnati, OH, Nov. 2-5, 2023
“This Clinic Stays Open (for now): Violence and Resistance, Post-Dobbs,” presented at the National Women’s Studies Association conference, Baltimore, MD, Oct. 26-29, 2023
Community
Urbana-Champaign Reproductive Justice (UCRJ), advisory board, 2023-present
Abortion Conversation Project, National Board, 2010-2018, 2021-present
president, 2021-present
Publications
“Vaccinated by the Blood: Antiabortion Mobilization of the COVID Body,” in Envisioning Embodiment in the Health Humanities: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature, Culture, and Media, essay collection edited by Jodi Cressman, Lisa M. DeTora, Jeannie Ludlow, Nora Martin Peterson, Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming spring 2024.
“‘No Bigger than a Baby Bird’: Narrating Prochoice Fetal Materiality,” for Abortion in Popular Culture: A Call to Action, edited by Brenda Boudreau and Kelli Maloy, Lexington Press, 2023, pp. 225-50.
“Full Bleed: The Graphic Period at the End of the Menstrual Narrative” in Graphic Perspectives on Health and Embodiment, edited by Jodi Cressman and Lisa DeTora, University of Leuven/Cornell University Press, 2021, pp. 73-83.
“It’s A Boy! borted: Visualizing the Fetus in Abortion Narratives,” in Representing Abortion, edited by Rachel Hurst, Routledge Press, 2021, pp. 49-60.
“Look Like a Provider: Representing the Materiality of the Fetus in Abortion Care Work,” with Lena R. Hann, PhD, in Representing Abortion, edited by Rachel Hurst, Routledge Press, 2021, pp. 119-130.
Frequently Taught Courses
WGS 2309G Intro to Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
WGS 4309 Feminist Theories
WGS 4310 Queer Theories
ENG 3705 Multicultural American Literature
ENG 3903B Women and Literature, after 1800
Research & Creative Interests
Reproduction and abortion in literature, art, and culture
Multicultural American Literatures
Native American Literatures
LGBTQ Studies/Queer Theory
Professional Affiliations
National Women’s Studies Association
Northeast Modern Language Association
Popular Culture and American Culture Association
Society for the Study of Narrative Literature
Society for Menstrual Cycle Research
Abortion Care Network (providers’ professional organization)