Associate Professor of American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Department(s): American Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Contact
Office: Miller Library 242
Phone: 207-859-4583
Fax: 207-859-4705 (American Studies)
Fax 2: 207-859-4425 (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies)
Email: larellan@colby.edu
Office Hours: Mondays (1:00-3:00 p.m.) and Wednesdays (1:00-3:00 p.m.)
Mailing Address
4583 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, Maine 04901-8845
Education
B.A., Politics and Literature, Bryn Mawr College
M.A., Interdisciplinary Humanities, San Francisco State University
Ph.D., Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University
Areas of Expertise
Gender and sexuality studies
History of U.S. social movements
Narrative theory and critical historiography
Violence Studies
Professional Information
Lisa Arellano researches and teaches about identity formation, narrative theory and violence. She recently published a book with Temple University Press entitled Vigilantes and Lynch Mobs: Narratives of Community and Nation. The book studies the creation, maintenance and circulation of dominant, alternative, and oppositional vigilante stories from the nineteenth-century frontier to the Jim Crow South. She is currently doing research for a new book focused on uses of violence on the political left, with a particular emphasis on feminist and queer political movements in the U.S. from 1970 to the present. She holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University in Modern Thought and Literature and an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Humanities from San Francisco State University.
Courses Currently Teaching 2012-2013
| Course | Course Title |
| AM171 A | Introduction to American Studies |
| WG201 A | Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies |
| WG232 A | Queer Identities and Politics |
| WG493 A | Seminar: Identity Formation, Social Movement, and Gender |
