Dr. Janice L. Okoomian

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Janice Okoomian
Department, Office, or School
Department of English
Gender and Women’s Studies Program
  • Associate Professor

Education

  • A.M., Ph.D., Brown University
  • B.A., Wesleyan University

Selected Publications

  • “(Un)Making Gender, (Un)Making the Nation: Feminist Literary Approaches to the Armenian Genocide.” Forthcoming (January 2026) in Women’s Studies.
  • “ ‘Come, Dear Sister, Let’s Unite’: Integrating Feminism and Armenianness in an American Armenian Feminist Collective.” Diaspora, vol 25, no 1, 2025, pp. 185-206.
  • “Cooking Pilaf with Words: Intersubjectivity and Feminism in the Armenian Transnation.” The Oral History Review, vol. 51, no. 2, 2024, pp. 254–77.
  • “Lentils in the Ashes: Excavating the Fragments of Ancestral Feminism.” Mother of Invention: How Our Mothers Influenced us as Feminist Academics and Activists. Eds. Vanessa Reimer, and Sarah Sahagian. Bradford, Ont.: Demeter Press, 2013. 168-180. Print.
  • “Third Wave Feminists: The Ongoing Movement for Women’s Rights.” Women's Rights: People and Perspectives. Ed. Crista DeLuzio. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2010. 207-223. Print.​
  • Coughlin, Maura, et al. “Roundtable on teaching ‘Work’ as an interdisciplinary first-year college seminar.” Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies 12/13 (2010): 97-106. Print.
  • “Becoming White: Contested History, Armenian American Women, and Racialized Bodies.” Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS). 27 (2002): 213-37. Print.
  • “Armenian American Women Inhabiting Our Bodies: Gendered and Embodied Ethnicity in Carol Edgarian's Rise the Euphrates.” Ed. Barbara Merguerian and Doris Jafferian. Armenian Women in a Changing World: Papers presented at the First International Conference of the Armenian International Women's Association. Belmont, MA: AIWA Press, 1995. 184-193. Print.

Courses

  • FYS 100 Gender Games
  • FYS 100 Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Masterplots of Gender
  • GEND 200 Gender and Society
  • GEND 201 Feminist Inquiry
  • GEND 250 Current Issues in Feminism
  • GEND 252 (Connections) Lights, Camera, Gender!
  • GEND 350 Food, Gender, Identity, Power
  • GEND 352 Feminist Theory

Additional Information

Specializations

  • Intersectional feminist theory
  • Gender in U.S. culture
  • Armenian and Armenian diaspora feminisms

Awards & Affiliations

  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization
  • National Women’s Studies Association
  • Reacting to the Past Consortium
  • Phi Beta Kappa