Women's Studies faculty profiles
Program option advisors:
Joanne McNeil Hayes, 775-1230, hayes@gcc.mass.edu
Dr. Anne M. Wiley, 775-1132, wiley@gcc.mass.edu
Wendy Barnes
English faculty
North 320, 775-1283, barnesw@gcc.mass.edu
Wendy Barnes is Korean. Her Korean name is Hyung-Soon Lee, but she goes by her adopted American name, Wendy Lee Barnes. She earned a Baccalaureate from Sarah Lawrence College and a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Mills College. Wendy teaches developmental, composition, literature, and women’s studies courses at GCC; she is also the faculty co-adviser for the Queer Straight Alliance and coordinates the Ben Drabeck Composition Award. Wendy is the faculty editor of Lacuna, GCC’s online literary and art journal.
Kate Finnegan
Professor, Early Childhood Education and Women's Studies
East building 116M, 775-1125, finnegan@gcc.mass.edu
Ms. Finnegan participated in one of the first curriculum transformation project conferences at Wheaton College in 1983. Kate is committed to integrating scholarship about women into education courses. Kate supervises early childhood students in local early childhood programs. She also serves as the consultant to the Headstart classroom on campus.
Joanne McNeil Hayes
Professor, English/Women's Studies
Main building, N316, 775-1230, hayes@gcc.mass.edu
Ms. Hayes designed and taught in 1992 an Honor's Seminar in Women of the Medieval Era. In 1993, Joanne designed and taught Women in American History. She also teaches courses in pre and post 20th century Women in Literature and Introduction to Women's Studies. Her undergraduate degree in English is from the University of Wisconsin and her Masters is from Johns Hopkins University, where she studied women in classical antiquity.
April Heaslip
Main building, N322, 775-1220, heaslip@gcc.mass.edu
April teaches Women in American History, Gender Issues in Human Ecology, Women & Spirituality, Women in the Pioneer Valley and Introduction to Women’s Studies. She has co-created learning communities linking gender and Women’s Studies with other disciplines: Invoking Eirene: Voices of the Past exploring the intersection of women's history with the psychology of peace and conflict and Awakening the Divine Feminine which combines women’s spirituality with western religions. April’s undergraduate degrees are in Psychology and Women's Studies from West Chester University, after also studying at the Universidade Federal de Uberlandia in Brazil. She holds an MA in Social Ecology from Goddard College, with concentrations in ecofeminism, sustainability and feminist art activism. She brings additional training in communication skills, conflict resolution, cultivating creativity and group dynamics. Before and after class she can often be found in her garden holding strange yoga poses; otherwise she is probably off chasing Virginia Woolf.
Mary Ellen Kelly
Co-Coordinator, Peer Tutoring Program
Main building, C402, 775-1335, kellym@gcc.mass.edu
Mary Ellen has taught English courses in women's literature, developmental writing and reading, composition, children's literature, and creative writing. Students are invited to contact her or the Financial Aid Office for information about the annual Virginia Low Women’s Studies Scholarship Award.
Linda McCarthy, Ed.D.
Assistant Professor, Sociology
East Building 116C, 775-1154, mccarthyl@gcc.mass.edu
Linda McCarthy earned her Doctorate in Social Justice Education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2003, and teaches Sociology at GCC from a social justice perspective. Linda joined GCC in 2004, and is actively working to develop the Sociology curriculum. Currently, courses she offers include: Principles of Sociology, Social Problems, The Social Construction of Difference and Inequality, and Sociology of Gender. Linda has published several articles and is a former associate editor of the University of Massachusetts School of Education’s journal, Equity & Excellence in Education. Her academic interests include social stratification and the social construction of gender.
Christine Jones Monahan
English faculty
North 319, 775-1273, monahan@gcc.mass.edu
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Phyllis Nahman
Professor Emerita
Ms. Nahman grew up in Turners Falls and taught at GCC from 1971 to 2006. She was involved in both the Women's Studies Liberal Arts option and developmental education at GCC since their inception. Phyllis taught (with great pleasure) writing, literature, developmental reading, and women's studies courses.
Anne M. Wiley, Ed. D.
Professor, Psychology and Women's Studies
East building 116F, 775-1132, wiley@gcc.mass.edu
Anne Wiley has been teaching for over 30 years. She teaches courses in Psychology and Women’s Studies such as Principles of Psychology, Psychology of Women, Psychology of Oppression and the interdisciplinary course, Introduction to Women’s Studies. Anne also regularly teaches courses online. She participated in one of the first national Women’s Studies curriculum transformation project conferences at Wheaton College in 1983. Since then she has been actively involved in bringing Women's Studies to GCC. From the first few course offerings in 1986, to promoting a Ford Foundation grant to develop the Women's Studies program option, Anne has been committed to integrating Women's and Gender Studies into our curriculum. Additionally, she also coordinated a past New England Women's Studies Conference at GCC and is an adjunct professor in Women's Studies at Keene State College. She was also instrumental in creating the Women’s Resource Center, which serves nontraditional women students. Anne also serves as the President of the Friends of NELCWIT and co-produced the Vagina Monologues for 6 years at GCC. Anne received the Massachusetts Online Award in 2008 for innovative use of technology. She has two articles published in Women's Studies Quarterly and has presented at numerous regional and national conferences. Anne has her Doctorate in Education from the University of Massachusetts and her dissertation was entitled: Working Class Women in a Women's Studies Course from a Community College: Awakening Hearts and Minds.
