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Dr. Arlene Holpp Scala is a full-time associate professor in the
Women's Studies Department. She has been teaching at WPUNJ since
1981. Her teaching career began in the English Department at William
Paterson College(WPC), where she worked as an adjunct teaching writing
courses. In 1986, she received a half-time appointment in Women's
Studies. In 1996, she received the University's (still a college,
at the time) first full-time appointment in Women's Studies. Dr.
Scala teaches "Women's Changing Roles," "Racism and
Sexism in the U.S.," "Contemporary Feminist Issues,"
"Women's Studies Capstone," "Lesbian Issues,"
"Life Passages: The Female Experience,"and "Sex Equity
in Education." She has also taught "Images of Women in
Modern Literature" for the English Department and Freshman
Seminar. She earned her doctorate at Teachers College, Columbia
University.
Dr. Scala is the Feminist Collective's advisor. She is a member
of many campus committees: Women's Studies Executive, Curriculum,
Retention, and Program Review committees; Curriculum and Assessment
Committees for the School of Humanities and Social Sciences; Race
and Gender Project Steering Committee; and Senate General Education
Committee. She is Women's Studies American Federation of Teachers
representative . She is also the Women's Studies liason to the Collegeof
Education.
She earned her Bachelors Degree at WPC, where she majored in English
and minored in history. She also earned her Master's Degree in English
from WPC. and a second masters in English Education from Teachers
College, Columbia University. In 1996, after completing her dissertation
study, Heterosexism in the Classroom: A Teaching Case Study,
she earned her doctorate in English Education at Teachers College,
Columbia University. As part of her doctoral studies she also completed
a specialization in Peace Education, which included a focus on Feminist
Studies.
She is a teacher-researcher and is currently researching student
responses to September 11 and its aftermath, including the wars
in Afghanistan and Iraq. Another research project focuses on the
influence of the Barbie doll on the socialization of college students.
She will soon publish her article "Reading Bastard Out of
Carolina Through Jane Caputi's Pop Culture Lens." Her published
work includes
Teaching Note, The Silent Duchess, by Dacia Maraini, Radical
Teacher, Number 65, Winter 2002-3.
"A Feminist Teacher Responds to September 11." NWSAction,
Vol. 14 No. 2, Spring 2002.
"'Out' Lesbian Tenured," NWSAction, Vol. 12 No.2,
Spring 2001.
"Del Martin and Phylis Lyon," a review of a National Women's
Studies Association Conference Keynote Address, NWSAction, Vol.
11, No. 2, Spring 2001.
Teaching Note, Memoir of a Race Traitor, by Mab Segrest,
Radical Teacher, Number 60, Spring 2001.
Re-print, "Gender Policing," Solutions for the New
Millennium: Race, Class, and Gender, 2nd Edition, Kendall/Hunt,2000.
Co-authored, "A Reality Based Method for Teaching Issues of
Class and Privilege," Transformations: The New Jersey Project
Journal, Spring 2000.
"Gender Policing," Solutions for the New Millennium:
Race, Class, and Gender, Kendall/Hunt,1999.
"Racism and Sexism in the United States: Introduction to Women's
Studies," Transforming the Curriculum: Essays, Syllabi,
and Teaching Resources from the New Jersey Project, Teachers
College Press, December, 1995.
Dr. Scala is also an activist working on peace and justice issues.
Her recent activism has focused on peaceful solutions to the U.S.'s
military actions in Iraq, violence against women, reproductive rights,
racism, and lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender civil and human rights.
Office: H205A, ext. 3405
E-mail: scalaa@wpunj.edu
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