Faculty note: Associate Prof. Jessica Van Slooten publishes co-authored article

Associate Prof. Jessica Lyn Van Slooten (HUS, English, Women’s and Gender’s Studies, Composition, and Writing and Applied Arts) recently published a co-authored article, “Better Living through Policy: Feminist Shared Governance and Equitable Evaluation,” in Academic Labor Beyond the College Classroom: Working for Our Values, a collection of articles on institutional and professional service and administrative work published by Routledge in December 2019.

Here is the abstract for Slooten and her co-authors’ work: “The authors advocate for the value of transparent, well-researched, and faculty-driven policy work to enhance the effectiveness of shared governance. Drawing from work in their institutional governance body, the authors provide a road map for collaborative and engaged service work in the interest of transforming faculty and teaching evaluations processes. The authors draw from feminist theory work and the lens of ‘feminist praxis’ in order to demonstrate how attention to asymmetrical power and material contexts of governance work can enhance the overall functioning and institution-building capacity of faculty service efforts.”