Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Faye Stewart

Director of Graduate Studies Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Associate Professor of German, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Email: afstewart@uncg.edu
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Appointed through Spring 2028

Faye Stewart (she/her/hers) teaches and researches diversity, migration, transnationalism, and gender and sexuality. She teaches all levels of German language, culture, film, and literature, in addition to courses in English on topics such as race and representation, queer cinema, and identity and belonging in contemporary German-speaking Europe. As a speaker of English and French and a lifelong learner of German, she enthusiastically promotes the study of all languages and the development of intercultural proficiencies through travel and study abroad, encounters with literary and filmic texts, and working with diverse collaborators. She is the author of German Feminist Queer Crime Fiction: Politics, Justice and Desire (McFarland, 2014); co-editor of Gender and Sexuality in East German Film: Intimacy and Alienation (Camden House, 2018); co-editor of Framing Islam: Faith, Fascination, and Fear in 21^st-Century German Culture, special issue of Colloquia Germanica 47.1­-2 (2014/2017); and a member of the authoring team for Grenzenlos Deutsch (German Without Borders), an inclusive, open-access curriculum for beginning German.