Holmes, Christina, Ph.D.
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Director of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
Christina Holmes is an Associate Professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies. She is the author of Ecological Borderlands: Body, Nature, and Spirit in Chicana Feminism (University of Illinois Press, 2016; NWSA First Book Prize) and articles such as “Mapping and Misrecognition: Ecofeminist insights into Chicana Feminist Aesthetics,” and “Sacred Genealogies: Spiritualities, Materiality, and the Limits of Western Feminist Frames.” With co-author Jennifer Musial, she also contributed “Five-Year Study in Hiring Trends in Gender, Women’s, and Feminist Studies” to the Feminist Studies special issue on the state of doctoral degrees in W/G/F/S Studies. Her current book project examines both campus environmental activism and environmental curricula through the lens of intersectional and posthumanist ecopedagogies.