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| WIFP Interns 06 |
Eleanor Biddle, University of California, Santa Cruz (January 9, 2005
- March 13, 2006)
Emily will begin her second year of Georgetown’s M.A. program in English Literature this fall. She is interested in the place of women in fiction, and particularly in the way women’s sexuality is (mis) represented in historic periods containing a rich literary legacy, such as the Victorian era. Emily became interested in women’s studies after an undergrad WS course that exposed the sexual inequality culturally ingrained on her own college campus. She is interested in theoretical work that might uncover why, as literary critics, we think of women writers as a separate entity instead of as equal contributors to the male dominated canon of “Great Literature.”
Amanda Glensky is currently a sophomore at American University studying journalism, political science and Spanish language. Her interest in women's voices and media democracy stems from a course she took during her freshman year which emphasized the importence of dissident voices in the corporate mainstream media. Prior to joining the intern staff at WIFP, Amanda interned with her community paper the Public Spirit in Montgomery County, PA.
Jennifer graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University this past December with a double Bachelors degree in Communication and English, after studying her last semester abroad at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy with concentrations in film/journalism and creative writing. She plans to pursue an M.A. in Media Studies beginning the spring of 2007.
Sarah is interested in international affairs, particularly how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) influence the world from within the United States. She is a Culture and Politics major, an African Studies student and is fluent in French.
Jane is a rising sophomore at Stanford University interested in studying International Relations. She has long had an interest in politics and the mass media, having both volunteered for local politicians and worked in film production. Jane is particularly committed to gender and minority issues, and currently acts as head event coordinator for Stanford’s feminist group Promoting Women’s Health and Human Rights.
Anita Varma is a rising junior at Vassar College and a Media Studies Major with a focus on forms of news media. She is the editor-in-chief of Vassar's weekly student-run newspaper, The Miscellany News. She is also a Writing Center peer tutor at Vassar and the founder of Vassar's Hindu Heritage student group. An aspiring journalist, Anita's interest in media democracy began when she was the editor-in-chief of her high school newspaper, The Seventh Pillar (Sewickley Academy, Pa.) and discovered that due to space and coherence concerns, she had to make decisions about whose voices would be included and published, and whose would not. Her inquiry into how media democracy can be improved, and her interest in pinpointing trends in whose voices are not often heard has guided Anita's self-developed concentration within her major.
Emily is a rising junior at Smith College, studying Women's Studies and Spanish. She is interested in feminist activism, independent journalism and human rights work. She is also passionate about sewing, screenprinting, gardening, making zines, travel and southern hospitality. She makes clothes and other things under the name jellyshoe rebellion, and has just made a zine entitled iNI UNA MAS! about the femicide in Juarez, Mexico.
Jenny is a rising third-year at the University of Virginia, majoring in political science and psychology. Her interests include working with children, social psychology, and family law. She became interested in women’s issues after taking an introductory class in her second year, and she intends to incorporate them into her upcoming psychology thesis. In particular, she plans to study patterns of passive-aggression in young females in the context of a patriarchal society, and hopes to develop a type of cognitive therapy or structural program aimed at helping them to become more assertive. She became interested in WIFP through a search for programs in feminism and women’s media outlets, and believes that a major goal of the media should be that it serves a conducive role in the development of strong females in today’s society.
Carissa is a rising senior at Connecticut College and is majoring in English. Her interests include photography, and traditional and contemporary literature. Her interest in women's issues has developed over the past few years, beginning with a gender and women's study class her first year and continuing through women's literature classes both in the US and abroad. Her focus on women's issues involves, but is not limited to, different gender representations among various cultures within the media.
Jenny is a rising senior at Mount Holyoke College and is majoring in Romance Languages and Literatures, French and Spanish, and is minoring in English. Her interest in feminism and women's issues dates to her childhood and was encouraged by her feminist hippie parents. Her other interests include political activism, women's education, interfaith dialogue, and reading mysteries. She has just returned from spending her junior year abroad in Montpellier, France, where she had an opportunity to observe French women's participation in the French media. This year she plans to write a thesis comparing French and Spanish detective novels, possibly incorporating women's roles and how they have changed throughout the history of the dectective novel.
Eleanor Biddle
Eleanor Biddle is a graduating senior from UC Santa Cruz, majoring in Film and Digital Media Production. At Santa Cruz, she worked on the school's film journal, Eyecandy, in which she was a content contributor and web designer for two years. She has also studied extensively in UCSC's Feminist Studies department, where she taught a section for Bettina Aptheker's Introduction to Feminisms class, entitled "Feminisms in Film." She has a strong interest in media representations that are protrayed in our current mass media, and was drawn to the WIFP because of its goal in presenting alternative representations and information through a feminist perspective. The WIFP website was re-designed by Eleanor during her internship, Jan-March 2006.
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