Denise Witzig  |  Interests  |  Scholarship  |  Service  

Education:

• Ph.D English, Brown University
• M.A. English, Brown University
• B.A. English, University of California, Berkeley

Teaching Experience:

• Associate Professor - St. Mary's College of California (1989 - Present)

Award:

• Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching - Saint Mary's College (March 2012)

Honors:

• Paul Giurlanda Faculty Award - Gay Straight Alliance, Saint Mary's College (May 2011)
• GSA Faculty Ally Award - Gay Straight Alliance, Saint Mary's College (May 2010)
• Dean Thomas Brown Faculty Excellence Award - Black Student Union, Saint Mary's College (2004)
• Women's Studies Alumni Faculty Excellence Award - WSAA, Saint Mary's College (May 2003)
• Women's Resource Center Faculty Excellence Award - WRC, Saint Mary's College (2001)

Presentations:

Conference paper

• Mad Men's History of Sex. Witzig, Denise (paper)
  National Women's Studies Association Conference
  (November 2012)
• Re-membering Masculinity: Mad Men, Memory, Modernity. Witzig, Denise (paper)
  Film & History Conference
  (September 2012)
• Fashion, Spectacle and the New Normal. Witzig, Denise (paper)
  SWTX Popular Culture and American Culture Conference
  (February 2012)
• Mourning Masculinity: Mad Men, Memory and Melancholia. Witzig, Denise (paper)
  The Art of Public Memory, UNC Greensboro
  (April 2011)
• Mad Men/Mad Women: Retro Revolution and the Female Body. Witzig, Denise (paper)
  National Women's Studies Association Conference
  (November 2010)
• What Do Women Want? Feminist (R)Evolution and the Catholic Campus. Witzig, Denise (panel or forum member)
  Northeast Modern Language Association Conference
  (April 2010)
• Upstairs, Downstairs: The Adjunct "At-Home" in the Academy. Witzig, Denise (panel or forum member)
  Northeast Modern Language Association Conference
  (April 2010)
• Feminism and Fashion: Hegemony, Pleasure, Danger. Witzig, Denise (panel or forum member)
  Cultural Studies Conference
  (April 2009)
• The Fashion Paradox. Witzig, Denise (paper)
  National Women's Studies Association Conference
  (June 2008)
• Constructing and Defining Women's Studies: (Re)Examining the Introductory Course. Witzig, Denise (panel or forum member)
  National Women's Studies Association Conference
  (June 2008)
• Still Making It Sexy: Branding, Selling, and Promoting Women's Studies. Witzig, Denise (panel or forum member)
  National Women's Studies Association Conference
  (June 2008)

Publications:

• Witzig, Denise. 2012. My Mannequin, Myself: Embodiment in Fashion's Mirror, Fashion Talks: Undressing the Power of Style, SUNY Press
• Witzig, Denise. 1999. The Writer's Wardrobe: Wharton Cross-Dressed, A Forward Glance: New Critical Essays on Edith Wharton, eds. , Colquitt, Clare, Goodman, Susan, Waid, Candace, U Delaware P
• Witzig, Denise. 1995. Tribalism and Its Discontents, Edith Wharton Review, vol. 12, issue 2
• Witzig, Denise. 1992. "The Muse's Tragedy" and the Muse's Text: Language and Desire in Wharton, New Critical Essays on Edith Wharton, eds. and Zilversmit, Annette and Bendixen, Alfred, Garland
• Witzig, Denise. 1991. Letter(s) From an Unknown Woman: Edith Wharton's Correspondence with Authority, Women's Studies Journal, vol. 20, issue 2
• Witzig, Denise. 1989. Review of "Feminist Dialogics: A Theory of Failed Community", Edith Wharton Review, vol. 6, issue 1