Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies

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Alethea Alexander
Part-Time Lecturer
2025-2026 Kawasaki Guest Artist
Juliet McMains
Ph.D., Professor

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Related Research

McMains, Juliet. “Femininity and Female Empowerment in Commercial Dance: Shakira and J. Lo at Super Bowl LIV.” In Dance in US Pop Culture, edited by Jennifer Atkins. London and New York: Routledge, 2023.
McMains, Juliet. “Fostering a Community of Consent in Social Dance Communities.” Journal of Dance Education, January 2021. DOI: 10.1080/15290824.2020.1851693.
McMains, Juliet. “Queer Tango Space: Minority Stress, Sexual Potentiality, and Gender Utopias.” TDR: The Drama Review 62, no. 2 (2018): 59–77.
McMains, Juliet. “Rebellious Wallflowers and Queer Tangueras: Female Leaders in Buenos Aires’ Argentine Tango Scene.” Dance Research, 36, no. 2 (2018): 173–197.
McMains, Juliet. “Re-Claiming Competitive Tango: The Rise of Argentina’s Campeonato Mundial.” In Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition, edited by Sherril Dodds, 306–330. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Alexander, Alethea. "Wonderwomen: Embodied Confidence in Popular Media." Research presented at the Annual Arts and Society Conference. Vancouver, B.C.. June 2018.
Rachael Lincoln and Leslie Seiters
McMains, Juliet. Spinning Mambo into Salsa: Caribbean Dance in Global Commerce. Oxford University Press, 2015.
Humphrey, Doris. The Shakers. Dir. Hannah C. Wiley. Chamber Dance Company. Meany Theater, Seattle. 2013. Performance.
McMains, Juliet. “Queer Tango Embraces: Female Homosociality in Buenos Aires’ Tango Scene.” Paper presented at Decentering Dance Studies: Moving in New Global Orders, joint conference of Congress on Research in Dance and Society of Dance History Scholars, Riverside, CA, November 16, 2013.