Écriture féminine: Cixous, Irigaray, and Kristeva.This seminar explores how écriture féminine places experience before language, and privileges the non-linear, cyclical writing so often frowned upon by Western patriarchal societies. Autobiographical narratives of learning and teaching as well as texts from Cixous, Irigaray, and Kristeva constitute the basis of this seminar.

Derrida, Gender and Education. In the current context of globalization, cosmopolitanism, socio-political conflicts, and war, rights for all to education and educating take a new dimension and urgency, and present new challenges. Recent work by French philosopher Jacques Derrida has brought to the fore questions touching on a variety of contemporary political, social, and ethical issues, as education is called upon to respond to the necessity of respecting, at the same time, the particularity of individual differences and the universality of majority law. Throughout his work, Derrida suggests that "human beings are irreducibly displaced although, in a discourse that privileges the center, women alone have been diagnosed as such" (Spivak, Feminist Interpretations, 1997, p. 45). Derrida has endeavored, throughout his work and for the past 30 years, to displace all centrisms, as well as binary oppositions and dichotomies. His concept of deconstruction as ethics of affirmation, and his understanding of aporias and antinomies can provide the paradigm to develop a greater awareness of the issues at stake, to aim for a better understanding of  what they are, to articulate more clearly the problems, and to move toward a more responsive and responsible approach to knowledge and education.
Sean Buckreis's final paper for this course, titled "Questioning with Derrida: Need and Responsibility," was accepted to the annual conference of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain at the University of Oxford, England. He presented it on April 2, 2005.

"Feminine writing" and Curriculum Discourse. One of the major themes of feminist theory, the split between the public and the private, is the basis to explore and understand how abstraction, ideal rationality, and objectivity have traditionally been considered as the preferred content of curriculum discourse in Western epistemology. This seminar uses the works of Cixous and Kristeva and of feminist object relations theory and "feminine writing" as points of departure, and autobiographical narratives of learning and teaching as an exploratory venue. This course includes Kristeva's and Cixous's video taped interviews from the 1992 Oxford Amnesty Lectures Series, and texts from Kristeva and Cixous.

Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies. Interdisciplinary study of women's lives: work, family, sexuality, economic development, literature, art, political and social change; gendered roles in cross-cultural and historical perspectives. The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the interdisciplinary field of Women's and Gender Studies, examining the cultural construction of gender roles and their similarities and differences within and between cultures; identifying historical and contemporary structures which limit women's and men’s participation in society, as well as the strategies to overcome those limits. Format is primarily discussion, with individual and group projects. Evaluation based on portfolio and individual projects.
Carl Anderson presented his final project for this course, a poem titled "I Don't Think So", at the Seventh Annual LSU Women's and Gender Studies Graduate Student Conference, March 14, 2003.