Sherry Zane

Area Director of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Associate Professor-in-Residence

Department of Social and Critical Inquiry

Sherry Zane is an Associate Professor-in-Residence and Area Director of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) at the University of Connecticut, with affiliations in American Studies and Native American and Indigenous Studies. Her research and teaching focus on how gender, race, sex, and sexuality are woven into systems of difference and stratification that shape our past and present. She is working on a co-edited book project, Insurgent Murals: Art and Survivance. She recently co-edited, Lessons from Audre Lorde’s The Uses of Anger: UConn Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at 50, which includes a reprint of Lorde’s famous speech for the WGSS 50th Anniversary. The WGSS area received its first ever Mellon grant to support initiatives to bolster the inter-and trans-disciplinary work of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies under her leadership.