Stina Soderling, PhD

Assistant Professor

Office: WH 307F
Phone: 940-898-2324

Education

About

Soderling teaches research methods and introductory MWGS courses.

Soderling’s research expertise is in Rural Queer Studies, with a focus on the U.S. South. Her writing and research explores questions of queer community-building and place-making, and human interactions with the more-than-human world. She is particularly interested in how time functions in rural and queer spaces. In her methodological practice, she is interested in what mundane tasks, such as bread baking and composting, can teach us, and how working with our hands and physical bodies influences our feminist theorizing.

Soderling also works in the field of feminist pedagogy, especially in applied pedagogical research in Women’s and Gender Studies. Her writings on pedagogy have been published in Feminist Formations and Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice. She is committed to collaborative research and writing, including working with student research teams. Soderling is a co-founder and facilitator of “Beyond Grading,” a study group on assessment practices for feminist faculty with members at over a dozen colleges and universities.