Editorial Staff

Ariella Rotramel
Editorial Collective

Ariella Rotramel is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. Her dissertation research examines women’s activism in New York’s community-based organizations Mothers on the Move (MOM) and CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities, formerly the Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence. Ariella is particularly interested in MOM and CAAAV’s analyses and mobilizations around a range of community issues including environmental racism, women workers’ health, gentrification, and the criminalization of youth. She graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a bachelor’s degree for her independent program of study exploring the intersections of racial, sexual and gender identities.

Julie Ann Salthouse
Editorial Collective

Julie Ann Salthouse is the Production Editor for Films for the Feminist Classroom, and is the Chapter Director of Girls Learn International®, Inc., a New York City-based nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting universal girls’ education. Julie holds a BA in English with highest honors from the College of Saint Elizabeth and an MA in Women’s and Gender Studies from Rutgers University. Her research and activism focuses on young women’s leadership and girls’ voice development, and she currently serves as an Advisory Board member of and volunteer at the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls in Brooklyn, New York.

Jillian Hernandez
Editorial Collective

Jillian Hernandez is a Ph.D. student in Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University and an independent curator. Her research projects focus on contemporary art, sexualities, and girls’ studies. She was formerly Curatorial Associate at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami where she created the nationally acclaimed “Women on the Rise!” outreach program for teen girls. She has organized several exhibitions of contemporary art and published essays in her areas of interest

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Cassandra Scherr
Editorial Assistant

Deanna Utroske
Founding Editor

Deanna Utroske (deannautroske@gmail.com) currently serves as the Editorial Assistant for Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. She completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in English at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and before that earned her Associate of Applied Science degree in Automotive Technology from Montana State University-Billings. Her research interests include Modernist women’s writing, Modernist women writers, poetry, and feminist approaches to literature. Her recent projects comprise ongoing work with Films for the Feminist Classroom and serving as a Publishing Intern with the Feminist Press at the City University of New York.

Karen Alexander
Founding Editor

Karen Alexander is Senior Editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society and an affiliate faculty member of the Rutgers University Women’s and Gender Studies Department. She earned her PhD from the University of London in 2005. Publications include War and Terror: Feminist Perspectives (University of Chicago Press, 2008), coeditor with Mary Hawkesworth, and “Lydia Davis: Analysis and Form,” in Scribbling Women and the Short Story Form: Approaches by American and British Women Writers (Peter Lang, 2008), ed. Ellen Harrington. Her current research and teaching interests include feminist activist art, feminism and documentary film, and Chicana literature, theory, and culture.