Editorial Staff

Jillian Hernandez
Editorial Collective

Jillian Hernandez (jillian.hernandez@gmail.com) is a PhD candidate in the Women's and Gender Studies department at Rutgers University and an independent curator. Her research interests include contemporary art, new media, sexualities, and girls' studies. She is currently conducting dissertation research on girls' embodiment and sexuality in Miami, where she directs the Women on the Rise! art outreach program for teenage girls at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work has been published in peer reviewed and edited publications and she has presented research at conferences organized by the College Art Association, Cultural Studies Association, and National Women's Studies Association, among others.

Agatha Beins
Editorial Collective

Agatha Beins (abeins@twu.edu) is an assistant professor in the Department of Women's Studies at Texas Woman's University. She received her PhD in Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, an MFA in Creative Writing at Eastern Washington University, and an MA in Women's Studies from the University of Arizona. In addition to her current book manuscript, which is about U.S. feminist periodicals published in the 1970s, her research interests include print and material cultures, cultural studies, art and activism, pedagogy, the histories of feminism and women's studies, and feminist geography. She is also coeditor of the anthology Women's Studies for the Future: Foundations, Interrogations, Politics with Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy (Rutgers University Press, 2005) and coauthor of Effective Writing in Psychology: Papers, Posters, and Presentations with Bernard C. Beins (Blackwell, 2008).

Anne Keefe
Editorial Collective

Anne Keefe (akeefe@signs.rutgers.edu) holds a PhD in literature from Rutgers University and an MFA in poetry from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research focuses on the relationship between visual art and contemporary feminist poetry. She is Manuscript Editor and Acquisitions Coordinator for Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (University of Chicago Press) and the author of a book of poems, Lithopedia (Bull City Press, 2012).

Vera Hinsey
Editorial Intern

Vera Hinsey is a Rutgers undergraduate student majoring in Women's and Gender Studies with a focus in Spanish and Anthropology. She is a Leadership Scholar at the Institute for Women's Leadership and she is in the School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program. She served on the Executive Board of the Women's Center and is very involved in Jewish life on campus. In the future, Vera hopes to produce feminist documentaries and attend graduate school.

A.J. Barks
Editorial Assistant

A.J. Barks recently relocated to Chicago, IL, after completing the MA program in Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. Before beginning her graduate work, A.J. was Communications Manager for a national non-profit on women's economic security as well as a newspaper journalist. She received BAs in Communication, English, and Interdisciplinary Studies with a minor in Political Science from Truman State University in 2006.

Deanna Utroske
Founding Editor

Deanna Utroske (@DeannaUtroske) is a Founding Editor of Films for the Feminist Classroom. Previously Deanna was the Editorial Assistant for Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society where she managed acquisitions, handled copyediting and proofreading, and was responsible for numerous administrative tasks. She joined the Signs team as an Editorial Intern while earning her BA in English from Rutgers University. Deanna has experience as a Publishing Intern with The Feminist Press and as an Archival Assistant at The LGBT Community Center. Deanna Utroske is an active member of professional organizations, including the American Copy Editors Society, the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, and New York Women In Communications, Inc., where she serves on the Integrated Marketing and Communications Committee.

Karen Alexander
Founding Editor

Karen Alexander (@KarenFAlexander) is Dean of Junior and Senior Year Programs at Douglass Residential College, Rutgers University. She worked as Senior Editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society from 2005 to 2012. A cofounder of Films for the Feminist Classroom, she continues to serve on the FFC advisory board. She has conducted numerous workshops on academic publishing. Her current research interests include the technology-driven changes taking place in academia and education, the use of media in feminist research and teaching, documentary film, feminist activist art, and women's experimental writing.