The Feminist and Gender Studies Department at Colorado College is delighted to share that Dr. Heidi R. Lewis, David & Lucile Packard Professor of Feminist & Gender Studies, was recently invited to join the Series Editor team for Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, a book series with the University of Nebraska Press.

The Expanding Frontiers series promotes rigorous interdisciplinary research that critically expands the field and purview of feminist, women’s, and gender studies. This book series builds upon the journal Frontiers and its commitment to “diverse and decisively interdisciplinary” publications. It seeks single-authored monographs and collaborative projects that formulate original critical intersectional perspectives. Emphases include settler colonialism, carceral regimes, comparative ethnic and Indigenous studies, cultural studies, disability studies, cultural geographies, and transnational feminisms. The editorial board is interested in various subjects and investigative methodologies, including public policy, social movements, media, and expressive cultures.  In particular, the series features work by and about BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ peoples and communities, embracing scholarship that centers negotiations of multiple and intersecting sites of affiliation, identity, and politics. The editors welcome scholarship that is accessible across disciplines and fields and that relies upon and advances feminist epistemologies and socially transformative research. The series and its editors are committed to supporting original scholarship in the above field(s) and mentoring first-time authors. 

While the series title “Expanding Frontiers” evokes the founding and expansion of knowledge in women’s and gender studies, the concept of “frontiers” also evokes dominant, anti-Indigenous ideologies and the amplification of white supremacy in political, academic, and intellectual structures. The series highlights how these historical realities have been deployed to reproduce hegemonic structures of inequality. The editors of the Expanding Frontiers series thus invite submissions that critique these foundations and forward nuanced, intersectional analyses to demonstrate how contingently constructed categories have material consequences for individuals based on their social locations.

As a Series Editor, Dr. Lewis will be responsible for mentoring and signing first-time BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ scholars. In addition to reading manuscripts before peer review, Series Editors help authors develop proposals and set manageable writing and publishing goals and demystify the publishing process by supporting authors through the peer review and contract stages of publication. 

Congratulations Dr. Lewis!  We are so proud to know you!