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Katie Bausch

Associate Professor, Teaching

Katie Bausch is trained as a feminist historian and interdisciplinary scholar whose early research examined the intersections of masculinity, whiteness, and anti-black racism in US popular culture. Currently, Katie is working on researching and developing pedagogical tools that can be used to educate and empower students to learn and unlearn the patriarchal, colonial, and white supremacist structures in our world

Courses Taught

WGST 1808 (Introduction to Feminist Social Transformation); WGST 2812 (Gender, Sexuality, & Popular Culture); WGST 2814 (Masculinity and Popular Culture); WGST 2814 (Masculinities); WGST 3812 (Gender & Social Media Culture); WGST 4003/5003 (Traversing Feminisms); WGST 5906 (Feminist Theory)

Research Areas of Interest

Masculinities; whiteness; feminisms; and popular culture

 Selected Publications

Bausch, K. (2023). “Police Violence in Film from Blaxploitation to New Black Realism,”in Routledge Handbook of Police Brutality in America. Thomas Aiello ed. New York: Taylor & Francis


Bausch, K. (2020). He Thinks He’s Down: White Appropriations of Black Masculinities in the Civil Rights Era. Vancouver: University of British Colombia Press.


Bausch, K. and Francesca D’Amico (2017). “Rap is Something We Do; Hip Hop is Something We Are: Gender and Authenticity in Rap Culture.” London: Oxford University Press.


Bausch, K. (2014). “Keep the Rebel Artist in You Alive: Literary Appropriations of Black Masculinities in Norman Mailer’s Work,” in The Paradox of Authenticity in a Globalized World. Russell Cobb, ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.


Bausch, K. (April 2013). “Superflies into Superkillers: Black Masculinity in Film from Blaxploitation to New Black Realism.” Journal of Popular Culture, 45, no.2: 256-276.