Clara Montague

Instructor

Offices, Departments, or Centers: English , Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) ,

Clara Montague is a lecturer in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies at Grinnell College as well as a doctoral candidate in Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her dissertation project, Women’s Studies Worldwide, examines the transnational history of this interdisciplinary field through digital cartography, literary analysis, and archival research. Working at the intersection of transnational feminisms and feminist pedagogies, Clara teaches classes at Grinnell including Intro to GWSS, Critical Race Feminisms, and Queering Digital Humanities. Her other interests include critical theory, art activism, writing pedagogy, and abolitionist feminisms. She previously worked as a copyeditor for the journal Feminist Studies and spent the 2013-2014 school year as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Turkey.

Clara holds a Bachelor of Arts in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies and English from Grinnell College (2013) and earned her Master of Arts in Women’s Studies from the University of Maryland (2017).