Alison Piepmeier

Alison Piepmeier is assistant director of the women’s studies program at Vanderbilt University. She is co-editor, with Rory Dicker, of Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century (Northeastern University Press, 2003) and is the author of the forthcoming book Out in Public: Configurations of Women’s Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America (University of North Carolina Press). She is currently in the beginning stages of a project that will consider the role that cynicism plays in the third wave of feminism. She also happens to be a big fan of several of the other authors featured in this issue of the Scholar and Feminist Online.