Gillian Harkins

Gillian Harkins is Associate Professor of English and Adjunct Associate Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of Everybody’s Family Romance: Reading Incest in Neoliberal America (University of Minnesota Press, 2009) and co-editor with Kate Drabinski of “Teaching Inside Carceral Institutions,” a Special Issue of Radical Teacher 95 (Winter 2012) and with Jane Elliott of “Genres of Neoliberalism,” a Special Issue of Social Text 31.2 115 (Summer 2013). She works with three higher education in prison programs in the Puget Sound Area: the University Beyond Bars; the Freedom Education Project Puget Sound; and the Black Prisoners Caucus T.E.A.C.H. program.