# Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies: professors and courses Course codes WGS Who teaches here **37** people Teaching 12 courses in Spring 2026 and Fall 2026. 31 professors · 2 lecturers and instructors · 4 graduate and other instructors ## Who teaches here Find a professor or course **Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies professors and instructors** | Name | Teaches | | --- | --- | | Professors · 31 | | | Kamran Ali [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/12953883/) Professor | No classes listed this year | | Megan Alrutz [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/16988659/) Professor | No classes listed this year | | Mary C Beltran [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Mary%20Beltran#lookup)[CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17372834/) Professor | [WGS 324](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/324), [WGS 324D](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/324d), [WGS 340](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/340) | | Keffrelyn D Brown [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/9155839/) Professor | No classes listed this year | | [Simone Arlene Browne](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sca/faculty/sb28889) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17388696/) Associate professor | No classes listed this year | | Rosemary Candelario Associate professor | No classes listed this year | | [Karma Ruth Chavez](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sca/faculty/kc32638) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17382314/) Professor social movements · queer of color critique · abolition · rhetoric | No classes listed this year | | [Lina Chhun](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sca/faculty/lc39986) [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Lina%20Chhun#lookup) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/16272908/) Assistant professor Transnational · feminist and queer methodologies · women of color feminisms · Southeast Asian American Studies | [WGS 340](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/340), [WGS 350](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/350) | | Jackie Cuevas [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/11313820/) Associate professor | No classes listed this year | | [Ann Cvetkovich](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sca/faculty/ac446) Professor queer theory · affect studies · historical trauma · and public feelings | No classes listed this year | | [Amira Rose Davis](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sca/faculty/ad52442) [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Amira%20Rose%20Davis#lookup) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/16288626/) Assistant professor | [WGS 301](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/301) | | [Caroline Faria](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/geography/faculty/cf24879) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/9743482/) Associate professor Feminist political and economic geographies · feminist methodologies · Africa and the African diaspora | No classes listed this year | **Show all 37 peopleDepartment of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies professors and instructors, continued** | Name | Teaches | | --- | --- | | Professors · 31 | | | [Thomas Garza](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/eue/faculty/garzatj) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/16269384/) Associate professor emeritus | [WGS 393](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/393) | | [Lyndon K Gill](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/anthropology/faculty/lkg236) [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Lyndon%20Gill#lookup) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/16303984/) Associate professor Queer aesthetics in the African Diaspora · the erotic · LGBT art and activism in Caribbean cultures · African-based spiritual traditions in the Americas | [WGS 301](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/301), [WGS 335](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/335), [WGS 340](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/340) | | [Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sociology/faculty/gg664) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/12087682/) Professor | No classes listed this year | | [Laura G Gutierrez](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sca/faculty/lg5828) [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Laura%20Gutierrez#lookup) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/11094978/) Associate professor Latinx performance studies · Mexican and Latinx visual cultural studies · queer theory · gender studies | [WGS 301](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/301) | | [Lauren Jae Gutterman](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sca/faculty/lg32432) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/16996664/) Associate professor History of Women · Gender and Sexuality · American Studies · LGBTQ Studies | [WGS 335](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/335) | | Mike Hames-Garcia [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Mike%20Hames-Garcia#lookup)[CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17382591/) Professor | [WGS 301](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/301), [WGS 340](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/340) | | [Sara Haq](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sca/faculty/sh57723) [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Sara%20Haq#lookup) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17251394/) Assistant professor of instruction Persian | [WGS 305](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/305), [WGS 335](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/335), [WGS 379S](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/379s) | | Vox Jo Hsu [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17373236/) Associate professor | [WGS 335](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/335) | | [Alison Kafer](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sca/faculty/ak34238) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/12080684/) Associate professor | [WGS 340](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/340) | | [Julie A Minich](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sca/faculty/minichja) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/16990524/) Professor | [WGS 340](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/340) | | [Lisa L Moore](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sca/faculty/moorell) Professor Eighteenth-century English and American literature · women’s literature · LGBT literature and culture · poetry and poetics | No classes listed this year | | [Lina-Maria M Murillo](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sca/faculty/lm26793) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/16990369/) Associate professor Reproductive justice and care · Latina health activism · population control ideology · immigration | [WGS 301](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/301) | | [Nicole D Ramsey](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sca/faculty/ndr699) [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Nicole%20Ramsey#lookup) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/16288531/) Assistant professor Black Central America · Performance and Diaspora Theory · Afro-Latinx and Caribbean Migration and Identity Formations · Hemispheric Black and Indigenous Feminist Thought | [WGS 305](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/305), [WGS 340S](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/340s) | | Stacey K Sowards [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17347668/) Professor | No classes listed this year | | [Ashley Coleman Taylor](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sca/faculty/ac75797) [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Ashley%20Coleman%20Taylor#lookup) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/11092829/) Assistant professor | [WGS 356](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/356) | | [Lisa B Thompson](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sca/faculty/lt8396) Professor African American literature (1945-present) · Black theatre · memoir · performance studies | No classes listed this year | | Enzo E Vasquez Toral [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17386672/) Assistant professor | No classes listed this year | | [Pavithra Vasudevan](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sca/faculty/pv5654) [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Pavithra%20Vasudevan#lookup) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/16992074/) Assistant professor | [WGS 340](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/340) | | [Hershini Young](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sca/faculty/hy4386) Professor | No classes listed this year | | Lecturers and instructors · 2 | | | Jennifer N Henderson [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17004627/) Lecturer | [WGS 335](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/335) | | [Carolyn Waldrep](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sociology/faculty/cew3332) [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Carolyn%20Waldrep#lookup) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17388886/) Lecturer, Department of Sociology Work and organizations · family demography · gender · debt and consumer finances | [WGS 301](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/301) | | Graduate and other instructors · 4 | | | Shannon Potter [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Shannon%20Potter#lookup)[CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/16277547/) | [WGS 301](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/301) | | Weston Richey [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/12079184/) | [WGS 303](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/303) | | Ipek Sahinler [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Ipek%20Sahinler#lookup)[CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17369901/) | [WGS 303](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/303) | | Jennifer Sales [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Jennifer%20Sales#lookup)[CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17382272/) | [WGS 340](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/340) | ## Who teaches each course **Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies: who teaches each course** | Course | Taught by | | --- | --- | | [WGS 301](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/301) | Amira Rose Davis, Lyndon K Gill, Laura G Gutierrez, Mike Hames-Garcia, Lina-Maria M Murillo, Carolyn Waldrep, Shannon Potter | | [WGS 303](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/303) | Weston Richey, Ipek Sahinler | | [WGS 305](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/305) | Sara Haq, Nicole D Ramsey | | [WGS 324](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/324) | Mary C Beltran | | [WGS 324D](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/324d) | Mary C Beltran | | [WGS 335](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/335) | Lyndon K Gill, Lauren Jae Gutterman, Sara Haq, Vox Jo Hsu, Jennifer N Henderson | | [WGS 340](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/340) | Mary C Beltran, Lina Chhun, Lyndon K Gill, Mike Hames-Garcia, Alison Kafer, Julie A Minich, Pavithra Vasudevan, Jennifer Sales | | [WGS 340S](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/340s) | Nicole D Ramsey | | [WGS 350](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/350) | Lina Chhun | | [WGS 356](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/356) | Ashley Coleman Taylor | | [WGS 379S](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/379s) | Sara Haq | | [WGS 393](https://utaustin.guide/courses/wgs/393) | Thomas Garza | **Bachelor’s degrees 1 program** - [Women's and gender studies](https://catalog.utexas.edu/undergraduate/liberal-arts/) BA **Master’s degrees 1 program** - [Women’s and gender studies](https://catalog.utexas.edu/graduate/areas-of-study/liberal-arts) MA **Pay after graduation Up to $57,300Median pay after graduation by field** | Field of study | 1 year out | 4 years out | | --- | --- | --- | | Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies Bachelor’s · Women's and gender studies | $41,500 | $57,300 | Median earnings of graduates who received federal student aid, from the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard: 1 year out is 2020–21 pay (2022 dollars), 4 years out is 2019–20 pay (2021 dollars). Fields group related programs. **About the department** Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies is part of College of Liberal Arts, led by Dean David Sosa. Its course codes are WGS. **Sources UT catalog, HB 2504** UT’s catalog lists colleges, deans, departments, and degree programs. UT’s public course records list instructors and CVs by section. - [UT Austin undergraduate catalog 2026-2028](https://catalog.utexas.edu/undergraduate/colleges-schools/) - [UT Austin HB 2504 public course information](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/nlogon/) [College of Liberal Arts](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/college-of-liberal-arts)[Every UT college](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges)[Every UT course](https://utaustin.guide/courses) By [Sulayman Bowles](https://sulayman-bowles.dev/about) · Checked Nov 11, 2026 --- Source: https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/college-of-liberal-arts/department-of-women-s-gender-and-sexuality-studies · Checked 2026-11-11 · Field Guide: UT Austin