Grace Giorgio
Contact Information
Office: 229 Communication
Telephone: (217) 244-3169
Email: giorgio@illinois.edu
Course Director for CMN 111-112, 204, & 220
Bio
Grace Giorgio’s research interests include critical and feminist theory, gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, public policy, and qualitative research methods. Her recent work investigates how autoethnography as a cultural and theoretical practice can lead to individual and social healing. She publishes short stories, essays, and theoretical works in a variety of journals, magazines, and local newspapers.
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Curriculum Vitae
Experience
Gender, sexuality and intimate relationship violence and qualitative research methods.
Education
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Selected Publications
Giorgio, Grace. “The Wedding Dress.” Qualitative Inquiry. February 2009.
Giorgio, Grace. “Traumatic Truths and the Gift of Telling.” Qualitative Inquiry. January 2009.
Haight, Wendy, Manglesdorf, Sarah, Giorgio, Grace, et. al. “Understanding Parent-Child Interaction during Supervised Visitation.” Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. Spring 2007.
Prescott, Charles and Giorgio, Grace. “’Madam Mina is Changing’: Constructing Gendered Subjectivity in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” Victorian Literature and Culture August 2005.
Giorgio, Grace. “Speaking Silence: Definitional Dialogues in Abusive Lesbian Relationships.” Violence Against Women. October 2002.
Giorgio, Grace. “Living Lesbian Battering.” Cultural Studies: A Research Annual. Fall, 1999.