Jillana Enteen

Associate Director of Gender Studies

Kresge 2-360
University Hall 307
Telephone: (847) 491-3433
Fax: (847) 467-1545
E-mail: j-enteen@northwestern.edu

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Jillana Enteen ( Ph.D. Rutgers University ) is the Associate Director and Director of Undergraduate Studies of the Gender Studies Program. She holds a joint appointment in Gender Studies and the English Department and serves on the Comparative Literary Studies and Asian Studies Faculty. She received her Ph.D. in Cultural Studies and Literatures in English from the Rutgers , the State University of New Jersey in 1999. Enteen teaches and writes about gender and queeer theory, new media theory, postcolonial and asian diaspora literature and theory, and cultural studies; her fields of interest include Asian articulations of sexuality and gender, internet communication and representations, and cultural and diaspora studies. A former Fulbright Fellow to Thailand, she specializes in Thai culture and literature in English as well as non-Thai depictions of Thailand. Enteen has published essays concerning online depictions of race, gender, sexuality and nation in English by minority internet populations and the use of English language terms for sexualities and genders in the urban cultures of Thailand. She is completing a book entitled Virtual English: Internet Use, English Language, Global Subjects

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