Jennifer J. Toohey, she/her/hers
Coordinator - Women & Gender Studies Minor, Associate Professor Theatre Department Donald Savage Building 212Phone: (716) 878-3057
Email: Tooheyjj@buffalostate.edu
Degrees: MFA in Theater, BFA in Acting
I am the Coordinator of the Women and Gender Studies Interdisciplinary Unit and I teach WGS 101. In my field of theater, I am an annual reader and respondent for the Jane Chambers Plawriting Award which honors new feminist plays by women and genderqueer writers.
What is your favorite quote, artwork, book or documentary related to Women & Gender Studies? “We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.”—Ursula K. LeGuin
“My coach said I ran like a girl, I said if he could run a little faster he could too.” -- Mia Hamm