Administration

Acting Associate Dean of Arts - Biography

Dr. Fiona Green

Fiona Green is a University of Winnipeg alumnus. She has her MA in Women's Studies from the University of York (England) and her PhD in IDP from the University of Manitoba. She has been teaching in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Winnipeg for over two decades, where she is Co-Director of the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies and the former Chair of the Department of Women's and Gender Studies.

Her books Feminist Mothering in Theory and Practice, 1985-1995: A Study in Transformative Politics (2009), Practicing Feminist Mothering (2011), and various journal articles explore the agency of mothers and children, gender socialization, identity and expression, and the ability of feminist motherlines to contribute to feminist theorizing and praxis. Dr. Green also studies media representation of mothers, most notably in the reality TV shows Supernanny, Crash Test Mommy and Wife Swap and has published her findings in the journal Storytelling, and the forthcoming book Mediated Moms: Motherhood and Popular Culture. Her co-edited collection Maternal Pedagogies: In and Outside the Classroom (2011) explores teaching and learning experiences of mothers and feminists.