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Jane Caputi

Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies & Author

Jane Caputi is Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Florida Atlantic University. She loves teaching and learning, and as part of that has written four books, most recently Call Your Mutha’: A Deliberately Dirty-Minded Manifesto for the Earth Mother in the Anthropocene (Oxford University Press, 2020). She also has made two educational documentaries, The Pornography of Everyday Life (2006) distributed by Berkeley Media and Feed the Green: Feminist Voices for the Earth (2016), distributed by Women Make Movies. In 2016, she was named Eminent Scholar of the Year by the American Culture/Popular Culture Association and in 2020 the Association for the Study of Women in Mythology gave her their annual Saga Award for contributions to women’s history and culture.

Nov. 1, 2023

The Great Overwelm

Our language - profane, sublime and everything in between - holds hidden truths about our cultural heritage, our current reality, and who determines it - and etymology, the study of the origins of words, can unlock this know…
Guest: Jane Caputi