Asmi Basu has been a Motherhood Studies scholar since 2015. She has done her M.Phil. in Women's Studies, on the patterns of alternative motherhood in Saratchandra Chattopadhyay's short stories. She is the founder of Gender Benders, an organization that conducts gender sensitization, consciousness raising sessions, open mics at colleges, schools and universities in collaboration and also independently since 2018. She is currently employed as an Assistant Professor of English having previously taught Women's Studies and Gender and Literature in several colleges in Kolkata.
Kasturi Ghosh is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Waterloo, ON, Canada. Supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship and several Ontario Graduate Scholarships, her research explores the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality in contemporary Gothic Fiction of the American South, reading it as a body of fiction that reflects both the homogeneous identity forced upon the region and the uncanny re-emergence of its diversity. Before coming to UW for her PhD, Kasturi served as an Assistant Professor of English for eight years in India and has published papers in peer-reviewed journals.
Fiona Joy Green, PhD identifies as a cisgender, temporarily able-bodied, straight feminist mother who believes in the power of revolutionary feminist parenting. As an intersectional feminist and White settler living on Turtle Island, she's interested in the agency of children and parents, in gender identities, and in the ability of matroreform and feminist motherlines to contribute to feminist parenting, feminist theorizing, and feminist praxis. Dr. Green is the author of Practicing Feminist Mothering (ARP, 2011), the co-editor of nine collections published by Demeter Press that address feminist parenting or maternal pedagogies, and the author of peer-reviewed articles and chapters on female genital cutting, gender fluidity, mommy blogging, and family engagement with privacy and boundary setting related to media and technologies.
Lynn O’Brien Hallstein (PhD Ohio State University) is the Assistant Provost for General Education and a Professor of Rhetoric at the College of General Studies, Boston University. As a motherhood scholar who employs a communication lens, her research explores the various ways that contemporary motherhood is constructed rhetorically. She has published several books and various peer-reviewed journal articles and/or book chapters, while also presenting conference papers regularly at both communication and motherhood conferences.
Dr. Andrea O’Reilly is internationally recognized as the founder of Motherhood Studies (2006) and its subfield Maternal Theory (2007), and creator of Matricentric Feminism, a feminism for and about mothers (2016) and Matricritics, a literary theory and practice for a reading of mother-focused texts (2024). She is full professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University, founder/editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Motherhood Initiative and publisher of Demeter Press and author and co-editor/editor of thirty-five-plus books on many motherhood topics.
Reut Odinak, PhD (Boston University), is a feminist media studies scholar whose research examines how contemporary media represents motherhood and the reproductive body in relation to sexuality, agency, and reproductive politics. Her dissertation, "Womb for Rent: The Politics of Surrogacy, Reproduction, and Motherhood on Television," explores how scripted series and television news over the past forty years have shaped, challenged, and remade cultural understandings of family, motherhood, bodily autonomy, and personhood. Her work has appeared in Feminist Media Studies, Flow Journal, The Routledge Companion to Motherhood on Screen, and Gendered/Transgendered Bodies in Popular Culture Since 2010.
