About Alison Piepmeier

Alison Piepmeier is co-editor of Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century (Northeastern University Press, 2003), a collection that is widely taught in Women’s Studies classes, and author of Out in Public: Configurations of Women’s Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America (University of North Carolina Press, 2004), and the forthcoming Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism (New York University Press, 2009). She directs the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the College of Charleston, where she is associate professor of English. She is a recognized academic voice about third wave feminism. In addition to Catching a Wave, she has authored articles on third wave feminism for The Scholar & Feminist Online, The Women’s Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third Wave Feminism (ed. Leslie Heywood, 2005), and Bitch magazine. She is regularly interviewed by local and national media outlets for her opinions on young feminist issues ranging from roller derby to abortion to women changing their names when they marry. She has given numerous conference presentations on grrrl zines and lectures frequently about third wave feminism and grrrl zines at colleges and universities across the country.

Her column, Body Language, appears the third Tuesday of every month. If you would like to contact Alison Piepmeier, or serve as a guest columnist for Body Language, please email her at [email protected].