Dr. Jeannie Ludlow (she/her)
Professor Emerita of English and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Email: jludlow@eiu.eduWebsite: /women/
INTRODUCTION
I have retired from EIU! If you have questions about Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, please contact Dr. Jessica Tindira at jltindira@eiu.edu.
Personal email: jeannieludlow@gmail.com
UPI email: jeannieludlowUPI@gmail.com
Education & Training
Ph.D. American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University, Ohio
M.A. English Literature, Bowling Green State University, Ohio
Conference Presentations
“Speaking Truths about Abortion: Curriculum and the Politics of Lack Excess,” presented at the Feminist and Rhetorics Conference, Durham NH, July 17-19, 2025
“Re-Familialized: Women and Queer Writers Reimagine Care(giving),” presented at the Northeast MLA conference, Philadelphia, PA, Mar. 6-9, 2025
Community
Urbana-Champaign Reproductive Justice (UCRJ), advisory board, 2023-present
Abortion Conversation Project, National Board, 2010-2018, 2021-present
Publications
“Theorizing Graphic Embodiments: A Feminist Perspective,” co-authored with Lisa DeTora, Humanities, 14(7), 2025, doi.org/10.3390/hl4070143.
“Vaccinated by the Blood: Antiabortion Mobilization of the COVID Body,” in Envisioning Embodiment in the Health Humanities: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature, Culture, and Media, essay collection edited by Jodi Cressman, Lisa M. DeTora, Jeannie Ludlow, Nora Martin Peterson, Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming spring 2024.
“‘No Bigger than a Baby Bird’: Narrating Prochoice Fetal Materiality,” for Abortion in Popular Culture: A Call to Action, edited by Brenda Boudreau and Kelli Maloy, Lexington Press, 2023, pp. 225-50.
“Full Bleed: The Graphic Period at the End of the Menstrual Narrative” in Graphic Perspectives on Health and Embodiment, edited by Jodi Cressman and Lisa DeTora, University of Leuven/Cornell University Press, 2021, pp. 73-83.
“It’s A Boy! borted: Visualizing the Fetus in Abortion Narratives,” in Representing Abortion, edited by Rachel Hurst, Routledge Press, 2021, pp. 49-60.
“Look Like a Provider: Representing the Materiality of the Fetus in Abortion Care Work,” with Lena R. Hann, PhD, in Representing Abortion, edited by Rachel Hurst, Routledge Press, 2021, pp. 119-130.
Research & Creative Interests
Reproduction and abortion in literature, art, and culture
Professional Affiliations
Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition
National Women’s Studies Association
Northeast Modern Language Association