Amy Erdman Farrell

Amy Erdman Farrell is the James Hope Caldwell Memorial Chair and Professor of American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Dickinson College. The author of Yours in Sisterhood: Ms. Magazine and the Promise of Popular Feminism and Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture, she has shared her research on national popular media, including Bitch, the New Yorker, Psychology Today, NPR , CNN , and The Colbert Report. From 2019 to 2020 she served as an American Council...See more

Amy Erdman Farrell is the James Hope Caldwell Memorial Chair and Professor of American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Dickinson College. The author of Yours in Sisterhood: Ms. Magazine and the Promise of Popular Feminism and Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture, she has shared her research on national popular media, including Bitch, the New Yorker, Psychology Today, NPR , CNN , and The Colbert Report. From 2019 to 2020 she served as an American Council of Learned Societies fellow and in 2021-2022 she was in residence at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, where she worked on a project focusing on key moments in the history of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America. See less