Gail Cohee

Gail Cohee directed the Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender and was an associate dean at Brown University until 2021. Before joining Brown in 2001, she taught courses in British literature, literature by women and women’s studies at Emporia State University in Kansas and at Skidmore College, the College of Saint Rose and Siena College in New York. She is a former member of the governing council of the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) and co-editor of the journal Feminist Teacher. She has published in Spenser Studies, reviewed books for Renaissance Quarterly and contributed to Brown’s online Women Writers’ Project. In addition to teaching at RISD, she taught courses at Brown through the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women and coordinated the Sexual Assault Advocates program at Brown. Cohee earned her PhD in English literature and women’s studies from Indiana University, Bloomington.