Sara Ishii-Bear
Sara Ishii-Bear, PhD
Assistant Professor
Art History & Visual Culture
Phone: 940-898-2535
Email: sishii@twu.edu
Office: ART 102A
Sara Ishii-Bear, PhD
Dr. Sara Ishii-Bear is an interdisciplinary feminist artist/scholar with a background in Visual Art and Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies. Her ongoing research examines creative interventions into social justice issues, related to contemporary women of color feminist art, and Gloria Anzaldúan theorizing. Ishii-Bear’s current art draws on personal and familial experience, rooted in Japanese-American history of immigration, citizenship, and labor.
Ishii-Bear holds a PhD in Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies from Texas Woman’s University, an MFA in Art and Technology from the University of Texas at Dallas, and an MA in Feminist, Gender, and Women’s Studies from York University, Toronto.
Recent Publications
- Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol 57, No 2, Summer 2023.
- Journal of Feminist, Gender and Women Studies, Vol 1, No 12, 2022.
- Art History Pedagogy & Practice Journal, Volume 7, Issue 1, 2022.
- philoSOPHIA: A Journal of transContinental Feminism, Volume 11, Issue 1/2, 2021.
- MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture. Issue 7, June 2021.
College of Arts & Sciences - Sara Ishii-Bear, PhD
Recent Works
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