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Gillian Harkins is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Washington. Her work focuses on intersections of gender, sexuality, and race in 20th- and 21st-century U.S. literature and culture. She holds a B.A. in English and Women's Studies from Wellesley College (1994) and a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley (2002).
Her research explores how cultural forms shape social and political conditions, with a focus on topics like neoliberal governance, carceral abolition, and education justice. She has published two major works: Everybody’s Family Romance: Reading Incest in Neoliberal America (2009) and Virtual Pedophilia: Profiling Sex Offenders and U.S. Security Culture (2020). These examine cultural logics surrounding family structures and security frameworks.
Since 2009, Harkins has been actively involved in higher education-in-prison programs, including University Beyond Bars (now RECLAIM), the Freedom Education Project Puget Sound, and BPC-TEACH. She advocates for education justice and prison abolition, collaborating with gender/sexuality affinity groups in carceral settings.
