Toby Cason Beauchamp

Toby Cason Beauchamp serves as Chair and Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, with a concurrent appointment in the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.

His scholarly focus centers on Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Critical Theory, Interpretive Theory, and Feminist Theory, examining intersections of identity, power structures, and cultural representation through interdisciplinary critique. As department chair, he oversees academic programming while advancing theoretical frameworks in gender scholarship.