Lesleigh Owen

Dynamic Lecturer with 17 years of successful teaching experience. Known for engaging classroom and online experiences that focus on class discussion and flipped classes. Dedicated to personalized instruction and emphasizing community-based instruction over testing and memorization.

2006-current: Fat Studies Chair of the Popular Culture/American Culture Association

• Solicit, organize, and lead Fat Studies presentations for the annual PCA/ACA Conferences.
• Support the mission and progress of the PCA/ACA.

• 2015. Fat women take center stage: A book review of Female Bodies on the American Stage. In The Fat Studies Journal, 4(2): 227-233.
• 2015. Monstrous freedom: Charting fat ambivalence. In The Fat Studies Journal, 4(1): 1-13.
• 2014. “Fat doesn’t crack”: Exploring youth privilege in the context of my fat. In Politics of Size: Perspectives from the Fat Acceptance Movement, ed. by Ragen Chastain.
• 2014. Living fat in a thin-centric world: Effects of spatial discrimination on fat bodies and selves. In Journal of Feminism & Psychology 22(3): 290-306.
• 2010. Dancing resistance?: Charting some politics of fat, feminine sexualized performances. In The Scholar & Feminist Online, 8.3: summer. http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/polyphonic/index.htm.
• 2009. Tightening up loose bodies and morals: Dieting away the sin. In The Body as a Site of Discrimination. http://www.bodydiscrimination.com/.
• 2009. NAAFA size diversity toolkit. Available through the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance.
• 2007. Consuming bodies: Fatness, sexuality, and the Protestant Ethic. UCLA Center for the Study of Women. Thinking Gender Papers, February 1. Paper TG07_Owen. http://repositories.cdlib.org/csw/thinkinggender/TG07_Owen.
• 2007. Gender and the body: Activity plan. In Introducing Women's and Gender Studies: A Teaching Resources Collection, ed. by E. Curtis. National Women’s Studies Association.