Alison Piepmeier is co-editor of Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century (Northeastern University Press, 2003), a collection that is widely taught in Women's Studies classes, and author of Out in Public: Configurations of Women's Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America (University of North Carolina Press, 2004). She directs the Women's and Gender Studies Program at the College of Charleston, where she is also assistant professor of English.
She is a recognized academic voice about third wave feminism. In addition to Catching a Wave, she has authored articles on third wave feminism for The Scholar & Feminist Online, The Women's Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third Wave Feminism (ed. Leslie Heywood, 2005), and Bitch magazine. She was an invited facilitator for a 2006 Presidential Session on Third Wave Theory at the National Women's Studies Association Conference, and she is regularly interviewed by local and national media outlets for her opinions on young feminist issues ranging from roller derby to abortion to women changing their names when they marry. She has given numerous conference presentations on grrrl zines and lectures frequently about third wave feminism and grrrl zines at colleges and universities across the country.
For more information, visit her blog, Baxter Sez .