Dr. Barbara Chiarello, the author of “Ingrained Patriarchy, Opportunity Lost,” is an adjunct assistant professor in the UTA English Department. “I have taught multicultural American literature for over 20 years. I use various critical approaches, including feminist theory and cultural studies, to enable marginalized voices to be heard more fully, as they must be to sustain justice in a democratic society. The vignette that I submitted illustrates how we often understand past events in terms of current knowledge. Graduate school gave me the language to re-see a traumatic moment in terms of the systemic sexism that continues to influence us all. As more of us become aware of our implicit biases, if even retroactively, as I did, maybe we can let them go.”
