Jane Caputi, Ph.D.

Jane Caputi is a professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at Florida Atlantic University. Her doctorate is in American Culture Studies. At FAU, Caputi has won the University Distinguished Teacher Award (2001) and was twice named University Researcher of the Year for Scholarly Activities, professor level (2005 and 2013). In 2016, the Popular Culture Association named her its “Eminent Scholar of the Year” and in 2020 the Association for the Study of Women in Mythology gave her its annual “Saga Award” for contributions to women’s history and culture. In 2013, Palm Beach County NOW (National Organization of Women gave her its annual Susan B. Anthony Feminist of the Year Award. Caputi has written four books: "The Age of Sex Crime" (1987); "Gossips, Gorgons and Crones: The Fates of the Earth" (1993); "Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power and Popular Culture" (2004); and "Call Your “Mutha’” A Deliberately Dirty-Minded Manifesto for the Earth Mother in the Anthropocene" (2020). This last book is in a series on Heretical Thought and was published by Oxford University Press. Caputi also has made two educational documentaries: "The Pornography of Everyday Life" (2006), distributed by Berkeley Media; and "Feed the Green: Feminist Voices for the Earth" (2016), distributed by Women Make Movies. She also guest curated three exhibits on the presidential campaigns for the Schmidt Galleries at FAU: “Political Circus 2008;” “Political Sideshow 2016;" and “Political Pandemonium 2020.” These focused on popular artifacts (T-shirts, bumper stickers, buttons, etc.).