Susan Bordo is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and holds the Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities at the University of Kentucky. She is internationally known for her many publications in body studies and history of culture. Her most recent book, The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England’s Most Notorious Queen, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in April 2013.

Ellen Rosenman is Professor of English at the University of Kentucky. She is the co-editor of Other Mothers: Beyond the Victorian Maternal Ideal and author of Unauthorized Pleasures: Accounts of Victorian Erotic Experience.  Dr. Rosenman is interested in the novel and its relationship to other kinds of narratives such as journalism, professional discourses, and conduct books as ways in which cultural values are articulated, challenged, and re-made.

Cristina Alcalde is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Kentucky.  She is also Director of Graduate Studies for Gender and Women's Studies and from 2011-2015 served as Faculty Co-Director of A&S Wired Residential College.  Her 2010 book, The Woman in the Violence: Gender, Poverty, and Resistance in Peru, was recently translated into a Spanish edition.

The editors and authors from the book will discuss how interdisciplinary and intersectional analysis foregrounds feminist inquiry into social movements and political discourses as they migrate from the local to the global and back again.

Please join us for a reception following the panel discussion in the Alumni Gallery. 

Sponsored by the Dept. of Gender & Women's studies and the Gaines Center for the Humanities. 

Dr. Renzetti is Chair and Professor of Sociology at the University of Kentucky, and currently serves as the Judi Conway Patton Endowed Chair in the Center for Research on Violence Against Women.  She is also the editor of Violence Against Women: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal, the Oxford University Press Series on Interpersonal Violence, and the University of California Press Series on Gender and Justice.

Dr. Follingstad is the Women’s Circle Endowed Chair in the Center for Research on Violence Against Women and a Professor of Clinical and Forensic Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine at the University of Kentucky (with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychology).  She is currently the Executive Director of the Center for Research on Violence Against Women at the University of Kentucky.

Dr. Renzetti and Dr. Follingstad will present findings from the latest Campus Attitudes Toward Safety (CATS) study and discuss what can be learned from the study and the importance of improving safety on campus for all students.

A reception will follow in the Alumni Gallery adjacent to the auditorium. 

Students of Frank X Walker’s Eng 607 course will read work inspired by primary documents in the Special Collections.