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. 

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

A reading to celebrate the release of our program's first anthology: "Feel It With Your Eyes: Writing Inspired by the University of Kentucky Art Museum" published by Wind Publications.

A new play by Lydia Blaisdell will have its world premiere in Lexington Nov. 5–7, in four performances at the Downtown Arts Center. The Silent Woman tells the strange, true tale of a painter living with an effigy of his ex-lover in 1919 Germany. The play won the biennial Prize for Women Playwrights from the Kentucky Women Writers Conference. “The Silent Woman is a deeply assured work, funny and strange and beautiful in turns. It will make a thrilling production," said acclaimed playwright Carson Kreitzer, who judged the competition. Blaisdell’s script depicts this risqué episode from the point of view of scullery maid Hulda, persuaded to serve as a ladies maid to the effigy. Independently produced by Eric Seale, in collaboration with Kentucky Women Writers Conference and the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences, The Silent Woman features a top-notch cast of Kentucky actors whose names will be familiar to local theater audiences: Bethany Finley as the maid Hulda, Darius Fatemi as the painter Oskar, and Bob Singleton as the butler, the coachman who courts Hulda, and the policeman. Performance dates are Nov. 5 at 7:30 pm, Nov. 6 at 7:30 pm, and Nov. 7 and 2 pm and 7:30 pm. Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for students, and $8 for students 15 minutes before curtain time. To purchase tickets call 859-425-2550 or visit online at lexingtonky.gov/dac. To arrange for the playwright to meet with any student groups attending the play, please contact KWWC director Julie Wrinn at 257-2874 or Julie.Wrinn@uky.edu.