By Lanita Withers Goins, University Relations
Contact: (336) 334-3890
Posted 4-01-09
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Dr. Michelle Dowd, the recipient of the 2008-09 Linda A. Carlisle Research Grant, will speak on “Adam’s Rib, Eve’s Voice: Editing Early Modern Women’s Writing on the Fall” at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 15, in the Claxton Room of Elliott University Center.
The event is open to the public at no charge.
Dowd, an assistant professor of English at UNCG, will discuss her research for “Adam's Rib: An Anthology of Early Modern Women's Writing on the Fall,” an anthology of 17th century Englishwomen’s literary depictions of the story from Genesis.
Literate laywomen in the 16th and 17th centuries increasingly turned to the story of the fall of mankind to question and write about their relationship to Christian society. However, while author John Milton’s representation of Eve and the fall of mankind in “Paradise Lost” has received abundant critical attention, early modern women’s accounts of the fall have been largely ignored. Dowd’s research brings together a rich assortment of often-neglected primary sources.
Carlisle Faculty Research Grants are awarded annually to full-time UNCG faculty members to support research or creative activity related to women's and gender studies.
The lecture series is named for UNCG alumna Linda A. Carlisle, a former member of the Board of Trustees and longtime supporter of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, who is serving as secretary of the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources under an appointment by Gov. Beverly Perdue.
For more information on the event, contact Carole Lindsey-Potter, the Women's and Gender Studies Program administrator, at (336) 334-4323 or cllindse@uncg.edu.
