For thirty years, FSCJ published Kalliope, a nationally-recognized journal of women’s art and literature. Though it was discontinued in 2008, the work in Kalliope remains vibrant and relevant today. Join Florence M. Turcotte, Literary Manuscripts Archivist at University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries; Marsha Bryant, UF Professor of English and Distinguished Teaching Scholar; and a selection of UF graduate students for a discussion of the importance of Kalliope and how they continue to use the magazine in their teaching and research.

Thursday, September 25
3-4:15 p.m.
Join online at https://bit.ly/MuseStillSpeaks

The graduate student panel for this event will include:

* CR Dean, Graduate Researcher & Instructor - CR Dean is a first-generation doctoral student and literary scholar who examines 19th to 21st-century American and Victorian/British literature and visual media to analyze mixed-race identity, caricatures, and minstrelsy. Her forthcoming essays are about Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White, J.M Barrie’s Peter Pan, and Jessie Redmon Fauset’s Plum Bun.

* Abiola Emmanuel, Graduate Student and Instructor - Abiola Emmanuel is a Ph.D. student. Her interests are in Diaspora Literature (with a focus on Africa and Latin America), Migration Studies, Postcolonial Methodologies and Women’s Writing. She also enjoys creative writing.

* Annesha Palit, Graduate Student and Instructor - Annesha Palit is a first generation doctoral student hailing from India. Her research interests dabble between Children’s literature, Disability Studies and Pedagogy.