Talk Explores Victorian Images, Gender
Linda Hughes, Addie Levy professor of literature at Texas Christian University, examines representations of women and neo-Victorianism from illustrated poems in periodicals in a lecture, “Prefiguring Future Pasts: Imagined Histories in Victorian Poetic-Graphic Texts, 1860-1910,” on Monday, March 7, at 3:30 p.m. in Darling Foundation Lecture Hall, room 210. The Erasmus Society Lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Aaron Sizer at (805) 565-6124.
Hughes, whose research and teaching embraces all genres of 19th-century British studies, is particularly interested in gender studies, transnationality and historical media studies such as illustrated poetry, periodicals, publishing history and serial fiction.
“This illustrated talk, which will interweave illustrated poems from the Victorian periodical press, the relation of word and image, gender studies, neo-Victorianism, and popular culture, will appeal to a variety of intellectual interests across campus and in the community,” says Cheri Larsen Hoeckley, professor of English and faculty facilitator.
Hughes, who graduated summa cum laude from Wichita State University, earned a master’s degree and doctorate at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She has written and edited several books, published a number of articles and received multiple awards, including Graduate Professor of the Year at TCU in 2002, 2005, 2013, and 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Association Biennial Award for Contributions to the Study of British Women Writers in 2012.