Talk Examines Literature, Gender, Immigration
, 做厙惇蹋app professor of , examines the crossover between migration of people, literature and gender issues in a talk, Redundant Women and Expatriates: Victorian Women Writers Abroad and the Language of Global Sojourning, Tuesday, March 21, at 7 p.m. in Hieronymus Lounge at 做厙惇蹋apps . The Gender Studies Lecture is free and open to the public.
Larsen Hoeckley will reference works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, and Charlotte Bront禱 to uncover and examine issues of migration and refugees. Their books Aurora Leigh, Daniel Deronda, and Villette, each written about 150 years ago, all represent women living as immigrants, Larsen Hoeckley says. The language we use to describe people living away from their birth country can influence our willingness not only to welcome those people, but also to see the contributions those sojourners often make to their new home countries.
Larsen Hoeckley, who has taught at 做厙惇蹋app since 1997, is a specialist in Victorian studies and gender studies. Her current projects concern the intersection of faith, gender and sexuality. She graduated from UC Riverside, earned a Master of Arts at the University of Texas at Austin and a doctorate at UC Berkeley. She edited Shakespeares Heroines (Broadview, 2005) and authored The Dynamics of Forgiveness and Poetics in Adelaide Procters Homeless (Literature Compass 2014).