Noted Poet, Literary Critic To Speak At WestConn

 DANBURY — Dr Elisabeth Frost, poet, critic, and associate professor of English at New York’s Fordham University, will share her insightful commentary on women’s literature at 5:30 pm on Tuesday, March 15, in Warner Hall on the Western Connecticut State University Midtown campus, 181 White Street. Dr Frost’s lecture, “The Future of Feminist Text: The Word Made Flesh,” will be free and the public is invited to attend.

Dr Frost will share her thoughts as she examines works “by women who depict — and seek to understand — the experience of human embodiment.” It is a subject she knows quite well. Dr Frost authored The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry in 2003, and is currently at work on a new book, In Another Tongue: Image, Text, and the Body in Contemporary Feminist Art and Poetry.

“I look at the recent history, and the future, of feminist art and writing about the body,” Dr Frost said. “What changes have taken place in feminist thinking about the body since the 1970s? How are new understandings about gender and the body reflected in the work of recent women artists and writers, and what might the next generation bring?”

Dr Frost, currently a fellow at the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, is the first guest speaker sponsored by WestConn’s new MFA in professional writing program. Offered by the School of Arts and Sciences, the Division of Graduate Studies and the MFA in professional writing program, her lecture also is part of “The Future: Its Promises and Threats” series.

For more information, call WestConn MFA in professional writing coordinator Dr Brian Clements at 837-8876.