Keynote Speaker: Professor Isobel Grundy
~ We are delighted to announce our workshop topic and keynote speaker for 2007 ~
Isobel Grundy, Co-investigator on the Orlando Project, is also the author of volume one of the Orlando history, the early period to about 1830 (forthcoming). She received her degrees from Oxford University, where she was a member of St Anne’s College. Between her BA and her DPhil she worked for six years in Finland, London, and New York. She taught at Queen Mary College (now Queen Mary and Westfield College), London University, from 1971, then moved to the University of Alberta in 1990 as Henry Marshall Tory Professor. Her areas of research interest are women writers in English from the Medieval period through the long eighteenth century: favourite authors Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Samuel Johnson. She was one of the authors of The Feminist Companion, 1990. Her Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Comet of the Enlightenment appeared from Oxford University Press in 1999 (paperback 2001). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In September 2000 she was awarded the University of Alberta's highest honour, the University Cup, for excellence in research and teaching, and in 2006 she shared with Patricia Clements and Susan Brown in the Award for Outstanding Achievement, Society for Computing in the Arts and Humanities, Canada.
The Orlando Project's electronic text Orlando, British Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is now available by subscription to institutions and individuals. For more information about this fascinating project we recommend you visit the Cambridge Orlando Online website.
Followed by informal discussion on women and laughter ~ Of interest to scholars and students across the disciplines
Saturday 21 April 2007
University of London, Senate House, Room 273, Malet Street, London
For further information contact Teresa Barnard