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Chicana artist Cherrie Moraga to speak Feb. 24 Editor's note: This program has been canceled because of the weather.
Presented by Women’s Studies, the event will be the fifth in a series of Carter Lectures presented to honor Mae Carter, founder of UD’s Women’s Studies Program. Moraga comes to UD courtesy of the Greater Philadelphia Women’s Studies Consortium, a program that coordinates programming on topics of importance related to gender and society for 12 regional institutions, including UD. Moraga has written several works concerning race, feminism and lesbianism. Her book, This Bridge Called My Back, won the American Book Award from the Columbus Foundation and has found widespread readership from women’s studies scholars and women of color. In 1983, Moraga published Loving in the War Years, the first published book by an openly lesbian Chicana. Moraga’s lecture will cover the ideas expressed in her poems, books and plays, and she also will explore multiple identities and ways of combining them. Marian Palley, director of Women’s Studies at UD, said she is pleased to have Moraga lecture at the University. “She has been a pivotal personality in women’s studies since the early 80s,” Palley said. “She raises questions of ethnicity, sexuality, race and class that many students are interested in.” Besides Women’s Studies, Moraga’s lecture is cosponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of English, the Greater Philadelphia Women’s Studies Consortium, HOLA, Latin American Studies, Latino and Latin American Heritage Office, LGBT Community Office, Office of the Vice President for Administration, Office of Women’s Affairs and the Visiting Women Scholars Fund. Article by Alexis Carroll, AS ‘05 Editor's note: This article was updated at 2:10 p.m., Feb. 24. To learn how to subscribe to UDaily, click here. |
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