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<p class=MsoNormal><b><u><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red;font-weight:bold'>SAVE THE
DATE!!<o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Please join the English department and LGBIT studies for the
annual <b><font color=navy><span style='color:navy;font-weight:bold'>Gregory
Bredbeck Memorial Lecture</span></font></b> on <b><font color=navy><span
style='color:navy;font-weight:bold'>Monday, May 24<sup>th</sup> at 4:00pm</span></font></b>
in HMNSS 1500. Our guest speaker will be:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=4
face=Arial><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Jennifer
D. Brody<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Professor of
African and African American Studies<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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w:st="on"><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>Duke</span></font></st1:PlaceName><font size=2 face=Arial><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>JENNIFER DEVERE BRODY is a Professor of African and African American
Studies at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Duke</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> where she teaches cultural
and performance studies, gender and sexuality as well as film and literary
studies. She is the author of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Impossible
Purities: Blackness, Femininity and Victorian Culture</span></i> (Duke
University Press, 1998) and <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Punctuation:
Art, Politics and Play</span></i> (Duke University Press, 2008). She has
held a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Ford Foundation and her research has
been supported by the Monette/Horwitz Trust for Independent Research as well as
the British Society for Theatre Research. Her work on race, visual culture and
African American Literature has appeared in journals such as <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Genders, Signs, Callaloo, Theatre Journal, Text and
Performance Quarterly</span></i> and numerous edited volumes. Before joining
the faculty at Duke, Prof. Brody was the Weinberg College Board of Visitors
Research and Teaching Professor at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Northwestern</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. She was
also the President of the Women and Theatre Program, a division of the
Association for Theatre in Higher Education.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>A flyer will be distributed in the near future.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Susan Brown<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Financial and Administrative Officer<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Department of English<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>University</span></font></st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">California</st1:PlaceName>, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Riverside</st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>(951)827-1456<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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