Dr. Jacqueline Jones Royster will present her lecture, \u201cVoices of Nation: Women Claiming the Power to Choose\u201d on Wednesday, March 27 at 2 p.m. in the Chattanooga Room of the UTC University Center.\u00a0 Royster will speak on the subject of Civil War women and nation building.This program is free and open to the public.\u00a0 Immediately following her talk, Royster will be the guest of honor at a tea in the Chattanooga Room.<\/p>\n
Royster\u2019s current research looks at the memoirs, letters, diaries, and autobiographical writings of Civil-War era women such as Charlotte Forten.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt a moment in America\u2019s history when the country was divided into two nations, women played a pivotal role in representing themselves, their interests, their passions, and their commitment to women\u2019s rights to make their own decisions and choose their own lives as they helped to make two nations into one,\u201d said Dr. Royster.\u00a0 \u201cAt this nation-building moment, the lesson that we can take from the way that they represented their experiences is that there is a long history of commitment to female agency in this country, a legacy that we can take at this critically important time as an affirmation of women\u2019s power to choose and a resolve to take their legacy forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
Royster earned her BA from Spelman College and her MA and DA in English from the University of Michigan; much of her work focuses on literacy studies, rhetorical studies, and women\u2019s studies. She has authored three books, including Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells-Barnett<\/i>, and coauthored several others, including Feminist Rhetorical Studies: New Horizons in Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies. <\/i>In 1995 she chaired the College Conference on Composition and Communication, known to English teachers as 4C\u2019s. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority and is Dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at the Georgia Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n
Royster\u2019s lecture is co-sponsored by the UTC Department of English, the UTC Women\u2019s Center, and the UTC Women\u2019s Studies Program.<\/p>\n
For more information, please call Dr. Marcia Noe, Professor of English and Director of Women\u2019s Studies at UTC, (423) 425-4692 \/ (423) 266-9316.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dr. Jacqueline Jones Royster will present her lecture, \u201cVoices of Nation: Women Claiming the Power to Choose\u201d on Wednesday, March 27 at 2 p.m. in the Chattanooga Room of the UTC University Center.\u00a0 Royster will speak on the subject of Civil War women and nation building.<\/p>\n