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2007-2008 Programs

Annual Meeting and Spring Event Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 7:30 pm
Merrick Lecture Hall

"Jane Austen, Jane Porter, and Bath"
A lecture by Devoney Looser
2008 Burke Scholar-in-Residence

2008 Burke Scholar-in-Residence Devoney Looser, author of British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820, uses the correspondence of Austen contemporary Jane Porter to hypothesize about Jane Austen's experiences in Bath, England.

Associate Professor of English and literature coordinator at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Dr. Looser has written extensively on Jane Austen and is currently at work on two book-length projects.

Fall Event
Tuesday, September 25, 2007. 7:00 pm, Dunnock Theater, Meyerhoff Arts Center "The Cone Sister"

Vivienne Shub performs The Cone Sister, a play by Naomi Greenberg-Slovin. The one-woman show chronicles the lives of renowned art collectors Etta and Claribel Cone.

See the Goucher Press Release.