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The feminist definition of obscenity in
today's theater
November 4, 2003
The LSU Theatre Department will host Penny Farfan, an associate
professor of drama at the University of Calgary, Nov. 13-14.
Farfan will speak on "Feminist Redefinitions of Obscenity in
Modern Drama and Performance," Thursday, Nov. 13, from 4:30
p.m. - 5:30 p.m. in Theater 150 of the LSU Music and Dramatic Arts
Building. She will also be meeting informally that day with women's
and gender studies students and faculty at the LSU Women's Center
from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The public is invited to attend.
Farfan's work has appeared in numerous publications such as Theatre
Journal, Modern Drama, Canadian Theatre Review, The Canadian Encyclopedia,
New Readings in American Drama: Something's Happening Here, and
has essays forthcoming in The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism
and The Tennessee Williams Encyclopedia.
She has also served as the book review editor of Modern Drama.
In 1997, she received the Association for Theatre in Higher Education's
Research Award for Outstanding Journal Article for her essay "Writing/Performing:
Virginia Woolf Between the Acts," and she has held fellowships
and grants from the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Calgary Institute
for the Humanities and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada.
Her book "Women, Modernism and Performance" will be available
from Cambridge University Press in 2004.
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