Happy Hour with a Member featuring Elizabeth Bearden, School of Historical Studies
Friday, March 31
5:30 p.m. | Rubenstein Commons

Please join us for a Happy Hour with Member Elizabeth Bearden from the School of Historical Studies. 

Professor Bearden studies early modern literature and disability studies . Her first monograph, The Emblematics of the Self: Ekphrasis and Identity in Renaissance Imitations of Greek Romance,  was published by U of Toronto P in 2012. Her second monograph, Monstrous Kinds: Body, Space, and Narrative in Renaissance Representations of Disability,  was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2019 and won the Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies in the Humanities. 

While at the Institute, Elizabeth will work on her third monograph, "Crip Authority: Disability and the Art of Consolation in the Renaissance."

Beginning at 5 p.m., drinks and food will be available for purchase. Please note that this is an adult-only event.