The inaugural presentation in the Gloria Kaufman Memorial Lecture series will be at 6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 28, in Room 1001, Wiekamp Hall, Indiana University South Bend.

Felicity Nussbaum, a professor of English from UCLA and a former professor at IU South Bend, will speak on “Women and the British Theatre, 1700-1800.” She will speak on women coming to the stage for the first time after the Renaissance with boy actors. Her talk is drawn from the work that will be included in her new book.

A reception will open the evening at 5:30 p.m. and book signing will follow the talk at 7 p.m. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.

Before joining the faculty of UCLA, Nussbaum taught at Syracuse University and IU South Bend. She is a specialist in 18th century British literature, gender studies and autobiography. She has received numerous academics honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Marta Sutton Weeks Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center and a Rockefeller Humanist-in-Residence Fellow at the Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University.

She has been a speaker at national and international conferences in Australia, Canada and England.

She is the author of The Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly, Race and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century, and editor of The Global Eighteenth Century. In addition, she has written Torrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality, and Empire in Eighteenth-Century Narratives; The Autobiographical Subject: Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century England (which was the co-recipient of the Gottschalk Prize for the best book in its field for 1989), and The Brink of All We Hate: Satires on Women, 1660-1750.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

The lecture series is in honor of former faculty member Gloria Kaufman who was a driving force on campus for nearly 30 years.

For more information call Rebecca Torstrick, director of Women’s Studies at IU South Bend at (574) 520-5534 or rtorstri@iusb.edu .