#  Reading Group: The Woman of Colour 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **December 9, 2021** 

 05:00PM - 05:00PM EST 

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 **Zoom Meeting**  



 

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[EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES ](/eighteenth-century-studies)

 **SPEAKERS: JENNY REEDS (COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS), OLIVIA CARPENTER (UNIVERSITY OF YORK)**

 **Jenny Reed** works on eighteenth-century literature and culture with a focus on British empire. She is the Managing Editor of *Studies in Romanticism* at Boston University, and currently holds a visiting position in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature at the College of the Holy Cross. Her book project is titled *Redrawing the Map: Affective Mapping of British Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century*. The project looks at how eighteenth-century Britain reconciled the emergence of a culture of sympathy and sensibility with its imperial ambitions across the globe.

 **Olivia Carpenter** is a lecturer in Literature whose research focuses on Black Studies, Critical Race Theory, and literary history. Her first book project, *Marriage Interruptus: Black Marriage Interrupted in Domestic Fiction, 1791-1853*, examines Black characters in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century British marriage plots, incorporating approaches from legal studies, studies of women, gender, and sexuality, art and visual studies, and material history. She has also written on how eighteenth-century literature and culture continues to make claims on our own twenty-first-century moment, particularly with respect to questions of race and racism. Her essays have appeared in *Studies in* *Eighteenth-Century Culture and The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation*. Olivia completed her PhD at Harvard University in 2021.

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- [ Eighteenth-Century Studies ](/seminars/eighteenth-century-studies)
 
 

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