Sitting in Mrs. Barbauld’s Pew: Anna Barbauld’s Social Activism
Dr. Lisa Vargo (PhD) presents the 2022 Peter Millard Lecture
Date: Friday, March 11
Time: 1–2:30 pm
Location: Room 108 Arts Building, 9 Campus Dr.
Free and open to the public
A talk by Dr. Lisa Vargo (PhD), professor, Department of English
Lisa Vargo's 2022 Millard Lecture will acknowledge its namesake's advocacy for human rights by considering Anna Barbauld’s rich and varied career. Barbauld's place within the intellectual culture of Protestant Dissent, a group whose members were denied civil liberties, represents an earlier example of social activism. Vargo will mix brief reflections about her own experience with analysis of Barbauld's work, and will also survey the transformation of Anna Barbauld's literary reputation as a prelude to discussing her career as a public intellectual.
The Peter Millard Lecture honours Dr. Peter Millard (1932–2001). Dr. Millard, head of the Department of English (1985-91), was highly influential in gay and human rights. In 1994, the University of Saskatchewan established the Peter Millard Scholarship, Canada’s first university-administered scholarship for research in gay and lesbian studies.
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