Friends of the UNCG Libraries

You Are Invited . . .  What:   A book talk by Professor Kelly Ritter on To Know Her Own History: Writing at the Woman's College. 1943-1963 . When: Thursday, October 25 at 4 pm Where: Hodges Reading Room, Jackson Library   As Professor Kelly Ritter (English Department) describes in her introduction, " To Know Her Own History is a sociohistorical study that focuses on the intertwined histories of first-year composition and creative writing at a public Southern women’s college in the mid-twentieth century in order to examine how evolving definitions of literacy, as well as evolving views of women as writers, shaped American college writing instruction during the postwar era. I offer new historical insight into the historical happenings in women’s writing postwar through an extended case study of the English department of the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina, and spotlight the national curricular trends and local institutional conditions ...