Monday, February 14, 2000

WILMINGTON, NC -- Claudia Tate, professor of English at Princeton University, will present "Who's That Lady? Visual Representations of Black Femininity" at 8 p.m., Monday, Feb. 28, in UNCW's Cameron Hall Auditorium. This free lecture, sponsored by the English Department's Katherine K. Buckner Distinguished Presentation Series, will kick off the university's March observance of Women's History Month.

Tate, who earned her doctoral degree from Harvard University, is an expert in American and African-American literature, gender and cultural studies and psychoanalytical criticism. She is the author of Domestic Allegories of Political Desire: The Black Heroine's Text at the Turn of the Century and Psychoanalysis and Black Novels: Desire and the Protocols of Race. A postdoctoral fellow at the National Humanities Center based in Research Triangle Park, Tate is working on a project about popular visual representations of black femininity. She is also the editor of Black Women Writers at Work.