Reading Scheduled for Brown Visiting Scholar-in-Residence of Feminist Studies bell hooks

Brown Visiting Scholar-in-Residence of Feminist Studies bell hooks will hold a reading and signing for her new book, "Communion: The Female Search for Love," at noon Friday, Mar. 1, in the Mood-Bridwell atrium. The event is free and open to the public.

hooks, who chooses not to capitalize her name, joined Southwestern's faculty on a three-year appointment last fall. The prolific writer, cultural critic, feminist theorist and poet met with students and faculty, spoke in classes and participated in a number of discussion groups on campus. Throughout her appointment, she will continue to write and lecture around the nation and abroad. Her appointment follows hooks’ visit last spring as Southwestern's Jessie Daniel Ames Lecturer.

A true public intellectual of our time, hooks is one of the most prolific cultural workers active today. She has challenged the women's movement and anti-racist movements in the U.S. for over two decades and is the author of 20 books, including "Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work," "Feminism is for Everybody," "Where We Stand: Class Matters," and most recently, "Salvation: Black People and Love."

hooks is a frequent lecturer across the United States and abroad, and currently serves as Brown Visiting Scholar in Feminist Studies at Southwestern University. She previously taught at City College, City University of New York, Yale University and Oberlin College.

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