2022 Feminist Lunch Series - Faculty of Arts-FR
Event Date(s):
November 22, 2022
Time(s):
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Category:
Fredericton
Location:
Fredericton
Event Details:
Please mark your calendars for the second talk of our Fall 2022 Feminist Lunch Series in the Faculty of Arts to be given on in Tilley Hall Rm. 28 (basement) on UNB Campus in Fredericton by Dr. Melissa Pullara (English at UNB).
Masks are required on campus. All are welcome...
Our virtual Feminist Lunch Series series will continue in the Winter term with presentations by: Lisa Robertson, Kerri Froc and Mathilde Corbeil-Savard, among others.
The Feminist Lunch Series is organized by the UNB Gender & Women’s Studies Program, the UNB/STU University Women’s Centre and the Office of the UNB Dean of Arts. Special thanks to Daniel Grant for technical help. For more information on the series, contact Sophie Lavoie.
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The talk is titled: "'Give me leave to curse awhile': Centering the voices of Shakespeare’s demonized women in recent adaptations of Henry VI."
In the Henry VI plays, Joan la Pucelle and Margaret of Anjou are French foreigners who are labeled as witches as a result of their refusal to submit to powerful men. But several adaptations of the plays in the #MeToo era have challenged the demonization of these women, offering the characters a chance to speak in ways Shakespeare, and history, has otherwise prohibited. I will discuss how two of these modern productions, in particular, emphasize the female voice as a potent tool for exposing how the maintenance of dominant patriarchal structures relies on the denigration and silencing of women who might dare to oppose them.
Dr. Pullara completed her Ph.D in English Literature with a specialization in early modern drama at Carleton University, and received her M.A and B.A in English from Queen’s University. Her doctoral thesis analyzed how the psychological affects of human encounters with the supernatural in a variety of early modern plays (including those by George Chapman, John Marston, Thomas Middleton, and Shakespeare) implicitly manifest socio-political critiques of 16th and 17th century English gender and power systems. Her recent work focuses on the link between early modern accusations of witchcraft and modern discourse surrounding female abuse, looking particularly at how the dramatic revival and reinterpretation of Elizabethan and Jacobean plays where women are demonized as witches resonate differently in the #MeToo era.
