February 18, 2009

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - University of California, Davis Professor of English Frances E. Dolan will deliver the UAB English Alumni Lecture at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 4, at the UAB Mary Culp Hulsey Recital Hall, 950 13th St. S. The event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the UAB Department of English. For more information, call 205-934-4250.

Dolan teaches the literature and history of England, 1500-1700, with an emphasis on women, gender, law, crime, violence and feminist theory. Her lecture, "Reading Between and Across: Tracking the Petty Traitor," is based on her research in which she examined ballads, court records, pamphlets and plays, dating from 1500 to 1700, to assemble references to and representations of what she calls the "petty traitor," women who murdered their husbands.

Dolan is author of several books, including "Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern Legacy" and "Dangerous Familiars, Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700."