Speaker at Colloquium on Visual Culture April 1

Susan Bordo of the University of Kentucky will present a talk titled "Ann Boleyn: Lessons for Modern Culture" at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 1, in the University Galleries at Illinois State University. 

Her lecture is part of the Colloquium on Visual Culture in the School of Art.  Admission is free and open to the public.

Bordo currently holds the Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities at Kentucky, where she teaches English and Women's Studies.  She specializes in contemporary culture and its relation to the body, focusing on modern female disorders such as anorexia and bulimia, cosmetic surgery, beauty and evolutionary theory.  She also deals with racism and the body, issues of masculinity along with issues of sexual harassment.

Bordo received her Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1982.  She is the author of four books ("My Father's Body and Other Unexplored Regions of Masculinity," "Twilight Zones: The Hidden Life of Cultural Images From Plato to O.J.", "Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body" and "The Flight to Objectivity: Essays on Cartesianism and Culture."  She also has edited two books and is the author of many articles.