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Professor Rachel Bowlby to launch Summer Term Open Lecture Series

The University of Kent's Summer Term Open Lecture Series begins on Friday 16 May with a lecture by Professor Rachael Bowlby.

Titled Where ignorance is bliss: folly and family secrets, Professor Bowlby's lecture will take place at 6pm in the Brabourne Lecture Theatre, Keynes College, on the University's Canterbury Campus. There is disabled access to Keynes College and the lecture theatre. Open lectures are free and open to all.

Professor Rachel Bowlby has taught at the universities of Sussex, Oxford and York. In 2004 she moved to University College London where she is Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature. Her research interests include psychoanalysis and changing identities, realism, histories and theories of consumer culture, Virginia Woolf and comparative literature.

Her publications include Feminist Destinations and Further Essays on Virginia Woolf (1997); Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping (2000) and Freudian Mythologies: Greek Tragedy and Modern Identities (2007).

Professor Bowlby's lecture inaugurates the University's Centre for Gender, Sexuality and Writing's series of biennial lectures by distinguished scholars on questions of gender.

Other speakers in the University of Kent's Summer Term Open Lecture Series include: Professor Brian Ford, research scientist, author and broadcaster; Professor Gary Taylor, lecturer, writer and editor; Nick Starr, Executive Director National Theatre; and Professor Roy Ellen, Professor of Anthropology and Human Ecology, University of Kent.

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Story published at 2:43pm 9 May 2008