Dr. Helen Small, Visiting Pembroke Scholar from Oxford University, will visit the Hamilton campus from October 8 through 18. Dr. Small, the author of Love's Madness: Medicine, the Novel, and Female Insanity, 1800-1865 (Clarendon Press) and the editor of The Public Intellectual (Blackwell Publishers), specializes in 19th century English literature and science. Small will give a lecture, "Chances Are: Thomas Hardy and the Individual at Risk," on Wednesday, October 9, at 4:10 p.m. in the Red Pit, Kirner-Johnson Building. The lecture is sponsored by the President's Office and the Office of the Dean of the Faculty.
Dr. Small, a fellow in English literature at Pembroke College and Lecturer at University of Oxford, received the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Prince of Wales Scholarship to Cambridge University, and a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. Editor of several books and author of several essays and articles, Small is a regular referee of literature and history of science related book-proposal and transcripts for Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press.
