Author and History Professor Set to Speak at UA’s Bankhead Historical Series

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. ­ The first guest speaker in The University of Alabama department of history’s Bankhead Historical Series will be author, Dr. Carole Levin on Monday, Sept. 25.

Levin, a University of Nebraska professor of history, will give a lecture titled,” ‘Murder not then the child within my womb…’ Condemned women pleading pregnancy in early modern England” at 4:30 p.m. in the Summersell Conference Room, 251 ten Hoor Hall. The public is invited, and refreshments will be served.

Levin’s books include “The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power” (University of Pennsylvania Press, New Cultural Studies Series, 1994), “Propaganda in the English Reformation: Heroic and Villainous Images of King John” (Edwin Mellen Press, 1988), and several edited volumes on Renaissance women and sexuality and politics in Renaissance drama.

A recipient of major fellowships from the Newberry Library and Folger Shakespeare Library, Levin has taught at State University of New York ­ New Paltz, University of Iowa, University of Wisconsin ­ LaCrosse, and the University of North Carolina ­ Asheville.

Other speakers in the lecture series will be announced later.