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October 10th
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Benson Center suite (Kittredge Central, 2nd Floor)
Food and Drinks will be provided

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Have you ever wondered how a novel works - or what kind of work it’s designed to do on you? Probably not! It seems like the most straightforward of genres. But the curious reader might find more than meets the eye with a little digging. Join Dr. Katie Davis for a lunchtime seminar during which she’ll help you unpack the opening chapters of one of the greatest novels by [arguably] the greatest English narrative artist of the 19th century! Come for free pizza and a free copy of the book, and, perhaps, for some surprising new insights into how narrative is built to move you!

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Kathryn E. Davis (PhD, University of Dallas) is an Associate Professor of English and Co-Director of the Classical Education in Rome Summer Program at the University of Dallas (UD). She was named the 2022 Haggar Fellow, an honor awarded annually to a junior faculty member nominated by faculty colleagues for excellence in teaching. She is a member of the editorial board for Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal, and several of her articles have been published in Persuasions and Persuasions On-Line. Her monograph, Liberty in Jane Austen’s Persuasion, was published by Lehigh University Press in 2017.  She has a secondary area of interest in Dante studies; her recent article, “‘Stupor non meno’: What Virgil Saw” appears in Renascence. In the summertime she can often be found teaching high school, university, and graduate students on the UD Rome Campus.