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Jane Caputi Lecture

Jane Caputi

Professor of Women’s Studies, Florida Atlantic University
PhD, BGSU ACS Program, 1982

2006 ACS Distinguished Alumni Award and Lecture

“Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth,
Power and Popular Culture”

2:30-4:00, Friday, September 22
308 Bowen-Thompson Student Union

Lecture to be followed by Public Reception

A member of the pioneering first cohort of students in the ACS PhD program, Jane Caputi received her doctorate in American Culture Studies from BGSU in 1982. For several years, Dr. Caputi was a faculty member in the American Studies Department at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. She is currently Professor of Women's Studies at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton.

Dr Caputi is the author of several books and many articles in the areas of feminist studies and popular culture. The Age of Sex Crime, (1987) is an analysis of the ritual and mythic characteristics of modern sensationalized sex murders, which began with the paradigmatic criminal, Jack the Ripper. In 1993, she published Gossips, Gorgons and Crones: The Fates of the Earth, a scathing critique of patriarchal practices, myths and values. She collaborated with Mary Daly in the production of Webster' First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language (1994), a linguistically innovative feminist reclaiming of language. Her most recent book is Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power, and Popular Culture, a Ray and Pat Browne book published by the Popular Press (2004), a collection of her essays.

Please join us this Friday to welcome Jane back to BGSU.