Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Women for Today’s Audiences
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Meet Sherlock Holmes’s greatest rival…no, not Moriarty. Irene Adler, the only person to ever “beat” Holmes. How does Arthur Conan Doyle’s greatest counter to Holmes speak in the context of
Event Details
Meet Sherlock Holmes’s greatest rival…no, not Moriarty. Irene Adler, the only person to ever “beat” Holmes. How does Arthur Conan Doyle’s greatest counter to Holmes speak in the context of the late Victorian era, especially in relation to today’s women in detective fiction? What is Doyle’s generation’s fascination with “categorizations” and how do the women he writes fit in—or break out of—these categorizations? And how does our all-female cast further break recent portrayals of Doyle’s famous detective?
Speakers for this event
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Laura Green
Laura Green
Laura Green is Professor at Northeastern University in the department of English and in the Women’s Gender, and Sexuality studies program. She has been at Northeastern and in Boston since 2001. Her disciplinary specialty and first love is Victorian (British 19th century) literature, particularly novels, particularly by and about women. She has published two books on women as readers, writers, and subjects of novels: Educating Women: Cultural Conflict and Victorian Literature and Literary Identification: From Charlotte Brontë to Tsitsi Dangarembga. Currently she serves in the Dean’s office of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities as Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning.