Benefactors Day featuring Dr. Kristen Pond (October 20)

The Armstrong Browning Library & Museum proudly welcomes Dr. Kristen Pond, Associate Professor of English and Margarett Root Brown Chair in Robert Browning and Victorian Studies, as our 2023 Benefactors Day lecturer.

"It's Okay to Talk to Strangers: Charles Dickens and Charlotte Brontë on Enchanting Encounters"
Friday, October 20, 2023, at 3:00 p.m.
Armstrong Browning Library & Museum
Treasure Room & online via Zoom Webinar
Free and Open to the Public
CAE Credit Available for Baylor Undergraduate Students

See the Video of Dr. Pond's Lecture

Dr. Pond serves as Associate Professor, Interim First-Year Writing Director, Affiliate Faculty to Women’s and Gender Studies, and the Margarett Root Brown Chair in Robert Browning and Victorian Studies at Baylor University. Her research explores Victorian social dynamics and epistemology through novels by Harriet Martineau, George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, William Thackeray, Elizabeth Gaskell, and others. She has contributed articles for Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Victorian Literature and Culture, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Victorian Review. Her latest publication, Strangers and the Enchantment of Space in Victorian Fiction (1830–1865) is currently available for pre-order from Routledge.

For more information contact Christi Klempnauer by email or phone at (254) 710-4968.

This program is made possible through donations to the Guardian Angel Fund. To support future programs and other initiatives of the Armstrong Browning Library & Museum, consider a gift today.