This screening will be followed by a panel discussion led by members of the Centres for Gender, Sexuality and Writing, and American Studies at the University of Kent:

Dr Declan Kavanagh (chair): Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Studies with research interests in satire, political writing (particularly the essay-sheet), masculinity, Irish literature and queer histories and cultures.

Dr Stella Bolaki: Senior Lecturer in American Literature and author of the book Unsettling the Bildungsroman: Reading Contemporary Ethnic American Women’s Fiction.

Dr John Wills: Senior Lecturer and scholar in American Studies/Cultural Studies.

Dr Sean Grattan: Lecturer in American Literature and previously Visiting Assistant Professor of Contemporary American Literature and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, USA.