4/4/01--Boston College Law School is proud to welcome the distinguished Eléonore Raoul Professor of the Humanities at Emory University, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese. Professor Genovese will speak on "Feminism and Catholicism" on Thursday, April 5 at 12 noon, in room 402 Stuart House. Her speech is sponsored by the BCLS St. Thomas More Society.

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese earned her Ph.D. in history from Harvard University in 1974. She joined the Emory faculty in 1986 as the director of the newly formed Institute for Women's Studies. Among other grants and awards, she has received the C. Hugh Holman Prize from the Society for the Society of Southern Literature, the ACLS & Ford Foundation Fellowship, a research grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and a grant from the American Bar Association.

Professor Fox-Genovese's publications include Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South; Feminism Without Illusions: A Critique of Individualism; and "Feminism is Not the Story of My Life": How the Feminist Elite Has Lost Touch With the Real Concerns of Women. She is also the author of numerous edited volumes, articles, and introductions.

Her current research and teaching interests include the history of the American South, religious history, Southern literature, and feminist theory and history of feminist thought. She now serves as editor for The Journal of The Historical Society, and she is a frequent guest speaker for universities and organizations around the world.