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English professor speaks at Group for 
Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference

LAKELAND, Fla. (Nov. 11, 2002) - Dr. Catherine Eskin, English professor at Florida Southern College, will present a paper at the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS) conference in Tampa on Nov. 15, 2002. 

Eskin's paper, "'I woulde weepe more and speake lesse': Women's Speech in Male-Authored Elizabethan Romance," is part of a larger project (partly funded by an FSC summer stipend for research) on women's eloquence in early modern England. In this paper she uses a specific character from a 1592 romance as an example of the disruptive power of women's speech. GEMCS is a scholarly society that is interested in the longer early modern period (ca. 1450-ca. 1750). This year marks their 10th anniversary. The organization publishes the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, which is housed at the University of Florida.  Eskin joined the faculty of Florida Southern College in 1999 and has since served as the first director of the department's computer classroom. She teaches composition, British literature, women's studies, sixteenth and seventeenth century literature, and Shakespeare.

About Florida Southern College
Florida Southern is a four-year, private, co-educational liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The college offers more than 40 undergraduate majors and a master of business administration degree accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Located in Lakeland, Fla., the college is home to the largest, single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the world. 

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