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FSC English department holds
first lecture of the semester

LAKELAND, Fla. (September 29, 2003) - The English department at Florida Southern College presents a lecture by Dr. Rebecca R. Saulsbury, English professor, who will discuss "Christian Conversion and the 'Foreign' Body in Maria S. Cummins' 'El Fureidis.'" The presentation takes place tomorrow at 3:45 p.m. in the William H. Danforth Chapel on campus. The public is invited and refreshments will be served. 

Saulsbury joined Florida Southern in 1999. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Puget Sound and went on to Purdue, earning her master's in English and American literature in 1992 and her Ph.D. in American studies in 1999. 

For further information, please contact Dr. Bernard W. Quetchenbach at 680-4221 or bquetchenbach@flsouthern.edu. 

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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