Penelope will deliver two seminars.
All events are free and open to the public.
Penelope has been a prolific scholar, and was a pioneer researcher on the nature of sexism in the English language. Penelope is the only researcher on doublespeak who concentrates on how certain syntactic structures can be used to lie. She also was one of the first scholars to teach women's studies courses, including Twentieth-Century Lesbian Novels and Feminist Literary Criticism. In her first seminar, Penelope will utilize her expertise in sexism of language, analyzing how the structures and the vocabularies of English today continue to restrict people's thinking and actions. Based on two decades of linguistic research, Penelope's book shows how languages are systems of rules that not only allow people to communicate but also limit what is said and thought.