Women and Gender Studies
Chautauqua Lecture to Examine "Women and the American Civil War"
The role of women in the American Civil War, says historian and author Catherine Clinton, “was often a topic for folklore and romance, and often restricted to the image of women waiting on the home front for their men to come home.”
Day Named Director of Women and Gender Studies Program
Dr. Lisa Day is the new director of Women and Gender Studies at Eastern Kentucky University.
Day, an associate professor of English, has been serving as interim director since July 2011. She joined the EKU faculty in 2001 and specializes in 19th and 20th century American literature, African-Caribbean literature and gender theory.