All honors students and faculty are invited to attend an event to learn more about the Honors Program at BMCC and to meet each other.
Light refreshments will be served.
Special Guest Speaker, Wendy Moffat, Dickinson College
“Why Haven’t I Heard of Her/Him/That?: Reading Culture and Writing Biography in a Moment of Change”
About Wendy Moffat
Wendy Moffat writes biographies of prophetic outsiders—a queer writer, a mentally-fragile woman, and a working-class doctor whose lives have been mis
represented or forgotten. Using examples from her award-winning biography of the queer novelist E. M. Forster, and her current project on the unknown New Yorkers who brought PTSD medicine to American troops in World War I, she explores her process of discovery, and examines why these suppressed stories resonate now–and how they came to be forgotten. Professor Moffat will also discuss patterns that lead to success in her community college transfer students to Dickinson College, a liberal arts college in Pennsylvania.
Born in London and educated in New Haven, Wendy Moffat lives in Carlisle, Pa., where she’s a professor of English and holds the Curley Chair in Global Education at Dickinson College. Her dedication to education is apparent not only in the classroom, but also in the lifelong relationships she cultivates with her students. Her writing has spanned topics including Jane Austen, photography, modernism and sexuality, pedagogy, and academic administration. In 2010, she published A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E.M. Forster, which was named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, among other honors. Wendy is currently at work on a biography of two lesser-known Americans — field psychiatrist Thomas Salmon and war journalist Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant — who experienced (and, in Sergeant’s case, nearly died in) World War I. After returning to the States, they crusaded to have psychiatric trauma recognized as a legitimate war wound. Their pioneering work forever altered the way we understand the psychiatric impacts of war. Wendy Moffat holds a Ph.D. in English literature from Yale University.
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