As far back as the 1700s, women were taking the stage. Among them was Elizabeth Barry. Hers was a life worth examining, as Kate Hamilton (DC’12) does in her essay, “She ‘Came up Stairs into the World’: Elizabeth Barry and Restoration Celebrity.” For her argument that Barry created a new kind of celebrity based on the spectacle of female victimization, Hamilton, a doctoral student, won the best graduate student essay award from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. The Catharine Macaulay Prize, an international award for work advancing the understanding of gender, feminism, and culture, is one more accolade the Dietrich College’s Literary and Cultural Studies-Department of English can celebrate during its 25th anniversary this year.
—Elizabeth Shestak (DC’03)
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