Dr. Derek Taylor, associate professor of English, will speak Wednesday, April 9

Dr. Derek Taylor, associate professor of English, will speak Wednesday, April 9, at 3 p.m. in Greenwood Library 147B on "The Curiously Conservative Feminism of Mary Astell (1666-1731)." His talk is part of the Women's & Gender Studies discussion series. Astell was a proto-feminist writer whose advocacy of equal educational opportunities for women earned her the title "the first English feminist."