Humanities in the Village at Bird in Hand: Jennifer Stager and Leila Easa: PUBLIC FEMINISM IN TIMES OF CRISIS (with Dora Malech)

You’re invited to the first 2025 event of Humanities in the Village, an event series in partnership with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University, which aims to make scholarship publicly accessible.

January’s event features Jennifer Stager and Leila Easa, co-authors of Public Feminism in Times of Crisis: From Sappho’s Fragments to Viral Hashtags. This volume examines the public practice of feminism in the age of social media from a moment of acute crisis: the Trump years and the Covid-19 pandemic. But Easa and Stager also locate the foundations of public feminism in history, journeying through broad swatches of time looking for connections between the centuries through art and literature and culture.

It’s a book of great breadth and depth, and we’re glad that Dora Malech, Professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, will join the authors in conversation.

Audience Q&A after the reading—all are welcome! And while you’re there, pick up some recommended titles from Bird in Hand, and enjoy the offerings of nighttime beverages.

Preorder Public Feminism in Times of Crisis Here!

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Leila Easa is professor in the English department at City College of San Francisco.

Jennifer Stager is assistant professor of history of art at Johns Hopkins University and author of Seeing Color in Classical Art: Theories, Practice, and Reception from Antiquity to the Present.

Dora Malech’s most recent book of poetry is Flourish, published by Carnegie Mellon University Press, which will publish her next book of poetry, Trying × Trying, in 2025. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Poetry, Poetry London, and The Best American Poetry, and her honors include an Amy Clampitt Residency Award, a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, and a Writing Residency Fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. She lives in Baltimore, where she is a professor in Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and the editor in chief of The Hopkins Review.