Media release from Chieftains Museum/Major Ridge Home:
Chieftains Museum/Major Ridge Home, in partnership with The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation will continue the Fall Lecture Series with Dr. Theresa Strouth Gaul on October 17th beginning at 7pm at McAllister Hall Auditorium located at Berry College.
Presented by Dr. Theresa Gaul, “Writing for Her People: Epistolary Activism in the Cherokee Life and Letters of Catherine Brown” tells the story of a young Cherokee woman whose voice had an unusual reach to Anglo-American audiences in the early nineteenth century.
Dr. Gaul is the director of Core Curriculum and professor of English at Texas Christian University. An award-winning researcher, teacher, academic leader and diversity and inclusion advocate, her scholarship focuses on US women’s writing, early Indigenous writers, and letters as a literary form.
This presentation is free and open to the public and is co-sponsored by The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and Berry College.
For more information about the event or the museum, visit www.chieftainsmuseum.org or call (762) 327-6124.
