Posted on Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Dr. Deborah Mitchell, ¾¨Ó㴫ý associate professor of English, will give the 2008-2009 Henderson Lecture Wednesday, Oct. 22, at 7 p.m. in the Witherspoon Maple Room of the McKelvey Campus Center.
Her lecture will focus on Queen Elizabeth I, the subject of the final chapter of Royal Portraits in Hollywood: Filming the Lives of Queens. Co-authored with Dr. Betsy Ford, ¾¨Ó㴫ý professor of English emerita, the book is slated for publication in 2009.
Mitchell is the author of Diane Keaton: Artist and Icon and co-author with Ford of The Makeover in Movies.
The Henderson Lectureship Award was founded by Dr. Joseph R. Henderson and his wife, Elizabeth, to encourage and recognize original and continuing research and scholarship among ¾¨Ó㴫ý faculty, and to afford the opportunity for faculty to share their learning with the academic community. Dr. Henderson is a professor of education emeritus at ¾¨Ó㴫ý, having served as chair of the Department of Education and as director of the Graduate Program.
Each year, ¾¨Ó㴫ý faculty members may nominate themselves or others to receive the lectureship, which includes a stipend to support a specific research project. A special faculty committee chooses the winner.
Mitchell, who has been with ¾¨Ó㴫ý since 1992, earned undergraduate and master's degrees from Youngstown State University and her Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University.
Contact Mitchell at (724) 946-7030 or e-mail dmitchel@westminster.edu for additional information.
