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Author and former AAU lecturer will come to discuss her new book Women鈥檚 Artistic Dissent: Repelling Totalitarianism in Pre-1989 Czechoslovakia, on March 6, 2024, from 3 pm to 5 pm, in Room 2.07.

The book, which Flanagan co-authored with , is a tribute to female dissidents in communist-era Czechoslovakia. Flanagan’s contributions to the volume focus heavily on Surrealist artist and writer , who helped forge an artistic landscape that gave space for freedom, resistance, and empathy could exist鈥攖his within a nation oppressed and a male-dominated dissident culture.

Flanagan is senior professor of English at Davidson College, with a focus in creative writing, Caribbean and African-American literature, and literary analysis. She is the recipient of numerous literary awards and serves as cultural ambassador for the the US Department of State, a role which has taken her to many countries around the globe.