Faculty, administrators and graduate students will have an opportunity to explore issues of faculty diversity during a campus appearance by Patricia Matthew, the editor of “Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure.”

Matthew will speak at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17, in Room 230, Erb Memorial Union. Her lecture is titled “Written/Unwritten: On the Promise and Limits of Diversity and Inclusion.” 

An associate professor of English at Montclair State University, Matthew gives lectures on diversity at universities throughout the country. Her work on faculty diversity has been featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Education and The Los Angeles Review of Books.

Matthew is a specialist in the history of the novel and British abolitionist literature and has published articles in European Romantic Review, Women’s Writing, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies and the Keats-Shelley Journal.

Her essays on race, popular culture and British literature have been published in Lapham’s Quarterly and The Atlantic. She is currently writing a book on sugar, gender and political protests in 19th-century England.

Her talk is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society, Division of Equity and Inclusion, and the Office of the Provost.