Virtual Speaker Event: Author Alex Myers on March 22 at 12:30pm (Zoom)

Alex Myers adapts the 13th-century French romance Le Roman de Silence into The Story of Silence for the modern reader. This "knightly fairy tale of royalty and dragons, of midwives with secrets and dashing strangers in dark inns" revolves around events following "a foolish king who decreed that women
should not, and would not, inherit. Thus when a girl-child was born to Lord Cador [ ... ] he secreted her away: to be raised a boy so that the family land and honour would remain intact. That child's name was Silence. Silence must find their own place in a
medieval world that is determined to place the many restrictions of gender and class upon them. With dreams of knighthood and a lonely heart to answer, Silence sets out to define themselves."

Event co-sponsored by the Department of English; the Department of Languages, Linguistics, and Comparative Literature; and the Center for Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies.

For more information, please email Dr. Carla Mar[a Thomas at carlathomas@fau.edu.