"Troubling Violence at Home: Creative Religious, Legal, Social, and Ethical Responses to Abuse" A Free Public Lecture by Elaine Lawless Thursday, April 28, 2005, 4:00 p.m. Allen Auditorium (Arts & Sciences Building)

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Dr. Elaine Lawless is Curators' Distinguished Professor of English and Folklore Studies, Women's Studies, and Religious Studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is the editor of the Journal of American Folklore and the author of Women Escaping Violence: Empowerment Through Narrative (University of Missouri Press, 2001), which won the American Folklore Society's Elli Kongas-Maranda Prize. Her previous books include Women Preaching Revolution: Calling for Connection in a Disconnected Time (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996), Holy Women, Wholly Women: Sharing Ministries of Wholeness Through Life Stories and Reciprocal Ethnography (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993), God's Peculiar People: Women's Voices and Folk Tradition in a Pentecostal Church (University of Kentucky Press, 1988), and Handmaidens of the Lord: Pentecostal Women Preachers and Traditional Religion (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988). Lawless also produced the documentary film Joy Unspeakable. Her current research deals with the narratives of battered women in the Midwest.