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Professors to speak on balancing work and family April 8

March 25, 2009

University of Richmond professors Libby Gruner and Della Fenster will be joined by Jennifer Cognard-Black from St. Mary's College in Maryland, and Caroline Grant, senior editor of LiteraryMama.com, in a discussion about balancing motherhood and the academy. The event will take place in Weinstein Hall's Brown-Alley Room April 8 at 4 p.m., and will be followed by a reception and book-signing.

The speakers will read from their essays, featured in the anthology "Mama, Ph.D.: Women Write about Motherhood and Academic Life," and answer questions about their experiences fulfilling family and workplace obligations. Gruner is also a weekly contributor to Inside Higher Ed's blog Mama Ph.D., which offers a forum for other mothers trying to balance parenting and academe in their own lives. Fenster was also a founding contributor to the blog.

The program is sponsored by the Department of English, Common Ground, the WILL program and the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program and is free and open to the public. For more information, call (804) 289-8287.