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An Alyssa Hard Event: Perfumed Letters

ByGWEnglish February 13, 2014January 4, 2022

Perfumed Letters:

a roundtable discussion of

perfume & literature

Author Alyssa Harad

Friday, February 21st

11-1 pm

Marvin Center Rm. 301

The event will be host to:

Emily Friedman, Associate Professor of 18th Century English Literature (Auburn University)

Alyssa Harad, author of Coming to My Senses: a Story of Perfume, Pleasure & an Unlikely Bride

Colleen Kennedy, Ph.D. candidate at the Ohio State University

Cheryl Krueger, Associate Professor of 19th Century French literature (University of Virginia)

and our very own

Jane Shore, Professor of English & poet (George Washington University)

This event is sponsored by the Wang Endowed Fund for Literature and Literary Studies, the department of English, the French Program in the Department of Romance, Germanic, and Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Program in American Studies at GWU.

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