Guy-Sheftall is Anna Julia Cooper Professor of English and Women's Studies and founding director of the Women's Research and Resource Center at Spelman College in Atlanta. She also is an adjunct professor at Emory University's Institute for Women's Studies. She has published many texts within African American and Women's Studies, including the first anthology on black women's literature, Sturdy Black Bridges: Visions of Black Women in Literature (Doubleday 1979), which she co-edited with Roseann P. Bell and Bettye Parker Smith; her dissertation, Daughters of Sorrow: Attitudes Toward Black Women, 1880-1920 (Carlson 1991); and Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought (New Press 1995).

More recently, she co-edited a volume with Rudolph P. Byrd titled, Traps: African American Men on Gender and Sexuality (Indiana University Press 2001) and a monograph with Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Gender Talk: The Struggle for Equality in African American Communities (Random House 2003). In 1983, she was the founding editor of SAGE: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women, which was the first journal devoted exclusively to the experiences of women of African descent.

Guy-Sheftall is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards including a National Kellogg Fellowship; a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for dissertations in Women's Studies; and Spelman's Presidential Faculty Award for outstanding scholarship. She also is a member of the Board of Trustees of Dillard University in New Orleans, La. She has been involved with the national women's studies movement since its inception and provided leadership for the establishment of the first women's studies major at a historically African-American college. Beyond the academy, she has been active in many advocacy organizations, including the National Black Women's Health Project, the National Council for Research on Women, and the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, on whose boards she serves.

The Freeman Lecture was established in 1993 in memory of Adrenée Glover Freeman, a Columbia lawyer who was active in civic affairs and served on the Community Advisory Board of the USC Women's Studies Program. The Freeman Lecture is co-sponsored by the USC College of Arts and Sciences and the African American Studies Program.

For more information, call Rosa Thorn at 7-4007 or go to the Freeman Lecture Web site at www.cas.sc.edu/WOST/program/events/freeman.html.

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