Christopher Hilliard, Professor of History at the University of Sydney, will speak on “Miss Swan’s Bad Language: The Uses of Literacy in 1920s England.” Roger Luckhurst, Birkbeck College, London & Distinguished Visiting Professor of English at Columbia, will serve as commentator.

**Free and open to the public. No registration necessary. First come, first seated. For more information, please visit: http://heymancenter.org/events/miss-swans-bad-language-the-uses-of-literacy-in-1920s-england/