Festival of Speaking & Listening 2025 Keynote Lecture

You are cordially invited to attend the upcoming Keynote Lecture for this year's Sewanee Festival Speaking & Listening. Our speaker is Dr. Wanda Little Fenimore, Associate Professor of Speech Communication at the University of South Carolina-Sumter. 

Her research focuses on racial injustice in the twentieth-century US South. She is the author of two books: The Rhetorical Road to Brown v. Board of Education: Elizabeth and Waites Waring's Campaign (University Press of Mississippi, 2023) and Nikki Haley's Lessons from the New South (Lexington Books, 2023). 

Dr. Fenimore's lecture, "Respectability and Resistance: Mrs. Ruby Cornwell's Activism in Jim Crow South Carolina," comes from her current book project. 

The talk will be held at 7:00 p.m. in Naylor Auditorium (Gailor Hall) on Monday, April 21, followed by a book sale and signing. Please join us!

This event is free and open to the public.