GREAT BARRINGTON - Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez, a faculty member in Simon's Rock at Bard College's gender studies and literature program, will speak on "Off the Beaten Path: Virginia Woolf's Critique of Patriarchal Capitalist Militarism" on Monday, Nov. 26, in the McConnell Theater of the Daniel Arts Center.
The lecture will take place at 7 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
This is part of the Seminar Lecture Series, which supplements courses that first- and second-year students are required to take, “First Year Seminar: The Examined Life,†and the “Sophomore Seminar: Voices Against the Chorus.â€
On Monday, Dec. 3, a lecture on "Dante's Inferno" will be given by Dean of New Students and faculty in literature Rebecca Fiske. That lecture will also take place at 7 p.m. in the McConnell Theater.
Browdy de Hernandez received her bachelor's degree magna cum laude from Simon's Rock, and her master of arts and doctorate from New York University. Her areas of research include world literature by women, women's activism and global feminisms, feminist, queer and postcolonial theory and media studies, especially alternative media. She has been invited to speak at many venues, and her essays have appeared in Other Sisterhoods: Literary Theory and U.S. Women of Color, Interventions: Feminist Dialogues on Third World, Women’s Literature and Film, and Memory and Cultural Politics in American Ethnic Fiction. She also teaches at University at Albany in the Project Renaissance program.
Fiske received her bachelor's degree from Bennington College, master's from Smith College, and doctorate from University at Albany. She has taught literature at North Adams State College (now Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts), and founded and directed the Peer Tutoring program and the Writing Center at Berkshire Community College. She is the founding director of Berkshire Learning Services, an organization devoted to the advancement of gifted adolescents with learning challenges. Her areas of scholarly research include education theory, biblical studies, literary theory, and psychoanalysis. She has received numerous honors including a Melon Fellowship nomination, and twice received the University of Chicago Outstanding Teacher award.
All lectures in the seminar series are free and open to the public.
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Former Harry's Supermarket Under Construction for Restaurant
Late last month, the Conservation Commission greenlit some tree pruning on the property. New windows and a new door can be seen in the front of the building.
"It's a substantial renovation that's currently underway here," Brent White of White Engineering said, speaking on behalf of the applicant and owner, Huajie Zhu.
A fire gutted the longtime Wahconah Street supermarket in 2023, and the following year, Zhu purchased the property for $460,000 two years ago to build a restaurant with hibachi in the existing footprint of the more than 100-year-old building.
White explained that the project has been ongoing for over a year, and the Community Development Board granted the property a waiver to reduce the minimum required number of parking spaces so that additional spaces aren't needed.
He noted that, looking at the site plan, there is very little room to do so. A mirror will be installed near the sharp turn on Bel Air Avenue to alleviate traffic concerns.
Pruning will be done on trees in the southeast corner of the existing paved parking lot, as a number of branches are hanging over. The new owners also intend to patch, sealcoat, and re-stripe the parking lot.
A fire tore through the building less than an hour after the supermarket closed for the day three years ago. An automatic sprinkler system is required for the new use.
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