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Fall Faculty Lecture: Jessica Enoch, "Remembering the 19th Amendment: Analyzing the 2020 Suffrage Centennial of Women's Right to Vote"

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Fall Faculty Lecture: Jessica Enoch, "Remembering the 19th Amendment: Analyzing the 2020 Suffrage Centennial of Women's Right to Vote"

Center for Literary and Comparative Studies | College of Arts and Humanities | English Tuesday, September 30, 2025 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm Ulrich Recital Hall

Please join us for our annual Fall Faculty Lecture featuring Professor Jessica Enoch. The talk will be in Ulrich Recital Hall with a reception on the 2nd floor of Tawes to follow. 

Abstract:

In this talk, Jess Enoch reflects on commemorative projects, such as the Broadway musical Suffs, that were dedicated to the 2020 centennial of the 19th amendment, the amendment in which women earned the right to vote. Using an intersectional feminist framework, Enoch not only explores the centennial as a moment to celebrate a gendered voting rights victory, but also considers how commemorators created rhetorical opportunity to both meditate on the suffrage movement’s raced-based exclusions and to leverage the anniversary as exigence for action in the 2020 moment, one marked by a global pandemic; racial injustice, unrest, and violence; as well as a volatile election season defined by concerns regarding not only voting rights and voter suppression but also women’s voter participation and their election to public office.
 
 
Add to Calendar 09/30/25 15:30:00 09/30/25 18:00:00 America/New_York Fall Faculty Lecture: Jessica Enoch, "Remembering the 19th Amendment: Analyzing the 2020 Suffrage Centennial of Women's Right to Vote"

Please join us for our annual Fall Faculty Lecture featuring Professor Jessica Enoch. The talk will be in Ulrich Recital Hall with a reception on the 2nd floor of Tawes to follow. 

Abstract:

In this talk, Jess Enoch reflects on commemorative projects, such as the Broadway musical Suffs, that were dedicated to the 2020 centennial of the 19th amendment, the amendment in which women earned the right to vote. Using an intersectional feminist framework, Enoch not only explores the centennial as a moment to celebrate a gendered voting rights victory, but also considers how commemorators created rhetorical opportunity to both meditate on the suffrage movement’s raced-based exclusions and to leverage the anniversary as exigence for action in the 2020 moment, one marked by a global pandemic; racial injustice, unrest, and violence; as well as a volatile election season defined by concerns regarding not only voting rights and voter suppression but also women’s voter participation and their election to public office.
 
 
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Jason Rudy
jrrucy@umd.edu