Leesa Rittelmann to moderate panel at conference

Leesa Rittelmann, professor art history at SUNY Fredonia, will moderate the panel, "Fashioning the New Woman in Photography, Film and Media Cultures," at the SUNY at Buffalo international conference on The New Woman and Film Friday September 16.

The conference is organized by SUNY Buffalo Art Historian and Asst. Professor Elizabeth Otto and is supported in part by a SUNY CID (Conversations in the Disciplines) grant. 

The conference will address representations of the "new woman" from the 1870s through the 1960s, a period in which more and more women became educated, dramatically increased their presence in the workforce, actively challenged notions of gender identity and provoked the emergence of a feminist wave that resulted in dramatic social change throughout the world.

Otto says, ""The conference will consist of two panels and the presentation of seven papers that will examine the rise and dominance of the 'new woman' as a mass media star, and look at female agency through representations of and by these 'new women.'