Evelyne Ender, maitre-assistante in modern English literature at the University of Geneva, will speak on "Writing and Remembering: Virginia Woolf, Lou Andreas-Salome and Others," Thursday, Feb. 19, at 4:30 p.m. in the A.D. White House, as part of the Cornell Lecture Series.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Ender is a specialist in 19th and 20th century British literature and its relation to other European literatures. Educated at St. John's College, Oxford, and the University of Geneva, Ender taught at the University of Fribourg and, since 1984, at the University of Geneva. She has lectured widely -- at Yale, Dartmouth, Cambridge and the University of Virginia, published Sexing the Mind: Nineteenth Century Fictions of Hysteria (Cornell University Press) in 1995 and is working on a new book titled Virginia Woolf: Gender, History and Autobiography.

"Between fictional and autobiographical texts, Evelyne Ender delineates patterns of gender markings that constitute a history or archaeology of women's subjectivities revealing in 19th and 20th century narratives and scenes of childhood the force exerted by sexual difference in one's relation to the world," said Romance Studies Professor Nelly Furman.

The University Lecture Series was established at Cornell by Goldwin Smith at the turn of the century to bring the world's foremost scholars to campus.