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Frances Freeman Paden Distinguished Senior Lecturer , The Writing Program and Gender Studies PhD, Northwestern University Kresge Hall, 2-260 847-491-4974 fpaden@northwestern.edu

Frances Freeman Paden (Ph.D. Northwestern University) holds a joint appointment in The Writing Program and Gender Studies. Named the 1998 Charles Deering McCormick Distinguished University Lecturer, she participated in the pilot program for the freshman seminar advising program and has been a long-standing member of the Steering Committee for the Center for the Writing Arts. She has been the recipient of several grants for curriculum development and enhancement. In her search for innovative ways to teach writing, she has developed a course in creative non-fiction for advanced composition students and a signature course on Writing Women’s Lives for Gender Studies, as well as advanced courses on autobiography and a variety of freshman seminars. Her leadership roles on campus have included serving as a Gender Studies director and a residential college master. Fran Paden’s research interests center on subjectivity and include studies of poetry, autobiography, and theatre. Her recent publications include Troubadour Poems from the South of France, with William. D. Paden (Cambridge, UK: Boydell and Brewer, 2007) and “Emblematic Sculptures: Autobiography and the Artwork of Felix Gonzalez-Torres” in Teaching Life Writing Texts (Ed. Miriam Fuchs and Craig Howes.New York: Modern Language Association, 2007). Her current work includes “A Midwife’s Charm: The Oldest Poem in Occitan” and a book project, “Imagining Adelene Moffat: Scenes from a Life.”

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