Description: Melissa Febos, feminist writer and scholar, is the author of the new essay collection, Girlhood, which examines the forces that shape girls and the adults they become. The New York Times reviewer said Girlhood belongs “in a feminist canon that includes Febos’s idol, Adrienne Rich, and Maggie Nelson’s theory-minded masterpieces....” Funding provided by UAlbany Professors Emerita in English, Judith Barlow and Judith Fetterley.