"Silence, Restraint, and a New Black Woman in the Narratives of Ellen Craft" will be the subject of an April 18 lecture at UNLV by University of Georgia professor Barbara McCaskill.

The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is scheduled for 7 p.m. in Frank and Estella Beam Hall, Room 104.

McCaskill is an associate professor of English and the co-founder and editor of the journal, Womanist Theory and Research. She is the author of Running 1,000 Miles for Freedom: The Narrative of William and Ellen Craft, which was published last year.

McCaskill's lecture will focus on Craft, who achieved notoriety after she and her husband, William, escaped from slavery in Georgia in 1848. As part of their escape plan, Ellen had successfully posed as a white male Southern planter. The Crafts subsequently published a book about their lives.

McCaskill's talk is sponsored by UNLV's Women's Research Institute of Nevada, the women's studies program, the office of diversity initiatives, and the office of multicultural student affairs.

For additional information, call Joanne Goodwin, director of the institute and associate professor of history, at 895-1026.