Performance artist, writer Holly Hughes to give performance of her work, respond to questions Feb. 26

Performance artist and writer Holly Hughes will give a performance of her works Feb. 26, 7 p.m., in the Modlin Center’s Cousins Studio Theater at the University of Richmond. A question and answer session will follow.

Hughes is the author of more than a dozen plays and performance pieces and co-editor of three other books including, “Animal Acts: Performing Species Today” with Una Chadhuri and “Memories of the Revolution: The First Ten Years of the WOW Café” with Alina Troyano. She is the winner of numerous awards including the 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lambda Book Award and a GLAAD Media Award. She is professor of art and design, women’s studies and theater and drama the University of Michigan.

The talk is part of “Performing Texts,” a series sponsored by the University of Richmond’s English department with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 804-289-8287.

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