Dr. Alexis DeVeaux, Dept. of Women's Studies at UB, delivered the 2006 Distinguished Faculty Lecture, entitled, "Geographies of Difference: 'Race,' Language, and Imagination," in the Screening Room of the Center for the Arts.

Dr. DeVeaux is a internationally known poet, short fiction writer, essayist and biographer. Her 2004 biography, WARRIOR POET: A BIOGRAPHY OF AUDRE LORDE, has won several prestigious awards, including the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation Legacy Award (nonfiction, 2005) and the Lambda Literary Foundation Award for Biography Award (Nonfiction, 2005) and the Lambda Literary Foundation Award for Biography (2004).

The Gender Institute’s annual Distinguished Faculty Lecture offers work by outstanding scholars at the University at Buffalo that encourages new thinking about research on gender.