In our first podcast of the semester, host Eddie Plaut discusses Dr. Ludmila de Souza Maia's dissertation "Travelers in Skirts: Gender, Literature, and Travel in the Lives and Writings of Nísia Floresta and Adèle Toussaint-Samson." Dr. Souza Maia elaborates on how the women's travel writing reflected nineteenth-century issues of gender, displacement, and abolition.

Check out an article summary she wrote on the dissertation here: https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/95591