Sanditon, Bridgerton, and David Copperfield: Modernizing the Representation of Black People in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century England For the continued safety of all we will be meeting online via Zoom. Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina  , our Speaker, is the Paul Murray Kendall Chair in Biography, and Professor of English. After five years as dean of Commonwealth Honors College at UMass, she is now fully in the Department of English. A specialist on the novel and biography, Prof. Gerzina works in the fields of…