Join us for the STEAM Café this month! September’s STEAM talk, “An Introduction to George Eliot, the Victorian Novel, and Science”, will be presented by Dr. Erica Haugtvedt, associate professor in the Department of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at South Dakota Mines.

George Eliot, the pseudonym for Marian Evans, was one of the most highly regarded authors of nineteenth-century Britain. Eliot’s novels combine realist, humane descriptions of the people and places of the English countryside with plots pivoting on cutting-edge science for her day. Dr. Erica Haugtvedt, associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, will cover how a woman who was not allowed to go to college became one of the most scholarly literary authors of her age, and how she befriended and learned from the leading scientific thinkers of the century.