The Princeton University English professor will discuss The Scandal of the Season, which fictionalizes the events that inspired Alexander Pope's satirical poem The Rape of the Lock. Publishers Weekly called Scandal an erudite period piece filled with outrageous flirtation, social maneuvering and contests of wit. A native of Australia who earned a doctorate in English literature from Harvard, Gee has published academic essays on Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift and others, as well as articles and book reviews of general interest in Australia and America. In 2006, she was named the John E. Annan Bicentennial Preceptor, in recognition of outstanding research and teaching as a member of Princeton's junior faculty.