Event Formats: On-Campus<br>Type of Event: General,Inclusive Excellence,Presentation,Reading<br>Target Audience: All Students,Alumni,Employee,Faculty,Open to the Public,Parents,Staff<br>Location: Hawk Hill<br>Buildings: Cardinal John P. Foley Campus Center<br>Affiliate School: General Event<br>Contact Name: Victoria Priest<br>Contact Email: vpriest@sju.edu<br>Contact Phone: 610-660-2178<br>Sponsor: Kinney Center for Autism Education and Support<br>Registration Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfYJizh-dxgSXFyEs1sxXSxcB7Jmgn5FpR95GWPuQtAfNYFeQ/viewform<br><br>Join us for a moderated conversation with Brandy Schillace as she discusses her book <em>The Framed Women of Ardemore House</em>. <br><br>Dr. Brandy Schillace (skil-AH-chay), PhD, is a historian, novelist, and television show host. Formerly an editor for two journals, Brandy works as a freelance journalist as well as a writer of nonfiction and fiction. Brandy has written about death and dying, Cold War medicine, bioethics, and organ transplant and the history of accidents. Her most recent book, The Intermediaries, tells the forgotten, daring history of trans activists, gender affirming surgeries, and the fight for LGBTQ rights in the shadow of the Third Reich.<br><br>In fiction, Brandy is author of The Framed Women of Ardemore House, and The Dead Come to Stay, the first two novels in a mystery series featuring a neurodivergent protagonist. Brandy has bylines at WSJ, Scientific American, Globe and Mail, HuffPo, WIRED, and UNDARK. She is host of Unsolved Mysteries of Medicine (2025) and the popular YouTube livestream, Peculiar Book Club, featuring bestselling authors of unusual nonfiction, from Lindsey Fitzharris and Mary Roach to Ed Yong and Deborah Blum. She has appeared on Mysteries at the Museum with Don Wildman, The Unbelievable with Dan Akroyd, Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny, and History's Greatest Mysteries with Laurence Fishburne. Brandy gives regular keynotes and participates in other speaking events, and is a tireless advocate for social justice, disability and LGBTQ+ representation. 

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