Hip-hop feminist, novelist and women’s studies scholar Gwendolyn Pough, of Syracuse University, will give a lecture at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 9 in the Big 12 Room in the Kansas Union at Kansas University.

Her lecture, “It’s My Beat: Women, Hip-Hop and a Feminist Agenda,” is sponsored by the KU English department and is free and open to the public.

Pough is an associate professor of women’s studies, writing and rhetoric at Syracuse. She is the author of “Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture and the Public Sphere” and numerous articles and essays.