Featured speaker Deirdre McCloskey was "Donald" until 1995. A Harvard graduate -- she wishes it was Radcliffe -- she was tenured in economics and history at the University of Chicago, and taught for 19 years at the University of Iowa. She is now a University of Illinois at Chicago Distinguished Professor of Economics, History and English. She has written a dozen books and about 200 articles on economics, history, philosophy, statistical theory, literary criticism, and gender studies. Her book "Crossing" was a New York Times Notable Book in 1999. She describes herself as a postmodern, quantitative, free-market, feminist, Episcopalian, Midwestern, gendercrossing, literary woman.