“Of Ivory Mice, Coral Earrings, and Rusty Shoehorns: The Precarious Persistence of Montalian Things”

"Of Ivory Mice, Coral Earrings, and Rusty Shoehorns: The Precarious Persistence of Montalian Things"

Event time: 
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 - 5:30pm
Location: 
Romance Language Lounge See map
82-90 Wall Street, 3rd floor lounge
New Haven, CT
Event description: 

A lecture by Rebecca West, William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor (Emerita),  the University of Chicago, where she has been on the faculty since 1973. 

Professor West is a specialist of modern and contemporary Italian literature, culture, and film, with a secondary scholarly interest in Dante and in Italian American film and literature.  She is also a scholar who has worked extensively on feminism, especially Italian and French theory and practice, on women writers in the modern Italian context, and on representations of masculinity on screen in the American, Italian, and Italian American film traditions.  

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