Erik Butler: “The Ruse of Faith: Spiritual Politics in Der Nister’s Soviet Symbolism”
Professor Butler has published Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film (Camden House, 2010) and The Bellum Grammaticale and the Rise of European Literature (Ashgate, 2010). His translation of Der Nister’s Regrowth (Vidervuks) is forthcoming (Northwestern, 2011). The current book, Cruelty and Mystification, explores violence and ruse in modernist fiction.
Jewish Studies Conference Set for UC Santa Cruz
A conference designed to highlight the role women have played in the forging of Italian Jewish identity will take place May 22-24, on the UC Santa Cruz campus. Titled “Women, Jews, Venetians,” the event is sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies of the University of California, Santa Cruz, the UCSC Literature Department, the Museo Italo-Americano […]
Clive Sinclair: “The Belmont Quota”
April 28, 2011 | 12:00-1:30 PM | Free & Open to the Public Kresge College, Room 325, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information Clive Sinclair has published 14 books of fiction – The Lady and the Laptop received major critical acclaim in England and he is noted for his criticism, including a study […]