Carl A. Rubino, the Winslow Professor of Classics, presented a lecture titled “From Mythology to Star Wars” on Feb. 8 at Sierra Nevada College in Lake Tahoe, Nev. He was the guest of Sierra Nevada Trustee Chuck Dowd ’66 and his wife Susan Maturlo.
Rubino also traveled to Albuquerque where he presented “The Pale Student of Unhallowed Arts: Frankenstein, Aristotle, and the Wisdom of Lucretius” at the annual conference of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association.
He will present a version of this paper at Hamilton in April during a NY6 Think Tank conference on “The Modern Prometheus; or, Frankenstein.” Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner is one of the conference organizers.
