On Tuesday, October 26 at 6PM, join us for Wild, Witch, and Wench: Women, Food, and Magic in Carlo Levi and Cesare Pavese. Guest speaker, Norman Rusin, Ph.D. will discuss his current research on this intriguing aspect of Italian literary culture. Cocktails will include a Strega signature drink for the evening We encourage all attendees to bring your spookiest witch stories and craziest Italian family superstitions.

Suggested donation to the Ladies Auxiliary Scholarship Fund is $50 per person. RSVP and read more about the guest speaker below.

About Norman Rusin:

A lecturer in Italian at the University of Rhode Island and assistant editor of the Journal of Posthumanism. He earned his Ph.D. in Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and has taught Italian language, literature, and cinema at all levels at the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, Bryn Mawr College, and Salve Regina University. Aided by digital humanities tools, his interdisciplinary research intersects literary, food, and cinema studies, and focuses on the relationships between aesthetics and politics in contemporary Italian culture. In his most current research projects, he investigates food design and its role in Italian fiction from both a post-human and a feminist perspective. In his free time, he likes running and playing guitar.