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Program Scholar
Dorota Dutsch
Associate Professor of Classics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Program Scholar for the Los Angeles Public Library
Dorota Dutsch, Associate Professor of Classics at University of California, Santa Barbara has an MA from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland) and a PhD (2000) from McGill University (Canada). She has taught at the Jagiellonian University, Université de Montréal, and worked as exchange scholar at the Conseil National de la Recherche Scientifique (France). Professor Dutsch’s research focuses on social performance (comprising anything from comedy to funeral rites). She has published articles on Plautine jokes, vampire mice, pharmacology of seduction, lament, the language of gesture, and illustrations of Carolingian manuscripts. Her book, Feminine Discourse in Roman Comedy: On Echoes and Voices, has just been released from Oxford University Press.
In collaboration with colleagues and students from UCSB’s departments of Drama, Music, and Classics, Dorota has produced plays by Aristophanes and Euripides as well as short ‘comedies’ by the ninth-century saxon nun, Hrotsvit of Gandersheim.
Events
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Previous Events
Reading Group
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
Seven Samurai, by Akira Kurosawa
Join Program Scholar, Professor Dorota Dutsch for a reading group at the Los Angeles Public Library
630 W. Fifth Street
Los Angeles, CA 90071
Contact Dan Dupill at 213-228-7226 to RSVP or Click here for more information
June 06 2009 at 02:30 PM
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Reading Group
The Seven, by Will Power
Seven Samurai, by Akira Kurosawa
Join Program Scholar, Professor Dorota Dutsch for a reading group at the Los Angeles Public Library
630 W. Fifth Street
Los Angeles, CA 90071
Contact Dan Dupill at 213-228-7226 to RSVP or Click here for more information
May 23 2009 at 02:30 PM
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Reading Group
Beowulf, Translated by Seamus Heaney
Odyssey, Translated by Robert Fagles
Join Program Scholar, Professor Dorota Dutsch for a reading group at the Los Angeles Public Library
630 W. Fifth Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071
Contact Dan Dupill at 213-228-7226 to RSVP or Click here for more information
May 02 2009 at 02:30 PM
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Reading Group
Homer's Iliad, Translated by Stanley Lombardo
Join Program Scholar, Professor Dorota Dutsch for a reading group at the Los Angeles Public Library
630 W. Fifth Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071
Contact Dan Dupill at 213-228-7226 to RSVP or Click here for more information
April 04 2009 at 02:30 PM
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Public Lecture
"The Power of Words/The Words of Power"
Join Program Scholar, Professor Dorota Dutsch for a public lecture at the Los Angeles Public Library
630 W. Fifth Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071
Contact Dan Dupill at 213-228-7226 to RSVP or Click here for more information
April 04 2009 at 12:00 PM
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Iliad Performance
Join us for a performance of Homer's Iliad at the City of Los Angeles Public Library
630 W. Fifth Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071
Contact Dan Dupill at 213-228-7226 to RSVP or
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March 14 2009 at 02:30 PM
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Acting Workshop
Join us for an Acting Workshop at the City of Los Angeles Public Library
630 W. Fifth Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071
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March 14 2009 at 12:30 PM
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This library is focusing on the thematic unit “Homer to Hip-Hop: Reinventing the Classics”
