Come visit us at the Tucson Festival of Books, where several members of our esteemed faculty will be present to answer questions about their most recent publications.

Events take place Saturday and Sunday March 10-11, 2012 from 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM.

We’ll be located on the north side of the UA Mall Tent Stage (tent 9), Booth #306. Meet our professors for lively discussion of their prominent research topics and books. Scheduled appearances:

SATURDAY, MARCH 10

Thomas Kovach @ 10 am
Ask him how Germans today deal with Germany’s Nazi history from his commentaries in The Burden of the Past: Martin Wasler on Modern German Identity (Camden House, 2008).

Albrecht Classen @ 11 am
Ask him about medieval answers to modern-day problems as he shares highlights from the Handbook of Medieval Studies: Terms – Methods – Trends (De Gruyter, 2010).

Jerrold Hogle @ 1 pm
Ask him why The Phantom of the Opera has been told and retold so many times as explored in his book, The Undergrounds of The Phantom of the Opera (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).

Fabian Alfie @ 3 pm
Ask him about formal insults in medieval Italian poetry from his latest publication, Dante’s Tenzone with Forese Donati: The Reprehension of Vice (University of Toronto Press, 2011).

SUNDAY, MARCH 11

Bella Vivante @ 11 am
Ask her about women’s lesser-known roles in the ancient Mediterranean world and a different portrait of Helen of Troy illuminated in her book, Daughters of Gaia: Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World (University of Oklahoma Press, 2008).

Alison Deming @ 1 pm
Ask her how the definition of “Natural Writing” must change with highlights from her recent book, The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World (Milkweed, 2011).

Phyllis Taoua @ 2 pm
Ask her about Ousmane Sembène, renowned Senegalese writer and "The Father of African Film." She will share highlights from her publication Sembène Ousmane (Paris: Etudes littéraires africaines, 2010).