"Sex, Violence, and Change: A New Look at Old Myths" with Nina MacLaughlin

Author Nina MacLaughlin reinterpreted and retold stories from Ovid's┬áMetamorphoses, giving voice to the female characters, and raising questions of power, agency, violence, and sex that resonate across the centuries. How do we reckon with stories that take rape as their starting point? How do we make ourselves at home with change? Please join her and Senior Lecturer in Classics Michael Nerdahl for a conversation about these topics, her book┬áWake, Siren: Ovid Resung, and other reconsiderations of stories and adaptation.ÔÇ¿┬áÔÇ¿

Nina MacLaughlin is the author of Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung, a re-telling of Ovid's Metamorphoses, as well as the booklength lyric essay Summer Solstice, and the acclaimed memoir Hammer Head. Her writing has appeared in magazines and journals including The New York Times, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Paris Review, and elsewhere. She worked as an editor at an alternative newsweekly, and for nearly ten years as a carpenter. She's a books columnist for the Boston Globe and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Open to Bowdoin students, faculty and staff.

Sponsored by the Departments of Classics and English and the Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies Program, with support from the Jasper Jacob Stahl Lectureship Fund.

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