St. Peter's Internet Point, Rome, Italy

Library

Misc Writing, by Charlotte Mueller (Mom)

• Italian Days II, 1990

• Gubbio, 1990

Misc Writing, by mrm

Papers (and other projects) for Stanford Master's in Liberal Arts program (2004 start, 2009 anticipated graduation)
• Prospectus for Thesis, April 6, 2008 (Since then, the bibliography and content have been evolving, so this represents only the beginning of the path, before I took the fork)

• Interview with Prof. David Palumbo-Liu in Master of Liberal Arts newsletter, Stanford University, Spring 2008 (PDF, 17 pages)

• Fritz Lang's Time: How Exile Changed His Use of Time. For Russel Berman's really interesting class, "Nazi Roots and California Exile" in fall 2007.

• Freedom Songs, "Etymology" of a few songs from the 1960s Civil Rights Movement: From Spirituals to Freedom Songs. A web site with music clips, a few photos, some commentary on lyrics and extensive bibliographies. August, 2007.

• "The Way of Women in Sasameyuki and My Son's Story", a comparison of Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's "Sasameyuki" ("The Makioka Sisters") and Nadine Gordimer's "My Son's Story". June 24, 2007. (19 pages)

  For the seminar "Imagining Rome":

  • "What Then Remains? How Henry James Architects Character in 'The Portrait of a Lady'" , March 22, 2007 (27 pages)
  • "What's in a Name?": Behind the name of Henry Jame's 'Pansy' in 'Portrait of a Lady', March 6, 2007 (1 page)
  • "Hilda: Copyist, Medium, or Artist?": Looking at one of the four protagonists of Nathanial Hawthorne's 'The Marble Faun', February 27, 2007 (2 pages)
  • "Sightless Lightning": on Shelley's "Adonais" , February 14, 2007 (2 pages)
  • "Then Glut Thy Sorrow: Embracing Melancholy Considered Healthy": Looking at Keats' "Ode to Melancholy", February 6, 2007 (2 pages)
  • "To Freeze or Not To Freeze: Keats and Goethe contemplate the moment", January 30, 2007 (1 page)
  • " 'The Cenci': A (Re)Birth of the Goddess?", January 22, 2007 (4 pages)
  • "Childe Harold" as Nature Guide, January 16, 2007 (2 pages)

• Women in Satanic Verses: Bridges Between East and West, December 2006 (15 pages)
• Power Relationships in "The Piano Teacher" and "Disgrace", March 17, 2006 (15 pages)
• Plague, Public Health and Democracy: Pistoia Responds to the Black Death, December 14, 2005 (15 pages)
• Marx, the High-tech Workplace, and Hackers, June, 2005 (12 pages)
• Love and Dear Abby in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, March, 2005 (3 pages)
• Magical girls in Chretien de Troyes' "Lancelot", February, 2005 (4 pages)
• Antigone's and Dido's Suicides: The narrative role of suicide in Sophocles' "Antigone" and Virgil's "The Aeneid", December, 2004 (4 pages)
• Job and Arjuna, October 2004 (6 pages)