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April 8, 2010
The Victorian Novel
Join guest lecturer John Romano, former Assistant Professor of English at Columbia University and facilitator Julie Robinson for our latest Classic Literary Luncheon Series, The Victorian Novel. Each luncheon will take place at the Beverly Hills Country Club from 11:30-1PM.
Thursday, April 8: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Friday, May 14: The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins Thursday, June 10: Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy Series: $195 or Sign up for individual classes for $70 each Includes discussions, lunch, and valet parking ABOUT GUEST LECTURER JOHN ROMANO JOHN ROMANO, a writer-producer for movies and television, was an Assistant Professor of English at Columbia before falling into bad company and entering his present profession. He holds a Ph.D. from Yale in English and Comparative Literature, and in 1980 published Dickens and Reality (Columbia University Press), a study of the writer's relation to 19th century Europeans such as Tolstoy, Balzac, and Flaubert, as well as nearly a hundred articles and reviews. He is a member of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities, a contributing editor to the forthcoming Los Angeles Review of Books, and has also published two essays in a collection, Dickens and Film (Oxford University Press). At present he is teaching a course on the Great Books of the Western Canon in Santa Monica. In TV, he's been a writer-producer for more than a dozen shows, from “Hill Street Blues” (Emmy nomination) and “L.A. Law” to “American Dreams,” “Party of Five,” “Third Watch,” “Monk,” “The Beast,” and (currently) “In Plain Sight,” as well as creating three network series of his own. In the movies, his writing credits include “The Third Miracle,” with Ed Harris, “Nights in Rodanthe” with Richard Gere, and the Coen Brothers’ “Intolerable Cruelty,” with George Clooney, to whom he bears a startling resemblance. He has adapted Philip Roth’s “American Pastoral,” and, most recently, Michael Connelly’s “The Lincoln Lawyer.” In recent years, John Romano has lectured on the humanities in film and television at the National Endowment for the Humanities, at Princeton and MIT, as well as writing for Newsweek on the subject of violence in the media, and appearing before the House Committee on International Affairs just after September 11, 2001, on the dubious topic of Hollywood’s role in America’s image abroad . He has two daughters, Clarissa and Juliana, and lives in Santa Monica with his wife Nancy Forbes Romano and three severely entitled dogs.  Event Info
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