JAMES JEROME BARILLA
University of California, Davis
English Department
Davis, CA 95616
530/297-5135
jjbarilla@ucdavis.edu

Public Lecture Topics:

• "Wallace Stegner's 'Angle of Repose' and an Evolving Sense of Place." - Analysis of Stegner's relationship with the frontier and contemporary Western culture. Western Literature Association Conference, Sacramento, October 1999
• "Women and the Family Farm: Hesiod, Virgil and 'A Thousand Acres'" - Looks at the role of women in farming, and asks whether traditional farming leaves any role for women. Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Kalamazoo, Michigan, June 1999
• "Exotic and Native: Voices in a Landscape." - Uses personal narrative and two interviews - one of a Hispanic immigrant and farmer, one of a Pomo woman recently returned to the Rancheria, to explore questions of place identification. Environment and Community Conference, Reno, Nevada, February 2000

Public Projects:

• Putah-Cache Bioregion Project. Barilla researched the history of Putah Creek and composed the "Exotic and Native" piece detailed above. Publication forthcoming as one of Putah/Cache Bioregion series

James Barilla has been listed in the Directory of California Thinkers since 31-Jan-2000.