I had the pleasure of sitting down with David Starkey for a conversation regarding my new book. https://player.vimeo.com/video/1138246010?badge=0&autopause=0&player_id=0&app_id=58479"

Pacifica Graduate Institute Alumnus Clara Oropeza, Ph.D., is the author of A Re-mapping of Womanhood and Creativity: A Literary and Depth Psychological Perspective, which will be out April 24th. She will be giving the talk “A Reunion With the Feminine” on Pacifica Extension and International Studies on April 23, 2025.

In this talk, Dr. Oropeza will share the ways that grappling with grief stemming from the wounds that have been inflicted on the feminine, especially in her lineage, led her on a deep search for the stories that have given her greater access to a matrilineal heritage, symbolic and personal. She will discuss how the critical study of mythology and depth psychology has settled at the intersections of both her professional and personal lives. We hope you will join her to explore the crossroads of our journeys of self-discovery.

The session on April 23rd will be a presentation by Dr. Clara Oropeza, followed by Q&A.

I had the pleasure of speaking with Pacifica’s Angela Borda in March for Women’s History Month to discuss my upcoming book, “A Re-Mapping of Womenhood and Creativity,” due out on April 24th.

Please join me at the American Library in Paris at 7:30 pm on June 11th for a fun discussion between me and the five other contributors to the newly published anthology, Impressions from Paris: Women Creatives in Interwar Years France. This will be a roundtable discussion with experts on Josephine Baker, Janet Flanner, and more. I will of course be talking about Anaïs Nin.

This newly published anthology studies contributions of various women artists and writers who lived in Paris from 1920 through 1940. As scholar and lead collaborator Sylvie Blum-Reid writes in her introduction, these women helped to define the cultural and artistic practices of their era, and in doing so, they “left behind traces that still reverberate today.”  

For more information and to RSVP, please visit The American Library in Paris Event Site

Please join me for a book talk at Domicile: 1221 State St. No. 7. 93101. In Victoria Court.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-things-you-learn-when-you-talk-about-books-with/id1532951390?i=1000584629511

Join me in Paris where I will be in conversation with Sylvie Blum-Reid. We will discuss Anaïs Nin’s Paris years on the Left bank as well as other Left Bank modernist women writers in the 1930s. For more information and to RSVP, please click here.