Death is the mother of beauty.
Wallace Stevens
The Stoics taught us the concept of momento mori, the contemplation of the fleeting nature of life, which helps prepare us for the end, encourages us to appreciate and make the best of the present, and softens the blow as we lose those we care about. In that spirit, The Dylantantes presents a Million Dollar Bash Roundtable focused on Bob Dylan’s legacy now and forevermore even as he embarks on a new leg of his latest tour.
Roundtable Panelists:
Rob Reginio teaches modern literature at Alfred University. He's currently at work on a book about Dylan's album John Wesley Harding.
Nina Goss is Editor of or contributor to the volumes Tearing the World Apart: Bob Dylan and the 21st Century and Dylan at Play. She is a contributor to various anthologies and presented at the first World of Bob Dylan conference (2019), and Dylan and the Beats conference in Tulsa (2022). She teaches at Fordham University.
Court Carney is a professor of history at Stephen F. Austin State University, where he teaches courses on Black history and cultural history. He is finishing a book manuscript on the public memory of Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Erin Callahan lives in the Houston, Texas, area where she teaches English at San Jacinto College. She has presented and published on Dylan and is currently co-editing a volume with Court Carney on interpretations of Dylan’s setlists for Routledge.
Graley Herren is an English professor at Xavier University in Cincinnati, where he regularly teaches a first-year seminar on Bob Dylan. He is author of the book Dreams and Dialogues in Dylan’s Time Out of Mind, and he has a Substack newsletter devoted to Dylan called Shadow Chasing.
Jim (Moondog) Salvucci is the founder and keeper of The Dylantantes.
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Memento Mori: Dylan’s Living Legacy