Covered: Spotlighting Faculty Authors in Letters and Science - Claire Goldstein and Michael Dylan Foster

Two book covers side by side: one in gold and blue, the other in black with colorful illustrations.

Manetti Shrem Museum
Manetti Shrem Museum

Claire Goldstein
In the Sun King’s Cosmos: Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France

Michael Dylan Foster
The Book of Yōkai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore

Join us in celebrating the creativity, scholarship and innovation of recently published UC Davis faculty authors. This ongoing series includes presentations, audience Q&A and light refreshments. 

Claire Goldstein, professor of French and Italian, discusses In the Sun King’s Cosmos, her engaging study of how comets shaped scientific, political and cultural imagination in 17th century France. Michael Dylan Foster, professor of Japanese, presents the expanded edition of The Book of Yōkai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore exploring the history and ongoing cultural life of Japan’s supernatural beings. 

Covered is presented by the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum and UC Davis Library. The partnership is part of Elevate the Arts, a campus-wide initiative fostering collaboration among UC Davis faculty in the arts to support and amplify one another’s work.