“Spotlight on Lifelong Learning” with Laura Loth, is a weekly look at some of the exciting public conversations upcoming around Memphis. Laura Loth is a professor at Rhodes College.
You may have asked yourselves more than a few times this week what in the world is this 2021 purgatory we’re living in, with the pandemic, boil alerts, and burst water mains in Memphis. If anyone comes to mind when we think about hell, it’s medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri, who moved on 700 years ago this month. On Thursday at 5 pm, the University of Memphis presents a talk on Dante and American Popular Culture with Elizabeth Coggeshall of Florida State University and Dennis Looney of the Modern Languages Association. Coggeshall will discuss her website called