Lizette Arellano, Shaun Mangelson, and Manuel RodrÃguez-PÂérez (all World Languages and Cultures) attended the third annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities held at Sacramento State University in October. They presented as a panel a series of essays on the Spanish post-war novel Nada written by Carmen Laforet. The panel covered a look at the Gothic elements of the house on Aribau Street as a villain and the elements and psychology of the antagonist Roman as well as his representation of traditional archetypes of villainy. At the conclusion of the conference each member of the panel was invited to collaborate on a soon-to-be-published volume of essays dedicated to new research on Nada.
