Rodger Kamenetz is the author of the landmark international bestseller The Jew in the Lotus and the National Jewish Book Award-winning Stalking Elijah. His five books of poetry include The Lowercase Jew --he has been called “the most formidable of the Jewish-American poets”. His memoir, Terra Infirma, has been described as “the most beautiful book every written about a mother and son.”

            His latest book, The History of Last Night’s Dream, opens up the whole field of word and image, psychology and imagination, and points to an ancient but now hidden way of using dreams to rediscover the soul. It is a book that promises to change the way we dream.

for lectures, contact  lectures@kamenetz.com

ACADEMIC CAREER

Rodger Kamenetz is the Erich and Lea Sternberg Honors Professor at Louisiana State University and is also the recipient of the LSU Distinguished Faculty Award for 2008. He has a dual appointment as a Professor in the Department of English and in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies. He is the founding director of LSU's highly successful MFA program in Creative Writing, and the founding director of the Jewish Studies Program. He holds a B.A. from Yale College and graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins and Stanford Universities.

DREAM THERAPIST

Rodger Kamenetz is a certified dream therapist. In weekly hour-long sessions, dreams are used to lead clients on a journey of great psychological and spiritual depth. Rodger has been working with clients since 2003 under the direct training of Marc Bregman, the master teacher at North of Eden. If you are interested in working with Rodger, or learning more about the process, you may contact him at   dream@kamenetz.com

BOOK CLUBS

During spring of 2008 Rodger will be available via telephone or video conference to groups of 25 or more who have purchased The History of Last Night’s Dream and wish to discuss it with him. 

There are only a limited number of times available. If your book club or reading group is interested, please write books@kamenetz.com

LECTURES AND READINGS

Rodger has given lectures, talks, led text study, and conducted weekend retreats and shabbatons all over North America and Europe.

He has spoken at Yale, Harvard and Stanford and many other universities and colleges; at Jewish, Buddhist, Unitarian and Catholic institutions; at the 92nd Street Y, the Rabbinical Assembly, the National Hillel Conference, the National Board of Trustees for the Union of Reform Judaism; at the Prague Summer Seminars, the Chrysostom Society, and the Glen Workshops.

He gives formal lectures, informal talks, seminars, poetry readings, text study. His lectures are full of jokes, singing and spontaneous poetry—he loves to go back and forth with his audience and engage their questions at the deepest level.

A list of his current topics follows.

• “What  I Learned About Judaism From the Dalai Lama”
• “Buddhist Questions and Jewish Answers”
• “The Struggle between the Image and the Word: Religions of the Word in a time of Images”
• “The Uninterpretation of Dreams: How to Work With Dreams”
• “The Three Gifts of the Dream in Genesis”
• “The Case of the Disappearing Dream: The Rabbis, the Church Fathers, Freud and Jung”

If you are sincerely interested in having Rodger speak to your group, please send for details, dates, and fees at lectures@kamenetz.com

Literary agent for Rodger Kamenetz:

Katinka Matson
Brockman, Inc.
rights@brockman.com