Ruth A. Starkman

RUTH A. STARKMAN {[email protected]} and her husband, Russell A. Berman, have four children. In 1997–98 she was a visiting assistant professor of German at the University of Utah. Currently, she teaches college writing and biomedical ethics at Stanford University.

Our Dinner with Levi Peterson

Articles/Essays – Volume 45, No. 2

Levi Savage Peterson, the beloved and controversial Mormon writer, throws a quietly skeptical glance over his menu in a posh Palo Alto nouveaux-Middle Eastern restaurant on a recent evening in early June 2011. My partner, Russell A. Berman, of Stanford University, president of the Modern Language Association, and I had invited Peterson to speak about his work and his contributions as a “literary intellectual” in the American public sphere.