Twain Conversationalist: Dr. Catherine Gudis

Dr. Catherine Gudis, Professor of History at UC Riverside, has worked for many years as an editor and curator for art and history museums and as a public historian. Notably her recent work includes the large-scale, multimedia project Curating the City: Wilshire Boulevard, which she undertook while Director of Education for the Los Angeles Conservancy, and her book Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape (Routledge). This latter, published in 2004, traces the relationship between automobility, advertising, and the commercialization of the urban environment.