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Sweet Briar College
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EDUCATION
PhD Classical Studies University of Pennsylvania 1996
MA Classical Studies University of Pennsylvania 1993
BA Philosophy Haverford College 1989
DISSERTATION
Title: “Identity, Meaning and Accountability: Names and Naming in Greek Culture”
Director: Ralph M. Rosen, Professor of Classical Studies
Readers: Joseph Farrell, Professor of Classical Studies
Sheila Murnaghan, Professor of Classical Studies
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
1. Greek Cultural History
2. Latin Poetry
3. Greek Poetry
4. Ancient Philosophy
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Intensive Summer Courses in Ancient Greek at the University of Pennsylvania, 1994, 1996
Intensive Summer Courses in Latin at the University of Pennsylvania, 1995
Full-Time Lecturer in Classics at the University of Pennsylvania, 1996-97
Visiting Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, Bates College, 1997-98
Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Colgate University, 1998-2000
Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Sweet Briar, 2000 to present
PRESENTATIONS AND TALKS
(all talks outside Sweet Briar were done through anonymous refereed abstracts unless otherwise noted)
“Collecting the Cosmos: Libraries in the Ancient World,” Invited Speaker for the Honors Colloqium Series at Sweet Briar College, 3/23/05
“Collecting the Cosmos: Libraries in the Ancient World,” Invited Speaker for the Friends of the Library society at Sweet Briar College, 4/1/05
“Phi Beta Kappa and the Birth of Academic Honor Societies in America,” Invited Speaker for the annual initiation ceremony of the Sweet Briar Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, 4/4/05
“Contextualizing Ancient Comedy: Aristophanes’ Frogs,” Invited Speaker for a public lecture before the first performance of the play at Sweet Briar, 4/7/05
“From Cosmos to Cosmetics: Ancient Styles of Order and Adornment,” Invited Speaker at the 2004 Vero Beach Humanities Series, Vero Beach, Florida, 2/25/04
“The Classical Stage: Who Was Publius and Why Did It Matter?,” Invited Speaker at Spring 2003 Sweet Briar Alumnae College (participating in April and June sessions, 3 60 minute lectures in all)
“Turning Soldiers into Stoics: Zeno’s Role in Athenian Education,” CAMWS conference, Lexington, Kentucky, 4/3/03
“Binding Speeches: Invoking and Silencing the Dead in Greek Curse Tablets and Tombstones,” Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values II: Freedom of Speech in Classical Antiquity, Philadelphia, 5/2002
“The Restless Living: Anxiety and Appeasement in Greek Sepulchral Inscriptions,” CAMWS conference, Austin, Texas, 4/5/2002
“Wordplay in Roman Poetry,” Invited Lecture at Chatham Hall School, Virginia, 2/7/02
“Voices from the Dead: Commemoration and Greek Funerary Ritual,” CAMWS conference, Provo, Utah 4/3/2001
“Names and Nonsense: the Case of Cursing,” Invited Lecture for Humanities Colloquium Series at Colgate University, 4/10/2000
“Historical Conditions Underlying the Genesis of the Stoic School,” APA, Washington D.C. 12/98
“Transformations of Grammar and Gender in Archaic Greek Inscriptions,” Invited lecture at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, 1/97
“Aristotle on the Philosophical Value of Etymology,” APA, San Diego, 12/95
“Ovid and His Creation of the ‘Reverse-Elegy’” CAAS, Atlantic City, 10/95
“Double Names and Diairesis in Prodicus’ Choice of Heracles,” APA, Atlanta, 12/94
PUBLICATIONS
“Binding Speeches: Giving Voice to Deadly Thoughts in Greek Epitaphs,” pp. 63-90 in a volume of essays titled “Free Speech in Classical Antiquity” eds. Ralph M. Rosen and Ineke Sluiter (2004, Brill Publishing).
“From Eleusis to America: Masonry and the Modern Mysteries,” co-written with Cathy Gutierrez for a collection of essays titled The Occult in 19th century America, (Davies Group, Publishers, 2006).
“Collecting the Cosmos: The Apocalypse of the Ancient Library,” in a collection of essays titled The End that Does: Art, Science, and Millennial Accomplishment, ed. Hillel Schwartz and Cathy Gutierrez, (Equinox Press, London, 2006).
“Commemoration,” essay (2000 words) in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Religion and Communication, (Routledge, 2005).
“Philology,” brief essay (1500 words) in the forthcoming Handbook for the Study of Religion, ed. Ken Lokensgard, the Davies Group, Publishers.
Review of Katherine Derderian’s Leaving Words to Remember: Greek Mourning and the Advent of Literacy, Archiv fuer Religionsgeschichte, vol. 5.1 (Spring 2003).
Review of Claude Calame’s The Craft of Poetic Speech in Ancient Greece, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 97.6.4
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
“Incestuous Texts: A Self-Reflexive Ovid in the Byblis Tale”
“Zeno and the Founding of the Stoic School”
LANGUAGES
Ancient Greek, Latin, French, Arabic, Italian, German, Biblical Hebrew (in order of proficiency)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
January 2004-2006 Organizing member for a 3 year colloquium on Roman Virtues and Vices, (2004-2006) for the American Philological Association; committee headed by Karla Pollman (University of St. Andrews). In particular, I organized the 2006 panel on “Roman Virtues, Vices, and their Transformation.”
Spring 2002 Organized 3 day International Academic Conference titled “Secrecy, Histories, and Publics.” There were almost 50 speakers from the disciplines of Classics, History, and Religious Studies.
COURSES TAUGHT AT SWEET BRIAR
2000-present
Fall 2000:
Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic (CLAS 107)
Elementary Greek (GREK 101)
Intermediate Latin (LATN 101)
Readings in Latin Literature (LATN 105)
Roman Historians: Caesar, Livy, and Suetonius (LATN 212)
Spring 2001:
Classical Mythology (CLAS 101)
Elementary Greek (GREK 102)
Latin Poetry: Catullus, Horace, and Ovid (LATN 211)
Senior Seminar (CLAS 352)
Fall 2001:
The Ancient Greeks (CLAS 103)
Intermediate Greek (GREK 201)
Greek Drama: Aristophanes’ Lysistrata (GREK 227)
Elementary Latin (LATN 101)
Spring 2002:
Golden Age of Greece (CLAS 104)
History of Secrecy (HNRS 174)
Greek Historians: Homer and Herodotus (GREK 121)
Elementary Latin (LATN 102)
Senior Seminar (CLAS 352)
Fall 2002:
Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic (CLAS 107)
Elementary Greek (GREK 101)
Elementary Latin (LATN 101)
Spring 2003:
Topics in Classical Culture: Monstrous Visions (CLAS 218)
Elementary Greek (GREK 102)
Latin Poetry: Ovid’s Metamorphoses (LATN 211)
Senior Seminar (CLAS 352)
Fall 2003:
Ancient Greece (CLAS 205)
Intermediate Greek (GREK 201)
Latin Epic Poetry: Virgil and Lucretius (LATN 283)
Spring 2004:
Greeks and the Other (CLAS 206)
Intermediate Greek (GREK 202)
Greek Drama: Euripides’ Medea (GREK 327)
Intermediate Latin (LATN 202)
Senior Seminar (CLAS 452)
Fall 2004:
Religion of Socrates (INTD 109)
Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic (CLAS 207)
Elementary Greek (GREK 101)
Greek Historians: Homer and Herodotus (GREK 321)
Readings in Latin Literature (LATN 205)
Later Latin Literature: Seneca’s Thyestes (LATN 314)
Spring 2005:
Society and Culture in the Roman Empire (CLAS 208)
Elementary Greek (GREK 102)
Greek Drama: Euripides’ Alcestis (GREK 327)
Latin Poetry: Roman Elegy (LATN 311)
Senior Seminar (CLAS 452)
Summer 2005:
Independent Study: Methods of Latin (CLAS 461)
Fall 2005:
Ancient Greece (CLAS 205)
Intermediate Greek (GREK 201)
Greek Historians (GREK 321)
Independent Study (GREK 461)
Intermediate Latin (LATN 201)
Latin Prose Authors: Livy and Apuleius) (LATN 331)
Spring 2006:
Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient Mediterranean (CLAS 307)
Senior Seminar (CLAS 452)
Independent Study: Survey of Ancient Epic Poetry (Homer, Virgil, Ovid, and Dante) (CLAS 661)
Intermediate Greek (GREK 202)
Independent Study (GREK 261)
Greek Drama: Euripides’ Alcestis and Medea (GREK 327)
Latin Epic Poetry: Virgil’s Aeneid (LATN 283)
Fall 2006:
Imagining Egypt in Antiquity (HNRS 237)
Elementary Greek (GREK 101)
Greek Historians (GREK 321)
Latin Poetry (LATN 311)
Spring 2007:
Society and Culture in the Roman Empire (CLAS 208)
Elementary Greek (GREK 102)
Greek Drama (GREK 327)
Latin Comedy: Plautus' Menaechmi (LATN 311)
Religion of Socrates (INTD 109)
Senior Seminar (CLAS 452)
SERVICES
Fall 2000 Acting Chair of Classical Studies Department
Fall 2000-01 Member of philosophy search committee (both years)
Fall 2000 Faculty liaison to Collegium (Classics Club)
Spring ‘01-03 Member of Phi Beta Kappa nominating committee
Spring 2001 Member of Ad hoc Committee for Phi Beta Kappa Sponsored Lectures and Visit of Distinguished Scholar Anthony Grafton
Summer 2001 Directed Summer Honors Research Project (with Becky Cefaratti)
Fall 2001 Member of Archeology Advisory Committee
Member of Lectures and Events Committee
Member of Library Instruction and Technology Committee
Spring 2002 Member of Lectures and Events Committee
Member of Summer Honors Research Initiative Committee
Organized International Academic Conference: Secrecy, Histories, and Publics (March 15-17, 2002)
Took classes on Blackboard, Powerpoint, Photoshop, and Dreamweaver
Summer 2002 Directed Summer Honors Research Project (with Michelle Church) on the topic of dreams and healing in the cult of the Greek god Asclepius.
Fall ’02- ‘03 Member of Judicial Committee
Member of Lectures and Events Committee
Redesigning and Managing the Departmental Webpage
Summer 2003 Delegate for SBC chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (Theta of Virginia chapter) at the national Triennial conference for Phi Beta Kappa, Seattle, WA, 8/6-10
2003-04 Faculty Secretary
Member of Lecture and Events Committee
Member of Ad Hoc Marketing and Website Committee
2004-05 Member of Lectures and Events Committee
Member of General Education Committee
Member of Phi Beta Kappa Nominating Committee
Member of the Friends of Library Committee
Sweet Briar Delegate for the Virginia Humanities Conference 2005
Member of English Search Committee
Summer 2005 Directed Summer Honors Research Project (with Natalie Pye) on the topic of madness in the Roman Empire
2005-06 Chair of General Education Committee
Co-Chair of Lectures and Events Committee
President of Sweet Briar Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (Theta of Virginia)
Organized and Hosted Initiation for Eta Sigma Phi (Classics Honors Society)
Summer 2006 Directing Summer Honors Research Project (with Jacquelyn Wilkins) on the topic of gender and androgyny in ancient Athens
GUEST LECTURES IN SWEET BRIAR COURSES
“Perspectives on Ancient Epic Poetry,” Invited Lecture in John Gregory Brown’s course on epic and the contemporary novel
“On Time and Fate in Virgil’s Aeneid,” 2 Invited Lectures in Lee Piepho’s Honors seminar, 2/1/05 and 2/3/05
“From Words to Worlds: the Evolution of Myth in Greece and Rome,” Invited Lecture in Jonathan Greene’s Graduate Education Seminar, 11/15/04
“Third Stream Jazz: the Intersection of Jazz and Classical Music,” Invited Lecture in Rebecca McNutt’s Honors Seminar on Jazz, October 2004
“Geography and the Earth in Antiquity,” Invited Lecture in Steve Stahl’s course on Geography, Spring, 2003
“Plato’s Symposium and Love,” Invited Lecture in Debbie Durham’s Honors Seminar on Love, Fall 2002
“Curse Tablets and Ancient Magic,” Invited Lecture in Cathy Gutierrez’s Religion, Science, and Occult class, Spring 2001
HONORS AND GRANTS
2000-05 The Faculty Grants Committee at Sweet Briar has generously awarded me funds for travel to conferences and to research libraries each year.
2002 Technology Fellowship at Sweet Briar College (summer 2002)
2002 Nominated to be in Who’s Who among America’s Teachers (7th edition)
1997 Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in Teaching (Medical Terminology)
1993-95 Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship
1990-91 Department of Classical Studies Fellowship
1995 Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in Teaching (Latin 3)
1994 Graduate Student Speaker at Welcoming Ceremony for University of Pennsylvania President Dr. Judith Rodin and Provost Dr. Stanley Chodorow
1993 Mellon Summer Dissertation Workshop
1989 Phi Beta Kappa at Haverford College
2000-05 The Faculty Grants Committee at Sweet Briar has generously awarded me funds for travel to conferences and to research libraries each year.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Philological Association
Classical Association for the Middle and Western States
Classical Association of Virginia
Archaeological Institute of America