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arumpark@arizona.edu
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On research leave, AY 2023-2024.
Park, Arum
Associate Professor

Arum Park has been at the University of Arizona since 2015. She has published on Archaic and Classical Greek poetry, the ancient Greek Novel, and Augustan poetry, as well as on #metoo in ancient Greco-Roman literature, race and diversity in Classics, and Classical reception. Her research and teaching interests include gender, truth, intertextuality, and race and ethnicity. The daughter of Korean immigrants, she currently co-chairs the Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus.

Publications

Books

Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. University of Michigan Press (2023). Featured in Pasts Imperfect (6.8.23)

Resemblance and Reality in Greek Thought. Essays in Honor of Peter M. Smith. Editor, collection of essays. Routledge (2017).

Articles and Book Chapters

Public Scholarship

Presentations

  • Quintilian: The Latin Teacher Podcast. “Diversity in Classical Languages Teaching.” June 25, 2023. (podcast)
  • “Staging the Eternal Questions of Antigone.” Books and Bridges virtual series. November 2, 2022. (video)
  • “Uses of Stealth Latin.” With Annie Huynh. Diversity and Inclusion in the Latin Classroom, Cambridge University Press Education. December 2021. (video)
  • "The Transformation of a Classic." In “Transformation: Story, Character & Meaning Across Time & Space.” Tucson Humanities Festival: Storytelling, October 20, 2021. Presentation and discussion with Jennifer Donahue, Faith Harden, and Kaoru Hayashi. (video)
  • Khameleon Classics Podcast. “Why Diversify Classics? A Conversation with Shivaike Shah of Khameleon Productions. 2021. (podcast)
  • “Diversity in Classics: Understanding It, Appreciating It.” Tucson Humanities Festival: Toward Justice. October 26, 2020. PechaKucha presentation and discussion with Bryan Carter and Jonathan Jae-an Crisman. (video)
  • College of Charleston, Classical Charleston. Diversifying Classics, Multicultural Voices in Classical Scholarship.” February 28, 2019. (video)

Essays

Currently Teaching

CLAS 301A – The Literature of the Ancient Greeks: From Homer to the Novel

Survey of the major authors and works of ancient Greece: from Homer to the Greek novel. All readings in English.

CLAS 363 – Race and Classics

In CLASSICS 363 we will build a community of inquiry examining the intersections of race and Classics. Readings will include primary and secondary sources that will help us explore topics such as (but not limited to) cross-cultural interactions in Mediterranean antiquity, the social construction of race and ethnicity in antiquity and modernity, the influence of race (including constructions of whiteness) and racism on the development of the discipline of Classics in modern Europe and North America, and how the ancient Greeks and Romans can help us think about diversity and the concept of Western Civilization.

CLAS 498H – Honors Thesis

An honors thesis is required of all the students graduating with honors. Students ordinarily sign up for this course as a two-semester sequence. The first semester the student performs research under the supervision of a faculty member; the second semester the student writes an honors thesis.

CLAS 342 – The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Epic Tradition

CLAS 342 is a General Education Exploring Perspectives (Humanist) course carrying the Writing and World Cultures and Societies attributes. We will build a community of inquiry into Homeric literature and society using tools like close reading to examine the Homeric characters within the Iliad and Odyssey with a view to what forces--social, divine, individualistic, artistic--inform their thoughts and actions. We will draw parallels and examine contrasts between our own societies and that of the characters within the Iliad and Odyssey, and we will be assisted in these critical analyses by the work of modern scholars who have attempted to understand the world of Homer using interpretive tools like close reading and literary analysis. Students will be invited to use their own experiences as interpretive lenses through which to understand the world of Homer; conversely, students will also be invited to use the world of Homer to understand their own.

GRK 424 – Advanced Greek: Homer

Close reading of selections from the Iliad and Odyssey in Greek and an introduction to the critical secondary literature.

GRK 524 – Advanced Greek: Homer

Close reading of selections from the Iliad and Odyssey in Greek and an introduction to the critical secondary literature. Graduate-level requirements include extensive reading and an in-depth paper.