Assistant Professor
Office
Learning Services Building 224
Office Hours
Spring 2019: Mondays/Wednesdays 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Website
Arum Park worked at Amherst College, the University of Oklahoma, Washington and Lee University, and Brigham Young University before coming to the University of Arizona. Her primary areas of research are Archaic and Classical Greek poetry, but she has published or presented papers on authors ranging from Hesiod to Longus.
Book
Truth, Gender, and Genre in Pindar and Aeschylus (In Progress).
Selected Publications
- “Introduction: Resemblance and Reality as Interpretive Lens.” Co-authored with Mary Pendergraft. In Resemblance and Reality in Greek Thought.
- “Reality, Illusion, or Both? Cloud-Women in Stesichorus and Pindar.” In Resemblance and Reality in Greek Thought.
“The Pastoral Parents of Daphnis and Chloe.” Arethusa 48.2 (2015) 253-281.
“Truth and Genre in Pindar.” Classical Quarterly 63.1 (2013) 17-36.
“Two Types of Ovidian Personification.” Classical Journal 104.3 (2009) 225-240.
Outreach Publications
"Diversifying Classics II: The University of Michigan's Bridge MA."
Currently Teaching
GRK 102 – Elementary Classical Greek II
The second semester of the introduction to the basic morphology, grammar, syntax, and vocabulary of ancient Greek through reading and composition for students of the Bible and of classical authors.
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.