Professor
Phone
520-621-5326
Office
Modern Languages Building 326
Office Hours
Spring 2019: Mondays, 2:00-3:30, Fridays 10:30 - 12:00 p.m., or by appointment
Spring 2019 COURSES
CLAS 301B - The Literature of the Ancient Romans in English Translation (TR 3:30-4:45, HARVILL 411)
CLAS 355 - Horror, Terror, Violence & Trauma in the Ancient Roman World (TR 12:30-1:45, PSYCH 306)
Areas of Expertise
- Greek and Roman Theater
- Late Roman Republican and Early Imperial Literature and Culture
- Women and Gender in Antiquity
- Slavery in the Roman World
- Translation and Classical Reception Studies
Books
- Plautus: Pseudolus (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series). Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2019.
- Roman Comedy. Bloomsbury Publishing, under contract.
- Plautus: Casina (Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions). Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
- Hysterical Laughter: Four Ancient Comedies about Women. Oxford University Press, 2015. [review: Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2015)].
- Roman Comedy: Five Plays by Plautus and Terence. Focus Classical Library/Hackett Publishing, 2010. [review: Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2010)].
- Plautus: Casina, Amphitryon, Captivi, Pseudolus. Focus Classical Library/Hackett Publishing, 2008. [review: Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2009)].
- Plautus: Amphitruo. Cambridge University Press, 2000. [reviews: Greece & Rome, 2nd ser. 48.1 (2001) 97; Emerita 69.1 (2001) 162-4; Rivista di filologia 129 (2001) 91-99; Scholia Reviews 11 (2002) 20; Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2002); L'Antiquité classique 71 (2002) 315-17; Mnemosyne 55.5 (2002) 626-29; The Classical Journal 98.3 (2003) 325-28; Arctos 38 (2004) 231-33; Gnomon 77 (2005) 316-19].
Selected Refereed Articles, Chapters, Notes, Encyclopedia Entries, and Book Reviews
- "Metatheatre," in The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy, ed. M. Dinter. Cambridge University Press, 2019: 136-50.
- "Concocting Justice: Dikaeopolis the Cook in Acharnians," in Costume Change in the Comedies of Aristophanes, ed. N. Tsoumpra. Bloomsbury Publishing, forthcoming (2019).
- "Ludi nuptiales: Travesties of Marriage in Plautus," in Au-delà de l’épithalame: le mariage dans la littérature latine, eds. L. Galli Milic and A. Stoher-Monjou, Ausonius Publishing, forthcoming (2019).
- "Lucretian Comedy," in Comic Receptions: Plautus and Terence in Late Republican and Imperial Rome, ed. E. Karakasis. Walter de Gruyter Trends in Classics Supplementary Volume, forthcoming (2019).
- "nouo modo nouom aliquid inuentum: Plautine Priorities," in Blackwell's Companion to Plautus, eds. D. Dutsch and G.F. Franko. Blackwell-Wiley Publishing, forthcoming (2019).
- "All's Well That Ends Well? Old Fools, Morality, and Plautine Epilogues," in Roman Drama and its Contexts, eds. S. Frangoulidis, S. Harrison and G. Manuwald. Walter de Gruyter Trends in Classics Supplementary Volume 34 (2016): 215-30.
- Review of M. Beard, Laughter in Ancient Rome (U. California Press), Classical Philology 110 (2015): 388-91.
- Review of A. Petrides, Menander, New Comedy and the Visual (Cambridge U. Press), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2015.12.10.
- "A Roman Thesaurus: Religion, Marriage, Metatheater, and Concord in Aulularia," in Plautine Trends: Studies in Plautine Comedy and its Reception, Festschrift in Honor of Professor Dimitrios Raios, eds. I.N. Perysinakis and E. Karakasis. Walter de Gruyter Trends in Classics Supplementary Volume 29 (2014): 13-42.
- "Ancient Roman Comedy," and "Plautus," in The Encyclopedia of Humor Studies, Gen. ed. S. Attardo. Sage Publications (2014): 1.35-39, 2.575-77.
- "Eunuchus," in Blackwell's Companion to Terence, eds. A. Augoustakis and A. Traill. Blackwell-Wiley Publishing (2013): 262-80. [reviews: The Classical Journal (2014); Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2015.05.15; Classical Review 65 (2015): 428-30; Journal of Roman Studies 105 (2015): 444-5].
- "Unbearding Morality: Appearance and Persuasion in Pro Caelio," Classical Journal 100 (2004): 61-72.
- "Superbia in Vergil's Aeneid: Who's Haughty and Who's Not?," Scholia 11 (2002): 44-54.
- "Grotesque Realism in Plautus' Amphitruo," Classical Journal 96 (2001): 243-60.
- "Callinus and militia amoris in Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Cleitophon," Classical Quarterly n.s. 50 (2000): 631-2.
Selected Awards
- 2013: University of Arizona Graduate College Graduate Education Teaching and Mentoring Award
- 2012: University of Arizona Graduate and Professional Student Council Outstanding Mentor of Graduate Students
- 2011-12: Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship
- 2008: University of Arizona College of Humanities Humanities Seminars Program Superior Teaching Award
- 2006: University of Arizona Graduate and Professional Student Council Graduate Student Advisor of the Year
M.A. Thesis Committees Directed or Served at the University of Arizona
Currently Teaching
CLAS 301B – The Literature of the Ancient Romans: Latin Literature in English Translation
Classics 301B provides an introductory survey of Latin literature through English translations. The works to be studied include some of the earliest extant ones of the republican period down to those of the mid-empire: our authors span a period of over 300 years. We will read from a variety of genres, including comedy and tragedy, epic and lyric poetry, didactic literature, satire, historiography, the novel, letters, and philosophy. Latin writers appropriated all these genres- with the exception of satire, which apparently is a Roman innovation (satura quidem tota nostra est, Quintilian 10.1.93)-from the Greeks. In doing so they creatively and self-reflexively (Latin literature is extremely "meta") adapted their Greek source texts with a view to their own audiences and artistic purposes. The study of this literature provides a dynamic point of entry into the rich and diverse cultural world of the ancient Romans-the Roman empire was an extraordinarily complex experiment in multiethnic and polylingual exchange that is only now being rivaled by globalist movements. Latin literature is also critical to appreciation of subsequent European literatures and cultures.
CLAS 355 – Horror, Terror, Violence & Trauma in the Ancient Roman World
This course analyzes some of the most culturally prevalent forms of horror, terror, and violence in the ancient Roman world, including those associated with war, slavery, autocratic rule, and the spectacles of the amphitheater. In addition to examining relevant literary and documentary evidence from Roman antiquity, this course incorporates select writings in trauma studies, as well as modern comparative materials, that can provide frameworks for interpreting how both individuals and groups in the Roman world experienced and remediated the effects of trauma in their lives.