Assistant Professor
Phone
(520) 621-2315
Office
Learning Services Building 219
Office Hours
Fall 2019: Tuesdays/Thursdays 3:00-4:00 p.m.
Areas of Expertise
- Greek and Latin literature, especially the Greek Prose
- Ancient Multilingualism in both reality and literary representation
- Classical Linguistics
- Modern Performance of Ancient Drama and Classical Reception in American Drama
Education
- Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles (2012)
- Dissertation: "Cross-Language Communication in Helidorus' Aethiopica"
Committee: David Blank (Chair), Mario Teló, Brent Vine, Jacco Dieleman
- Dissertation: "Cross-Language Communication in Helidorus' Aethiopica"
- M.A, Classics, University of California, Los Angeles (2007)
- Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, Classics, Unviersity of California Los Angeles (2005)
- B.S., Classics, University of Wisconsin, Madison (2002)
Teaching
2018-2019 Courses
Fall 2018
- CLAS 116B - Word Roots: Science and Medical Terminology
- CLAS 342 - The Iliad, The Odyssey, and the Epic Tradition
Spring 2019
- CLAS 160B1 - Meet the Ancients: Gateway to Greece and Rome
- CLAS 352- The Ancient Novel
Summer 2019
- Greek 112 - Elementary Ancient Greek (Fully Online, Asynchronous)
Courses taught at University of Arizona
- CLAS116B: Word Roots: Science and Medical Technology
- CLAS 160D1 - America and Antiquity
- CLAS160B2 - Classical Mythology
- CLAS 220 - The Classical Tradition I (As part of Study Abroad Program based in Orvieto, Italy)
- CLAS 221 - The Classical Tradition II (As part of Study Abroad Program based in Orvieto, Italy)
- CLAS 301A (formerly 250A) - The Literature of the Ancient Greeks: From Homer to the Novel
- CLAS 346 - Ancient Greek Drama
- CLAS 352 - The Ancient Novel
- CLAS 397 - Engaged and Applied Classics (Staging Ancient Drama)
- GRK 101 - Elementary Classical Greek I
- GRK 102 - Elementary Classical Greek II
- GRK 112 - Intensive Elementary Classical Greek
- GRK 201 - Intermediate Classical Greek I
- GRK 202 - Intermediate Classical Greek II
- GRK 4/502 - Greek Reading Course
- GRK 4/530 - Readings in Greek Historians
- GRK 4/533 - Readings in Ancient Greek Poetry of the Archaic and/or Hellenistic Period
- GRK 4/539 - Readings in Ancient Greek Orators
- Honors 197J - Examining Ancient Lives
Theses Supervised
M.A. Thesis, Committee Chair:
- “On Misconceptions Generated by Translating Parrhesia and Isegoria as ‘Freedom of Speech’" (G. Lu, 2017)
- “Mythic Claims to Territory in the Megarid” (B. Winnick, 2015)
M.A. Theses, Committee Member:
- “Dreams in Homer, Heraclitus, and Plato” (A. Novikova, 2018)
- “Changes over night: An Analysis of the Aftermath of Mons Graupius in Tacitus’ Agricola” (C. Moat, 2018)
- “Roman Pederastic Poetry: The Problem of the Puer Delicatus” (L. Harvey, 2017)
- “A Comparison of the Works of Latin Literature That Influenced British and American Political Figures Between 1700 and 1825” (I. Merrill, 2016)
- “The Euripidean Prologue” (J. Geach, 2016)
- “Towards an Understanding of Herodotean ἱστορίη” (L. Green, 2015)
- “The Larnax and the Tree: Daphnis, Adonis, Meleager and Osiris in Myths of Death and Rebirth” (J. Muñoz, 2015)
- “Rhetoric in Sophocles’ Philoctetes and Plato’s Phaedrus” (V. Ganesan, 2014)
Research
Presentations
- 2018 "Rescripting Senecan Performability in Agamemnon Act 1", "Ancient Drama in Performance V, Lynchburg.
- 2017 "Classics in the 21st Century" (3-day Lecture Series), Dorrance Scholarship Program Summer Bridge Experience, Flagstaff
- 2017 “Next to Normal: An Interior Oresteia”, CAMWS, Kitchener.
- 2016 "Glossed in Translation: Some Mulitilingual Moments in Greek Literature," Centro Studi Città di Orvieto, Orvieto, Italy.
- 2016 "What is Classics? (5-day Lecture Series)", Dorrance Scholarship Program Summer Bridge Experience, Flagstaff
- 2015 "The Semantic Evolution of δίγλωσσος", SCS, New Orleans.
- 2014 "Cassandra Barbarophonos, Aeschylus at the Language Barrier", CAMWS, Waco.
- 2013 "Teaching Heliodorus in the Greek Civilization Course”, CAMWS, Iowa City.
- 2012 “Statue to Story: Ovid's Metamorphosis of Hermaphroditus”, APA, Philadelphia.
- 2010 “Women, Sex, Bilingualism, and the Aethiopica”, APA, Philadelphia.
- 2009 “Heliodorus and Ancient Bilingualism: Fiction and Facts”, Ancient Cultures in Contact: Catalysts for Change, University of Pennsylvania, Graduate Conference.
- 2008 Panel Respondent, Reconstructing Paternity in the Ancient World, University of California, Los Angeles, Graduate Conference.
- 2008 “Papyrus Stanford Greek Green 8”, American Society of Papyrologists Summer Program, Stanford University.
- 2007 “The Librarian and the Shaman: Making Sense of Apollonius's Allusions to Empedocles”, CAMWS, Cincinnati.
Publications
- Article: “From Statue to Story: Ovid's Metamorphosis of Hermaphroditus”, Classical World 109.3 (2016).
Publications in Progress
- Commentary: "Chariton's 'Callirhoe' (Selections)", under review fo the Dickinson Classical Commentaries series.
- Article: "Linguistic Chastity in Heliodorus' Aethiopica" (Revising for Ancient Narrative)
- Article: “P. Stanford Green Greek 8” (forthcoming in Papyrologica Bruxellensia)
- Textbook in Progress: "A Greek Novel Reader"
- Monograph in Progress: "Cross-Language Communication in the Greek and Roman Novels"
Current Service Activies
- Director of Basic Languages
- Classics Assessment and Outcomes Committee (Chair)
- Classical Language Recruitment Committee (Chair)
- Classics Awards Committee (Co-Chair)
- Classics Representative to COH Website Governance and Working Group
- Curriculum Committee
Dramatic Activities
I participate in two chief kinds of activities that reolve around modern productions connected with ancient theater.
- Staging Ancient Drama is an ongoing project, begun in 2017 in which I supervise undergraduates in putting on a full staging of an ancient Greek or Roman play. Students enroll in a 1-credit course with the engagement attribute to reflect the active and engaged learning that takes place as part of this experience. Performances are held annually in late April and are free and open to the public. Performances are supported by grants from the Office of Student Engagement and the Arizona Community Foundation.
- Seneca's "Agamemnon" (2018)\
- Euripides' "Trojan Women" (2017)
- The SCS's Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance (CAMP) performs a play (either Greek, Roman, or on Classical themes) annually at the meeting of the SCS. I regularly participate in these performances as an actor (and occasionally a singer).
- Plautus' "Truculentus" (2017)
- Aristophanes' "Wealth" (2015)
- Plautus' "Rudens" (2014)
- Aristophanes' "Birds" (2007)
- Gilbert and Sullivan's "Thespis" (2006)
Links
Currently Teaching
GRK 101 – Elementary Classical Greek I
Introduction to ancient Greek for students of the Bible and of the classical authors.
GRK 439 – Readings in Ancient Greek Orators
Critical reading in ancient Greek with social, historical and interpretive analysis of the works of Demosthenes and other major fourth century BCE orators.
GRK 539 – Readings in Ancient Greek Orators
Critical reading in ancient Greek with social, historical and interpretive analysis of the works of Demosthenes and other major fourth century BCE. orators. Graduate-level requirements include extensive reading and a research paper.