waddell

Areas of Expertise

• Latin and Greek historiography, especially of Rome
• Roman and Greek history
• Ancient Rhetoric

Fall '25 Courses

• CLAS 160D2: Classical Mythology: Ancient Stories and What they Tell Us
• CLAS 4/514: Narrating Memory: The Greek and Roman Historians

Education

• Ph.D., Classical Studies, University of Missouri (2010)
  • Dissertation: "The Directed Gaze: Enargeia and Film in the Annales of Tacitus"
    • Dennis Trout (Chair), Raymond Marks, James McGlew, David Schenker, Lawrence Okamura
• M.A, Classics, University of Missouri (2006)
• Postbaccalaurate work in Classics, The Catholic University of America (2001-2002)
• B.A., History, cum laude, The Johns Hopkins University (2001)
  • Thesis: "The Religious Reforms of Augustus"
    • Celia Schultz (Chair)

Selected Presentations

• 2024 "Fighting with the Enemy: Focalization in Livy's Battle of Cannae," CAMWS-SS, San Antonio.
• 2024 "The Dream of Hannibal: Propaganda, Religion, and Historiography," ACL, Tucson.
• 2024 "Livius Criticus: A Polybian Intertext at AUC 21.18-19," CAMWS, St. Louis.
• 2020 "The Imperial Gaze: Focalization and Alignment in Tacitus' Annales" (invited lecture) University of Toronto, October 2020.
• 2020 "Cupido incessit: Religion at the Borders of Empire (Tac. Hist. 2.2–3, Ann. 1.61–62.)," (invited panel: "The Supernatural in Tacitus,") CAMWS, March 2020.* (Presented in May, for Online CAMWS)
• 2018 "Reading Nero: Receptions of the Emperor from Antiquity to the 21st Century," Hendrix College, AR (invited).
• 2017 "Urbs ut scaena: Dramatic Space in the Historiae of Tacitus," CAMWS, Kitchener, ON.
• 2015 “Quasi Nero Triumphans: A Tacitean Reading of Ammianus Marcellinus’ RG 16.8-10,” CAMWS, Boulder.
• 2014 “Carthago Deleta: Alternate Realities and Meta-history in Appian’s Libyca,” Science/Fiction/History: The Literary in Classical Historiography, Athens, Greece.
• 2014 “In Your Hearts:  A Ciceronian Intertext in Tacitus’ Annales,” CAMWS, Waco.
• 2013 “Derideas Licet: Tacitus’ Death of Seneca as Satire,”  APA, Seattle.
• 2012 “Ethos Tranlsatum: Failures of Rhetorical Self-Presentation in the Annales of Tacitus,” CAMWS, Baton Rouge.
• 2011 Panel Respondent, Annual Heartland Graduate Workshop in Ancient Studies, University of Missouri.
• 2011 “The Quick-Cut in the Annales of Tacitus and the Column of Trajan,” APA, San Antonio.
• 2007 “Dominus et Deus: Domitian’s Creation of the Games of Capitoline Jupiter,” Forging Identity, Graduate Student Conference, The Johns Hopkins University.
• 2007 “War More Punic Than Civil: Carthage in Lucan’s De Bello Civile,” CAMWS, Cincinnati.

Publications

• Chapter: “Day Suddenly Became Night: Eclipses and Characterization in Greek Historiography” in Sublime Cosmos in Graeco-Roman Literature and its Reception: Intersections of Myth, Science, and History, ed. D. Christenson and C. White. Bloomsbury, 2024: 159-170.
• Monograph: Tacitean Visual Narrative,  Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2020. Reviewed in Classical Review 71.2: 420-22 and Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2023.3.15.
• Chapter: “Carthago Deleta: Alternate Realities and Meta-history in Appian’s Libyca” in The Art of History: Literary Perspectives on Greek and Roman Historiography, ed. V. Liotsakis and S. Farrington. Walter De Gruyter, 2016: 241-52. [review: Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2018)]
• Article: “Eloquent Collisions: The Annales of Tacitus, the Column of Trajan, and the Cinematic Quick-Cut,” Arethusa 46.3: 471-497, 2013.
• Refereed Encyclopedia Entries: “Alphabet,” “Asinius Gallus,” “Clodius Pulcher,” “Domitia Lepida,” “Julia Silana,” “Lollia Paulina,” and “Narrative” for the Tacitus Encyclopedia, ed. Victoria Pagán, New York: Wiley-Blackwell (May ’23) (invited).
• Refereed Encyclopedia Entries: “Vilicus,” “Aes Alienum,” and “Congiarium” in Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Ancient History. ed. Roger Bagnall, et al. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

Work in Progress

• Proposal for Bloomsbury Academic commentary on Livy, book XXI (co-editing with Dexter Hoyos). currently drafting.
• Article: “Ethos Translatum: intentional failures of Ciceronian creations of ethos in Tacitus,” currently drafting.

Reviews

• Shannon-Henderson, Kelly. Religion and Memory in Tacitus' Annals. Oxford University Press, 2019. Classical World, 2020. Invited review.
• Woodman, A. J., ed.  The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus. Cambridge University Press, 2010. Classical Bulletin, 2012.
• Galtier, Fabrice.  L’image tragique de l’Histoire chez Tacite: Étude des schèmes tragiques dans les Histoires et les Annales. Latomus, 2011.  Bryn Mawr Classical Review, August 2012.