Areas of Special Interest:
Latin Prose Literature of the Republic and Early Empire; Greek and Roman
spectacle and performance; Roman Social and Cultural History; Greek and
Roman Art and Archaeology; Literary Theory and Criticism
Education:
| University of California, Berkeley | May 2000 | Ph.D. Classics |
| University of California, Berkeley | May 1994 | M.A. Latin |
| University of Washington, Seattle | June 1992 | B.A. Philosophy, magna cum laude |
| University of Washington, Seattle | June 1992 | B.A. Latin, Classical Studies, magna cum laude |
| University of Washington, Seattle, Seminar in Rome | Spring Quarter 1992 |
Employment:
| University of Washington, Seattle: | |
| Assistant Professor, Department of Classics | Fall 2001 - present |
| Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Classics | Fall 2000 - Spring 2001 |
Ph.D. Dissertation:
A Political Muse: Cicero, Catullus, and the Transformation
of Textual Culture
Committee: Kathleen McCarthy (chair), Erich Gruen, Andrew Stewart
Publications:
Articles
"Designing Women: Aristophanes' Lysistrata and the 'Hetairization'
of the Greek Wife." forthcoming, Arethusa (arly 2004)
"Rituals of Ink?" Post-Script remarks for forthcoming volume,
"Rituals in Ink," to be published by Franz Steiner Verlag (Stuttgart)
"Adulta Uirgo: The Personification of Textual Eloquence in Cicero's
Brutus."
forthcoming, MD (December 2003 issue)
"<g>Phthonos d' Apesto </g>: The Translation of
Transgression in Aiskhylos' Agamemnon" with D. Sailor, ClAnt 18.1
(1999) 153-182
Reviews
Review: M. Depew and D. Obbink, edd., Matrices of Genre: Authors, Canons,
and Society (Harvard 2000), forthcoming, CB
Review: Emanuele Narducci, ed., Interpretare Cicerone: Percorsi
della critica contemporanea (Atti del Il Symposium Ciceronianum Arpinas),
BMCR
02.12.06
Review: Phebe Lowell Bowditch, Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage,
BMCR
01.11.08
Review: Dominic Monserrat, ed., Changing Bodies, Changing Meanings,
BMCR
98.7.20
Papers Delivered:
"Invaluable Collections: the Illusion of Poetic Presence in Martials'
Xenia
and Apophoreta." Groningen Conference on Flavian Poetry; 19-23
August 2003
"Daughter, Virgin, Whore? Personifications of Eloquentia in Cicero's
Brutus"
2001 APA
"Organizing a Local Conference" presented at the Feminism and Classics
III conference, University of Southern California, May 2000
"Accingere Ira: Anger and Intertextuality in Seneca's Medea"
Columbia University, Nov. 1999
"Designing Women: Aristophanes' Lysistrata and the Hetairization
of the Greek Wife" 1998 APA
"Amphitruonis Sosia: The Transaction of Identity in Plautus'
Amphitruo"
1997 APA
"Amazon and Antipolis: The Scythian Ladies' Club" Kress Foundation
Art History Colloquium: The Athenian Body Politic, Berkeley, April 1997
"<g>Edokei ho Theos</g>: Theme and the Concept of Healing
in the Epidaurian Iamata" 1996 AIA
Invited Talks:
External
"Visualizing Victory: Art, Ritual, and Rhetoric in the Roman Triumph"
Stanford University Humanities Seminar, Art and Text Series, 20
February 2001
[Respondent] ėRituals in Ink: A Conference on Religion and Texts in
Ancient Romeî Stanford University, 22-23 February 2002
At the University of Washington
"Alternative Religion in Ancient Rome: the Case of the Jealous God"
Phi
Beta Kappa Colloquium on Alternative Religions, 6 March 2003
Teaching Experience:
At the University of Washington, Seattle:
| Greek 305 | Xenophon | Fall 2003 |
| Latin 423 | Cicero and Sallust | Spring 2003 |
| Humanities 103 | Self and Society: Changing Conceptions... | Spring 2003 |
| Humanities 498 (Simpson Summer Rsch Inst.) | Innovations: Text, Technology, and New Media... | Summer 2002 |
| Latin 565 | Roman Topography and Monuments Seminar | Spring 2002 (in Rome) |
| Latin 465 | Roman Spectacle Seminar | Spring 2002 (in Rome) |
| Classics 430 | Greek and Roman Mythology | Winter 2002 |
| Latin 306 | Cicero and Ovid | Winter 2002 |
| Latin 520 | Literary Dedication & Circulation in Latin Lit. | Fall 2001 |
| Greek 102 | Intensive Elementary Attic Greek | Summer 2001 |
| Classics 428YA | Greek and Roman Comedy | Spring 2001 |
| Greek 102 | Elementary Attic Greek | Winter 2001 |
| Latin 423 | Republican Prose (the Catilinarian Conspiracy) | Winter 2001 |
| Greek 101 | Elementary Attic Greek | Fall 2000 |
| Classics 427A | Greek and Roman Tragedy | Fall 2000, Fall 2003 |
At the University of California, Berkeley:
| Greek 101 | Homer (Od. 6, 19, 20, selections) | Instructor | Spring 2000 |
| Classics 35 | Greek Tragedy | Instructor | Summer 1999 |
| Latin 100 | Republican Prose (the Civil War) | Instructor | Spring 1999 |
| Greek 40 | Intermediate Prose Composition | Instructor | Fall 1997 |
| Greek 10 | Intensive Elementary Greek | T.A. | Summer 1996 |
| Latin 40 | Intermediate Prose Composition | Instructor | Spring 1996 |
| Classics 28 | Ancient Mythology | T.A. | Spring 1995 |
| Latin 1 | Elementary Latin | Instructor | Fall 1994 |
Academic Awards and Honors:
At the University of Washington, Seattle:
| Getty Foundation Research Grant (Tel Dor excavations and publications) | 2003-2005 |
| Research Fellowship, Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities | 2002-2003 |
At the University of California, Berkeley:
| Women's Classical Caucus Paper Award (for Designing Women, 1998 APA) | Received Spring 1999 |
| Mellon Dissertation Fellowship | Spring, Summer, Fall 1998 |
| Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award | Spring 1998 |
| Kress Foundation Art History Seminar in Athens ("The Athenian Body Politic") | Spring 1997 |
| Mellon Fourth Year Fellowship | Spring 1997 |
| Chancellor's Humanities Fellowship | Fall 1995 |
| Lulu J. Blumberg Fellowship in Latin | Fall 1993 ÷ Spring 1994 |
At the University of Washington, Seattle (as an undergraduate):
| Phi Beta Kappa | Spring 1991 |
| Jim Greenfield Scholarship in Classics | Fall 1991-- Spring 1992 |
| Jim Greenfiled Scholarship in Classics | Spring 1991 |
Excavation Experience:
| Co-Director (UCB / UW Team), Tel Dor Excavations | Tel Dor, Israel | ongoing |
| Excavator, Square Supervisor: Tel Dor Excavations (Hebrew University and UC Berkeley) | Tel Dor, Israel | Summer 2002 |
| Trench Director, University of California Excavations at Nemea | Archaia Nemea, Greece | Summer 1997 |
| Excavator and Numismatic Research Assistant, University of California Excavations at Nemea | Archaia Nemea, Greece | Summer 1996 |
Conference / Panel Organization:
| Co-Chair, Organizer-Refereed Panel, Leisure in Practice: Text and Art At the Crossroads of Cultural Studies | 2002 APA |
| Co-organizer, subcommittee on Literary Theory, Feminism and the Classics III conference, held at USC | 1999 -- 2000 |
| Organizer and Co-Chair, Berkeley Heller Conference, Cui Dono. The Circulation of Text and Artifact in Roman Society | 1998 |
| Organizer and Co-Chair, Berkeley Heller Conference, Privileging Perspectives: the Question of Comparison in Classical Studies | 1997 |
Other Academic Service:
At the University of Washington:
Committee Work
| Danz Humanities Course Committee | 2002-2003 |
| Undergraduate Scholarships and Awards Committee (Classics) | 2001-current |
| Modern Language Committee | A 2002; W 2003 |
| Rome Committee | 2001-current |
| Rome Committee, Chair | 2001-2002 |
| Planning Committee and Faculty Advisor, Summer Research Institute in Arts and Humanities | Summer 2002 |
| Latin PhD Exam Committee |
Thesis / Advisory / Mentoring Work
| Dissertation Committee chair, Marco Zangari ("Cicero Fabricator: the Ethos of Aesthetics in the Verrine Orations") | current |
| Dissertation Committee member, Bradley Levett ("Contradiction and Authority in Gorgias") | 2001-2002 |
| Faculty Advisor / Mentor, McNair Fellowship Summer Research Program [Eura Gene Ryan, Knox College, 'Soranus and Roman Midwifery'] | Summer 2002 |
| Supervisor of Latin 103 TAs | Sp 2001 |
At the University of California, Berkeley:
Founder and list manager, Hetaireia; an international electronic
list and directory for graduate students in Classics and related fields,
1999
Co-organizer, GWCRF Spring Lecture series, 1999
Graduate Student Liaison, Women's Classical Caucus, 1998-2000
Graduate Representative, Task Force for Library Collections and Services
in Support of Art History, the Visual Arts, and Classics, 1997
Co-Founder, GWCRF: Graduate Women in Classics and Related Fields
(at the University of California, Berkeley), 1997
General Representative, Classics Graduate Students at Berkeley, 1996-1998
Graduate Student Representative, Latin Search Committee, 1995-1996
In Progress:
Book-length manuscript, A Society of Patrons: Cicero, Catullus, and the Textual Body Politic [working title]
Book-length manuscript, By Fire or By Sword: Cicero, Sallust, Appian and Dio on the Catilinarian Conspiracy [a collection of translations, with introduction and interpretive notes, under contract with Focus Publishing]
"Invaluable Collections: the Illusion of Poetic Presence in Martial's Xenia and Apophoreta."
"Nisi in bonis: the 'Republicizing' of amicitia in Cicero's Laelius." For presentation at the 2004 meeting of the APA, San Francisco CA Jan 2004
Article, "A Triumph of the Imagination: Tristia IV.ii and Ovid's Ekphrastic Gaze"