Department of Classics
CB# 3145, 215 Murphey Hall
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3145
Office: 319 Murphey
Hall
Office: (919) 962-7662
Fax: (919) 962-4036
Electronic mail: jimohara-at-unc.edu
(where -at- = @)
Personal Home Page: http://www.unc.edu/~oharaj
Department Home Page: http://www.classics.unc.edu
Research and Teaching Interests:
1. Late Republican and Augustan Poetry, esp. Vergil
2. Greek and Roman Literature, esp. epic, Hellenistic, satire, didactic
3. Roman Civilization
Education:
1977-1981: College of the
Holy Cross, A.B. Classics, summa cum laude
1981-1986: University of Michigan,
Ph.D. Classical Studies
Dissertation: "Death and the Optimistic Prophecy in the Aeneid"
Advisor: Professor David O. Ross, Jr.
Teaching:
The University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill:
George L. Paddison Professor of Latin, 2001-
Chair of Department, 2003-2007
Undergraduate Greek & Latin courses:
GREK
221 (was 21) Homer: Iliad
LATN 221 (was 21) Vergil (2x, 3rd in Fall 2011)
LATN 54 Tacitus and Pliny's Letters
LATN 34 Augustan Poetry: Eclogue and Elegy
LATN 334 (was 34) Augustan Poetry: Vergil's Aeneid (2x)
LATN
34 Augustan Poetry: Ovid's Metamorphoses
LATN
333: Catullus
LATN 351:
Lucretius (Fall 2011)
Graduate Latin courses:
LATN 512 (was 112) Latin Literature of
the Augustan Age
LATN
264 (now 774) Vergil: Aeneid (3 x)
LATN 263 (now 773) Lucretius (3 x)
LATN 264 Vergil: Georgics
LATN 765 (225) Horace
LATN 901 (was 301) Seminar: Catullus (2x)
LATN 901 Seminar: Didactic and Satire
Classics courses:
CLAS 55 (was 006), Three Greek and Roman Epics (1st-year seminar, 3x)
CLAS 133H (was 29): Epic and
Tragedy (honors 1st-year seminar, 3x)
CLAS 257 (was 35) The Age of Augustus (lecture, 2 x)
Thesis/Dissertation
committees (some
titles shortened): Dennis McKay, Aspects of Fortuna in Lucan's Bellum Civile (M.A. 2002, director),
Kevin Muse, Prodigals and Prodigality in Classical Antiquity (Ph.D. 2003,
reader), Arum Park, The Pastoral Landscapes of Vergil's Georgics (M.A. 2004, director),
John Henkel, Some Aspects of the Golden Age in Vergil’s First Georgic (M.A.
2004, director), Norman Sandridge, Jason's Leadership in the Argonautika
of Apollonios Rhodios (Ph.D. 2005, reader), Hunter Gardner, Gender and Time in
Latin Love Elegy (Ph.D. 2005, reader), David Carlisle, The Dream as a Narrative
Device in the Metamorphoses
of Apuleius (M.A. 2005, reader), Christopher Polt, Latin Literary Translation
in the Late Roman Republic (M.A. 2007, director), Joshua Smith,
Hospitium and Pathos in Vergil's Aeneid (honors thesis 2007, director),
Anderson Wiltshire, The Semantics of CHRE in Aeschylus (M.A. 2007, reader), Arum
Park, Pindar and Aeschylus (Ph.D. 2009, reader), John Henkel, Writing on Trees:
Genre and Metapoetics in Vergil's Eclogues and Georgics (Ph.D. 2009, director),
Sarah Landis, A New Manuscript of Tiberius Claudius Donatus at UNC-Chapel Hill
(M.A. 2009, reader), Mark Jackson, The Prolongation of Life in early Modern
English Lit. & Culture, with Emphasis on Francis Bacon (Ph.D. 2010, English
Dept., reader), Erika Zimmermann Damer, Women’s Bodies in Latin Elegy (Ph.D.,
2010, reader), Chris Polt, Catullus and Republican Dramatic Literature (Ph.D.
2010, director; won Linda Dykstra Distinguished
Dissertation Award from UNC), Jetta Peterkin, Cicero’s letters to
Terentia (M.A. 2010, reader), Katherine DeBoer, Violence and Vulnerability in
Ovid’s Amores
(M.A. 2010, reader), Hannah Rich (honors thesis 2010, violence in Tibullus,
reader), Dennis McKay, Style and Consequence in Vergil (Ph.D., in progress, director),
Carrie Mash (Ph.D., in progress, Lucretius, director), Mary McElwee, The
Choral Lyric of Pindar and Aeschylus: A Study in Meter, Language, and Style
(Ph.D., in progress, reader), Amanda Mathis (Ph.D., in progress, Apollonius of
Rhodes, reader), Anderson Wiltshire, Laetus in Vergil (Ph.D., in progress, director),
Ted Gellar-Goad, Satire, invective, and literary polemic in Lucretius (Ph.D.,
in progress, director), Zack Rider, Empedocles, Epicurus and the Failure
of Sacrifice in Lucretius (M.A., in progress, director)
Wesleyan University:
Visiting Assistant Professor 1986-87; Assistant Professor 1987-92;
Associate Professor 1992-97; Professor 1997-2001;
Chair of Department 1998-2000, SP 2001
Language Teaching:
Introductory Latin
Introductory Greek
Intermediate Greek: Three Versions of Socrates
Intermediate Latin: Catullus and Cicero; Ovid and Seneca; Ovid
Upper-level Undergraduate Latin:
Vergil's Aeneid; Roman
Elegy: Propertius & Tibullus; Lucretius; Roman Novel:
Petronius &
Apuleius; Neoteric & Pastoral (Catullus 61-68 and Vergil’s Eclogues)
Upper-level Undergraduate Greek:
Euripides; Sophocles; Homer's Iliad
Classical Civilization:
Humanities 101: Touchstones of Western Values (first-year seminar)
CCIV 274/HIST 274/COL 279: Last Days of the Roman Republic (seminar)
a.k.a. CCIV 116/HIST 126 History & Literature of the Roman Revolution
(first-year seminar)
CCIV 327/HIST 373: Roman Law & Society (seminar)
CCIV 203/HUM 203: Latin Literature in English Translation (lecture)
CCIV 325: Roman Epic (seminar)
Tutorials: Latin Composition; Introductory
Greek; Vergil: Eclogues
& Georgics;
Aeneid;
Juvenal: Satires;
Tacitus: Dialogus;
Sophocles: Oedipus
Tyrannus; Philoctetes;
Catullus & Vergil (Ford Fellow); Gospel of John in Greek and Latin; Catullus
& Cicero.
Senior Honors Theses/Essays; M.A.
Theses: The
Wounded Lion: Turnus in Book 12 of the Aeneid (Bailey); Difficult Simplicity: Textual
Resistance in Tibullus 1.1 & 2.2 (Cahill); Cicero's De Legibus Book 1: Introduction &
Commentary (Pezzulo, M.A.); Reading Vergil's Poetic Descriptions of Works of
Art (Mackta); Ira
Iovis: Jupiter & Augustus in Ovid's Metamorphoses (Damon); The Construction of
Sexuality in Petronius (Milnor);
Inspiration, Identity, & the Idea of Order: The Homeric Poems as a Cultural
System (Nelson); Ovid: Advanced Placement Selections from the Metamorphoses
with Questions for Guided Reading & Commentary (Jestin,
M.A.); Late Latin Epithlamia (Morini, acting advisor one term); Cavere, Agere,
Respondere: The Role of the Roman Jurists in the Development of Law from
Scaevola to Hadrian (Vance); A Multimedia Review of Vergil's Eclogue One
(Kercheval); Epicurean Ethics in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura (Staats)
Publications:
Books:
Death and the
Optimistic Prophecy in Vergil's Aeneid (Princeton 1990) ISBN
0-691-06815-1. Sometimes available from Amazon
and others.
Reviewed by: R.
Jenkyns, Times
Literary Supplement (Nov. 23-29, 1990) 1268; J. Farrell, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1 (1990)
62-68; J. Rexine, Choice (Dec. 1990) 211; W.W. Briggs, New England Classical Newsletter &
Journal 18.4 (1991) 40-41; N.M. Horsfall, Vergilius 36 (1990) 133-34; D. Fowler, Greece & Rome
38 (1991) 241-42; J.P. Holoka, Classical World
85 (1991) 128; S.J. Harrison, Classical Review
41 (1991) 327-28; "F.-L. L.," Les Études Classiques 59 (1991) 297; A. Novara,
Revue des Études
Latines 69 (1991) 251-52; L. Voit, Gymnasium 99 (1992) 175-77; B.W. Boyd, American Journal of Philology 113 (1992) 467-70;
M. Geymonat, Gnomon 64
(1992) 721-22; P.-J. Dehon, L' Antiquité Classique 61 (1992) 378-80; A.
Schiesaro, Classical
Philology 88 (1993) 258-65; R. Lesueur, Latomus 52 (1993) 429-31; F. Gasti, Athenaeum 81
(1993) 341-43
True Names: Vergil and the Alexandrian Tradition of
Etymological Wordplay (Ann Arbor, 1996)
ISBN 0-472-10660-0. Sometimes available from Amazon
or others.
Reviewed by: H.W.
Stubbs, Vergilius
42 (1996) 136-40; R.J. Schork, New England Classical Journal 25 (1997) 20-21; R. Cormier, Choice 34.5
(1997); J. Wills, BMCR
97.12.17; S.J. Harrison, Echoes du Monde Classique/Classical Views 16 (1997) 521-23, A.
Sharrock, Greece
& Rome 42 (1997) 223ff.; J. Van Sickle, CJ 93 (1998) 211-16; P. Bleisch,
AJP
119 (1998) 300-303; L. Morgan, CR
48 (1998) 27-29, P. Hardie, Intl. Journal of
the Classical Tradition 6 (1999) 284-86, W. Kissel, Gnomon 72 (2000)
455-457, R. Cormier, Latomus 60 (2001) 195-96.
Inconsistency in Roman Epic: Studies in Catullus, Lucretius,
Vergil, Ovid and Lucan (Cambridge,
2007); in the series "Roman Literature in its Contexts," edd. S.E.
Hinds and D.C. Feeney; also listed by Amazon
Reviewed
by: Josiah Davis, BMCR
2007.10.22; C. McNelis, AJP 129.4
(2008), B. Arnold, NECJ 35 (2008) 154-56, S. Grebe, Mouseion: Journal
of the Classical Association of Canada 8.3 (2008) 473-483, A. Rogerson, JRS 99 (2009)
258–59, S.J. Harrison, Phoenix 63 (2009) 408-410.
Vergil: Aeneid Book 4 (Focus Press, Newburyport,
MA, 2011). Classroom commentary.
in progress:
“Aeneid 4,” in Vergil's Aeneid (two-volume Latin
commentary for advanced undergraduates, vol. 1 forthcoming, Focus Press.
Randall Ganiban is series editor for Aeneid 1-6; he and I are series editors for Aeneid 7-12)
“Aeneid 8” (in
volume on Aeneid
7-12 of which I am co-editor, in progress)
Teaching, Pretending
to Teach, and the Authority of the Speaker in Roman Didactic and Satire. Monograph in progress.
Articles, Notes, and Chapters:
· "Fragment of a
Homer-Hypothesis with no Gods." Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 56
(1984) 1-9
· "The Homer-Hypothesis P.
Oxy. 574 verso: An Acknowledgement." ZPE 59 (1985) 35
· "Somnia ficta in Lucretius
and Lucilius." Classical
Quarterly 37 (1987) 517-19
· "Messapus, Cycnus, and the
Alphabetical Order of Vergil's Catalogue of Latin Forces." Phoenix 43 (1989) 35-38
· "The New Gallus and the Alternae Voces
of Propertius 1.10.10." CQ 39 (1989) 561-62
· "The Significance of
Vergil's Acidalia
mater, and Venus
Erycina in Catullus and Ovid." Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 93
(1990) 335-42
· "Homer, Hesiod, Apollonius,
and Neritos
ardua at Aeneid
3.271." Vergilius
36 (1990) 31-34
· "Etymological Wordplay in
Apollonius of Rhodes, Aeneid 3, and Georgics 1." Phoenix 44
(1990) 370-76
· "Vergilian Similes,
'Trespass,' and the Order of Aeneid 10.707-18." Classical Journal 87 (1991) 3-10
· "Naming the Stars at Georgics
1.137-38 and Fasti
5.163-82." American Journal
of Philology 113 (1992) 47-61
· "Dido as 'Interpreting
Character' in Aeneid
4.56-66." Arethusa
26 (1993) 99-114
· "Medicine for the Madness of
Dido and Gallus: Tentative Suggestions on Aeneid 4." Vergilius 39 (1993) 12-24
· "A Neglected Conjecture at
Aeneid 12.882." Rheinisches Museum 136 (1993) 371-74
· "Temporal Distortions,
'Fatal' Ambiguity, and Iulius Caesar at Aeneid 1.286-96." Symbolae Osloenses 69 (1994) 72-82
· "They Might Be Giants:
Inconsistency and Indeterminacy in Vergil's War in Italy." In Studies in Roman
Epic, edd. H. Roisman and J. Roisman, Colby Quarterly 30 (1994) 206-32
· "Vergil's Best Reader?
Ovidian Commentary on Vergilian Etymological Wordplay." CJ 91 (1996) 255-76. Now reprinted in
P. Knox, ed., Oxford
Readings in Ovid (Oxford 2007) 100ff.
· "Sostratus, Suppl. Hell.
733: A Lost, Possibly Catullan-Era Elegy on the Six Sex Changes of
Tiresias." Transactions of
the American Philological Association 124 (1996) 173-219 (abstract)
· "An Unconvincing
Etymological Argument about Aeneas and the Gates of Sleep." Phoenix 50 (1996) 331-34
· "Virgil's Style."
Chapter 16 (pp. 241-58) in The Cambridge Campanion to Virgil, ed. C. Martindale (Cambridge
1997)
· "Venus or the Muse as 'Ally'
(Lucr. 1.24, Simon. Frag. Eleg. 11.20-22 W)." Classical Philology 93 (1998) 69-74
· Brief contribution (pp. 23-24) to
Judith Hallett, Joseph Farrell, Richard Thomas et al, "The Future of Latin
Literary and Roman Cultural Studies," New England Classical Journal 26 (1998) 13-31
· "Callimachean Influence on
Vergilian Etymological Wordplay." CJ 96 (2001) 369-400
· "'Some
God... or his own Heart': Two Kinds of Epic Motivation in the Proem to Ovid’s Metamorphoses."
CJ 100.2 (2004/05) 149-61
· "War
and The Sweet Life: the Gallus Fragment and the Text of Tibullus 1.10.11."
CQ
55.1 (2005) 317-319
· "Trying
not to Cheat: Responses to Inconsistencies in Roman Epic." TAPA 135
(2005) 15-33
·
"The
Unfinished Aeneid?," pp. 96-106 in A Companion to Vergil’s Aeneid and its
Tradition, edd. Joseph Farrell and Michael Putnam (Wiley-Blackwell,
2010)
·
forthcoming: entries in The Virgil Encyclopedia, J. Ziolkowski and R. F. Thomas, edd.
(Wiley-Blackwell), on Aeneas;
ambiguity/amphiboly; ambiguity/ambivalence; compound words; diminutives; figura
etymologica; giants; gods, role in Virgil; Harvard School; hypotaxis and
parataxis; inconsistency; Palinurus; panegyric; prophecy; Turnus; and Tyrrhus, for
Book Reviews:
· M. Owen Lee, Death and Rebirth in Virgil's Arcadia. Classical World 84 (1991) 241
· Barbara Pavlock, Eros, Imitation,
and the Epic Tradition. CW 84 (1991)
398
· Susan Scheinberg Kristol, "Labor" and
"Fortuna" in Virgil's "Aeneid." CW 84 (1991) 503
· Bernard Frischer, Shifting
Paradigms: New Approaches to Horace's Ars Poetica. CW 86 (1992) 59-60
· "Truth and Allusion: Two
Studies of the Georgics."
Rev. of Joseph Farrell, Vergil's "Georgics" and the Traditions of Ancient Epic: The
Art of Allusion in Literary History, and Christine Perkell, The Poet's Truth:
A Study of the Poet in Virgil's "Georgics." CJ 88 (1992) 77-84
· S.J. Harrison, Vergil: Aeneid 10. CW 86 (1993) 246-47
· Jamie Masters, Poetry and Civil
War in Lucan's "Bellum Civile." CJ 89 (1993) 83-86
· D.C. Feeney, The Gods in Epic: Poets and Critics of the
Classical Tradition. Vergilius 39 (1993) 87-96
· E. Courtney, The Fragmentary Latin Poets. Classical Philology 89 (1994) 384-91
· Olga Tellegen-Couperus, A Short History
of Roman Law. CW 88 (1995)
222-23
· Philip Hardie, Virgil: Aeneid Book IX. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 6 (1995)
408-16
· W. Clausen, Virgil: Eclogues. AJP 117 (1996) 332-35
· D. Obbink, ed., Philodemus and
Poetry: Poetic Theory and Practice in Lucretius, Philodemus, and Horace. New England
Classical Journal 24 (1996) 76-77
· F. Ahl & H. Roisman, The Odyssey
Re-Formed. BMCR 7 (1996)
· Peter E. Knox, Ovid: Heroides: Select Epistles
(Cambridge 1995) and E.J. Kenney, Ovid: Heroides XVI-XXI (Cambridge 1996). NECJ 25
(1997) 22-23
· Jeffrey Wills, Repetition in
Latin Poetry: Figures of Allusion (Oxford 1996). Journal of Roman Studies 88 (1998) 197
· Matthew Leigh, Lucan: spectacle
and engagement (Oxford 1997). CJ 94 (1999)
200-203
· Stephen Hinds, Allusion and
Intertext: Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry (Cambridge 1998). Classical Review 49 (1999) 97-98
· P. Hardie, A. Barchiesi, S.
Hinds, edd. Ovidian
Transformations: Essays on the Metamorphoses and its Reception. (Cambridge
1999). BMCR 11
(2000)
· S. J. Harrison, ed., Oxford Readings
in the Roman Novel (Oxford, 1999). NECJ 27 (2000) 163-65
· Llewelyn Morgan, Patterns of
Redemption in Virgil's Georgics (Cambridge, 1999). JRS 90 (2000) 238-39
· Monica Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius, and
the Didactic Tradition (Cambridge, 2000). CJ 98.1 (2002) 96-100
· Don Fowler, Roman Constructions: Readings in Postmodern
Latin (Oxford 2000). NECJ 29 (2002) 49-51
· Andreas Michalopoulos, Ancient
Etymologies in Ovid's Metamorphoses: A Commented Lexicon (Leeds 2001). CW 97.2 (2004) 210-12
· Katharina
Volk, The
Poetics of Latin Didactic: Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid, Manilius (Oxford 2002).
CJ 99.4 (2004) 456-58
· Damien
Nelis, Vergil’s
Aeneid and
the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius (Leeds 2001). CR 54.2 (2004) 374-76
· Yasmin
Syed, Vergil's
Aeneid and
the Roman Self: Subject and Nation in Literary Discourse (Ann Arbor 2004). AJP
127.2 (2006) 316-19
· Joan
Booth, Robert Maltby, edd., What's in a Name? The Significance of Proper Names in Classical Latin
Literature (Swansea 2006). BMCR 2008.03.03
· M.
B. Skinner, ed., A
Companion to Catullus (Blackwell Publishing, 2007). CR 59.1 (2009) 120-21
· (with
Marika O’Hara) Rick Riordan, Percy
Jackson & The Olympians series: The Lightning Thief (2005), The Sea of
Monsters (2006), The Titan's Curse (2007), The Battle of the Labyrinth (2008), The Last Olympian
(2009). Amphora 9.1, (2010) pp. 1, 6.
· John Miller, Apollo, Augustus, and the Poets
(Cambridge, 2009). Religious
Studies Review 137.2 (2011)
126-27
·
Michèle
Lowrie, Writing,
performance, and authority in Augustan Rome (Oxford, 2009) in progress for Vergilius
· Philip Thibodeau, Playing the Farmer: Representations of Rural Life in Vergil's Georgics (Berkeley 2011) in progress for The Ancient History Bulletin
World-Wide-Web:
Co-creator (with Debra Hamel) of website aiming to list all summer courses in
Classics: Summer Classics
Lectures:
· "Death and the Optimistic
Prophecy in the Aeneid."
College of the Holy Cross, 1/86; Vanderbilt University, 2/86; Bowdoin College,
2/86; Classical Association of Atlantic States, 9/87
· "God, Mortal, and Reader in
the Aeneid."
Vergilian Society panel at 1/89 meeting of the American Philological
Association; College of the Holy Cross, 4/89; Milton Academy, 4/89
· "Carl Yastrzemski and the
Study of Etymological Wordplay in Vergil." Symposium on "Poetry and
Scholarship in the Tradition of Vergil," at University of Pennsylvania,
11/89
· "Typical Features of
Etymological Wordplay in Vergil." Seminar Lecture, Princeton University,
3/90
· "I Wish I Could Love the
Country: Optimism, Pessimism, and Vergil's Hopes at Georgics 2.458-542." Classical
Association of Atlantic States, Princeton, 10/90
· "Dido as 'Interpreting
Character' in Aeneid
4." University of Cincinnati, 2/91
· "Portals of Discovery:
Inconsistency and the Start of Poems by Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid, and
Lucan." University of Virginia, 3/92, Wesleyan Classics Department, 4/92,
Wesleyan Center for Humanities noon talks, 4/93, Rutgers University, 4/93
· "Classics as a
Profession." College of the Holy Cross, 5/93
· "The Interpretation of Inconsistencies
in Roman Epic." Harvard University, 12/93; Classical Association of
Connecticut, 10/94; College of the Holy Cross, 3/96; Boston University, 3/96;
University of Michigan, 10/97; University of Chicago 11/97; Brown University,
10/99; University Center of Georgia Classics Lectures, Agnes Scott College and
University of Georgia, 3/00
· "Catullus 63 and the the Six
Sex Changes of Tiresias in Sostratus." 12/93 meeting of the American
Philological Association
· "Vergil's Best Reader?
Ovidian Commentary on Vergilian Etymological Wordplay." Part of panel on
"Ovidian Wordplay" at 12/94 meeting of American Philological
Association
· "Teaching Roman Law as a
Non-Specialist." Panel on Teaching of Roman Law at 4/96 meeting of
Classical Association of the Middle West and South; Law & Literature
Conference, Brown University, 4/99
· "Callimachus and Vergilian
Etymologies," Leeds International Latin Seminar, 11/96; Boston Area Roman
Studies Conference, Boston University, 4/97; University of Michigan, 10/97;
University Center of Georgia Classics Lectures, Emory University and University
of Georgia, 3/00
· "Thoughts on Aeneid 1 and
Beyond." Boston College High School, 12/96
· "True Names."
Informal roundtable discussion, graduate student workshop, Harvard, 4/97
· Participant in
round-table-discussion, "The Future of Latin Literary and Cultural
Studies." Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of New England,
Fairfield, CT, 3/98
· "Beginning to Understand
Ovidian Epic," "Aspects of Epic" Colloquium, Yale University,
4/00
· Respondent, panel on "Virgil
as a Hellenistic Poet: Aspects of Intertextuality," at 1/01 meeting of
American Philological Association
· "Contradiction,
Inconsistency and Authority in Ovid's Metamorphoses." University of Michigan,
1/01, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2/01
· "Lucan and the
Interpretation of Inconsistencies in Roman Epic." Seminar with graduate
class, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
· "The Interpretation of
Inconsistencies in Vergil's Aeneid," as Rutledge Memorial Lecture, University of
Tennessee, Knoxville, 4/02, as keynote speaker at North Carolina Classical
Association, 3/03; as Arthur Stocker Lecture, University of Virginia, 4/03;
Loyola College in Maryland, 10/04; as "A Garden of Forking Paths?
Variant and Inconsistency in the Aeneid, " UNC Chapel Hill Classics Dept.
4/02
· "Trying not to Cheat:
Responses to Inconsistencies in Roman Epic," at conference on
"Critical Divergences: New Directions in the Study of Roman
Literature," Rutgers University, 10/03
· "Death and the Optimistic
Prophecy in the Song of the Fates in Catullus 64, " 11/04 meeting of
Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Southern Section
· "The End(s) of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura,”
4/06 meeting of CAMWS, Gainesville, FL
· "Recent Work on Homer,
" for "A Celebration of 45 Years of The Homeric Academy, "
Boston College High School, 9/08 (video)
·
“Jupiter in the Aeneid,” at the Conference “Contradictory Selves:
Multiplicity and Conflict in Roman Representations of Character,” University of
Chicago, October 17–19, 2008
· “The Unfinished Aeneid?
Interpretation, Reception, and Supplement,” as J. Ward Jones, Jr. Lecture,
College of William & Mary, 2/1/2010
· “Teaching, Pretending to Teach, and the Authority of the Speaker
in Roman Didactic and Satire,” Brittingham Lecture at the Univ. of Wisconsin,
Madison, 11/4/2010; scheduled as John and Mary McDiarmid Lecture, Univ. of
Washington, 2/2012
·
"Evander’s
Love of Gore and Bloodshed in Aeneid 8," scheduled for APA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia,
1/12
Honors and Fellowships:
Holy Cross:
National Merit Scholar
Henry Bean four-year full-tuition Classics Scholarship
Philip A. Conniff Classics Prize
Valedictorian
Michigan:
College of Literature, Science & Arts First-year Fellowship
Department of Classical Studies Dissertation Fellowship
Horace H. Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
Wesleyan:
National Endowment for the Humanities Rome Prize Fellowship for 1989-90
(declined)
Project Grants, 1990-91, 1993-94: True Names: Vergil and the Alexandrian Tradition of
Etymological Wordplay
Keck Grant for use of Information Technology in Teaching, 1998-99
UNC:
Institute for Arts &
Humanities Faculty Fellowship, SP 2012, for Teaching, Pretending to Teach, and the Authority of
the Speaker in Roman Didactic and Satire
Professional Service:
UNC-Chapel Hill
Chair
of Department, 2003-2007
Admissions
Committee, 2001-2003, 2008-2009; Admissions Director 2010-2011
Placement
Director, 2009-
Keeper
of Departmental Library / Graduate Library Representative (“Book chair”),
2009-2011
Chair
of Lecture Committee, 2001-2002
Director
of Graduate Studies, 2002-2003
Search
committees, 2002-2003, 2004-2005 (chair), 2005-2006 (chair), 2007-2008
Humanities
Curriculum Review Committee, 2003-2008
Graduate
Exam Committee, 02-03, 06-07, 09-10
Director,
Post-Baccalaureate
Program, 2007-2008
Personnel
Review Committees (tenure, promotion, or post-tenure review), various
Ad
hoc committee on revising the requirements for the M.A. written thesis, 2010
Ad hoc
committee on reconsidering the graduate exams, 2011-
Wesleyan:
Elected to Advisory Committee of the Academic Council (voting on tenure and
promotion), 1988-89
Search Committee for Vice President for Academic Affairs, 1989
Searches for new appointment in Classics, 1987-88, 1990-91
Freshman Advisor, 1988-89, 1990-92, 1994-96
Steering Committee, Junior Faculty Organization, 1990-92
Task Force on Administration of Research Programs and Graduate Programs, 1991
Advisory Board, Center for the Humanities, 1991-93
Fayerweather (Gymnasium) Program Committee, 1993
Chair, Search Committee for Humanities Computing Coordinator, 1995-96
Humanities Computing Committee, 1998-2000
Mentor, University Scholarship Program, 1999-2001
Department Chair, 1998-2000, Spring 2001
Academic Technology Advisory Council, Spring 2001
Other:
Member,
Board of Trustees, Vergilian Society, 2010-2013
Elected to Nominating Committee of American Philological Association
(2007-2010, co-chair 2009-2010)
Member,
American Philological Association, Classical Association of the Middle West and
South, Vergilian Society, Women's Classical Caucus
Manuscript
Referee, Transactions
of the American Philological Association, Classical Antiquity, Classical
Journal, Classical
Philology, Classical
World, Vergilius, Phoenix, American Journal of Philology, Electronic Antiquity, Amphora,
Harvard
Studies in Classical Philology, International Journal of the Classical
Tradition,
Princeton University Press, University of Oklahoma Press, University of
Michigan Press, Cornell University Press, Modern Language Association,
University of Texas Press, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford University Press,
Cambridge University Press
Chaired paper sessions on Vergil at
12/95 meeting of APA, on Roman Epic at 1/01 meeting, on Roman History and on
Vergil at 1/02 meeting, on Latin poetry at 1/08 meeting, on Catullus at 1/09
meeting, on Latin poetry at 1/10 meeting.
Chaired
paper session in conference “Ovid and Ovidianism,” University of Richmond, 4/10.
External
referee, tenure/promotion evaluations, Michigan State University, Baylor
University, University of Pennsylvania, Emory University, Tulane University,
Bates College, Pennsylvania State University, University of Michigan,
University of Texas at Arlington, University of Georgia, University of
Virginia, Wesleyan University, Middlebury College, Boston University,
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Brooklyn College, College of William
& Mary, State University of New York at Buffalo, etc.
Chaired
panel on "Callimachus and Roman Poetry" at conference on
"Cameron and his Critics," Oxford University, 10/96
Elected
to Program Committee of APA (1997-2000)
External
Review Committee, Department of Classics, Union College, 2/99
Panelist
for the Fellowship Program at the American Council of Learned Societies, 2002
References:
Available on
request.