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, novel
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 (scheduled for Fall 2009)
LATN 54 Tacitus and Pliny's Letters
LATN 34 Augustan Poetry: Eclogue
and Elegy
LATN 34 Augustan Poetry: Vergil's Aeneid
LATN 34 Augustan Poetry: Ovid's Metamorphoses
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 (2 x)
LATN 264 Vergil: Georgics
LATN 765 (225) Horace
LATN 301: Catullus seminar
Classics courses:
CLAS 55 (was 006), Three Greek and Roman Epics (first-year seminar, 3x)
CLAS 133H (was 29): Epic and
Tragedy (honors first-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, A Study of 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), 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), Mark Mash, Humor in
the Histories of Herodotus (Ph.D., in progress, reader), Mark Jackson (Ph.D.,
in progress, English Dept., youth and age in Renaissance lit., reader), Erika
Zimmermann Damer, Women’s Bodies in Latin Elegy (Ph.D., in progress, reader),
John Henkel, Writing on Trees: Genre and Metapoetics in Vergil's Eclogues and Georgics (Ph.D. in progress, director), Jayendra Chhana (Ph.D., in progress,
History Dept., Lucan, Silius Italicus, Tacitus, reader), Chris Polt, Catullus
and Republican Dramatic Literature (Ph.D., in progress, director), Amanda Mathis
(Ph.D., in progress, Apollonius of Rhodes, reader)
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)
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, Bryn Mawr Classical
Review 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, Classical Journal 93 (1998) 211-16 (a copy online here);
P. Bleisch, AJP 119 (1998) 300-303 (limited
online access); L. Morgan, Classical Review 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
Vergil's Aeneid (two-volume Latin commentary for advanced undergraduates, under
contract and in progress, Focus Press, with standalone individual commentaries for
intermediate students; Randall Ganiban is series editor for Aeneid 1-6 [see his standalone Aeneid 2 here], for which I
am doing Aeneid 4; he and I are
series editors for Aeneid 7-12,
for which I will do Aeneid 8)
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 (write to me if you can't find this journal)
"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." Classical Journal
100.2 (2004/05) 149-61
"War and The Sweet Life: the Gallus Fragment and the Text of Tibullus
1.10.11." Classical
Quarterly 55.1 (2005 ) 317-319
"Trying not to Cheat: Responses to Inconsistencies in Roman Epic."
TAPA 135 (2005) 15-33
"The Unfinished Aeneid?" forthcoming in the Blackwell Companion to Vergil, , edd. Joseph Farrell and Michael Putnam
in
progress: entries on Aeneas, ages of the world (metallic), ambiguity/amphiboly,
ambiguity/ambivalence, compound words, diminutives; figura etymologica, giants,
Harvard School, hypotaxis and parataxis, inconsistency, Indiges, Palinurus,
panegyric, prophecy, Turnus, Tyrrhus, and Virbius for The Virgil
Encyclopedia, J. Ziolkowski and R. F. Thomas, edd.
(Wiley-Blackwell)
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) 57-58
"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 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), Classical Journal 99.4 (2004)
456-58
Damien Nelis, Vergil’s Aeneid and the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius (Leeds
2001), Classical Review 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), in
progress, for Amphora.
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,
http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/selves/
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
Professional Service:
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
UNC:
Chair of Lecture Committee, 2001-2002
Admissions Committee, 2001-2003, 2008-2009
Director of Graduate Studies, 2002-2003
Chair of Department, 2003-2007
Search committees, 2002-2003, 2004-2005 (chair), 2005-2006 (chair), 2007-2008
Humanities Curriculum Review Committee, 2003-2008
Director, Post-Baccalaureate
Program, 2007-2008
Personnel Review Committees (several: tenure, promotion, or post-tenure review)
Other:
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, Arethusa, Electronic Antiquity, Harvard Studies in Classical
Philology, Amphora, Princeton University Press, University of Oklahoma
Press, University of Michigan Press, Cornell University Press, Modern Language
Association, Blackwell Publishers, Cambridge University Press
Candidate for election to the Nominating
Committee of the American Philological Association (1995)
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, and on Roman elegy at 1/09
meeting.
External referee, tenure/promotion
evaluations, several colleges and universities
Chaired panel on "Callimachus and Roman
Poetry" at conference on "Cameron and his Critics," Oxford
University, 10/26/96
Program Committee of the American
Philological Association (elected, 1997-2000)
External Review Committee, Department of
Classics, Union College, 2/99
Nominating Committee of APA (elected
2007-2010)
References:
Available on request.