Curriculum Vitae
James J. O’HARA: curriculum vitae
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Department of Classics Office: 319 Murphey Hall
CB# 3145, 215 Murphey Hall Phone: send me an email
University of North Carolina Fax: (919) 962-4036
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3145
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 and Latin courses:
GREK 221/352 Homer: Odyssey (2x, 221/352=different syllabi for 3rd, 4th year students)
GREK 221 (was 21) Homer: Iliad (2x, second time as 221/352 with two syllabi)
LATN 221 (was 21) Vergil (5x)
LATN 222 Cicero (2x)
LATN 223 Ovid
LATN 54 Tacitus and Pliny’s Letters
LATN 34 Augustan Poetry: Eclogue and Elegy
LATN 334 (was 34) Augustan Poetry: Vergil: Aeneid (2x)
LATN 34 Augustan Poetry: Ovid: Metamorphoses
LATN 333 Catullus
LATN 351 Lucretius (3x)
LATN 353 Satire: Juvenal (2x)
LATN 353 Satire: Horace
Graduate Latin courses:
LATN 512 (was 112) Latin Literature of the Augustan Age (2x)
LATN 264 (now 774) Vergil: Aeneid (3x)
LATN 263 (now 773) Lucretius (3x)
LATN 264 Vergil: Georgics
LATN 765 Horace (3x)
LATN 901 (was 301) Seminar: Catullus (4x)
LATN 901 Seminar: Didactic and Satire (3x)
LATN 901 Seminar: Vergil’s Georgics (2x)
Classics courses:
CLAS 55, 55H, 006M, 133H, Three Greek and Roman Epics/ Epic and Tragedy (first-year seminar, sometimes honors, 9x)
CLAS 257 (was 35) The Age of Augustus (lecture, 2x)
CLAS 122 The Romans (large lecture, 2x)
Thesis/Dissertation committees (some titles shortened):
As director:
Dennis McKay, Aspects of Fortuna in Lucan’s Bellum Civile (M.A. 2002)
Arum Park, The Pastoral Landscapes of Vergil’s Georgics (M.A. 2004)
John Henkel, Some Aspects of the Golden Age in Vergil’s First Georgic (M.A. 2004)
Christopher Polt, Latin Literary Translation in the Late Roman Republic (M.A. 2007)
Joshua Smith, Hospitium and Pathos in Vergil’s Aeneid (honors thesis 2007)
John Henkel, Writing on Trees: Genre and Metapoetics in Vergil’s Eclogues and Georgics (Ph.D. 2009)
Christopher Polt, Catullus and Republican Dramatic Literature (Ph.D. 2010; won Linda Dykstra Distinguished Dissertation Award from UNC). See book.
Zack Rider, Empedocles, Epicurus and the Failure of Sacrifice in Lucretius (M.A. 2011)
Ted Gellar-Goad, Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura and Satire (Ph.D. 2012) See book
David C. A. Wiltshire, “Hopeful Joy”: A Study of Laetus in Vergil (Ph.D. 2012)
Maggie Funkhouser, The Troiae Halosis of Petronius (senior thesis 2012)
Henry Ross, The Bees in Vergil’s Georgics (honors thesis 2013; awarded highest honors)
Tedd Wimperis, Genre and Rhetoric in the Reception of Virgil’s Georgics: Poliziano’s Rusticus as Didaxis and Epideixis (M.A. thesis 2013)
Zackary Rider, The Divinizing Role of Knowledge in Didactic Poetry from Hesiod to Manilius (Ph.D. 2016)
Tedd Wimperis, Vergil and Political Myth: Collective Memory and the Constructed Ethnicities of the Aeneid (Ph.D. 2017)
Keith Penich, Vision and Narrative in Apollonius’ Argonautica (Ph.D. 2019)
Andrew Ficklin, Venus’ Other Son: The Figure of Cupid in Augustan Literature and Art (Ph.D. 2021)
Matt Sherry, Seeking Solace in the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid, in progress
Ryan Baldwin, Epicurean Dissolution in Lucan’s Bellum Civile, in progress
As reader:
Kevin Muse, Prodigals and Prodigality in Classical Antiquity (Ph.D. 2003)
Norman Sandridge, Jason’s Leadership in the Argonautika of Apollonios Rhodios (Ph.D. 2005)
Hunter Gardner, Gender and Time in Latin Love Elegy (Ph.D. 2005). Find book
David Carlisle, The Dream as a Narrative Device in the Metamorphoses of Apuleius (M.A. 2005)
David C. A. Wiltshire, The Semantics of CHRE in Aeschylus (M.A. 2007)
Arum Park, Truth, Falsehood, and Reciprocity in Pindar and Aeschylus (Ph.D. 2009). Find book
Sarah Landis, A New Manuscript of Tiberius Claudius Donatus at UNC-Chapel Hill (M.A. 2009)
Mark Jackson, The Prolongation of Life in early Modern English Lit. & Culture, with Emphasis on Francis Bacon (Ph.D. 2010, English Dept.)
Erika Zimmermann Damer, Women’s Bodies in Latin Elegy (Ph.D., 2010) Find book
Jetta Peterkin, Cicero’s Letters to Terentia (M.A. 2010)
Katherine DeBoer, Violence and Vulnerability in Ovid’s Amores (M.A. 2010)
Hannah Rich, Erotic Violence in the Poetry of Tibullus (honors thesis 2010)
Hans Hansen, A Commentary on Pindar’s Odes to the Sons of Lampon (Ph.D. 2016)
Caitlin Hines, The Confusion of the Social Classes of Women in Ovid’s Love Poetry (honors thesis 2013)
John Beeby, The Decapitation Motif in Tacitus’ Histories (M.A. 2013; reader ex officio DGS)
Alexandra Daly, Tears in the Odyssey (M.A. 2013; reader ex officio DGS)
Alex Karsten, A Selection of Horace’s Odes (honors thesis 2014)
W.E.L. Begley, On the Reception of Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations in the Region of Liege from the 9th to the 11th Century (M.A. 2014; reader ex officio DGS)
Keith Penich, Knowledge, Pessimism, and Fate in Sophocles’ Trachiniae (M.A. 2014; reader ex officio DGS)
Alex Karsten, A Selection of Horace’s Odes (honors thesis 2014)
Alexandra Mina, Prudentius’ Use of Vergil and Lucan in the Fifth Combat of the Psychomachia (M.A. 2015)
John Esposito, Hetaireia in Homer (Ph.D. 2015)
Brian McPhee, The Voyage of the Argo and Other Modes of Travel in Apollonius’ Argonautica (M.A. 2016)
Katherine DeBoer Simons, Death and the Female Body in Homer, Vergil, and Ovid (Ph.D. 2016)
Mary McElwee Draper, Gnomes in the Poetry of Pindar (Ph.D., in progress)
Elizabeth Clark, The Chronicle of Novalese: Text, Translation and Literary Analysis (Ph.D. 2017)
W. Begley, The Avignon Manuscript and the Transmission of Rufinus’ Translation of Origen’s Peri Archōn (Ph.D. 2017)
Walker Bailey, Ps-Ovidian Consolatio, Baylor University (honors thesis 2017)
India Watkins, Sex, Satiety, and Slaughter in Female Ira: The Use of Satiare in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (M.A. 2018)
Kelly McArdle, Domestic Architecture as Rhetorical Device: The Gynaeconitis in Greek and Romna Thought (M.A. 2018; reader ex officio DGS)
John Beeby, Literary and Archaeological Etruscans in the First Century BCE (Ph.D. 2019)
Matt Sherry, An Analysis of Cupid’s Metamorphosis in Apuleius’ Cupid and Psyche (M.A. 2019)
Brian McPhee, Apollonius’ Argonautica and the Homeric Hymns (Ph.D. 2020)
Elizabeth Needham, Here and Now and Then and There: The Construction of Imagined Space in Sappho (M.A., 2021)
Kelly McArdle, Laughing at the Brutalized Body: The Political Dimensions of Violence in Plautine Comedy (Ph.D. 2021)
Madeline Nielsen, Propertius through Wilson: Books of Latin Love Poetry as Objects” (honors thesis 2023)
Erickson Bridges, Lucretian Prolēpsis and the Purpose of the Plague (Ph.D., Duke, 2023)
Sarah Eisenlohr, The Trauma of Mythic Women in Ovid: Rape, Captivity, Silence (Ph.D., 2023)
Special Field Ph.D. exams:
“Latin Hexameter Poetry from Livius to Ovid,” “The Roman Novel,” “Roman Alexandrianism & Katasterism,” “Hellenistic Poetry,” “Catullus” (2x), “Didactic Poetry” (2x), “Augustan Poetry and Augustus,” “Hellenistic Metapoetics and its Roman Reception,” “Narrative, the Reader, and Petronius’ Satyrica,” “Intertextuality, Juvenal, and Silver Latin Poetry”
Proseminar sessions vel sim: “Intertextuality,” “Approaches to Latin Poetry,” “Professionalism,” “Choosing a commentary for teaching.” Some multiple times.
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. Now available print-on-demand from Princeton.
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; A. Traina, Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica 121 (1993) 337-39
True Names: Vergil and the Alexandrian Tradition of Etymological Wordplay (Ann Arbor, 1996)
ISBN 0-472-10660-0. Sometimes available from Amazon or others.
Expanded edition with new Introduction (2017). https://www.press.umich.edu/9371709/true_names
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.
Expanded 2017 edition reviewed by Boris Kayachev, BMCR 2017.09.14 http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2017/2017-09-14.html
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/Hackett, 2011).
Reviewed by: A. Rogerson, BMCR 2012.04.08, R.J. Clark, NECJ 39.2 (2012), A. Syson, Teaching Classical Languages 4.1 (2012) 52-65 (with other volumes)
Vergil: Aeneid Book 8 (Focus-Hackett, 2018)
Reviewed by M. Loar, BMCR2018.09.42 http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2018/2018-09-42.html, C. Whitton, Greece & Rome66 (2019) 123; D. O’Rourke. Classics Ireland 26 (2019) 169-173; M. Myers, NECJ 46.1 (2019) 110-12; D. Meban, Mouseion 17.1 (2020) 85-87; cf. also R. Tarrant, Exemplaria Classica 23, 2019
in progress:
co-editor, with Randall Ganiban, Vergil’s Aeneid: Books 7-12 (in progress, Focus Press). Six scholars, including Ganiban and myself, are each doing one book from 7-12; I am doing Aeneid 8. See also below.
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)
· “Aeneid 4,” in Randall Ganiban, ed., Vergil’s Aeneid: vol. 1, Books 1-6 (Focus Press, 2012)
· 16 entries in The Virgil Encyclopedia, J. Ziolkowski and R.F. Thomas, edd. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014), on Aeneas (pp. 16-19); ambiguity/amphiboly; ambiguity/ambivalence; compound words; diminutives; figura etymologica; giants; gods, role in Virgil; Harvard School; hypotaxis and parataxis; inconsistency; Palinurus; panegyric; prophecy; Turnus (pp. 1307-1309); and Tyrrhus
· “Response to Pandey and Torlone, with Brief Remarks on the Harvard School,” CW 111.1 (2017) 47-52
· “Evander’s love of gore and bloodshed in Aeneid 8,” pp. 232-45 in M.C. English and L.M. Fratantuono (eds.), Pushing the Boundaries of Historia: Essays on Greek and Roman History and Culture in Honor of Blaise Nagy. Routledge 2018.
· “Genre, gender, and the etymology behind the phrase Lugentes campi at Aeneid 6.441,” pp. 51-62 in They Keep it All Hid: Augustan Poetry, its Antecedents and Reception, edited by Peter E. Knox, Hayden Pelliccia, and Alexander Sens. Berlin: De Gruyter 2018.
· “Virgil’s Style,” revised version, pp. 368-86 in The Cambridge Campanion to Virgil, edd. Charles Martindale and Fiachra Mac Góráin. 2nd edition, Cambridge 2019.
· “Nicholas Horsfall 1946-2019” (obituary), Vergilius 65 (2019) 161-67.
· “Triumphati magis quam victi? Ways to Respond to Lying and Exaggeration in Aeneid 8 and on the Shield of Aeneas,” MD 89.2 (2022) 67-111.
· “Satire, didactic, and new contexts for problems in Horace’s Ars Poetica,” in Didactic Literature in the Roman World, edited by C. Polt and T.H.M. Gellar-Goad. Routledge 2024, 179-97
· “Adventures in writing and editing a group classroom commentary: the Focus-Hackett Aeneid project,” forthcoming in a volume on Vergilian Commentaries edited by Sergio Casali (De Gruyter, Dec. 2023)
· “What Are the Goals of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura? How Do We Know?” forthcoming in a Festschrift volume
· “Aeneid 8,” in O’Hara and Ganiban, edd., Vergil’s Aeneid: Books 7-12 (Focus/Hackett, in progress )
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). Vergilius 57 (2011) 146-48
· Philip Thibodeau, Playing the Farmer: Representations of Rural Life in Vergil’s Georgics (Berkeley 2011) Ancient History Bulletin Online Reviews 2 (2012) 85-87
· Richard Tarrant, Virgil: Aeneid Book XII (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, 2012) CR 63.2 (2013) 423-25.
· Joseph Farrell and Damien Nelis (edd.), Augustan poetry and the Roman Republic (Oxford 2013). BMCR 2014.04.10
· Aaron Seider, Memory in Vergil’s Aeneid: Creating the Past (Cambridge 2013). Vergilius 60 (2014) 187-90.
· J. Mira Seo, Exemplary Traits: Reading Characterization in Roman Poetry (Oxford 2013). Phoenix 68.3-4 (2014) 366-68.
· Anne Rogerson, Virgil’s Ascanius: Imagining the Future in the Aeneid (Cambridge 2017) BMCR 2017.08.21
· Sergio Casali, Virgilio, Eneide 2. Introduzione, traduzione e commento (Pisa 2017) Vergilius 64 (2018) 208-11.
· S.J. Heyworth and J.H.W. Morwood, A Commentary on Vergil, Aeneid 3 (Oxford 2017) Gnomon 92.6 (2020) 519-22.
· Bobby Xinyue and Nicholas Freer (eds.). Reflections and new perspectives on Virgil’s Georgics. London; New York: Bloomsbury, 2019, BMCR 2021.01.19.
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, 10/08
· “The Unfinished Aeneid? Interpretation, Reception, and Supplement,” as J. Ward Jones, Jr. Lecture, College of William & Mary, 2/10
· “Evander’s Love of Gore and Bloodshed in Aeneid 8,” APA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, 1/12; expanded as “Evander’s Stories of Blood and Gore: New Ways to Read Vergil’s Aeneid 8,” Penn. State, 3/12; Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, 4/13
· non-scholarly: “Classics and the Big Rock,” Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, 4/13; UNC Classics Dept Commencement 5/13, online at website of local radio station
· “Prophecy in the Aeneid Revisited: Lying, Exaggeration and Encomium in Aeneid 8 and the Shield of Aeneas,” in the Symposium Cumanum “Revisiting Vergil and Roman Religion,” Cuma, Italy, 6/15. http://www.vergiliansociety.org/symposium_cumanum/
· “Satire, Didactic, and new contexts for problems in Horace’s Ars Poetica,” as keynote for Second King’s College London & UNC Chapel Hill Classics Graduate Colloquium, London, 9/15; at Symposium Cumanum, Cuma, Italy, 6/18
· Respondent for Vergilian Society panel “Happy Golden Anniversary, Harvard School!” at the 1/16 meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS; =APA with name-change)
· Respondent for panel on “Teaching Vergil’s Aeneid at the College Level: Studies and Strategies” at 3/16 meeting of CAMWS
· Organized and introduced Vergilian Society panel “Vergil and Tragedy” for the 1/17 SCS meeting; https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2017/148/vergil-and-tragedy-afg-2017
· Respondent, Presidential Panel “Ovid and Virgil” at 4/17 meeting of CAMWS
· “The Ethnicity of the Enemy in Epic,” brief “snapshot talk,” jointly with Tedd Wimperis, in UNC Classics Dept. event “Whose Classics? Diversity, Representation, and the Ancient World Today,” 3/3/17
· “Genre, gender, and the etymology behind the phrase Lugentes campi at Aeneid 6.441,” in the Symposium Cumanum “Vergil and Elegy,” Cuma, Italy, 6/17
· Organized and chaired Vergilian Society panel “Dido in and after Vergil” at 1/18 SCS meeting; https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2018/149/call-abstracts-dido-and-after-vergil
· “Vergil’s Aeneid,” three two-hour discussions, Carolina Public Humanities, Flyleaf Books, 10/ 31, 11/ 7, and 11/14, 2018
· “Teaching, Pretending to Teach, and the Authority of the Speaker in Roman Didactic and Satire,” Brittingham Lecture at the Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, 11/10; John and Mary McDiarmid Lecture, Univ. of Washington, 3/12, UNC-Chapel Hill, 9/12, Cornell Univ., 11/12, Paul M. Maty Skiela Lecture at Temple Univ., 3/13, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, 4/13; as “News or Entertainment? Teaching, Pretending to Teach, and the Authority of the Speaker in Roman Didactic and Satire,” Wesleyan, 2/19
· “Triumphati magis quam victi? Possible Responses to Lying and Exaggeration in Aeneid8,”as keynote address at the graduate student conference, “The Same Old Lies: Frauds, Falsehoods, and Forgeries in the Ancient World,” New York University, 11/13; brown-bag talk at UNC, 10/13; University of Richmond, 11/15; Wake Forest University, 11/15; Eve Adler Memorial Lecture for Middlebury College 4/16; as part of the monthly colloquium series “Turning Points, Declines, and Falls in the Histories of Ancient Greece and Rome,” Yale, 9/16; Baylor University, 4/17; Indiana University, 10/17; as “Fake News on Aeneas’ Shield? Possible Responses to Lying, Exaggeration, and Encomium in Vergil’s Aeneid 8, ” U. of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2/19; Xavier University, 3/22 (Zoom); North Carolina Classical Association, 2/23
· Interviewed about Vergil on Irish radio program “Talking History” 2/7/2020: https://www.newstalk.com/podcasts/highlights-from-talking-history/the-aeneid-a-history
· “Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things,” two two-hour discussions, Carolina Public Humanities, 3/2021
· “Evander’s Stories of Blood and Gore: New Ways to Read Vergil.” Keynote address via Zoom, Virginia Junior Classical League, April 25, 2021
· “Adventures in writing and editing a group classroom commentary: the Focus-Hackett Aeneid project.” For the conference: “Early Modern and Modern Commentaries on Virgil” (Postponed from Rome “Tor Vergata”, July 1-3, 2020, to Zoom in June 2021).
· Respondent, Vergilian Society panel on “Vergil and Authoritarianism,” SCS zoom meeting “in” San Francisco, 1/2022
· “Ancient Astronomy and the Fall of Troy in Vergil’s Aeneid 2,” classroom Zoom visit to the Chatham School of Science and Engineering at the Early College, Siler City, North Carolina, 3/22
· “Thoughts on Vergil’s Underworld,” Trinity School of Durham and Chapel Hill, 5/22 (in person!), Thales Academy, Rolesville NC, 4/23
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:
James Gilmore Fletcher Whitton Faculty Fellow, Institute for Arts & Humanities, SP 2012, for Teaching, Pretending to Teach, and the Authority of the Speaker in Roman Didactic and Satire
Student Undergraduate Teaching Award from UNC’s Student Undergraduate Teaching and Staff Awards (SUTASA) Committee, 2013
Loeb Classical Library Fellowship for Didactic and Satire project, 2015-2016.
Professional Service:
UNC-Chapel Hill
Chair of Department, 2003-2007
Director, Post-Baccalaureate Program, 2007-2008, 2017- FA 2021, 2022-24
http://classics.unc.edu/postbac/postbac_description.html
Director of Graduate Studies, 2002-2003, and assistant chair, 2012-2014, SP 2018
Diversity Liaison, 2022-24
Overseer of Department webpage classics.unc.edu, 2021-2022
Graduate Exam Committee, 2002-2003, 2006-2007, 2009-2010, FA 2011, 2012-15, 2016-21, 2022-23
Admissions Committee, 2001-2003, 2008-2009, 2012-2014, SP 2018; Admissions Director 2010-2011
Equal Opportunity/ADA Officer 2018-21
Diversity and Inclusion Committee, 2019-2020
Placement Director, 2009-2015, SP 2017
Keeper of Departmental Library / Graduate Library Representative (“Book chair”), 2009-2011, SP 2013, SP 2017
Supervisor of Introductory or Intermediate Latin 101-102, SP 2013, FA 2016
Chair of Lecture Committee, 2001-2002
Search committees, 2002-2003, 2004-2005 (chair), 2005-2006 (chair), 2007-2008, 2016-17 (2x, chair for one, member of another)
Humanities Curriculum Review Committee, 2003-2008
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
Guest Speaker, SP 2012, Independent Studies 195, “Modes of Inquiry”
Discussant for audience conversation following production of Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare’s An Iliad. Playmakers’ Theater, UNC, 9/2012
“Site supervisor” for student working as Classics Librarian as part of her “field work” for M.A. in Library Science, 2012-2013
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:
President, Vergilian Society, 2017-2020; president-elect 2015-16, Past President, 2020-2023
Led discussion by Zoom of Aeneid with Great Books instructors at U. of Chicago for program coordinator Chris Faraone, 10/2020
Member of editorial board for the journal Vergilius 2013-
Elected member, Board of Trustees, Vergilian Society, 2010-2013
Prize Committee member, Alexander G. McKay Prize for the best book in Vergilian studies, Vergilian Society, 2014-2015
Member-at-large, Executive Committee, Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 2014-2017
External Review Committee, Department of Classics, University of Virginia, 3/16
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; past member, Classical Association of New England
Manuscript Referee, American Journal of Philology, Amphora, Classical Antiquity, Classical Journal, Classical Philology, Classical Quarterly, Classical World, Electronic Antiquity, Greece & Rome, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, International Journal of the Classical Tradition, Latomus, Oxford Classical Dictionary, Phoenix, Transactions of the American Philological Association, Vergilius, Princeton University Press, University of Oklahoma Press, University of Michigan Press, Cornell University Press, Israel Science Foundation, Modern Language Association, University of Texas Press, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Michigan Classical Press, The Oxford Classical Dictionary
Chaired paper sessions on Vergil at 12/95 meeting of APA, on “Callimachus and Roman Poetry” at conference on “Cameron and his Critics,” Oxford University, 10/96, on Roman Epic at 1/01 APA 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, on “Some Late Antique Vergils” at 1/13 meeting, on Latin poetry at 4/14 meeting of CAMWS, in conference “Ovid and Ovidianism,” University of Richmond, 4/10on Latin poetry at 1/15 meeting of SCS (=APA), on “Augustan Bacchus” at conference “Dionysus in Rome,” University College London 3/15, on Roman novel at 3/15 CAMWS, on Hellenistic Poetry at 4/17 CAMWS, and on Vergil at 2018 CAMWS and at 2019 SCS, on Vergil at Vergilian Society Symposium at Cuma, 6/19, on Lucretius and Vergil at 2022 CAMWS (scheduled), and (scheduled) June 2022 Vergilian Society Symposium at Cuma.
External referee, tenure/promotion evaluations, Barnard College, Bates College, Baylor University, Boston University, Brooklyn College, Brown University, College of William & Mary, Dickinson College, Emory University, Georgetown University, Louisiana State University, Michigan State University, Middlebury College, University of Minnesota, New York University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Rice University, Rutgers University, State University of New York at Buffalo, Tulane University, University of Georgia, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, University of Texas at Arlington, University of Virginia, Wesleyan University, Williams College
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.