Curriculum Vitae
STEPHEN MICHAEL
WHEELER
CONTACT
INFORMATION
Department of Classics
& Ancient
Mediterranean Studies (CAMS)
108 Weaver Building
The Pennsylvania State
University
University Park, PA
16802-5500
Telephone: (814)
865-2821 (O); 308-9639 (H)
Fax: (814) 863-7840
Email:
smw6@psu.edu
AREAS
OF RESEARCH AND TEACHING
Classical
and Late Latin
poetry, especially Ovid, Lucan, and Claudian
History
of classical
literature: genre, intertextuality
Greek and
Latin
language: etymologizing and wordplay
Idea of
Rome
Medieval
Latin
paleography, manuscript culture, and the Latin commentary
tradition
Reception
of classical
authors in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
DEGREES
PhD
1992, Princeton University,
Classics
MA
1988, Princeton University,
Classics
BA
1984, Yale College, Classics
(Greek), magna cum laude,
honores in litteris Graecis
FURTHER
ACADEMIC TRAINING
Hauptseminare (in Greek and Latin), Seminar für
klassische Philologie, Universität
Freiburg (Breisgau), 1988-1989
Mellon Seminar on Medieval
Paleography,
Scheide Library, Princeton University, Summer 1987
Summer Session, American School of Classical
Studies at Athens, 1986
Post-Baccalaureate Program in Classics, University
of Pennsylvania,
1984-1985
TEACHING POSITIONS
Associate Professor,
Department of
Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Penn State, Fall 1999
to present
Faculty Director, Penn State
Education Abroad
Program in Athens, Greece, 2005-2006
Assistant Professor,
Department of
Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Penn State, Fall
1992-Spring 1999
Visiting Lecturer,
Department of
Classics, Smith College, Spring 1992
Visiting Lecturer,
Department of
Classics, Rutgers University, Fall 1991
Lecturer,
Department
of Classics, Princeton University, Fall 1991
PUBLICATIONS
Edition
Accessus ad
auctores: Medieval
Introductions to the Authors (Codex latinus monacensis 19475). A
critical edition of
MS Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 19475, fols. 1r-16v
and 31r, with
introduction, translation, and notes. TEAMS Secular Commentary.
Kalamazoo:
Medieval Institute Publications, forthcoming, 2014 (in proof). Pp.
xv + 270.
Monographs
(In preparation)
The
Storied Name of
Rome: Etymology,
Narrative, and
Contested Meaning. Under commitment to the series “Classical
Culture and
Society.” Oxford University Press. Submission of 250 pp.
Submission for review expected
in September 2014.
(In
print)
Narrative Dynamics in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
Classica Monacensia
20. Tübingen:
Gunter Narr Verlag, 2000. Pp. x + 174.
Reviews: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2001.11.23; Classical Review 52 (2002): 65-66; Gnomon 76
(2004): 68-70.
A Discourse of Wonders: Audience and
Performance in
Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
Pp. x + 272.
Reviews: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1999.10.26; Les
Études Classiques 67
(1999): 433-34; Journal of
Roman Studies 90 (2000): 242;
Classical Journal 96
(2000-2001):
228-33; Classical Review 50 (2000):
443-44; Classical World
94 (2000-2001): 287-88; New
England Classical Journal 2000 27 (2000): 100-102; Gymnasium 109 (2002), 156-58; Phoenix
56 (2002): 172-73 ; Classical
Outlook 79
(2001-2002): 33-34; Gnomon
75
(2003): 218-22.
See also discussion
“Wheeler’s
Analysis of Ovid’s Metamorphoses”
in
Thomas A. Schmitz, Modern
Literary Theory
and Ancient Texts: An Introduction. Malden, MA and Oxford,
Blackwell, 2007,
pp. 94-96. (Originally published in German as Moderne Literaturtheorie und antike Texte.
Darmstadt:
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2002)
Edited Volumes
Aetas
Claudianea:
Eine Tagung an der Freien Universität Berlin vom 28. bis 30.
Juni
2002,
co-edited with
Widu-Wolfgang Ehlers and Fritz Felgentreu. Munich and Leipzig:
K. G. Saur,
2004. Pp. xviii + 258.
Reviews: Bryn Mawr Classical
Review 2005.03.01; Museum
Helveticum 62
(2005): 249.
Reception of Ovid in Antiquity,
co-edited with Garth
Tissol as guest editor of Arethusa 35.3. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2002. Pp.
121.
Articles and Book Chapters
(Forthcoming)
“Lucan’s Patria
as
Pretext for Claudian’s Dea
Roma.” In Lucain et
Claudien face à face. Une
poésie politique entre épopée, histoire et panégyrique. Actes
du
Colloque international, Université de Genève / Fondation Hardt,
Vandœuvres,
8-10 novembre 2012,
edited by Valéry Berlincourt, Lavinia Galli Milic, and Damien
P. Nelis. Heidelberg:
Universitätsverlag Winter
“The Emperor’s Love
for Rome in
Claudian’s Panegyric on the
Sixth
Consulate of Honorius.” In Tradition
and Innovation in the Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity, edited
by Scott
McGill and Joseph Pucci. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter. 45
pp.
typescript.
“Lucretia tyrannicida? Roman
Republicanism and the
Tyranny of Desire.” Chapter submitted to the volume The Ruling
Passion: The
Erotics of Politics in the Classical World, edited by Mark
Munn and Andrew
Scholtz. 22 pp. typescript.
(In print)
“Von der Lüge zur Wahrheit: die Verwandlungen
von Ovids
Metamorphosen im Mittelalter.” In Carmen
perpetuum. Ovids Metamorphosen in der Weltliteratur,
edited by
Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer and Alexander Honold. Basel:
Basler Schwabe
Verlag, 2013, 89-110.
“Poetry
in Motion:
The Semantic Transformation of poetria in Medieval
Latin.” In Festschrift
in Honor of Philip Baldi, edited by Richard Page and Aaron
Rubin. Amsterdam
Studies in Classical Philology 17. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2010,
149-64.
“Into New Bodies: The Incipit of Ovid’s Metamorphoses as Intertext in Imperial Latin
Literature.” In Callida
Musa: Papers on Latin Literature in
Honor of R. Elaine Fantham, edited by Rolando Ferri, Mira
Seo, and
Katharina Volk. Materiali e
Discussioni
61 (2009): 123-36.
“More Roman than the Romans of Rome: Virgilian
(Self-)
Fashioning in Claudian’s Panegyric for the Consuls Olybrius
and Probinus.”
In Texts and Culture in Late
Antiquity: Inheritance, Authority, and Change, edited by J.
H. D.
Scourfield. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 2007. 97-133.
“Before the Aetas Ovidiana: The Early
Reception of
Ovid.” In Aetas Ovidiana?,
edited by
Damien Nelis. Hermathena 177-178 (2004/2005): 5-26.
“Aetas Claudianea—Zeit für Claudian”
(co-authored
with Widu-Wolfgang Ehlers and Fritz Felgentreu). In Aetas Claudianea:
Eine Tagung an der Freien
Universität Berlin vom 28. bis 30. Juni 2002,
edited by W.-W.
Ehlers, F. Felgentreu, and S. Wheeler. Munich and Leipzig: K. G.
Saur, 2004. i-xiii.
“Ovid’s Metamorphoses
and Universal History.” In Clio and the Poets: Augustan Poetry
and the
Traditions of Historiography, edited by D. S. Levene and D.
P. Nelis. Leiden:
E. J. Brill, 2002. 163-89.
“Lucan’s Reception of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.” Arethusa
35 (2002): 361-80.
“Toward a Literary History of Ovid’s Reception
in Antiquity.”
Arethusa 35 (2002):
341-47.
“Changing Names: The Miracle of Iphis in Ovid,
Metamorphoses
9.” Phoenix 51 (1997): 190-202.
“The Underworld Opening of Claudian’s De
raptu
Proserpinae.” Transactions of the American Philological
Association
125 (1995): 114-34.
“Ovid’s Use of Lucretius in Metamorphoses
1.67-68.” Classical
Quarterly 45 (1995): 200-203.
“Imago
mundi:
Another View of the Creation in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.” American
Journal
of Philology 116 (1995): 95-121.
“Lost Voices: Vergil,
Aeneid
12.718-19.” Classical Quarterly 43 (1993): 451-54.
Encyclopedia Articles
Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and
Rome,
edited by M. Gagarin and E. Fantham. Oxford/New York: Oxford
University Press,
2010.
“Claudian,”
OEAGR 2,
221-222.
“Poetry,
Latin Epic,” OEAGR
5, 381-83.
The Virgil Encyclopedia, edited by R. F.
Thomas and
J. Ziolkowski (Malden, Mass./Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).
“Chaos,” VE,
255.
“Claudian,”
VE,
270-71.
“Conrad of
Hirsau”
(with Robert G. Babcock), VE, 300-301.
“Maximianus,”
VE,
796.
“Phaethon,”
VE,
995-96.
“Philomela,”
VE,
1000.
“Theodulus,”
VE,
1261-62.
“Titans,”
VE,
1274.
Book Reviews
(Forthcoming)
Journal of Late Antiquity. Review
of Catherine
Ware, Claudian and the Roman Epic Tradition.
Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2012.
Classical Review. Review of Martin T. Dinter, Anatomizing
Civil
War: Studies in Lucan’s Epic Technique. Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press,
2012.
Classical Journal. Review of A. J. Woodman, From
Poetry to
History: Selected Papers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
(In
print)
Gnomon 85 (2013): 652-55. Review of
Gianpiero Rosati,
ed. (critical text based on Oxford Classical Text edited by R. J.
Tarrant) and
Gioachino Chiarini, trans. Ovidio Metamorfosi.
Volume III. Libri
V-VI. Fondazione Lorenzo Valla: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore,
2009.
American Journal of Philology 131
(2010): 150-54.
Review of Barbara Pavlock, The Image of the Poet in Ovid’s
Metamorphoses.
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009.
“Nomen/omen,” Classical Review 59.2
(2009):
455-57. Review of Joan Booth and Robert Maltby, eds. What’s in
a Name? The
Significance of Proper Names in Classical Literature.
Swansea: The
Classical Press of Wales, 2006.
Vergilius 50 (2004): 205-15. Review of
Philip Hardie,
Ovid’s Poetics of Illusion. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2002.
“Snakebitten,” Classical Review 54
(2004): 104-106.
Review of Christoph Raschle, Pestes
Harenae: Die Schlangenepisode in Lucans Pharsalia (IX 587-949).
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2001.
Religious Studies Review 30 (2004): 63.
Review of
Richard Thomas, Virgil
and the
Augustan Reception. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2001.
Classical World 96 (2003): 449-51. Review of Stephen Harrison, Apuleius: A Latin
Sophist.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Journal of Roman Studies 92 (2002): 243-44. Review of Gerlinde
Bretzigheimer, Ovids
Amores: Poetik in der Erotik.
Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2000.
Journal of Roman Studies 91 (2001): 248-50. Review of Philip Hardie,
Alessandro
Barchiesi, and Stephen Hinds, eds., Ovidian
Transformations: Essays on Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Its
Reception.
Cambridge: Cambridge Philological Society, 1999.
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 11.22 (2000). Review of Thomas Kellner. Die
Göttergestalten
in Claudians De raptu Proserpinae: Polarität und Koinzidenz als
anthropozentrische Dialektik mythologisch formulierter
Weltvergewisserung.
Stuttgart and Leipzig: B. G. Teubner,
1997. http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2000/2000-11-22.html
Classical Review 50 (2000): 442-43. Review of Ulrike Auhagen, Der Monolog bei Ovid.
Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1999.
“Nothing
to Do with
Caesar?” Classical Review 49 (1999): 62-64
Review of Roland
Granobs, Studien zur
Darstellung
römischer Geschichte in Ovids Metamorphosen. Frankfurt am
Main: Peter Lang,
1997.
American Journal of Philology 122 (1999): 170-73. Review of William S.
Anderson, ed. Ovid’s
Metamorphoses: Books 1-5.
Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997.
Religious Studies Review 25 (1999):
418. Review of
Michael Paschalis, Virgil’s
Aeneid:
Semantic Relations and Proper Names Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1997.
Religious Studies Review 24 (1998): 193. Review of Deborah H. Roberts,
Francis M. Dunn,
and Don Fowler, eds. Classical
Closure:
Reading for the End in Greek and Latin Literature. Princeton:
Princeton
University Press, 1997.
Religious Studies Review 24 (1998): 298. Review of David Sider, The Epigrams of Philodemos: Introduction, Text,
and Commentary.
New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 6.2 (1995): 133-39. Review of K. Sara Myers, Ovid’s Causes:
Cosmogony and Aetiology
in the Metamorphoses. Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan, 1994.
FELLOWSHIPS,
GRANTS, HONORS
Visiting
Professor, Curso
Internacional 2008, Centro de
Estudios Latinos, Universidad Nacional de la Plata (Argentina),
October 2008
Resident
Scholar, Institute of Arts and Humanities, Penn State, Fall 2008
Project:
Research for book The
Storied Name of Rome
Residence
Allowance, Alexander von
Humboldt Foundation, Summer 2007
Project:
Research for book Accesssus
ad auctores at Universität
München
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Grant, June 2002
Co-author
of grant application
with W.-W. Ehlers and F. Felgentreu to fund first international
conference on
Claudian at Freie Universität Berlin
Alexander von Humboldt
Fellowship for Extended
Cooperation, hosted by Seminar für Klassische Philologie, Freie
Universität
Berlin, 2001- 2002 (in cooperation with Prof. W.-W. Ehlers);
project: collaborative
research on Claudian leading to international conference and
publication of
conference proceedings
Alexander von Humboldt
Fellowship, hosted by Seminar für
Klassische Philologie, Freie Universität Berlin, 2000- 2001 (in
cooperation
with Prof. W.-W. Ehlers); project: research on reception of Ovid
Institute
for Arts and Humanistic Studies Faculty Grant and Research and
Graduate Studies
Offices and Faculty Grant, Penn State, Summer 1998; project:
research and writing of Narrative
Dynamics in Ovid’s Metamorphoses at
the Universität München for the Classica
Monacensia series (in cooperation with Prof. Niklas
Holzberg)
Sydney
Holgate Fellowship, Grey College, and University Research Grant,
University of
Durham, Spring 1997; Visiting Fellow, Department of Classics and
Ancient
History, University of Durham, Spring 1997; project: Research
and Writing of Discourse
of Wonders Audience and Performance in Ovid’s
Metamorphoses
Research
and Graduate Studies Office Award, Penn State, Spring 1994
Project: Departmental Colloquium on the
topic of “Minds
and Bodies in the ancient Mediterranean” (invited speakers Peter
Machinist and
Brent Shaw)
Stanley J. Seeger Fellowship, Princeton
University,
Summer 1988
Project: Dissertation research on the
epigraphy of
Ionian city-states (discontinued after the departure of Erich
Gruen from
Princeton)
Andrew
W. Mellon Fellowship, Princeton University, Summer 1987
Funding for
Medieval
Paleography Seminar in the Scheide Library, Princeton
University, with the curator Jean Preston; project: catalogue
description of
Garrett MS 114
Stanley J. Seeger Fellowship, Princeton
University,
Summer 1986
Funding for Summer Session of American
School of
Classical Studies in Athens
Buchanan
Winthrop Prize for Greek Translation, Yale College, 1983 &
1984
Eaton
Prize for Faithful Work and Proficiency in the Classics, Trinity
School, New
York City, 1980
LECTURES AND
PAPERS
Invited Lectures
“The Contest of Vergil and Ovid,” Vergil Week
2012, Case
Western Reserve University, April 28, 2012
“Amor
inversus:
Roma from Propertius to Urban VIII,” University of Pennsylvania,
November 20,
2008.
“Roma:
The Erotics of
a Name,” Institute for Arts and Humanities, The Pennsylvania State
University,
November 11, 2008.
“Landschaft
und
Leidenschaft: der locus
amoenus bei
Ovid,” Landscapes-Landschaften, Workshop im Rahmen des
Forschungskolloquiums
der Latinistik, Universität Basel, October 21, 2008.
“Von
der Lüge zur
Wahrheit: die Verwandlungen von Ovids Metamorphosen im
Mittelalter,”
Vorlesungsreihe „Weltliteratur
intertextuell”:
Carmen perpetuum. Ovids
Metamorphosen in der Weltliteratur, Universität Basel,
October 20, 2008.
“The Idea of Rome in Roman Epic from Livius
Andronicus to
Ovid,” Curso Internacional
2008,
Centro de Estudios Latinos, Universidad Nacional de la Plata
(Argentina),
September 29-October 1, 2008 (three lectures).
Keynote
Speaker, “Amor
inversus: Roma from Propertius to Urban VIII,” XX
Simposio Nacional
de Estudios Clásicos, Discurso,
imagen y
símbolo. El mundo clásico y su
proyección, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
(Argentina), September 26, 2008.
“Amor inversus: Roma from Propertius to
Urban VIII,”
Vassar College, April 14, 2003.
“Amor
inversus:
Roma von Properz bis Urban VIII,” Universität Konstanz, July 3,
2002;
‘Universität München, July 17, 2002.
“Roma/Amor: From the Walls to the
Poets,” University
of Komotini, April 23, 2002; University of Thessaloniki, April 25,
2002
(cancelled because of national flu epidemic).
“Lucan’s Metamorphoses,” University of London,
October 30,
2001; Cambridge University, October 31, 2001.
“The Reception of Ovid in Early Imperial
Literature,”
University of Michigan, October 26, 2001.
“Form
und Sinn in
Ovids Metamorphosen,” Freie Universität Berlin, July 18, 2001.
“Claudian’s Panegyric
for Olybrius and Probinus: Epic Allusion and the Idea of
Rome,” University
of Leeds, May 17, 2001; University of Manchester, May 23, 2001.
“The Danger of Disbelief in Ovid’s Metamorphoses,”
University of Durham, March 10, 1997.
“Self-perpetuation in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
and Tristia
1,” University of California, Santa Barbara, February 8, 1996.
“Cosmogony in Epic from Homer to Ovid,” Yale
University,
February 11, 1993.
Conference Papers
“Invitation to a Beheading: Wordplay and the
End of Rome in
Lucan.” Conference: “Les Mots sous les textes: Interpreting
Wordplay in Greek
and Latin Poetry.” Vandoeuvres-Genève, November 8, 2014.
“Teaching Ovid at the
Benedictine Abbey
of Tegernsee through the Twelfth-Century Accessus ad Auctores in
MS Munich,
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 19475.” 49th International
Congress on
Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 9, 2014.
“Using Tesserae: New Perspectives about the Relative Chronology of Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's Amores,” Conference: “Intertextuality and Digital Humanities: Approaches, Methods, Trends,” Vandoeuvres-Genève. February 14, 2014.
“The Elaboration of the Idea of Rome in the Epics of Lucan and Claudian.” Fondation Hardt Colloquium: “Lucain et Claudien face à face: une poésie politique entre épopée, histoire et panégyrique,” Vandoeuvres-Genève, November 8, 2012.
“Conditores
urbis sub
uberis lupae: An Etymological Mo(nu)ment in Livy, 10.23.12,”
Annual Meeting
of the American Philological Association, Philadelphia, January 8,
2012.
“Claudian and the Love of Rome,” Conference:
“The Classics
Renewed: The Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity.” Brown University,
October 14,
2011.
“Erotic Desire and the Roman Republic.” Annual
Meeting of
the American Philological Association, Chicago, January 2008.
“More Roman than the Romans of Rome: Claudian’s
Virgilian
Debut.” Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association,
Boston,
January 2005.
“Cynthia’s New Clothes: Silk Textiles in Roman
Poetry.”
Conference: “The Poem as Textile: A Problem in Ancient
Aesthetics.” University
of Tennessee, September 23, 2005.
“Into New Bodies: The Reception of Ovid, Met. 1.1f. in
Antiquity.” Conference: “Aetas
Ovidiana: Ovidian Themes in
Contemporary Latin Studies,” Trinity College Dublin, March 23,
2002.
“Virgil and the Secret Name of
Rome,” Virgil
Half-Day Colloquium, University of Durham, May 15, 2001. Other
speakers:
William Barnes, Damien Nelis, and David West.
“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Lucan’s
Reception of
Ovid’s Metamorphoses.” Annual Meeting of the American
Philological
Association, Dallas, December 1999.
“Time in Ovid's Metamorphoses
and Ancient Historiography.” Conference: “Augustan Poetry and the
Traditions of
Ancient Historiography.” University of Durham, September 1, 1999.
“Who Speaks in Ovid’s Metamorphoses?”
Annual Meeting
of the American Philological Association, Washington, December
1998.
“The Economy of Violence in Claudian’s De
raptu
Proserpinae.” Annual Meeting of the American Philological
Association, San
Diego, December 1995.
“Wordplay and Sexual Comedy in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.”
Annual Meeting the American Philological Association, Atlanta,
December 1994.
“Lost Voices of the Latin Women: Vergil, Aeneid
12.718-19.” Meeting of the Classical Association of Atlantic
States, Princeton
University, April 1993.
“The Epic Background to Creation in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.”
Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, New
Orleans, December
1992.
“Beginning,
Meandering, and
Ending: Rivers in Ovid's Metamorphoses,” Meeting of
Classical
Association of Atlantic States, Poughkeepsie, October 1992.
“Marriage Terms in Ovid's Metamorphoses: The
Case of
Daphne and Apollo,” Meeting of Classical Association of Atlantic
States,
Fordham University, September 1991.
“Creation as Enumeration in Ovid's Metamorphoses,”
Meeting of Classical Association of Atlantic States, Princeton
University, October
1990.
Graduate Seminars
“Die
Letzte Welt von
Christoph Ransmayr und Ovids Metamorphosen,”
German 597A (“Postmodernism and the German Novel”), Penn State,
April 1, 1994.
”New Approaches to the Problem of Structure in
Ovid's Metamorphoses,”
Princeton University,
December 14, 1993
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE
Smith College (SP 1992)
Latin 213b, Medieval Latin
Latin 214b, Ovid
Rutgers University (FA 1991)
Elementary Latin
Princeton University (SP 1990-FA 1991)
Latin 108, Virgil and Livy
Latin 101 Beginner’s Latin
Penn State (FA 1992-FA 2014)
CAMS 001(H), Introduction to
Greek and Roman
Literature, 9x
CAMS 033, Roman Civilization,
13x
CAMS 400W, Comparative Study
of the Ancient
Mediterranean World (2x: “Ancient Cities” and “Foundation
Myths”)
CAMS 411W, Classical Drama, 4x
CAMS 442, Sport in Ancient
Greece and Rome
CAMS 496, Roles of Women in
Greek Literature
CAMS 497, Special Topics: Idea
of Rome
Greek 001, Elementary
Classical Greek
(Athenaze)
Greek 002, Elementary
Classical Greek (Athenaze)
Greek 003, Intermediate
Classical
Greek (Athenaze, Plato’s
Apology)
Greek 101, Introductory Greek
(Hansen &
Quinn)
Greek 102, Intermediate Greek
(Hansen &
Quinn, Plato’s Apology),
2x
Greek 430, Greek Poetry (Odyssey)
Latin 001, Elementary
Latin (Wheelock;
Moreland & Fleischer), 6x
Latin 002, Elementary
Latin (Wheelock;
Moreland & Fleischer), 3x
Latin 003, Intermediate
Latin (Wheelock;
Moreland & Fleischer, Catullus, Caesar, Livy, Ovid), 5x
Latin 203, Latin Reading and
Composition (4x:
Caesar, Cicero, Sallust, Vincent & Mountford)
Latin 402, Republican
Literature (Catullus,
Cicero), 4x
Latin 403, Augustan Age
Literature (Virgil, Tibullus,
Propertius, Horace, Ovid), 6x
Latin 404, Silver Age
Literature (Lucan), 2x
Latin 420, Medieval Latin, 3x
(once as Latin
497A)
Latin 494H, Honor’s Thesis on
Shakespeare and
Ovid
Latin 496, Latin Prose
Composition (“Bradley’s
Arnold”)
Latin 496, Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Latin 496, Cicero and
Sallust
Latin 496, Cicero’s De natura deorum
Latin 496, Virgil
Latin
496,
Neo-Latin Accounts of the New World
Latin
496, Cicero, De Natura
Deorum, Book 1
Latin
596, Caesar
and Vegetius
SUPERVISOR OF
UNDERGRADUATE HONORS
THESES
Douglas Chatterton, B.A. in CAMS, “The
Hercules-Cacus episode,
Virgil's Gaze, and the Ideal Hero: Roman Identity in the Aeneid” (April 2014)
Celia Jean Meehan, B.A. in CAMS, “The Two Gentlemen of
Verona: A
Metamorphic Play,” Schreyer Honors College, Penn State
(April 2010).
Meehan-Bajón earned a Masters in secondary education, specializing
in Latin at
Complutense University of Madrid. She teaches now in Spain.
Thomas Strunk, B.A. in CAMS “The Republic of Plato or the
Dregs of
Romulus: Cato
Uticensis, Cicero, and the
Philosophic Discord of Politics,” (Spring 1995). Strunk is now a
tenured
classics professor at Xavier University.
MEMBER OF PHD
COMMITTEES
Sam McMillan, English, Penn
State, 2014-to
present
PhD
Comprehensives: June 2014
Laurent Cases, History and
CAMS, Penn State,
2013-to present
PhD
Comprehensives: May 2013
PhD
Dissertation Topic: Prosopography of Vicarii
in Late Antiquity
Gabriel
T. Ford, Comparative
Literature, Penn State,
2010-2013
PhD Dissertation:
“Exemplarity,
Compilation, and Literary History in Trilingual England,
1100-1500” (defended
June 5, 2013). Placement: Davidson College
David
James Lunt, History and
CAMS, Penn State, 2009
Dissertation: “Athletes,
Heroes, and the
Quest for Immortality in Ancient Greece” (defended Dec. 16, 2009).
Placement:
Southern Utah University
Annika Farber, Comparative
Literature, Penn
State, 2004-2011
PhD
Dissertation: “Ethical Reading and the Medieval artes amandi:
the Rise of
the Didactic in Andreas Capellanus, Jean de Meun, and John Gower”
(defended
Oct. 19, 2011). Placement: San Diego State University
Louis Flores-Portero, Spanish,
Penn
State, 2008-2011
PhD Dissertation: “After
the Storm
Didn't Come, the Calm: Love, Memory, and Identity in the Modern
Mexican Novel,
1947-1963” (written and defended in Spanish, June 16, 2011).
Placement:
Monmouth University
Jeanne Reames-Zimmerman,
History, Penn
State, June 1995-Sept
1998
PhD Dissertation: “Hephaistion
Amyntoros:
Éminence Grise at the court of Alexander the Great” (defended
Sept.
1998). Placement: University of Nebraska at Omaha (tenured)
SERVICE
Departmental
Latin
Search
Committee (1994-95, 1995-96, 1996-97, 2014-15)
Promotion
and
Tenure Committee (1999-2000; 2004-2005, Chair; 2007-2009; 2012,
2014-2015)
Hellenist
Search
Committee (2007-2008, Chair; 2008-2009; 2009-2010, Chair; 2013-14,
Chair)
Lecture Series Coordinator
(2011-12)
Lecturer
Evaluation
Committee (2009-2010)
Awards
Committee
(2008-2010, Chair)
Lecture
Series
Committee (1999-2000)
Undergraduate
Curriculum
Committee (1997-present, frequently Chair)
Committee
on
Recruiting Procedure (1995)
Latin
Consortium
(Fall 1996-present, frequently Chair)
Production
Coordinator
of Undergraduate Guide to
the
Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies Major and Minor,
a 14-page
curriculum guide, in cooperation with CAMS faculty and Academic
Student
Services Center (1994-1995)
Committee
on
Mediterranean Antiquity (1993-94)
College of the Liberal Arts
CAMS
Headship Search
Committee (1994-95, 2005, 2013)
Medieval
Studies
Committee (1997- present)
Member,
Center for
Medieval Studies (2009-present)
Athens
Program
Committee (2003-2007)
Interdisciplinary
Council
of Languages and Literatures (1995)
Classics
Committee (1994)
Classical
Studies
Planning and Implementation Committee (1992-1993)
Host
of Doctoral
Students from Foreign Universities
Dr.
Moa Ekbom,
Uppsala University; visited Jan.-May 2010 to research
dissertation: “The Sortes
Vergilianae: A Philological Study”
(published 2013)
Dr.
Martín
Vizzotti, Centro de Estudios
Latinos,
Universidad Nacional de la Plata (Argentina); visited Jan.-Mar.
2013, to complete
dissertation: “De la tragedia de Séneca a la épica de
Lucano:
estrategias de representación de los paradigmas filosóficos y
literarios” (published 2014)
Latin Liaison with State College Area High School
Advised SCASD Board of Directors and High School
Latin teachers
about preserving the Latin curriculum, April-May 2011.
“Proposed Changes
to Latin Miss
the Mark,” Centre Daily
Times, May 5,
2011, Section A, p. 8. A defense of the four-year Latin program at
State
College Area High School, which was threatened with budgetary
cuts.
Public Comment,
SCASD Board of
Directors Meeting, May 9, 2011. Arguments made to keep funding for
two
instructors in four-year Latin program.
Board voted 5-4 to exclude Latin from budget cuts.
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
Editorial
Editorial Consultant, The Collected
Works of Edmund Spenser, Vol. 1 Shepheardes
Calendar etc.,
ed. Patrick Cheney
et al. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
(Responsible for checking Greek
quotations)
Member of Editorial Board, Speculum,
Journal of the Medieval Academy of America, 2014-2018.
Section Editor of “Special Vocabularies,” Tools of the Trade:
Bibliographies for Roman
Studies (Editor-in-Chief, Sander M. Goldberg), a
bibliographical website
for students and scholars hosted by Connexions
(http://cnx.org), 2010.
Research Assistant,
Epigraphic
Project for Greek Inscriptions of Asia Minor (Editor-in-Chief,
Donald F.
McCabe), The Institute for Advanced Study, 1987-1988. Data entry and
copy-editing.
Events
Organized
First
Annual Penn State Latin Workship. “Senecan Tragedy:
Stoic Means to
Unstoic Ends" presented
by Martín
Vizzotti, Centro de Estudios Latinos, Universidad
Nacional de la Plata
(Argentina). Respondent, Robert J. Sklenar, University of
Tennessee, Knoxville,
February 27, 2013.
Organized public lecture
series at Penn
State: “Virgil in Penn’s Woods: On the Value of Virgil in an Age
of Crisis,”
2011-2012. Six lectures. Speakers: Sarah Spence, Philip Hardie,
Joseph Farrell,
James J. O’Hara, Christine Perkell, and Richard F. Thomas.
Panel Presider, Section 3, Roman Poetry and
Politics, Annual
Meeting of the American Philological Association, Chicago, January
4, 2008.
Conference Co-Organizer and Moderator, “Aetas
Claudianea:
Claudian und die lateinische Literatur.” June
28-30, 2002. 16
speakers were invited from the U.S., England, Ireland, Italy, and
Germany to
take part in the first conference ever devoted to the late antique
poet
Claudian. Funded through a grant by the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft.
Session Chair, “The Vergilian Century,”
University of Pennsylvania,
November 17-18, 2000.
Panel Co-Organizer and Presenter, “After Exile:
The
Reception of Ovid’s Works in Antiquity,” (panelists included James
McKeown,
Martha Malamud, Michael Roberts, R. J. Tarrant, Garth Tissol),
Annual Meeting
of the American Philological Association, Dallas, December 1999.
Chair of 50th Meeting of Petronius Society,
Munich Section.
Introduced Karl
Galinsky, “Das
Augusteische in der augusteischen Kultur,” University of Munich,
June 8, 1998.
Session Chair, “Perspectives on Ovid’s Metamorphoses,”
First Craven Seminar, Faculty of Classics, University of
Cambridge, July 2-5,
1997.
Panel Co-Organizer and Presenter, “Ovidian
Wordplay,” (panelists
included Stephen Hinds, Shelley Kaufhold, James McKeown, James
O’Hara, Garth
Tissol), Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association,
Atlanta,
Georgia, December 1994.
Colloquium Co-Organizer and Moderator, “Minds
and Bodies:
Perspectives on Rationality and Physicality in the Ancient
Mediterranean World,”
an Interdisciplinary Colloquium sponsored by the Committee on
Mediterranean
Antiquity, Penn State, April 29-30, 1994 (external speakers
invited: Brent Shaw
and Peter Machinist).
Roundtable Speaker, “Beginning the Middle Ages:
Continuity
and Change,” a Conference sponsored by the Center for Medieval
Studies, Penn
State, April 8-9, 1994.
External Examiner
Honors Examiner,
Swarthmore College,
May 2008
Stinnecke
Prize
Committee, Princeton University, 1994-1998, 2000
Membership
in
Learned Societies
Lifetime
Member,
Society for Classical Studies (formerly American Philological
Association)
Annual
Member,
Medieval Academy of America
Peer Evaluator for Grant Proposals
Agenzia Nazionale di
Valutazione del sistema
Universitario e della Ricerca
Irish Research Council for
the
Humanities and Social Sciences
National
Endowment for the Humanities
Social Sciences and
Humanities Research
Council of Canada
Swiss National Science
Foundation
Referee for Journals
and Academic Publishers
American Journal of
Philology
Arethusa
Cambridge
University Press
Classical Bulletin
Classical Journal
Classical Philology
Classical Quarterly
Comparative Literature
Studies
Philologus
Phoenix
Speculum
Transactions of
American
Philological Association
(9.16.2014)