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Benjamin B. Acosta-Hughes
Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin
bacosta@umich.edu
Research interests include Hellenistic poetry (especially the use of earlier
Greek lyric, poets, and poetic genres); Augustan poetry; Greco-Egyptian culture
and society; Attic oratory and Greek prose style; Greek tragedy; translation
(recently of erotic epigram); and the classical tradition in the Spanish literature
of the Americas.
Matthew N. Biro
Associate Professor, Department of History of Art
Residential College
mbiro@umich.edu
Research interests include aesthetic theory, methodologies of interpretation,
20th-century art, and popular culture, with special focus on the art and culture
of Germany and the United States. Professor Biro's current research is on the
figure of the cyborg in dada art.
Catherine Brown
Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literature
Associate Professor, Program in Comparative Literature
mcbrown@umich.edu
Research interests include Medieval European literature, philosophy, theology
(especially Spanish, French, Latin); the practice of scholarship and the poetics
of scholarly prose; and materialities of thought and communication.
John F. Cherry
Professor of Classical Archaeology and Greek
Director, Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology
Editor, Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology
jcherry@umich.edu
Research interests include Aegean and Mediterranean prehistory; regional field
survey; island archaeology; archaeological theory; Alexander the Great and the
Alexander tradition; and the archaeology of Armenia.
Derek B. Collins
Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin
dbcollin@umich.edu
Research interests include archaic Greek poetry, Latin literature, history of
the classical tradition, and ancient religion and magic.
Beate D. Dignas
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Classical Studies
bdignas@umich.edu
Research interests include Greek religion and epigraphy, Hellenistic and Roman
Asia Minor, the socio-economic role of sanctuaries, Greek priesthoods, and priestly
dynasties. Her teaching includes not only ancient Greek history but also
the modern reception of ancient Greece.
Basil Dufallo
Assistant Professor of Classical Studies and Comparative Literature
dufallo@umich.edu
Research interests include Latin literature, Roman cultural studies, contemporary
literary and cultural theory, ancient rhetoric and poetics, and the Classical
tradition.
Sara L. Forsdyke
Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin
forsdyke@umich.edu
Research interests include ancient Greek history, Greek political thought and
ideology, Greek orators, Greek law, and ancient and modern historiography. She
is particularly interested in how contemporary concerns have shaped the historical
interpretation of ancient Greece.
Benjamin W. Fortson IV
Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin Language, Literature, and Historical
Linguistics, Department of Classical Studies
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
Editor-in-Chief, Beech Stave Press
fortsonb@umich.edu
Research interests include Indo-European comparative philology; early Greek
and Latin; Plautine metrics; Indo-European poetics; theory and method in historical
linguistics; Hittite, Sanskrit, and Germanic historical linguistics; and lexicography.
Bruce W. Frier
Frank O. Copley Professor of Classics and Roman Law
Chair, Law School
bwfrier@umich.edu
Research interests include Roman law, Roman social and economic history, Hellenistic
and Roman historiography and political science, ancient architecture, and numismatics.
David M. Halperin
Professor, Department of English Language and Literature
halperin@umich.edu
Research interests include queer theory and the cultural history of homosexuality,
classical studies and its relation to contemporary cultural history, and critical
theory.
Sharon C. Herbert
Director, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Professor of Classical Archaeology and Greek
Research Scientist, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
sherbert@umich.edu
Research interests include Greek archaeology, vase painting, and the Hellenistic
Near East.
Kali A. Israel
Associate Professor, Department of History
kisrael@umich.edu
Professor Israel teaches modern British history and cultural studies. Research
interests have focused on Victorian history and culture, post-histories of the
Victorian (including the uses of Alice in the twentieth century), modern visions
of ancient Greece, and Victorian Hellenism.
Vassilis Lambropoulos
C.P. Cavafy Professor of Modern Greek Studies
Professor, Department of Classical Studies
Professor, Department of Comparative Literature
vlambrop@umich.edu
Research interests include debates between the Ancients and the Moderns; post-modern
classicisms; myth in modern culture, high and low; modern Greek attitudes toward
antiquity; ethics and politics; and literature after cultural studies.
Artemis S. Leontis
Adjunct Associate Professorof Modern Greek
aleontis@umich.edu
Research interests include comparative literature, especially classics and modern
literatures; modern Greek literature, language, and culture; and diaspora studies,
including Greek Americans.
Sabine G. MacCormack
Mary Ann and Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. Professor for the Study of Human Understanding
Professor, Department of Classical Studies
Professor, Department of History
sgm@umich.edu
Research interests include late antiquity, history of the Classical tradition
and of Christianity, and Spanish and Andean historiography and culture.
Katherine Mendeloff
Lecturer, Residential College
mendelof@umich.edu
Research interests include modern productions of ancient drama. At the University
of Michigan Residential College, she has directed Aristophanes' Lysistrata,
Euripides' Bacchae, Easy Virtue (an adaptation of Plautus's Cistellaria),
Philoctetes in Vietnam, and Survivors: The Trojan Women in Bosnia.
David L. Porter
Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature
Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature
dporter@umich.edu
Research interests include eighteenth-century studies, travel literature, history
of aesthetics, China in the European imagination, material culture, modernism,
literature of exile, and internet culture.
James I. Porter
Professor of Greek and Latin
Professor, Department of Comparative Literature
jport@umich.edu
Research interests include Greek and Latin literature, ancient literary criticism
and aesthetics, contemporary literary and cultural theory, history of philology,
and the classical ideal.
Yopie H. Prins
Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature
Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Classical Studies
yprins@umich.edu
Research interests include Victorian poetry; history and theory of lyric; nineteenth-century
women poets; classical traditions in English literature; comparative literature;
feminist criticism and gender studies; ancient Greek literature; translation
studies; reception and performance of Greek tragedy; and Dutch literature.
Sara L. Rappe
Associate Professor of Greek and Latin
rappe@umich.edu
Research interests include classical and Hellenistic philosophy, neo-Platonism,
and philosophy of language.
Arlene W. Saxonhouse
Professor, Department of Political Science
awsaxon@umich.edu
Research interests focus on ancient and early modern political thought. Her
previous publications studied how attention to gender enriches our understanding
of the political thought of the ancient theorists, how the debts that Hobbes's
political thought has to the thought of Machiavelli help us understand the theoretical
basis of modern political thought, and how careful readings of the ancient theorists
provide previously unexplored insights into the possibilities and limits of
democratic theory. Her current work continues the study of how gender in Plato's
dialogues casts questions on traditional readings of his political thought.
Ruth Scodel
Professor of Greek and Latin
rscodel@umich.edu
Research interests include Homer, tragedy, Greek literary criticism, and ancient
narrative.
Elizabeth L. Sears
Associate Professor, Department of History of Art
esears@umich.edu
Research interests include European representational arts of the high and later
Middle Ages with a special focus on manuscript illumination, religious and secular
iconography, and historiography.
Tobin A. Siebers
Professor, Department of English Language and Literature
Director, Program in Comparative Literature
tobin@umich.edu
Research interests include literary theory, cultural criticism, history of literary
criticism, disability studies, Romanticism, postmodernism, ecocriticism, literature
and other disciplines: anthropology, art history, philosophy, psychology; creative
nonfiction.
Gina M. Soter
Lecturer II, Department of Classical Studies
Lecturer, Residential College
soter@umich.edu
Research interests include Greek and Roman theater, classical tradition, religion
in ancient Greece and Rome, women and gender in classical antiquity, and pedagogy
of Greek and Latin.
Peter D. Sparling
Professor, Department of Dance
Professor, School of Music
Artistic Director, Peter Sparling Dance Company
petespar@umich.edu
Professor Sparling danced with the José Limon Dance Company from 1971
to 1973 and was a principal dancer from 1973 to 1987 with the Martha Graham
Dance Company, to which he returns often to perform, coach, and teach. As a
regisseur of the Martha Graham Trust, he stages Graham's works on his own company
and on companies all over the world. Prof. Sparling presented his own company
and solo performance, "Solo Flight", for five successive seasons at New York's
Riverside Dance Festival. He has held residencies at the American Dance Festival,
at numerous American universities, and in London, Australia, Portugal, and Taiwan.
He is a recipient of the 1998 Governor's Michigan Artist Award and of grants
from the National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural
Affairs, and the Arts Foundation of Michigan. He has worked extensively with
composers, actors, visual artists, and scientists to create collaborative performance
works. He has also written texts for performance and has been published in the
Michigan Quarterly Review.
Louise K. Stein
Professor, School of Music
lkstein@umich.edu
Research interests include European, Spanish, and colonial Latin American music
of the late Renaissance and baroque eras, with particular emphasis on theater
music and opera.
Keith Taylor
Lecturer, Department of English
Coordinator, Undergraduate Subconcentration in Creative Writing
keitay@umich.edu
Interests include contemporary poetry and fiction and translation. Award-winning
author of translations of modern Greek poetry.
Thelma K. Thomas
Associate Dean, Rackham School of Graduate Studies
Associate Professor, Department of History of Art
Associate Curator, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
tkthomas@umich.edu
Research interests include the material culture of Late Antiquity, especially
Egypt. In addition, she teaches classes on Early Christian and Byzantine art,
architecture and archaeology.
Silke-Maria Weineck
Assistant Professor, Department of German Studies
Associate Faculty, Department of Comparative Literature
smwei@umich.edu
Research interests include Plato, the conception of fatherhood in Aristotelian
biology and its relation to political ethics, and theories of tragedy.
James Boyd White
Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies
Professor, English Language & Literature Department
L. Hart Wright Professor of Law, Law School
jbwhite@umich.edu
Research interests include analysis of texts and discourse systems, especially
American law; seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English literature; George
Herbert; and the literature, law, and rhetoric of ancient Greece.
Steven M. Whiting
Associate Professor, School of Music
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, School of Music
stevenmw@umich.edu
Research interests include18th-century music, the history of musical theatre,
Beethoven, Satie, French cabaret music, and E.T.A. Hoffmann.
Elizabeth R. Wingrove
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Associate Professor, Program in Women's Studies
ewingrov@umich.edu
Research interests include Rousseau and the sexual politics of republicanism.
Her current research combines contemporary social theory, literary theory, intellectual
history, and canonical political theory in an exploration of 18th century epistolary
culture. A central feature of this project concerns methodology, e.g., the complementarity
as well as the tension that characterize narrative, historical, and quantitative
modes of analysis. She has also written on educational "crises" in advanced
democracies, and the uses and abuses of "civil society" as a political concept.