| Benjamin Acosta-Hughes - bacosta@umich.edu |
| 2150 Angell Hall, (734) 764-0347 |
| Associate Professor of Greek & Latin |
| B.A. '87, Michigan; M.A. '90, Ph.D. '95, Berkeley |
| Special Interests: Hellenistic literature, archaic Greek lyric, Augustan poetry, Greco-Egyptian culture and society, Attic oratory and Greek prose style, Greek tragedy |
| Selected Publications: Polyeideia-The Iambi of Callimachus and the Archaic Iambic Tradition; Reading Callimachus (co-editor; forthcoming); Callimachus, Hipponax and the Persona of the Iambographer; The New Simonides and Theocritus (forthcoming) |
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| Paolo Asso - passo@umich.edu |
| 2029L Tisch Hall, (734) 764-0123 |
| Lecturer I in Classical Studies, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
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| Laurea, '91, I.U.O. Napoli (Italy); MA '00, Ph.D. '02, Princeton
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| Special Interests:
Lucan; Greek and Latin Epic; Latin Poetry; Latin Literature of the Early Empire
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| Selected Publications:
Articles on Lucan, Statius, and Silius Italicus. Book projects: A Commentary (in progress) on Lucan, Bellum Civile, Book IV; A monograph (in progress) on The Idea of Africa in the Literary Imagination of the Romans. |
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| Sara Ahbel-Rappe - rappe@umich.edu |
| 2029G Tisch Hall, (734) 936-6096 |
| Associate Professor of Greek and Latin |
| B.A. '81, M.A. '85, Ph.D. '91, Berkeley |
| Special Interests: classical and Hellenistic philosophy; neo-Platonism; philosophy of language |
| Selected Publications: Reading Neoplatonism; Translation of Damascius' Doubts and Solutions Concerning First Principles (forthcoming); Blackwell Companion to Socrates (co-editor; forthcoming); articles and chapters on Socrates, Neoplatonism, Cynics, and late antique religion |
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| Netta Berlin - berlin@umich.edu |
| G231D Angell Hall, (734) 615-0667 |
| Lecturer III |
| B.A. '84, Wellesley; M.A. '89, Ph.D. '94, Michigan |
| Special Interests: Latin literature, epic poetry, Augustan poetry, literary theory |
| Publication: "War and Rememberance: Aeneid 12.554-60 and Aeneas' Memory of Troy" |
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| H.D. Cameron - hdcamero@umich.edu |
| 2176 Angell Hall, (734) 764-7505 |
| Professor of Greek and Latin (Director, Great Books Program) |
| A.B. '56, The University of Michigan; Ph.D. '62, Princeton |
| Special Interests: Greek drama, linguistics, Greek orators, Plautus |
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| Anne Carson - carsona@umich.edu |
| 3143 Angell Hall, (734) 763-2265 |
| Professor of Classical Studies; Professor of Comparative Literature (Department of Comparative Literature); Professor of English (Department of English Language and Literature) |
| B.A.'74, M.A. '75, Ph.D. '81, University of Toronto |
| Special Interests: ancient Greek literature, poetry, critical theory, translation |
| Selected Publications: The Beauty of the Husband, Sophokles Elektra: Translation with Commentary and Notes, Men in the Off Hours, Autobiography of Red |
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| Beau David Case - classicslibrarian@umich.edu |
| 2167A Angell Hall, (734) 764-0306 |
| Lecturer II; Field Librarian for Classical Studies; Librarian, Kelsey Museum |
| B.A. '90, UCLA; M.A. '94, Indiana University; M.L.S. '95, Indiana |
| Special Interests: Bibliography and research methodology; library collection development; international librarianship |
| Selected Publications: "The Acquisition of Faculty Publications at their University Libraries"; "Love's Labour's Lost: The Failure of Traditional Selection Practice in the Acquisition of Humanities Electronic Texts"; "Strengthening Modern Greek Collections: Building US-Greek Library Partnerships"; "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: A Note on Catullus 13" |
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| Ruth Caston - rcaston@umich.edu |
| 2029B Tisch Hall, (734) 764-1366 |
| Lecturer/Research Investigator |
| B.A. '88, Cornell; M.A. '90, University of Texas-Austin; Ph.D. 2000, Brown |
| Special Interests: Latin literature, esp. Augustan poetry, the passions and literature, ancient rhetoric, comedy and satire |
| Selected Publications: "The Fall of the Curtain: Hor. S. 2.8)"; "Rivalling the Shield: Propertius 4.6"; "Love as Illness: poets and philosophers on romantic love" |
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| Victor Caston - vcaston@umich.edu |
| 2203 Angell Hall,
(734) 764-6285 |
| Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies |
| B.A. '84, Yale; M.A. '85, Ph.D. '92, The University of Texas at Austin |
| Special interests: Greek and Roman philosophy, especially philosophy of mind, metaphysics and epistemology; Medieval philosophy; Austrian philosophy. |
| Selected publications: "The Spirit and the Letter: Aristotle on Perception"; "Aristotle on Consciousness"; "Something and Nothing: The Stoics on Concepts and Universals"; "Aristotle and the Problem of Intentionality"; "Epiphenomenalisms, Ancient and Modern." |
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| Derek B. Collins - dbcollin@umich.edu |
| 2140 Angell Hall, (734) 764-8581 |
| Associate Professor of Greek and Latin |
| B.A. '87, M.A. '91, UCLA; Ph.D. '97, Harvard |
| Special Interests: archaic Greek poetry, Latin literature, history of the classical tradition, religion, magic |
| Selected Publications: Master of the Game: Competition and Performance in Greek Poetry; Immortal Armor: The Concept of Alke in Archaic Greek Poetry, "Hesiod and the Divine Voice of the Muses", "On the Aesthetics of the Deceiving Self in Nietzsche, Pindar, and Theognis"; "Improvisation in Rhapsodic Performance"; "Theoris of Lemnos and the Criminalization of Magic in Fourth-Century Athens"; "Homer and Rhapsodic Competition in Performance"; "Reading the Birds: Oionomanteia in Early Epic"; "Nature, Cause, and Agency in Greek Magic" |
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| Basil Dufallo - dufallo@umich.edu |
| 2130 Tisch Hall, (734) 615-0925 |
| Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin; Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature |
| B.A. '92, Yale; M.A., Ph.D. '99, UCLA |
| Special Interests:Latin literature, Roman culture, critical/cultural theory, postclassical Latin |
| Selected Publications: The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate (2007); ed. with Peggy McCracken, Dead Lovers: Erotic Bonds and the Study of Premodern Europe (2006), "The Roman Elegist's Dead Lover or The Drama of the Desiring Subject"; "Words Born and Made: Horace's Defense of Neologisms and the Cultural Poetics of Latin"; "Propertian Elegy as 'Restored Behavior': Evoking Cynthia and Cornelia"; "Appius indignation: Gossip, tradition, and performance in Republican Rome"; " Satis / satura : Reconsidering the 'programmatic intent' of Horace, Satires 1.1"; "Les spectres du passé récent dans le Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino de Cicéron." |
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| Henry Dyson - hdyson@umich.edu |
| 2215 Angell Hall
l, (734) 763-
2124 |
| Research Investigator and Intermittent Lecturer in Philosophy and Research investigator and Intermittent Lecturer in Classical Studies, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
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| Steven J.R. Ellis - stellis@umich.edu |
| 2124 Angell Hall, (734) 936-6101 |
| Lecturer |
| Ph.D. '05, Sydney |
| Special interests: Roman urbanism and social history; ancient architecture; Greek and Roman art and archaeology; iconography of daily life; GIS and other technological applications for the study of the ancient world; and the excavation of complex urban sites. Project Director for the Pompeii Archaeological Research Project: Porta Stabia www.stanford.edu/group/pompeii |
| Select publications: The distribution of bars at Pompeii: archaeological, spatial and viewshed analyses; The Pompeian Bar: archaeology and the role of food and drink outlets in an ancient community; Extracting the social relevance of artefact distribution in Roman military forts (with P.M. Allison, A.S. Fairbairn, and C.W. Blackall); New Excavations at VIII.7.1-15, Pompeii: A brief synthesis of results from the 2005 season (with G. Devore). |
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| Sara L. Forsdyke - forsdyke@umich.edu |
| 0566 Rackham OR 2144 Angell Hall, (734) 763-5561 or (734) 936-6098 |
| Associate Professor of Greek and Latin |
| A.B. '90, Harvard; M.A. '91, Queen's; M.A. '94, Ph.D. '97, Princeton |
| Special Interests: Greek historiography, Greek political thought and ideology, Greek orators, Greek law, Greek history |
| Selected Publications: Exile, Ostracism and Democracy: The Politics of Expulsion in Ancient Greece; "Revelry and Riot in Archaic Megara: Democratic Disorder or Ritual Reversal?"; "Land, Labor and Economy in Solonian Athens: Breaking the Impasse between History and Archaeology"; "Athenian Democratic Ideology and Herodotus' Histories"; "From Aristocratic to Democratic Ideology and Back Again: The Thrasybulus Anecdote in Herodotus' Histories and Aristotle's Politics" |
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| Benjamin W. Fortson IV - fortsonb@umich.edu |
| 2029H Tisch Hall, (734) 764-1579 |
| Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin Language, Literature, and Historical Linguistics |
| B.A. '89, Yale; Ph.D. '96, Harvard |
| Special Interests: early Greek and Latin, history of Greek and Latin, comparative Indo-European linguistics, metrics and poetics, Roman comedy |
Publications:The Prosody of Plautine Latin: Linguistic and Metrical Studies (forthcoming); Indo-European Language and Culture:
An Introduction; "On the contraction of est in Plautine Latin"; "Linguistic and cultural notes on Latin Iunius and related topics";
"The origin of the Latin future active participle" (forthcoming) |
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| Bruce W. Frier - bwfrier@umich.edu |
2119 Angell Hall or 435 Hutchins Hall
(734) 763-2197 or (734) 936-3022 |
| Professor of Classics; Henry King Ransom Professor of Law (Law School) |
| A.B. '64, Trinity; Fellow '68, American Academy in Rome; Ph.D. '70, Princeton |
| Special Interests: Roman law, Roman social and economic history, Hellenistic and Roman historiography and political science, ancient architecture, and numismatics |
| Selected Publications: Libri Annales Pontificum Maximorum: The Origins of the Annalistic Tradition; Landlords and Tenants in Imperial Rome; The Rise of the Roman Jurists: Studies in Cicero's pro Caecina; A Casebook on the Roman Law of Delict; The Demography of Roman Egypt (with Roger Bagnall); The Census Register P.Oxy. 984: The Reverse of Pindar's Paeans (with Roger Bagnall and Ian Rutherford); A Casebook on Roman Family Law (with Thomas McGinn); The Modern Law of Contract (with James J. White); translation of Digest Book 19; articles on Roman Law, history, historiography, numismatics, and archaeology |
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| Traianos Gagos - traianos@umich.edu |
| 2029F Tisch Hall or 807 Hatcher, (734) 647-3290 or (734) 764-9369 |
| Professor of Papyrology and Greek; Archivist, Papyrology Collection, University Library; Associate Research Scientist, Kelsey Museum |
| B.A. '83, Ioannina; Ph.D. '87, Durham |
| Special Interests: Greek papyrology and palaeography; social, economic and cultural history of Graeco-Roman and late antique Egypt and Near East; papyrology and archaeology; computer technology and the study of the ancient world. Co-founder and co-editor, New Texts from Ancient Cultures; Director, Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS), Michigan and central sections; Immediate Past President, American Society of Papyrologists |
| Selected Publications:The Evolution of the English Bible (interactive CD; 1999 Best Book Award, University of Michigan Press); Essays and Texts in Honor of J. David Thomas (co-editor); Michigan Texts Published in Honor of Ludwig Koenen (co-editor); The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Vol. 61 (with M. Haslam and N.Lewis); Settling a Dispute: Toward a Legal Anthropology of Late Antique Egypt;
"Material Culture and Texts of Graeco-Roman Egypt: Creating Context, Debating Meaning"; "Negotiating Money and Space in Sixth Century Petra"; "The University of Michigan Papyrus Collection: Current Trends and Future Perspectives"; "The Emperor Aurelian and the Corrector Firmus in a Private Context"; "Documenting the Rural Economy of Egypt: Three Byzantine Papyri from Alabastrine"; "P. Mich. inv. 4922: Xenophon and an Unknown Christian Text"; "Early Roman Texts from Oxyrhynchus or Oxyrhynchite Loan Contracts and Egyptian Marriage"; "Scanning the Past: A Modern Approach to Ancient Culture" |
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| K.A. Garbrah - kagarbra@umich.edu |
| 2155 Angell Hall, (734) 764-6218 |
| Professor of Greek and Latin |
| B.A. '61, London; Dip. Indo-European Comparative Philology '63, Oxon; B.Litt. '66, Oxon; Dr. Phil. '72, Cologne |
| Special Interests: Greek and Latin languages; comparative philology; epigraphy; early Latin tragedy |
| Selected Publications: A Grammar of the Ionic Inscriptions from Erythrae; articles on the language and scholia of Homer, including "A Linguistic Analysis of Selected Portions of the Homeric Odyssey"; other articles on the language and text of Greek inscriptions, and on Terence |
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| David Halperin - halperin@umich.edu |
| 3056 Tisch Hall |
| W. H. Auden Collegiate Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality, Professor of English, Professor of Women's Studies, Professor of Comparative Literature, Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies
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| Sharon C. Herbert - sherbert@umich.edu |
| 249 Kelsey, (734) 763-3559 |
| Professor of Classical Archaeology & Greek; Director, Kelsey Museum |
| A.B. '66, Stanford; Fellow '69-'71, American School of Classical Studies in Athens; Ph.D. '72, Stanford |
| Special Interests: Greek archaeology, vase painting, Hellenistic Near East |
| Selected Publications: Tel Anafa I, Final Report on Ten Years of Excavation at a Hellenistic and Roman Settlement in Northern Israel; Corinth VII, 4: The Red-figured Pottery; articles on excavations in Israel, Greece, and Egypt |
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| Richard Janko - rjanko@umich.edu |
| 2156 Angell Hall, (734) 764-0360 |
| Professor of Classical Studies; Department of Classical Studies |
| B.A. '76, M.A., Ph.D., '80, Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Special Interests: Greek language and literature, especially Linear B, Homer and oral poetry, ancient literary criticism, comedy, Orphism and Greek religion, ancient manuscripts, textual criticism |
| Selected Publications: Homer, Hesiod, and the Hymns; Aristotle on Comedy; Aristotle, Poetics; The Iliad, A Commentary, Vol. 4; Philodemus, On Poems Book 1; The Derveni papyrus: an interim text;Empedocles, On Nature I: a New Reconstruction |
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| Vassilios Lambropoulos - vlambrop@umich.edu |
| 2152 Angell Hall, (734) 764-0126 |
C. P. Cavafy Professor of Modern Greek Studies; Professor of Classical Studies and Comparative Literature |
| B.A. '75, Athens; Ph.D. '80, Thessaloniki |
| Special Interests:
modern Greek culture; the ancients and the moderns; ethics and politics; tragedy and the tragic
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| Selected Publications:
The Tragic Idea; The Rise of Eurocentrism; Literature as National Institution; co-editor of The Text and Its Margins and Twentieth-Century Literary Theory; editor of South Atlantic Quarterly issue on "Ethical Politics." |
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| Artemis Leontis - aleontis@umich.edu |
| 2172 Angell Hall, (734) 936-6099 |
Associate Professor of Modern Greek &
Coordinator of the Modern Greek Program |
| B.A. '79, Oberlin; M.A. '84, Ph.D. '91, Ohio State |
| Special Interests: comparative literature, especially classics and modern literatures, modern Greek literature, language, and culture; diaspora studies, including Greek Americans |
| Selected Publications: Topographies of Hellenism: Mapping the Homeland; Greece: A Traveler's Literary Companion; Understanding Women: The Challenge of Cross Cultural Perspectives (co-editor) |
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| Despina Margomenou - margomen@umich.edu |
| 2027 Tisch Hall, (734) 936-6119 |
| Lecturer |
| B.A. '94, University of Thessaloniki, Greece; M.A. '96, Ph.D. '05 University of Michigan, Department of Anthropology |
| Special interests: Anthropology, archaeology, museum studies, material culture, European and Aegean prehistory, complex societies, politics of archaeological and museum practices in Modern Greece,teaching Modern Greek |
| Publications: Prehistorians round the Pond: Reflections on Aegean Prehistory as a Discipline (co-editor); Reflections on the 'Aegean' and its Prehistory: Present Routes and Future Destinations for Aegean Prehistory (co-author); The Neolithic settlement of Knossos: New Light on an Old Picture (co-author) |
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| Donka Markus - markusdd@umich.edu |
| 2143A Angell Hall, (734) 615-3534 |
| Lecturer |
| B.A. '82, M.A. '88, Sofia; M.A. '92, Wayne State; Ph.D. '97, Michigan |
| Special Interests: oral performance of literature in Rome; Latin pedagogy; teaching with technology; reading theory |
| Selected Publications: "Performing the Book: The Recital of Epic in 1st Century C.E. Rome"; "Transfiguring Heroism: Nisus and Euryalus in Statius' Thebaid"; "Old Wine in New Skins: Visual Codes for Teaching Sentence-Structure in Latin" |
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| Lisa Nevett - lcnevett@umich.edu |
| 2131 Angell Hall, (734) 764-0112 |
| Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology; Assistant Professor of History of Art (Dept. of History of Art) |
| B.A. '87, M.Phil. '88, Ph.D. '93, Cambridge |
| Special Interests: archaeology and iconography of domestic space in the Greek and Roman worlds |
| Selected Publications: House and Society in the Ancient Greek World ; Ancient Greek Houses and Households (co-ed.) |
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| Dirk Obbink - dobbink@umich.edu |
| 2151 Angell Hall, (734) 764-4499 |
| Professor of Classical Studies |
| B.A. '78 Nebraska; Ph.D. '87 Stanford |
| Special Interests: literary papyrology, lost books, fragmentary sources, Hellenistic philosophy, Lucretius and poetae docti, Greek lyric poetry, literacy |
| Selected Publications: Philodemus On Piety Part 1: Critical Text with Commentary |
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| Panagiotis Pafilis - pafman@umich.edu |
2031 Tisch Hall , (734) 764-0112
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| Lecturer, Modern Greek Program,Department of Classical Studies |
| Ph.D. University of Athens, 2003 |
| Special Interests: modern Greek language and culture, environmental and evolutionary physiology, adaptations in Mediterranean type ecosystems. |
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| James I. Porter - jport@umich.edu |
| 2029E Tisch Hall, (734) 936-6102 |
| Professor of Greek, Latin and Comparative Literature |
| B.A. '77, Swarthmore; M.A. '79, Ph.D. '86, Berkeley |
| Special Interests: Greek and Latin literature and philosophy; literary criticism and aesthetics; literary and cultural theory; history of the classical ideal; history of the classical disciplines |
Selected Publications: Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future; The Invention of Dionysus: An Essay on The Birth of Tragedy; Constructions of the Classical Body (ed); Classical Pasts: The Classical Traditions of Greece and Rome (ed.); Aesthetic Inquiry in Antiquity: Matter, Experience, and the Sublime (just completed); Literary Aesthetics after Aristotle (in progress); Homer: The Very Idea (in progress); Philodemus, On Poems Book 5 (co-editor; in progress); "Classical Presences " (OUP book series in classical reception; co-editor). Articles on Aeschylus, Gorgias, Aristotle, ancient music, Cynicism, Epicurus, Homeric scholia, Hellenistic poetics, Lucretius, Vergil, Cicero, the Second Sophistic, Philo, Nietzsche, Saussure and Derrida, Freud, Foucault, and the reception of Homer. |
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| David S. Potter - dsp@umich.edu |
| 2127 Angell Hall, (734) 936-2249 |
| Professor of Greek and Latin |
| A.B. '79, Harvard; D.Phil '84, Oxford |
| Special Interests: Greek and Roman Asia Minor, Greek and Latin historiography and epigraphy, Roman public entertainment |
| Selected Publications: Literary Texts and the Roman Historian; Life, Death and Entertainment in the Roman Empire (co-editor);Prophecy and History in the Crisis of the Roman Empire; Prophets and Emperors: Humans and Divine Authority from Augustus to Theodosius;
The Roman Empire at Bay; A Companion to the Roman Empire; articles on textual criticism, Greek and Roman history and epigraphy |
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| Johanna H. Prins - yprins@umich.edu |
| 3184 Angell Hall, (734) 647-7674 |
| Adjunct Associate Professor of Classical Studies (Associate Professor of English) |
| Ph.D. '91, Princeton |
| Special Interests: Nineteenth-century poetry; history and theory of lyric; translation and reception of classics; comparative literature |
| Selected Publications: Victorian Sappho; Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Greek Translations (volume X co-editor); Dwelling in Possibility: Women Poets and Critics on Poetry; The Defiant Muse: Dutch and Flemish Feminist Poems (co-editor and translator); "Greek Maenads, Victorian Spinsters"; "Sappho's Afterlife in Translation"; "Sappho Doubled: Michael Field"; "Aeschylus' Furies and their Binding Song"; "Browning's Agamemnon" |
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| Christopher Ratté |
| Associate Professor of Archaeology |
| 2132 Angell Hall, (734)
936-3888
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B.A. '81, Harvard, M.A. '84, UC Berkeley, Ph.D. '89, UC Berkeley |
| Special interests: Classical Archaeology, especially Greek architecture and urbanism, archaeology of Turkey. |
| Selected publications: Aphrodisias Papers 4 (ed. with R.R.R. Smith, forthcoming);“The Urban Development of Aphrodisias in the Late Hellenistic and Early Imperial Periods;” Lydian Architecture (forthcoming). |
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| Joseph D. Reed - josephdr@umich.edu |
| 2178 Angell Hall, (734) 936-3887 |
| Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin |
| B.A. '87, Yale; A.M. '91, Ph.D. '93, Stanford |
| Special Interests: Augustan poetry, Hellenistic poetry, Adonis cult |
Selected Publications: Virgil's Gaze: Nation and Poetry in the Aeneid; Commentary on Ovid, Metamorphoses 10-12 in preparation; Bion of Smyrna: The Fragments and the Adonis; "Wilfred Owen's Adonis;"
"Anchises Reading Aeneas Reading Marcellus;" "Ovid's Elegy on Tibullus and its Models;" "The Sexuality of Adonis" |
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| Deborah Pennell Ross - dpross@umich.edu |
| 2147 Angell Hall, (734) 764-0357 |
| Lecturer IV |
| A.B. '76, A.M. '78, A.M. '79, Ph.D. '87, Michigan |
| Special Interests: Latin pedagogy; Latin linguistics; Latin literature |
| Publications: "The Linguistic Perspective" (with G.M. Knudsvig); "Anaphors and Antecedents in Narrative Text"; "The Role of Displacement in Narrative Prose" |
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| Mira Seo - jmseo@umich.edu |
| 2029J Tisch Hall, (734) 764-1224 |
| Assistant Professor |
| B.A. Swarthmore '95, B.A. Christ Church, Oxford '98, M.A., Ph.D.Princeton, '04 |
| Special interests: Ovid and post-Ovidian epic, ancient literary criticism and culture, Hellenistic poetry, characterization and the self in literature and rhetoric, genres in literature and popular culture. |
| Forthcoming publications: "The Purloined Letter: Plagiarism and Poetic Identity in Martial and Others"; "Viewing the Past in Alias: Antiquity, Divinity and Prophecy." |
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| Ruth Scodel - rscodel@umich.edu |
| 2123 Angell Hall, (734) 764-1197 |
| Professor of Greek and Latin, Chair, Department of Classical Studies |
| A.B. '73, Berkeley; Ph.D. '78, Harvard |
| Special Interests: Homer, tragedy, ancient narrative, Classics and Cinema |
| Selected Publications: The Trojan Trilogy of Euripides; Sophocles: Credible Impossibilities; Listening to Homer; articles on Greek poetry; editor of Transactions of the American Philological Association (TAPA), 1986-91 |
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| Gina M. Soter - soter@umich.edu |
| 2029B Tisch Hall; 106 Greene, East Quad (Residential College) |
| (734) 936-6119 or (734) 647-4371 |
| Lecturer IV |
| B.A. '84, Washington; M.A. '87, Ph.D. '93, Michigan |
| Special Interests: Greek and Roman theater; classical tradition; religion in ancient Greece and Rome; women and gender in classical antiquity; pedagogy of Greek and Latin |
| Selected Publications: Euripides: Helen (translation; forthcoming) |
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| Lauren Talalay - talalay@umich.edu |
| Kelsey Museum, (734) 647-0441 |
| Associate Director, Kelsey Museum; Curator, Kelsey Museum;Adjunct Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology |
| B.A. '71, New York; Ph.D. '83, Indiana |
| Special Interests: Aegean prehistory, gender, neolithic figurines |
| Selected Publications: Deities, Dolls, and Devices: Neolithic Figurines from Franchthi Cave, Greece;
In the Field: The Archaeological Expeditions of the Kelsey Museum (co-authored); Prehistorians Round the Pond: Reflections on Aegean Prehistory as a Discipline (co-edited), "A Feminist Boomerang: The Great Goddess of Greek Prehistory"; ""Sexual Ambiguity in Early-Middle Cypriot Plank Figures"; "The Gendered Sea: Iconography, Gender, and Mediterranean Prehistory"; "The Past as Commodity: Archaeological Images in Modern Advertising"; "Heady Business: Skulls, Heads, and Decapitation in Neolithic Anatolia and Greece" |
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| Nicola Terrenato |
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| B.A. '88 Rome , Ph.D. '94 Pisa |
| Special Interests: Roman Republican Archaeology, Roman Imperialism, Early Rome, Field survey methods. |
| Selected Publications: Italy and the west: comparative issues in Romanization (co-editor); Articulating local histories: domination and resistance under the expanding Roman Republic (co-editor); Archeologia Teorica (editor); Volterra. Il teatro e le terme (co-editor); Introduzione all'archeologia dei paesaggi (co-author); "The Auditorium site and the origins of the Roman villa;" "Tam firmum municipium: the Romanization of Volaterrae and its cultural implications;" "The deceptive archetype. Roman colonialism and post-colonial thought;" "Ancestor Cults: the perception of ancient Rome in Italian culture;" "The cultural implications of the Roman conquest." |
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| Raymond Van Dam - rvandam@umich.edu |
| 1029 Tisch Hall, (734) 647-4868 |
| Professor of History (Department of History); Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies; (Director, Interdepartmental Program in Greek and Roman History) |
| A.B. '71, Calvin; M.A., Ph.D. '77, Cambridge |
| Special Interests: Later Roman empire, religion and society, the Greek East under Roman rule |
| Selected Publications: Leadership and Community in Late Antique Gaul; Saints and their Miracles in Late Antique Gaul; Kingdom of Snow: Roman Rule and Greek Culture in Cappadocia; Families and Friends in Late Roman Cappadocia (forthcoming); Becoming Christian: The Conversion of Roman Cappadocia (forthcoming) |
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| Arthur Verhoogt - verhoogt@umich.edu |
| 2124 Angell Hall, (734) 936-6101 |
| Associate Professor of Papyrology and Greek |
| M.A. '90, Ph.D. '97, Leiden |
| Special Interests: Greek papyrology; socio-economic, administrative and cultural history of Greek and Roman Egypt; Fayum villages; onomastics |
| Selected Publications: Regaling Officials in Ptolemaic Egypt: A Dramatic Reading of Official Accounts from the Menches Papers (2005); Documents from Berenike Volume II: Texts from the 1999-2001 Seasons, with Roger Bagnall and Christina Helms (2005); Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden, 11. Band, with H.-A. Rupprecht (2002). |
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| James Boyd White - jbwhite@umich.edu |
| 332 Hutchins, (734) 936-2989 |
| L. Hart Wright Professor of Law (Law School); Professor of English Language and Literature (Department of English Language and Literature); Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies |
| A.B. '60, Amherst; A.M. '61, LL.B. '64, Harvard |
| Special Interests: Greek literature, law, and rhetoric |
| Selected Publications: The Legal Imagination; When Words Lose Their Meaning; Herakles' Bow; Justice as Translation; Acts of Hope; This Book of Starres, The Edge of Meaning; articles on law, rhetoric, and classical and English literature (including Homer, Sophocles, and Plato) |
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| Associated Faculty |
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| Elaine K. Gazda - gazda@umich.edu |
| Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology |
| Department of History of Art |
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| Janet E. Richards - jerichar@umich.edu |
| Assistant Professor of Egyptology |
| Department of Near Eastern Studies |
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| Margaret Cool Root - mcroot@umich.edu |
| Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Art
and Archaeology |
| Department of History of Art |
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| Arlene W. Saxonhouse - awsaxon@umich.edu |
| Professor of Political Science and Women's
Studies |
| Department of Political Studies |
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| Thelma K. Thomas - tkthomas@umich.edu |
| Associate Professor of History of Art |
| Department of History of Art |
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| Terry G. Wilfong - twilfong@umich.edu |
| Assistant Professor of Egyptology |
| Department of Near Eastern Studies |
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| Emeriti |
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| Ludwig Koenen - koenen@umich.edu |
| H.C. Youtie Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Papyrology |
| Dr. Phil. '56, Dr. habil. '69, Cologne |
| Special Interests: papyrology, Greek and Latin literature, Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, patristics, the history of religion; co-founder and co-editor of Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Zeitschrift für Religionsgeschichte, Beiträge zur Altertumskunde; Papyrologische Texte und Abhandlungen, and New Texts from Ancient Cultures; President, Association Internationale de Papyrology; past President, American Philological Association |
| Selected Publications: Didymos der Blinde; Eine agonistiche Inschrift aus ƒgypten und frühptolemäische Königsfeste; Der Kölner Mani Codex; Three Rolls of the Early Septuagint; The Oracle of the Potter; "Manichaean Apocolypticism"; "Manichaean Dualism"; and other publications on literary and documentary papyri (including the carbonized Petra scrolls), Hellenistic literature, and on the adaptation of Egyptian ideology by the Ptolemies |
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| John G. Pedley - jpedley@umich.edu |
| 2127 Angell Hall, (734) 936-2249 |
| Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology and Greek |
| A.B. '54, A.M. '59, Cambridge; Ph.D. '65, Harvard |
| Special Interests: Greek and Roman art and archaeology, Greek sculpture, art and archaeology of Asia Minor and South Italy |
| Selected Publications: Ancient Literary Sources on Sardis; Greek Sculpture of the Archaic Period: The Island Workshops; Paestum: Greeks and Romans in Southern Italy; Greek Art and Archaeology; articles on Greek sculpture and vase painting |
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| Charles Witke - frchas@umich.edu |
| 2127 Angell Hall, (734) 936-2249 |
| Professor Emeritus of Greek and Latin |
| A.B. '53, UCLA; M.A. '60, Harvard; Fellow '62, American Academy in Rome; Ph.D. '62, Harvard |
| Special Interests: Catullus, Augustan poetry, Roman satire, medieval Latin literature, religion, Erasmus |
| Selected Publications: Enarratio Catulliana; Latin Satire: The Structure of Persuasion; Numen Litterarum: The Old and the New in Latin Poetry from Constantine to Gregory the Great; Horace's Roman Odes: A Critical Examination; articles on classical and medieval Latin literature |
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