Special Interests

Early Greek Poetry, Latin Poetry, Gender Studies, Nonverbal Behavior, Classical and Near Eastern Mythology

Education

University of Wisconsin-Madison      1995                Ph.D.  Classics

            Dissertation: Narrative Structure in Alkman, Bakchylides, and Pindar

University of Chicago                         1988-1989

Georgetown University                       1985                B.A.  Classics

Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland          1983-1984       Junior year abroad

 

Honors and Awards

2006    Summer Faculty Research Fellowship (Graduate School, Creighton University)

2005    Nebraska International Languages Association Star Award

2004    CAMWS Award for Outstanding State Vice President

2004    Nebraska International Languages Association Star Award

2003    Nebraska International Languages Association Star Award

2002      Initiated into Eta Sigma Phi as an honorary member

1999    Junior Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies

1995    University Dissertation Fellowship

1991    CAMWS Semple Award for the ASCSA Summer Session

1989    Ryerson Fund in Archaeology Travel Award, University of Chicago

 

Creighton University Grants and Awards

2005    Graduate School Research Grant for project studying learner-centered approaches to

teaching core literature classes

2005    Graduate School Research Grant to purchase books

2004    Jacobson Technology Grant to purchase Dreamweaver

2004    Faculty Development Award to develop course "Women in Ancient Rome and Roman Egypt"

2003    Graduate School Research Grant to purchase books

 

Publications

Articles:

2003    "Minos' Touch and Theseus' Glare: Gestures in Bakkhylides 17," Harvard Studies in Classical

Philology 101: 129-153.

2001    "The Body of Desire: Nonverbal Communication in Sappho 31V," Syllecta Classica 12: 1-32.

1996    "The Gendering of the Body in AlcmanÍs Partheneion 1: Narrative, Sex, and Social Order

            in Archaic Sparta," Helios 23.2: 37-64.

1993    "Regina Bacchatur: Sexual Roles and Politics in Aeneid VII," NECN&J XXI.2: 62-67.

 

Reviews:

2005    Reviews of R. Hard, The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology and S. Price and E. Kearns

(edd.), The Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth and Religion, Classical Review 55: 171-74.

2004    "Timeless Tales: Classics Books for Children," a review and discussion article for the Michigan

Reading Journal 36.3: 58-68.

2001    Review of L. Doherty, Gender and the Interpretation of Classical Myth (London, 2001)

CR 53: 236-238

2000    Review of A. Boegehold, When a Gesture Was Expected (Princeton, 1999) CJ 96.1: 90-93.

1999    Review of C. Calame, The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece (Princeton, 1999) BMCR 99.8.11.

 

Under Submission:

The Poetics of Manhood? Nonverbal Behavior in Catullus 51 (submitted to Classical Philology 9/2/05)

 

Works in Progress:

Article on Tears in Lucretius and Catullus, solicited for inclusion in book edited by Dr. Thorsten Fögen,

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, to be published in 2007 or 2008.

Vocibus et Gestu: Nonverbal Behavior in the De Rerum Natura (book project)

Paler than Grass: Nonverbal Communication in Archaic Greek Poetry (book; prospectus available)

Integrating Learner-Centered Instruction into a Core Literature Course: An Exploratory Study

of Practice (article)

Anger and Gender in Archaic Lyric Poetry (article)

 

Scholarly Parerga:

Contributor:

Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece (Ashgate, 2005): lemma on Sappho, pp. 39-41.

 

Employment

Creighton University                           Assistant Professor 2003 to present

Visiting Assistant Professor 2001 – 2003

Iowa State University                          Adjunct Assistant Professor 2000 - 2001

Bowdoin College                                Visiting Assistant Professor 1998-1999

Gustavus Adolphus College               Visiting Assistant Professor 1997-1998

Florida State University                      Visiting Instructor 1996-1997

University of Wisconsin                     Lecturer and Teaching Assistant 1990-1996

 

Selected Papers

•"The Poetics of Manhood? Nonverbal Behavior in Catullus 51," CAMWS Meeting, 2005.

•"Laughter and Tears in Lucretius," CAMWS Meeting, 2004.

•"Gentle Speech vs. Angry Looks: Pindar and Bakkhylides Create Confrontation" CAMWS 2003.

•"Ambiguity in Pindar Olympian 6.57," CAMWS Meeting, April 2002

•"Nonverbal Communication in Sappho 31," APA Meeting, December 1997

•"Sound and Silence in Bakchylides 17," CAMWS Meeting, April 1996

•"The Gendering of the Body in AlkmanÍs Partheneion 1: Sex and Social Order in Archaic Sparta," The Body in the Ancient World Colloquium, UNC-Chapel Hill, March 1995

•"Regina Bacchatur: Sexual Roles and Politics in Aeneid VII," CANE Meeting, Spring 1993

•"The Motif of furtivus amor in Ovid," CAAS Meeting, Fall 1991

 

Invited Lectures

"Desiring Women in Sappho," Creighton University, World Literature Program Event, October 2003.

Workshop on teaching Sappho, led with Geoff Bakewell for World Lit Faculty, August 2003

"Sappho 31 and Catullus 51," St. Joseph's College, October 1998.

 

Service

Departmental

Iowa State University: Library Liaison for Latin (2000-2001)

Creighton University:

Served on successful hiring committee (2002)

Faculty contact for incoming freshmen prospective majors (2002 - present)

Developed Senior Exit Interview for Assessment (2003)

Served on committee to reform CNE curriculum (spring 2005)

 

College of Arts and Sciences

Florida State University: Faculty Advisor to the Women's Studies Program, 1996

Creighton University:

Freshman Seminar Advisor 2002 - 2004

Faculty-Career Services Liaison Committee representative for CNES 2003-2004

World Literature Committee 2003 – present

Cardoner Seminar on Scholarship as Vocation – 2004-2005

Faculty and Academic Councils – 2004-2006

            University Committee on the Status of Women – 2004-2007

            Faculty Associate, Kripke Center for the Study of Religion and Society, 2005-2008

            College Learning Outcomes Assessment Committee (ad hoc Faculty Senate Committee) 2005

            Faculty Senate (2005-2006)

            Ad hoc advisory group to VP for Academic Affairs (2005-2006)

 

Professional

Creighton University AAUP Chapter Vice President, 2004-2005

CAMWS State Vice President, Nebraska 2002-2005

CAMWS Manson A. Stewart Scholarship Subcommittee 2004-2006

Referee for Classical Journal

Referee for an article in G. Bakewell and J. Sickinger, eds., Gestures: Essays in Ancient History,

Literature, and Philosophy (Oxford, 2003).

 

Archaeological Experience

1992 & 1994:  Pylos Regional Archaeological Project (summers) - Field Walker

1992-1993:      Project Assistant to Professor John Bennet, processing data from the first

                        season of the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project

1991:               American School of Classical Studies at Athens Summer Session

1989:               Koukounaries excavation, Paros (summer) - Trench Assistant

 

Professional Associations

American Philological Association, Archaeological Institute of America, Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Nebraska International Languages Association.

 

References

Scholarship

Professor Deborah Boedeker     Brown University                  Deborah_Boedeker@brown.edu

Professor Donald Lateiner         Ohio Wesleyan University     dglateiner@cc.owu.edu

Professor Tony Corbeill             University of Kansas             corbeill@ku.edu

Professor Denis Feeney             Princeton University              dfeeney@princeton.edu

Teaching

Professor  Geoff Bakewell         Creighton University              gbakewe@creighton.edu

Professor Bill Stephens              Creighton University              stphns@creighton.edu

Professor Madeleine Henry       Iowa State University             mhenry@iastate.edu

Professor Stewart Flory             Gustavus Adolphus College              sflory@gac.edu