| Office Address: | Department of Classics, University of Wisconsin | ||
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| 902 Van Hise, 1220 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53726 | |||
| Telephone: | 608-263-8269 | FAX: | 608-262-8570 |
| Home Address: | 1722 Chadbourne Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53705 |
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| Telephone: | 608-231-3484 |
Research: Athenian Drama, Ancient Gender Studies, Classical Tradition
| Education | ||
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| Ph.D. | 1991 | Classics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. |
| MA | 1986 | Classics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. |
| MA | 1984 | Liberal Studies, St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico. |
| B.A. | 1982 | English, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. |
| Professional Employment | |
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| 2002- | Chair, Integrated Liberal Studies Program. |
| 2003- | Professor of Classics, University of Wisconsin |
| 1999-03 | Associate Professor of Classics, University of Wisconsin. |
| 1991-99 | Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Wisconsin. |
| Affiliate: Women's Studies; Integrated Liberal Studies; Theater & Drama. | |
| 1988-91 | Instructor, Basic Program of Liberal Education, University of Chicago. |
| 1987-90 | Lecturer in The College, University of Chicago. |
Doctoral Dissertation
Rhetoric and Gender in Euripides: A Study of Sacrifice Actions (Director: A. P. Burnett).
| Fellowships and Honors | |
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| 2003 | Summer Support, Graduate School Research Committee |
| 2002 | Summer Support, Graduate School Research Committee |
| 2001 | Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison (Fall) |
| 2000 | Sabbatical leave, Spring semester |
| 1999 | Vilas Associate Award (through 2001) |
| 1999 | University of Wisconsin Distinguished Teaching Award |
| 1998 | Summer Support, Graduate School Research Committee |
| 1997 | Web Design Grant, Division of Information Technology |
| 1997 | Summer Support, Graduate School Research Committee |
| 1995 | Summer Support, Graduate School Research Committee |
| 1994 | Lilly Teaching Fellow, UW-Madison |
| 1993 | Summer Support, Graduate School Research Committee |
| 1992 | Summer Support, Graduate School Research Committee |
| 1990 | Ryerson Travel Fellowship, University of Chicago |
| 1984 | Departmental Fellowships for Graduate Study, University of Chicago |
| 1983 | Acknowledgement of Excellence Award for Translations of Sappho, St. John's College |
Books
Co-Editor, with C. A. Faraone, Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World.
Under Consideration at University of Wisconsin Press.
Author, Courtesans at Table: Gender and Literary Culture in Athenaeus..
Forthcoming, Routledge, July, 2003.
Editor, Sexuality and Gender in the Ancient World: Readings and Documents.
Blackwell, 2002.
Co-editor, with A. Lardinois, Making Silence Speak: Women's Voices
in Ancient Greek Literature & Society.
Princeton, 2001. Reviews: Whitmarsh, BMCR 2001.11.10.
Recipient, 2002 CHOICE
Outstanding Academic Title.
Author, Spoken Like a Woman: Speech and Gender in Athenian Drama.
Princeton, 1999.
Reviews: D. Konstan, Choice January
2000; J. Fletcher, BMCR 2000.7.02; P.
Katz, WCC Newsletter Spring
2001, pp. 40-41; N. Sultan, Classical Review 51 (2001)
21-22; R. E. Harder, Gnomon 74 (2002)
481-85.
Articles
Introduction, in C. Faraone and L. McClure (eds.), Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World.
Under consideration.
"Subversive Laughter: The Sayings of Courtesans in Book 13 of Athenaeus' Deipnosophists.." AJP 12.2 (2003) xx-xx
Introduction, in A. Lardinois and L. McClure (eds.), Making Silence Speak: Women's Voices in
Ancient Greek Literature & Society,
Princeton, 2001, pp. 3-13.
"At Home and Not at Home:
Euripides as a Comic Character," in R. Mitchell-Boyask (ed.),
Approaches
to Teaching the Dramas of Euripides.
New York: MLA, 2002, pp. 130-37.
"The Family and Social Trends," Chapter 8 in J. T. Kirby (ed.),
World Eras Vol. 6:
Classical Greek Civilization, 800-323
BCE. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001, pp. 239-272 (double columns).
Winner of 'Editor's Choice:
Top of the List' from BOOKLIST for 2001.
"Feminist Pedagogy and Classics," Classical World 94 (2000) 36-41.
"'The Worst Husband': Discourses of Praise and Blame in Euripides' Medea," Classical Philology 94.4 (1999) 373-94.
"Gunaikos Logos: Speech, Gender and Spectatorship in Aeschylus' Agamemnon," Helios 24 (1997) 112-135.
"Teaching a Course on Gender in the Classical World," Classical Journal 92.3 (1997) 259-270.
"Clytemnestra's Binding Song: A. Ag. 958-974," Classical Journal 92.2 (1997) 123-140.
"Female Speech and Characterization in Euripides," in Lo spettacolo delle voci, ed. A. H. Sommerstein and F. de Martino (Bari, 1995) 35-60.
"On Knowing Greek: George Eliot and the Classical Tradition," Classical and Modern Literature 13. 2 (1993) 139-156.
Reviews
G. Ferrari, Figures of Speech: Men and Maidens in Ancient Greece (University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Forthcoming in the Journal of the History of Sexuality.
D. Hamel, Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece
(Yale University Press, 2003). Forthcoming in the The Historian.
D. Mendelsohn, Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays (Oxford University Press, 2003).
Forthcoming in Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
H. P. Foley, Female Acts in Greek Tragedy (Princeton, 2001), forthcoming in Clasical Review, 52.2 (2002) xx-xx
Cropp, M., Lee, K. and D. Sansone (edd.), Euripides and Tragic Theatre
in the Late Fifth Century.
Illinois Classical Studies
(Urbana, Illinois, 2000), Phoenix 17 (2002) 1-4.
J. Svenbro and J. Scheid, The Craft of Zeus: Myths of Weaving
and Fabric, tr. C. Volk (Cambridge, MA, 1995),
Classical Philology
92.2 (1997) 199-201.
Elise Garrison, Groaning Tears: Ethical and Dramatic Aspects
of Suicide in Greek Tragedy (Leiden, 1995),
Bryn Mawr Classical
Review 6.7 (1995) 607-610.
J. Lembke and K. Reckford (trans.), Euripides' Electra (Oxford, 1994),
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 5.7 (1994) 594-596.
Nicole Loraux, The Children of Athena (Princeton, 1993), Arachne 2.2 (1995) 7-11.
Philip Slater, The Glory of Hera (Princeton Reprint, 1992), WCC Newsletter 22 (1994) 12-15.
Selected Papers and Panels
"The Women Most Mentioned: The Names of Courtesans in Book 13 of Athenaeus'
Deipnosophistae,"
presented at the annual APA meeting in New Orleans, LA, January 4, 2003.
"The Women Most Mentioned: The Names of Courtesans in Book 13 of Athenaeus'
Deipnosophistae,"
presented at the University of Texas at Austin, November 8, 2002 (invited).
Respondent, Women's Rituals in Context, conference to be held
at the University of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana,
October 4-6, 2002 (invited).
"Subversive Laughter: Courtesans' Jokes in Book 13 of Athenaeus'
Deipnosophists,"
presented at the University of Chicago, February
28, 2002 (invited).
"The Laughter that Subverts: The Witty Sayings of Courtesans in
Athenaeus' Deipnosophistae,"
presented at the annual APA meeting
in Philadelphia, PA January 5, 2002.
"The Laughter that Subverts: The Witty Sayings of Courtesans in
Athenaeus' Deipnosophistae."
presented at the Institute for
Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison, October 16, 2001.
"The Language of Clytemnestra," paper presented at the University of California-Berkeley, April 14, 2001 (invited).
"Siren Songs:
The Witty Sayings of Courtesans in Athenaeus' Dining Sophists,"
presented at the Composition and Rhetoric Colloquium, Department of English,
UW-Madison, March 29, 2001.
"The Way She Moves: Configuring the Greek Hetaira," paper
presented at the annual APA meeting in
San Diego, CA, January 6, 2001.
"The Social Context of Greek Drama," invited talk given at Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, September 29, 2000 (invited).
"The Enigmatic Body: Reading the Greek Hetaira," paper presented
at the conference,
"Toward a Semiotics of the Body," Northwestern
University, May 27, 2000.
"Prostitution in Ancient Greece," talk given at University of Wisconsin Humanities Center, March 3, 2000.
"The Prison of Antigone: Virginia Woolf's Mythmaking,"
paper presented at the annual CAMWS meeting
in Cleveland, Ohio, April, 1999.
"Women as Divine Agents in Athenian Drama," talk given at
the conference,"Living with Divinity: the Place of the Spiritual
in Academic Discourse," Center for Law & Humanities, University of
Wisconsin Law School, October, 1998.
"The Trial as Literary Form: Drama and the Popular Courts
in Classical Athens," talk given at the
University of Wisconsin Law School,
March, 1998.
"Hippolytus on Trial: Written Proof and Judicial Process in E. Hipp.
902-1107," paper presented at the annual
APA meeting in Chicago, December,
1997.
"Discourses of Praise and Blame in Euripides' Medea,"
paper presented at the annual CAMWS meeting in
Boulder, Colorado, April, 1997.
"Gender and Obscenity in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae,"
paper presented at the annual
APA meeting in New York City, December, 1996.
"Speech Genres, Gender, and Dramatic Action in Euripides' Hippolytus,"
paper presented at the annual
CAMWS Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, April, 1995.
"Gunaikos Logos: Female Speech in Aeschylus' Agamemnon,"
paper presented at the annual
CAMWS meeting in Atlanta, April, 1994.
"Reading Black Athena," panel on Martin
Bernal's Black Athena sponsored by the Havens Center,
University
of Wisconsin-Madison, March, 1992.
"On Knowing Greek: George Eliot's Classical Education,"
APA Annual Meeting, panel on Women and
Classical Education, December, 1991.
"Rhetoric and Gender in the Andromache of Euripides,"
paper presented at the Rhetoric Workshop,
University of Chicago, June, 1989.
| Departmental Service | |
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| 2001- | Teaching Assitant Coordinator |
| 1998-2001 | Undergraduate Advisor |
| 1996-2000 | Chair, Curriculum Committee |
| 1994-2001 | Departmental Honors Program Coordinator |
| 1992-1994 | Chair, Graduate Admissions Committee |
| 1991-1994 | Departmental Representative, Faculty Senate |
| 1991-1997 | Member, Graduate Admissions Committee |
| 1991-1998 | Member, Departmental Teaching Assistantships and Award Committee |
| University Service | |
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| 2003 (Spring) | Chair, Executive Committee of the Arts and Humanities Division |
| 2003 (Spring) | Participant, Faculty Connections (appointed by L & S dean) |
| 2002- | Chair, Integrated Liberal Studies |
| 2002- | Director, Women Faculty Mentoring Program |
| 2002-2005 | Member, Faculty Honors Committee |
| 2002-2005 | Teaching Mentor, Writing Across the Curriculum Program |
| 2001-2004 | Member, Letters & Science Academic Planning Council. |
| 2001 | Member, External Review Committee for the History Department. |
| 2000-2003 | Member, Executive Committee of the Arts and Humanities Division. |
| 1999- | Mentor, Women Faculty Mentoring Program. |
| 1999-2002 | Chair, ILS Visioning Committee. |
| 1999-2001 | Member, Executive Committee, University of Wisconsin Center for the Humanities. |
| 1995-2002 | Member, Advisory Board, Women Faculty Mentoring Program. |
| 1994-1997 | Member, Committee on Women in the University. |
| Professional Service | |
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| 2002- | Editor-in-Chief, Essays, DIOTIMA: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World. |
| 2000-2002 | Graduate Student Mentor, Women's Classical Caucus. |
| 2000-2004 | Member, Women's Classical Caucus Steering Committee. |
| 1996 | Panelist for the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships. |
| 1994- | Manuscript Referee for Princeton University Press, Cambridge University Press, the University of Texas Press, the APA Monograph Series; American Journal of Philology, Classical Journal, Classical Philology, Phoenix, and Transactions of the American Philological Association. |
| Outreach Activities | |
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| 2002 | Seminar leader, NEH seminar on women and literature for high school teachers, West High School, Madison, WI. |
| 2001 | Talk on Homer's Odyssey to freshman English classes at West High School, Madison, WI. |
| 1998 | Talk on women in antiquity to students at West High School, Madison, WI. |
| 1998 | Talk on classical myth to White Horse Middle School sixth graders. |
| 1997 | Lecturer, University of the Air, Series on Greek Drama, Wisconsin Public Broadcasting System. |
| 1997 | Seminar Leader, Lilly Foundation Seminar for Civic Leadership, offered jointly with the Wisconsin State Bar Association, Madison, WI. |
| 1996 | Talk on the ancient Olympics for the Madison West Rotary Club. |
Academic Memberships
American Philological Association
Classical Association of the Middle West and South
Women's Classical Caucus
International Society for the Classical Tradition