ALEXANDER JAMES HOLLMANN

SPECIAL INTERESTS:

•Greek Literature, Archaic and Classical • Greek Religion and Magic • Greek Prose, esp. historiographic and ethnographic

PUBLICATIONS:

                        •"The Manipulation of Signs in Herodotus' Histories" TAPA 135.2 (2005) 279-327

•"A Curse Tablet from the Circus at Antioch" ZPE 145 (2003) 67-82

•”Epos as Authoritative Speech in Herodotus’ Histories” HSCP 100 (2000) 207-225.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

                        •"Kleisthenes the Stone-Thrower:  Hdt. 5.67.2" (article)

•Review of Magic and the Supernatural in Fourth-Century Syria (Silke Trzcionka) for Journal of Roman Archaeology (review)

                        •Revision for publication of  PhD. dissertation, The Master of Signs (book)

•English translation from German of A. Bierl, Der Chor in der Alten Komödie(2001) (book, to be published by Harvard University Press in 2007/8)

                        •Edition and commentary of curse tablets of Antioch (book)

                       

DISSERTATION:

"The Master of Signs:  Signs and the Interpretation of Signs in Herodotos' Histories" (dir. A. Henrichs)

EDUCATION:

1998    Ph.D. in Classical Philology, Harvard University

1990    M.A. in Classics, University of Colorado (thesis director:  E. Schütrumpf)

1987    B.A. in Ancient Greek, second major in Roman-Dutch Law, University of Cape Town

POSITIONS HELD:

            Sept. 2005 onward:  Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Seattle

Sept. 2004-May 2005:  Junior Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC

Sept. 2003-June 2004:  Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma

Oct. 2001- Aug. 2003: Adjunct Faculty, University of Washington, Seattle

            Sept. 1999-June 2001:  Visiting Assistant Professor, Union College, Schenectady, NY

            Sept. 1998-May 1999:  Instructor, Harvard University

COURSES TAUGHT AT UW:

•Classics Courses: Greek and Roman Religion (CLAS 445); Greek and Roman Mythology (CLAS 430); Greeks, Romans, and Barbarians

•Advanced and Intermediate Courses in Greek and Latin: Latin 305 (Catullus and Horace), Latin 306 (Cicero and Ovid) Greek 307 (Homer), Greek 422 (Herodotus), Greek 424 (Thucydides) Greek 426 (Attic orators), Greek 500 (Prose Composition, Greek 520 (Herodotus seminar)

•Beginning sequence in Greek and Latin

AWARDS:

2004      •Junior Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington D.C

•Loeb Classical Library Foundation Grant

1997    •Whiting Fellowship for Dissertation Completion

•Award for Excellence in Teaching, Derek Bok Teaching Center

•Bowdoin Prize for Greek Prose Composition

1996    •Award for Excellence in Teaching, Derek Bok Teaching Center

•Bowdoin Prize for Greek Prose Composition

TALKS:

2005    •"Magic in Antioch" (Bowdoin College, Duke University)

            •"Olbia revisited: from Herodotus to Dio Chrysostomus" (U. of Washington, Seattle)

2004    •"Khronos-Kronos on a newly-deciphered curse tablet from Antioch." (APA, San Francisco)

2003    •"Curse tablets from Antioch." (University of Washington)

1999    •”Dionysos and Kadmilos on a Curse Tablet from Antioch.” (APA, Dallas)

•“Herodotus the Master of Signs.”(Harvard University)

•“Scythians on Athenian Vases.” (Union College)

1998    •"A Newly Unrolled and Deciphered Curse Tablet from the Circus at

Antioch."  ("Between Magic and Religion," Ford Foundation, Harvard University)

•"The Manipulation of Signs in Herodotus' Histories." (APA, Washington D.C.)

1996    •"The Psychology of Pity and Grief:  Hdt. Histories 3.14." (APA, New York City)