CATHERINE CONNORS
Associate
Professor of Classics (Adjunct
in Women Studies)
Areas
of Interest
Roman
literature and culture; ancient representations of nature and
geography, the
ancient Greek and Roman novel and its
reception
Education
Ph.D.
University of Michigan
1989
M.A.
University of Michigan
1986
B.A.
Harvard Radcliffe 1984
Publications
Book
Petronius the Poet:
Verse and Literary
Tradition in the Satyricon
(Cambridge University
Press
1998)
The Ancient Greek
and Roman
Novels and their reception
'Cities and civic
institutions in
the ancient novels' The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and
Roman
Novel, T. Whitmarsh, ed.
(in
press)
'Metaphor and politics
in John
Barclay's Argenis,'
Ancient
Narrative Suppl.IV : Metaphor in the Novel and Novel as
Metaphor (Groningen, 2005),
245-74
'John Barclay
1582-1621' in The
Dictionary of British classicists
1500-1960, ed. R. B. Todd
(Continuum International Publishing
Group, 2004)
'Chariton's Syracuse
and its
histories of empire' Ancient Narrative suppl. vol. I (2002): Space
in
the ancient novel,
12-26
ÔRereading the
Arbiter: Poetry and
arbitrium in
ÔPetronius
RedivivusÕ and the Satyrica,Õ Latin Fiction, H.
Hofmann, ed. (Routledge, 1999),
64-77
ÔBeholding Troy in
PetroniusÕ
Satyricon and John
BarclayÕs
Euphormionis Lusinini Satyricon,Õ Groningen Colloquia on the Novel 6
(1995), 51-74
ÔFamous Last Words:
Authorship and
Death in the Satyricon
and in
Neronian Rome,Õ Reflections of Nero, J. Elsner and J. Masters, eds., (Duckworth
1994), 225-35
Roman Comedy, Satire,
and
Rhetoric
'From turnips to
turbot: allusion
to epic in Roman satire' The Cambridge Companion to
Roman
Satire, K. Freudenburg,
ed.
(Cambridge University Press, 2005), 123-145
'Monkey Business:
Imitation,
Authenticity, and Identity from Pithekoussai to Plautus,'
Classical
Antiquity 23.2
(2004) 179-207
ÔImperial Space and
Time: The
Literature of Leisure,Õ Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds:
A New
Perspective, O. Taplin,
ed.
(Oxford University Press, 2000), 492-518
ÔScents and Sensibility in PlautusÕ
CasinaÕ Classical
Quarterly
(1997),
305-9
ÔField and Forum: Culture and
Agriculture in Roman
Rhetoric,Õ Roman Eloquence: Rhetoric in Society
and
Literature, W. Dominik,
ed.
(Routledge, 1997), 71-89.
Roman Epic
ÔSimultaneous Hunting
and Herding
at Ciris
297-300,ÕClassical
Quarterly
41(1991) 556-9
ÔSeeing Cypresses in
Virgil,Õ
Classical Journal 88
(1992) 1-17
ÔEnnius, Ovid and Representations
of Ilia,Õ Materiali
e discussioni 32
(1994), 99-112