Assistant Professor of Classics
Areas of Interest:
Homer
Greek poetry
Greek religion and mythology
Comparative mythology and poetics
Greek Linguistics and history of Greek language
Additional interests: Sanskrit, Avestan, Hittite, Tocharian
Education:
2000Ph.D. in Classical Philology, Harvard University.
1994 M.A. in Classics, University of Colorado at Boulder
1992B.A. in Classics, University of Colorado at Boulder
Publications:
2007 Lament and Hymenaios in Erinna's Distaff." In A.Suter, ed., Lament: Studies in the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond. (Forthcoming with OUP)
2007 "Penelope and the Pandareids" (Forthcoming in Phoenix)
2007 "The Toys of Dionysos" (Forthcoming in HSCP 103)
2006 Review of C. Tsgalis, Epic Grief. Classical Review 56.2.
2003 Review of J. Helden, M. Jensen, T. Pettit (edd.), Inclinate Aurem. Oral Perspectives on Early European Verbal Culture. Classical Review 53.2.
2001 Aithn, Aithon, and Odysseus. HSCP 100 (2000)
1999 "Penelope and the Pnelops" in: Nine Essays on Homer, ed. Carlisle and Levaniouk, Rowman and Littlefield.
Papers Delivered:
2007 "Duel and Duets: oaristus, oaros, and related words in Homer." APA Annual Convention, San Diego, CA.
2005 "The Wedding and the Sea: Some Nuptial Themes in Greek Poetry from Homer to Erinna." University of Victoria, Canada.
2005 "Odysseus meets Penelope." Bowdoin College, Maine
2004 "Homer's Migrating Cities." University of Crete, Greece.
2004 "Hesiod and Odysseus." University of Athens, Greece.
2004 "Penelope and the Pandareids." Colloquium Penelope's Revenge, University of Calgary.
2004 "Traditional Aesthetics of Erinna's Distaff." APA Annual Convention,
San Francisco.
2003 "Erinna's Dialect" Symposium Displaced Dialects: from local language to panhellenic poetics, UW.
2003 "Truth, authority, anxiety: Pindar and Zarathustra on songs of praise." University of Calgary
2003 "A Homeric Locus: Ephyra in the Odyssey." APA Annual Convention, New Orleans.
2001 "Interrelations of Local Cults: Ino in South-Eastern Peloponnese." APA Annual Convention, San Diego, CA.
2000 The Toys of Dionysos. Colloque CORALIE XI, Lausanne .
1998 "The Gates of Hymns: Angelia in Pindar's Olympian 6." APA Annual Convention, Washington DC.
Conferences:
2003 Displaced dialects: from local language to panhellenic poetics. Symposium, April 19, 2003 University of Washington (co-organizer with T. C.Power)
Other academic experience:
2004: University of Washington Exchange Professor at the University of
Crete, Rethymnon
Work in progress:
Words on the Eve of a Festival (monograph on Odyssey 19)