STEPHEN HINDS

Professor of Classics and Lockwood Professor of the Humanities, Univ. of Washington

Fuller CV online at: http://faculty.washington.edu/shinds/CV2008.htm

 

Forthcoming article ÔSenecaÕs Ovidian LociÕ online: text, bibliography

 

Areas of Interest

Latin poetry; literary criticism and theory; the classical tradition

 

Education

Ph.D. Cambridge University (St. John's College) 1985; B.A. Trinity College Dublin 1979

 

Employment

The University of Washington, Seattle

Associate Professor 1992-97 Professor 1997- (Chair 1997-2002)

 

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Assistant Professor 1986-91 Associate Professor 1991-92

 

Girton College, Cambridge

Research Fellow 1983-86

 

Major Awards

Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor of the Humanities, UW (2003-09)

American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship (2003-04)

N.E.H. Fellowship for University Teachers (1994-95)

Joint winner of Hare Prize (best classical dissertation, Cambridge Univ.) (1987)

 

Publications

Books (sole author)

Allusion and Intertext:  Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry  Roman Literature and its Contexts   (Cambridge University Press 1998)

The Metamorphosis of Persephone:  Ovid and the Self-conscious Muse   Cambridge Classical Studies   (Cambridge University Press 1987)

 

Books and Journal Issues (co-editor)

Constructing Identities in the Roman Empire: Three Studies, edd. Stephen Hinds and Thomas Schmitz, Millennium 4 (De Gruyter 2007)

Ovidian Transformations:  Essays on Ovid's Metamorphoses and its Reception, edd. Philip Hardie, Alessandro Barchiesi and Stephen Hinds, Cambridge Philological Society Supplement 23 (1999)

Memoria, arte allusiva, intertestualitˆ / Memory, Allusion, Intertextuality, edd. Stephen Hinds and Don Fowler, Materiali e Discussioni 39 (Pisa 1997)

 

Book Series (co-editor)

Roman Literature and its Contexts, edd. Denis Feeney and Stephen Hinds (Cambridge U.P. 1993- )

 

Recent Articles

'SenecaÕs Ovidian Loci' in M. Paschalis, ed., Dramatic and Performance Space in Greek Tragedy and Seneca, forthcoming (30pp.)

'Introductory Generalities, mostly Roman' Millennium 4(2007), 1-6

'Martial's Ovid/Ovid's Martial' Journal of Roman Studies 97(2007), 113-54

'Ovid among the Conspiracy Theorists' in S.J. Heyworth, ed., Classical Constructions (Oxford U.P. 2007), 194-220

'Venus, Varro and the vates:  Toward the Limits of Etymologizing Interpretation' Dictynna 3(2006), 173-208

'Dislocations of Ovidian Time' in J.P. Schwindt, ed., La reprŽsentation du temps dans la poŽsie augustŽenne / Zur Poetik der Zeit in augusteischer Dichtung (Winter (Heidelberg) 2005), 203-30

'Defamiliarizing Latin Literature, from Petrarch to Pulp Fiction' in L. Edmunds, ed., New Directions in the Study of Latin Literature.  Transactions of the American Philological Association 135(2005), 49-81

'Petrarch, Cicero, Virgil:  Virtual Community in Familiares 24,4' in G.W. Most and S. Spence, edd., Re-Presenting Virgil. Materiali e Discussioni 52(2004), 157-75

 

Selected Older Articles

'Landscape with Figures: Aesthetics of Place in the Metamorphoses and its Tradition' in P. Hardie, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Ovid Cambridge U.P. 2002, 122-49

'Cinna, Statius and "Immanent Literary History" in the Cultural Economy' in E.A. Schmidt, ed., L'histoire littŽraire immanente dans la poŽsie latine, Entretiens Hardt 47(2001) 221-65

'Ovid'; 'Elegiac Poetry, Latin';  'Books, Poetic', articles for Oxford Classical Dictionary 3rd edition (Oxford U.P. 1996)

'arma in Ovid's Fasti' Arethusa 25(1992) 81-153

'Medea in Ovid:  Scenes from the Life of an Intertextual Heroine' Materiali e Discussioni 30(1993) 9-47

'The Poetess and the Reader:  Further Steps towards Sulpicia' Hermathena 143(1987) 29-46

* 'Generalising about Ovid' Ramus 16(1987) 4-31

* 'Booking the Return Trip:  Ovid and Tristia 1' Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society  n.s. 31(1985) 13-32

* both reprinted in P.E. Knox, ed., Oxford Readings in Ovid (Oxford U.P. 2006)

Selected Service

Department

Chair of Classics 1997-2002

Graduate Program Coordinator in Classics 1995-97 (acting Spr 07, 08)

 

University

Graduate School Council (2007-10)

Executive Board, Simpson Center for the Humanities (2004-07)

Chair, English Department Ten-Year Review Committee (2001-02)

Faculty Member, Program in Theory and Criticism (1993- )

 

Field

For American Philological Association:

Goodwin Award Committee (2004-07; Chair 2006-07) [adjudicates major book prize]

For American Philosophical Society / Humboldt Foundation:

Organizing Committee for Inaugural 'German-American Frontiers of the Humanities' Symposium 2004