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Humanities Division
Professor
Faculty
Classical Studies
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Cowell College
Cowell Academic Services
I received my BA in Classics from UCSC in 1980 and my Ph.D. in Classics from Brown University in 1987. I have taught at UCSC since 1989 where I am Professor of Classics and Literature. I served as chair of the Literature Department (2008-2012), as Director of the Classics Program, and as director of the EAP Program in the Netherlands. I have also served as Chair of the Senate Committee on Faculty Welfare, as Senior Co-Chair of the Women's Classical Caucus of the American Philological Association, and on the Program Committee of the American Philological Association. I have been a member of the editorial board of Classical Antiquity and the Greek editor for the American Journal of Philology (2014-2017) My principal areas of research and teaching are ancient Greek literature and historiography, death studies, and critical theory. My most recent book, titled Traces of the Past: Classics Between History and Archaeology, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2016. The book is a study of visual perception as a source of knowledge about the past in ancient Greek epic, history, and drama. It explores how the visual experiences of characters and narrators in these genres provide insight into the process of accessing and giving meaning to the past. The book is aimed at opening up a dialogue between Classicists who study texts (philologists and historians) and those who study material or visual sources (archaeologists). It also engages with topics of general importance for humanities research; the dominance of vision in making truth claims, the role of language in distinguishing fiction from fact, and the criteria for establishing the reality of the past. My current research focuses on the significance of human mortality in ancient Greek literature and culture. I was awarded the T.B.L Webster Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of London in spring 2017 and a Faculty Research Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2017-2018 for a book project titled Imitating the Dead: Facing Death in Ancient Greek Tragedy. I was the Principal Investigator for an NEH Summer Institute on Facing Death in Ancient Greece in Athens in 2014 and for an interdisciplinary Residency Group on the History of Mortality at the University of California Humanities Research Institute in fall 2015.
Classics; Greek and Latin literatures; gender; literary and cultural theory; pre- and early modern studies; historiography; visual and performance studies; mortality studies; tragedy; museum studies.
Greek and Latin literatures; gender; literary and cultural theory; pre- and early modern studies; historiography; visual and performance studies, mortality studies.
My teaching areas are principally in Greek literature and culture; I also teach Latin literature. I am interested in social and temporal relations and questions pertaining to the meaning of the past, both in its ancient forms and in contemporary disciplines. Other teaching interests include the causes and justifications of war in the ancient historians, the relationship between gender and the emotions in Greek epic and tragedy, and human mortality as a factor in ancient cultural production.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute: "Museums: Humanities in the Public Sphere" ($200,000), summer 2019.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Faculty Research Fellowhip: "Imitating the Dead: Facing Death in Greek Tragedy," 2017-18.
T.B.L. Webster Fellowship, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London (spring 17)
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute: "The History of Mortality: Facing Death in Ancient Greece" ($200,000), summer 2014.
UCHRI Group Residency: "The History of Mortality from Antiquity to the Digital Age: Interdisciplinary Approaches," fall 2014.
Faculty Research Fellowship, Institute for Humanities Research, UCSC (2002)
Associate Research Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies, 1999.
UC President's Fellowship in the Humanities, 1992.
PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming. "History, Aitiology and the Death Drive." In Classics Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Receiving the Death Drive Ed. Paul Allen Miller and Mario Telo.
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