| Dr. Anthony Corbeill Tel. 785-864-2393 |  |
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Anthony Corbeill,
Professor of Classics, received his B.A. from the University of Michigan
and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Classical Languages from the University of
California at Berkeley (1990). He has held the American Philological
Association fellowship to the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich,
Germany, a comprehensive dictionary of the Latin language (1990-1991), and
a post-doctoral fellowship at the American Academy in Rome (1994-1995).
His research focuses on Roman literature and cultural history. He has
published two books: Controlling Laughter. Political Humor in the Late
Roman Republic (Princeton University Press 1996), which focuses on the
meaning of humorous political invective, especially in the oratory of
Cicero; and Nature Embodied. Gesture in Ancient Rome (Princeton University
Press 2004), a survey of the meaning of gesture in the contexts of prayer
and incantation, mourning ritual, and political invective, as well as on
the correlation between facial expressions and political power, and the
significance of thumbs. His current book-length project is entitled The
Boundaries of Sex and Gender in Ancient Rome. He has also published on
ancient sexuality, education, and Latin poetry; for additional
information, see his list of publications.
| Dr. Pamela Gordon Tel. 785-864-2396 |  |
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Pamela Gordon, Chair and Associate Professor of Classics, has a B.A.
from Oberlin College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College. At KU
she teaches Greek and Latin at all levels, as well as courses on Greek
and Roman literature in translation. She received the Ned Fleming Award
for Outstanding Teaching at KU in 1995, and her research has been
supported by the American Council of Learned Societies. Gordon's
research interests include the literature and culture of both Greece and
Rome. Her publications include:
Epicurus in Lycia: The Second-Century
World of Diogenes of Oenoanda (University of Michigan Press, 1996);
"Phaeacian Dido: Lost Pleasures of an Epicurean Intertext,"
Classical
Antiquity 17.2 (1998); "The Lover's Voice in Heroides 15: Or, Why is
Sappho a Man?" in
Roman Sexualities, edited by Judy Hallett and
Marilyn
Skinner (Princeton University Press, 1998); "Some Unseen Monster:
Rereading Lucretius on Sex," in
The Roman Gaze, edited by David
Fredrick (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002); and "Remembering the
Garden: The Trouble with Women in the School of Epicurus," in
Philodemus
and the New Testament World, edited by John Fitzgerald, Glenn Holland,
and Dirk Obbink (E. J. Brill, 2004). She also wrote the introduction to
Stanley Lombardo's
Sappho: poems and fragments (Hackett 2002), and
serves on the steering committee of the Hellenistic Moral Philosophy
unit of the Society of Biblical Literature
(http://www.pitts.emory.edu/hmpec/).
| Dr. Stanley Lombardo Tel. 785-864-2390 |  |
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Stanley Lombardo, Professor of Classics, is a native of New Orleans. He
has a B.A. from Loyola University in New Orleans, an M.A. from Tulane
University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas (1976). In 1976 he
joined the faculty at the University of Kansas, where he served as
department chair for fifteen years and teaches Greek and Latin at all
levels, as well as general courses on Greek literature and culture. He was
recently awarded a Kemper Teaching Fellowship by the university and a
Mortar Board Teaching Award. He currently serves as Director of the
University Honors Program. Professor Lombardo's publications are primarily
literary translations of Greek poetry, including Homer's
Iliad
(Hackett, 1997; reviewed in the New York Times, 7/20/97; recipient of the
Byron Caldwell Book Award; performed by Aquila Theatre Company at Lincoln
Center, 1999); Homer's
Odyssey (Hackett, 2000; reviewed in the New
York Times, 7/09/00, and a New York Times Book of the Year); and
translations of Plato, Hesiod, Callimachus, Aratus, and Horace. His
translation of Sappho was a finalist for the 2003 Pen Literary Award for
translation. He also maintains an interest in Asian philosophy and has
co-authored , with Stephen Addiss, a translation of the Tao Te Ching
(Hackett (1993). He has recently completed a translation of Virgil's
Aeneid (Hackett, 2005). Professor Lombardo has given dramatic readings of
his translations on campuses throughout the country, as well as at such
venues as the Smithsonian Institution , the Chicago Poetry Center and on
C-SPAN and National Public Radio.
| Dr. Emma Scioli Tel. 785-864-2546 |  |
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Emma
Scioli, Assistant Professor of Classics, has a BA in Italian from
Connecticut College (1993), and an MA and PhD (2005) from UCLA. She was
an instructor at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studiers in Rome
in 2001-2002, and held a two-year Kress Fellowship at the American Academy
in Rome (2003-2005). She is currently teaching a graduate seminar on Latin
elegy and supervising the introductory Latin program at KU. Professor
Scioli's research interests include Latin poetry, dreams and sleep in
antiquity, and Roman art. Her current projects include a study of
representations of the hermaphrodite in Roman art, and an analysis of
dreams and visual experience in Latin elegiac poetry. She is also
co-editing a volume of papers from an international conference entitled
Sub Imagine Somni: Nighttime Phenomena in Greco-Roman Culture.
| Dr. Michael Shaw |  |
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Michael Shaw, Associate Professor of Classics, received his B.A.
and Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. His main interest is
Greek literature, and his most recent effort is the introduction and notes
for a translation of Sophocles' Electra, which appeared in 2001 in the
series "The Greek Tragedy in New Translations," published by Oxford
University Press. Prof. Shaw has also taught courses in Greek Literature
and Tragedy, Modern Remakes of Greek Tragedy, and undergraduate and
graduate Greek and Latin. Professor Shaw also serves as an advisor at the
Freshman-Sophomore Advising Center. He is involved in historic
preservation and has served as president of the Lawrence Preservation
Alliance and the Kansas Preservation Alliance.
Professor Shaw also serves as Undergraduate Advisor.
| Dr. Philip Stinson Tel. 785-864-3065 |  |
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Philip Stinson, Assistant Professor of Classics, joined KU's Classics
faculty in 2007. He earned his Bachelor of Architecture from Ball State
University (1991), a Master in Design Studies (in Architectural History
and Theory) from Harvard University (1995), an MA from the University of
California at Los Angeles (2001), and a PhD in the History of Art and
Classical Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
(2007). As architect, conservator, and excavator at the excavations of
Aphrodisias and Sardis, he is publishing the Civil Basilica at
Aphrodisias, an early Classical painted tomb at Sardis, and working on
conservation projects at Sardis. Recent publications include an exhibition
catalogue, The Ancient City of Sardis: Approaches to Graphic Recording
(2003), plans and drawings in K. Welch's The Roman Amphitheatre from its
Origins to the Colosseum (2007), and other articles and exhibitions. His
major interests include Greek and Roman art and architecture, Classical
archaeology, information technology and the humanities, and the cultural
heritage of archaeological sites.
| Dr. Tara Welch Tel. 785-864-2395 |  |
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Tara Welch
Associate Professor of Classics, completed degrees in Latin and Greek at
USC (B.A. 1990), Oxford University (M.A. 1993) and UCLA (Ph.D. 1999). At
KU, she teaches Latin at all levels, as well as courses in Roman and Greek
literature and civilization.
Professor Welch's research interests are in Latin poetry, particularly of
the Augustan age, and the city of Rome. Her publications include a book on
the late poetry of the elegiac poet Propertius, The Elegiac Cityscape:
Propertius and the Meaning of Roman Monuments (forthcoming Fall 2005 from
the Ohio State University Press) and articles on Propertius' topographical
poetry and on Horace's Satires. She has also reviewed books for Classical
Review, Classical Bulletin, and the New England Journal of Classical
Studies. Her current project is a comprehensive study of the myth of
Tarpeia in Rome. This project, for which she was awarded the NEH Summer
Stipend, mines Roman literature, architecture, coins, religious practice,
and law to understand how Tarpeia's myth was a vehicle Romans used to
explore their own identity, to consider tensions in their social and
political ideology, and to scrutinize their relationships with each other
and with other communities. Professor Welch is a member of the American
Philological Association and CAMWS. She also coordinates the selection of
Rhodes Scholars from Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Mississippi.
Professor Welch also serves as Undergraduate Advisor.
| Dr. John G. Younger Tel. 785-864-3263 |  |
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John G. Younger, joined the department in 2002 as Professor of
Classics and of Humanities and Western Civilization; he has a BA in
Classics from Stanford University, and an MA and PhD in Classics from the
University of Cincinnati. Professor Younger's research focuses on the
Bronze Age Aegean (especially in art [particularly sealstones and engraved
fingerrings] and writing [especially Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear A] and
administration) and on Greek art, especially sculpture. He has written two
books on Minoan-Mycenaean sealstones, and another on
Music in the
Aegean Bronze Age; he has also written numerous articles and reviews
on various Bronze Age and Classical topics. His most recent work has
centered on gender and sexuality: "Women in Relief: 'Double Consciousness'
in Classical Tombstones," in
From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic:
Women's Relations to Women in Antiquity, edited by Nancy S. Rabinowitz
and Lisa Auanger (Austin: University of Texas Press 2001), "Waist
Compression in the Preclassical Aegean,"
Archaeological News 23
(1998-2000) 1-9;
Sex in the Ancient World, A-Z (Routledge Press,
fall 2004). Work-in-progress includes a holistic analysis of Cretan
Hieroglyphic, and
Greek Art & Archaeology, a Social History
(forthcoming; Blackwells Press). Professor Younger's professional
memberships include the American Philological Association (APA), member
and former Fellow of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
(ASCSA), Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), British School of
Archaeology at Athens (BSA), KU Oread Rainbow Alliance (KU-ORA), and the
Women's Classical Caucus (WCC) and the Lambda Classical Caucus (LCC) of
the American Philological Association. He is currently Editor of AJA Book
Reviews (
http://people.ku.edu/~jyounger/ajareviews)
for the American Journal of Archaeology (
http://www.ajaonline.org, and
co-creator and manager of AegeaNet, an email discussion group centered on
the pre-classical Aegean world since 1993 (
http://people.ku.edu/~jyounger/aegeanet.html).
He has three dogs.
