Undergraduate Advisors in Classics
| Dr. Michael Shaw |  |
Contact Professor Shaw
Michael Shaw, Associate Professor, 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.
| Dr. Tara Welch |  |
Contact Professor Welch
Tara Welch, Assistant 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. She also serves as
Undergraduate Advisor.
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.
