CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Dorota Dutsch

768 Cypress Walk

Goleta, Ca 93117

(805) 284-8975

ddutsch@classics.ucsb.edu

 

 

Education                   Ph.D. in Classics, McGill University, Montréal, Canada, 2000

                                    Dissertation: Boundless Nature: Feminine Speech in Roman Comedy

                                                           

Appointments

                       

2002-               Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara

                                   

1999-2001       Lecturer, Université de Montréal

                                   

1996-2001       Lecturer, Université du Québec à Montréal

                                   

1996-2001       Lecturer, McGill University, Montréal

                                   

1989-1992       Lecturer, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

                                                                                               

Publications              

1. Feminine Discourses in Roman Comedy: On Echoes and Voices Oxford University Press (Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory), forthcoming.

2. “Nenia:  Gender, Genre, and Lament in Ancient Rome,” in Ann Suter, ed. Lament Studies in the Ancient Mediterranean World and Beyond.  Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2007.

3. “Gestures in the Manuscripts of Terence and Late Revivals of Classical Drama,” Gesture 2007, 1, pp. 39-70.

4. Virgil’s Eclogues in World Literature and its Time. Vol. 8: Classical Literature. Thomson and Gale, 2006, pp. 129-139.

5. “Plautus’ Bacchides 884-9: On mice and vampires,” Mnemosyne 2006, 4, 59, 3, pp. 421-5.

6. “Roman Pharmacology: Plautus’ blanda venena,” Greece and Rome 2005, 52, 2, pp. 205-220.

7. “Female Furniture:  A Reading of Plautus’ Poenulus 1146.” Classical Quarterly 2004, 54, pp. 625-30.

8. “Review of Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence (ed., E. Segal), Classical Bulletin 2003, 79, 1, pp. 130-134.

9. “Towards a Grammar of Gesture: A comparison between the types of hand movements of the actor in Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria 11.3.85-184,” Gesture 2002, 2, pp. 265-287.

10.  “Demeter i Persefona” (Demeter and Persephone), in Stanislaw Stabryla, ed. Mit, Czlowiek Literatura (Myth, Man, Literature), PWN, Warsaw, 1992, pp. 41-78.

11. “Is Claudian’s De Raptu Proserpinae a Non-Political Poem?” Eos 1991, 79, 2, pp. 217-222.

12. “Mit Ceres i Proserpiny w sredniowieczu” (The Myth of Ceres and Proserpina in the Middles Ages). Meander 1990, 45, 2, pp. 21-28.

13. “Imiona wlasne u Plauta” (Proper Names in Plautus). Filomata 1991, 402, pp. 112-126.

14. “Wokol sredniowiecznej recepcji Owidiusza” (Some Problems of the Medieval Reception of Ovid). Meander 1989, 46, 6, pp. 261-270.

 

Work in Progress

Tales of the Bitten-off Tongue (a monograph on the concept of the feminine in Neo-pythagorean writings)

Talks

1. “Other Voices:  Female Impersonation in Rome Theater,” 28th Comparative Drama Conference, Columbus, OH, April 29-May 1, 2004.

2. “Miseram se conscia clamat: The Representation of Female Self-pity in Roman Comedy,” Annual PAMLA Conference, Scripps College, Claremont, CA., November 7-9, 2003.

3. “Tacitae spectent, tacitae rideant,” Annual Meeting of Classical Association of Canada, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, May 11-13, 2002.

4. “Playing the Other:  Female Characters on the Roman Stage,” Bishop’s University Speakers Committee and Classics Department, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada, Fall 2001. (Invited lecture)

5. “Venus Fly-Trap: The Courtesan’s Poisonous Garden,” Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, San Diego, California, January 3-6, 2001.

6. “Quae ipsae loquuntur. The Language of Gesture in Medieval Manuscripts of Terence,” Université de Montréal, Centre d’études classiques, Spring 1998. (Invited lecture)

7. “Quintilian and the Illustrated Manuscripts of Terence: An Investigation into Hand Gestures in the Performance of Palliata,” Crossing the Stages: Production, Performance and Reception of Ancient Theater, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, October 26, 1997.

8. “The Politics of Speech: A Study of Plautus’ Characterization of uxores and meretrices Through Conversational Styles,” Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, New York, NY, December 29, 1996.

9. "Heus homo, tibi dico: Forms of Address in Plautus," Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of Canada, Montréal, Québec, March 23, 1995.

10. “Greckie Imiona Wlasne u Plauta” (Greek names in Plautus), Annual Meeting of the Polish Philological Association, Universytet Slaski, September 20-22, 1990.

 

Shows Produced and Directed

1. Performing Profanities.  Conference incorporating a performance of scenes from Aristophanes, sponsored by Performance Studies Research Focus Group, May 23, 2007.

2. Hrotsvit’s Dulcitius, March 17, 2006.

3. Aristophanes’ Women at the Festival, June 2, 2005.

4. Euripides’ Helen (with Andrea Fishman), February 29, 2004.

5. ‘Sappho: An evening of Lyric Poetry, Music, and Dance’ (with Andrea Fishman), April 21, 2003.

6. Aristophanes’ Lysistrata (with Andrea Fishman), March 3, 2003.

 

Awards and Grants

2007  UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, Faculty Research Grant ($1,000).

2006-2007  UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, Grant for Performance Studies Research Focus Group, with Leo Cabranes-Grant ($1,5000)

2004  UCSB Senate, Junior Faculty Research Grant ($5,000).

2004  Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) Exchange Fellowship in the Institut de recherche sur le patrimoine musical en France (Eu. 4,000).

2003  Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, Faculty Collaborative Project Award, for the performance of Euripides’ Helen ($3,000).

1997-98  Université du Québec à Montréal, Fonds d'Intégration Pédagogique. Award for innovation in teaching, granted for a creation of an original Latin textbook,    

                                                                                                       Lire le latin ($7,000).

1994-96  Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Doctoral Scholarship                              ($29,000).

1992-93  Doctoral Scholarship, McGill University, Canada ($13,000).

1987-89  Minister’s Scholarship granted by Polish Ministry of Education