Curriculum Vitae
Sara Helaine Lindheim

ADDRESS:  

Department of Classics                              

 

University of California
Santa Barbara, CA  93106-3120
Office Phone: (805) 893-7897
lindheim@classics.ucsb.edu

   
EDUCATION:  
   1995   Ph.D. in Classics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.          
 

Dissertation: “Voices of Desire: The Ventriloquized Letters of Ovid's Heroides.” Co-directors: David Konstan and S. Georgia Nugent.

   1989 BA in Classics summa cum laude, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts.
   
EMPLOYMENT:
   2003-   Associate Professor of Classics, University of California, Santa Barbara
   2002-  Affiliated Faculty, Comparative Literature Program, University of California, Santa Barbara
   1996-2003 Assistant Professor of Classics, University of California, Santa Barbara.
   Spring 1996 Lecturer, Scripps College
 
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
   2006:  

Organized and presided over the panel session, Latin Literature, at the annual meeting of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association held at Riverside, California, November 10th.          

   1998-2000: Member of the planning committee, and co-chair of program committee, for the “Feminism and Classics III: The Next Generation” conference held at the University of Southern California, May 18-21, 2000.
   1997:  Co-organized with Prof. Patricia Rosenmeyer a panel session for the 129th annual meeting of the American Philological Association, entitled “Double-Speak: Gender and Genre in Ovid's (Double) Heroides.
   
HONORS AND AWARDS:
   2004   UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Individual Faculty Research Award and UCSB Academic Senate Faculty Research Grant, both for a project tentatively entitled, “Terminal Anxiety: Boundaries and their Transgression in Roman Poetry of the Augustan Age and Early Empire.”
   1997 Faculty Career Development Award Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara, for summer 1997-1998.
   1995 John J. Winkler Memorial Prize for Best Undergraduate or Graduate Student Essay, for “Setting Her Straight: Ovid  Re-Presents Sappho.”  
   1989    Phi Beta Kappa, Amherst College.
   
PUBLICATIONS:
Articles: “Hercules Cross-Dressed, Hercules Undressed: Unmasking the Construction of the Propertia Amator in Elegy 4.9,” American Journal of Philology119.1 (1998) 43-66.

  “I Am Dressed, Therefore I Am?: Vertumnus in Propertius 4.2 and in    Metamorphoses 14.622-771,” Ramus 27.1 (1998) 27-38.
  Omnia Vincit Amor: Or, Why Oenone Should Have Known It Would Never Work Out (Eclogue 10 and Heroides 5),” Materiali e discussioni per l’analisi dei testi classici 44 (2000) 83-101.
  “To Be Or Not To Be A New Formalist: Ovidian Studies in 2003,”Vergilius 49 (2003) 135-151.
   
Book: Mail and Female: Epistolary Narrative and Desire in Ovid's Heroides, Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.
   
In Press:  
  Review of P.J. Heslin, The Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Genre in Statius’ Achilleid, forthcoming in Classical Philology.
  Review of P. Salzman-Mitchell, A Web of Fantasies: Gaze, Image and Gender in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, forthcoming in International Journal of the Classical Tradition.
  Review of L. Fulkerson, The Ovidian Heroine as Author: Reading, Writing and Community in the Heroides, forthcoming in Classical Journal.
  Review of V. Rimell, Ovid’s Lovers: Desire, Difference, and the Poetic Imagination, forthcoming in Comparative Literature.
   
PRESENTATIONS:
   2005 Imperium Sine Fine: (Un)limited Gender and Empire in Ovid’s Metamorphoses,” Annual Meeting of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Malibu, California, November 11th.
   2005 “Terminal Anxiety: Exploring the Boundaries of Gender and Empire in the Metamorphoses,” Gender Trouble in Ovid Colloquium, Yale University, February 11th.
   2000 Omnia vincit amor: Or, Why Oenone Should Have Known It Would Never Work Out (Eclogue 10 and Heroides 5),” USC-UCLA Latin Seminar, “Roman Elegy,” January 27th.
   1998  “Why Oenone Should Have Known It Would Never Work Out: Eclogue 10 and Heroides 5,” 130th Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, Washington, D.C., December 29th.
   1997 “Mirror, Mirror on Jason's Wall: The ‘Double’ Epistles of Medea and Hypsipyle in Ovid's Heroides,” 129th Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, Chicago, Illinois, December 30, in a panel session entitled “Double-Speak: Gender and Genre in Ovid's (Double) Heroides.”
   1997

“What Are Little Boys Made Of?': Hercules Cross-Dressed and Re (-)Dressed in Propertius 4.9,” Interdisciplinary conference: “Queering and Querying,” University of California, Santa Barbara, May 3rd..

   1997 “Mirror, Mirror On Jason's Wall: Ovid's Medea and Hypsipyle (Heroides 6 and 12),” USC-UCLA Latin Seminar,” Roman Representations: Augustan Subjectivity, Power and Space,” March 19th.
   1997 “'What Are Little Boys Made Of?': Hercules Cross-Dressed and Re(-)Dressed in Propertius 4.9,” Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California, Santa Barbara, January 14th.
   1996 “I Am Dressed, Therefore I Am?: Vertumnus in Propertius 4.2 and in    Metamorphoses 14.622-771,” 128th Annual Meeting of the American   Philological Association, New York, New York, December 29th.
   1995

“Mail and Female: Epistolary Narrative and Ovid's Penelope,” 31st Annual Comparative Literature Conference: "Love and Politics in Literary Perspective," in a paper session entitled "The Politics of the Female Autobiographical Tradition," California State University, Long Beach, March 2nd.

   1995 “Mail and Female: Epistolary Narrative and Ovid's Penelope,” 127th Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, San Diego, California, December 30th.
   
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
 

Member

American Philological Association
Women's Classical Caucus
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association

 

External Referee

Referee for Classical World, Ramus, American Journal of Philology, Comparative Literature and The University of Wisconsin Press

   
CLASSICS DEPARTMENT SERVICE (selection):
      2005-7

Member, Lecture Committee

      2005-6  Member, Committee on TA training requirements
      2005-6 Member, Committee to revise requirements for major in “Classical Civilization”
      2005- Chair, Lunch Hour Colloquium for presentation of faculty and graduate student research
      2003- Graduate Advisor
      1997–2003 Undergraduate Advisor
   
OTHER UNIVERISTY SERVICE (selection):
      2004-

Member, Steering Committee for the Consortium for Literature, Theory and Culture (UCSB)

      2002-  Member, Advisory board for the Comparative Literature Program (UCSB)