| Curriculum Vitae |
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ADDRESS: |
Department of Classics |
University of California |
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| 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. |
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| 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: | |
| “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 |
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External Referee Referee for Classical World, Ramus, American Journal of Philology, Comparative Literature and The University of Wisconsin Press |
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| 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) |