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Francis M. Dunn
Francis Dunn, Professor of Classics, earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in Classics at Yale University (B.A. 1976, Ph.D 1985). His research centers upon Greek literature of the fifth century BCE, with special interests in Greek tragedy, concepts of time, and narrative theory, and has been supported by awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. He is the author of two books, Tragedy’s End: Closure and Innovation in Euripidean Drama, which explores connections between closural devices and Euripidean experiments with the limits of tragedy, and Present Shock: An Episode in Ancient Greek Culture (forthcoming), which traces a shift from the authority of the past to present uncertainties in the late fifth century, ranging from civic calendars to drama and from philosophy to medical theory. He has edited three books, Beginnings in Classical Literature, with Thomas Cole, Classical Closure: Reading the End in Greek and Latin Literature, with Deborah Roberts and Don Fowler, and Sophocles’ Electra in Performance. His current project is a commentary on Sophocles’ Electra for the Fondazione Lorenzo Valla.
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Books
- Present Shock in Late Fifth-Century Greece. University of Michigan Press, 2007
- Tragedy's End: Closure and Innovation in Euripidean Drama, Oxford University Press, 1996.
Edited Books
- Beginnings in Classical Literature, edited with Thomas Cole. (Yale Classical Studies 29) Cambridge University Press, 1992.
- Sophocles' Electra in Performance (DRAMA 4). M&P Verlag, Stuttgart, 1996.
- Classical Closure: Reading the End in Greek and Latin Literature, edited with Deborah Roberts and Don Fowler. Princeton University Press, 1997
Selected Articles
- �Where is Electra?� in The Play of Text and Fragments: Essays in Honour of Martin Cropp, ed. J. R. C. Cousland. Leiden (forthcoming).
- �Sophocles and the Narratology of Drama,� in Narratology and Interpretation, ed. A. Rengakos and J. Grethlein. Leiden (forthcoming).
- “Trope and Setting in Electra.” Pages 183-200 in Sophocles and the Greek Language, ed. I.J.F. de Jong and A. Riksbaron. Leiden, 2006.
- “On Ancient Medicine and its intellectual context.” Pages 49-67 in Hippocrates in Context, ed. P. J. van der Eijk. Leiden, 2005.
- “Narrative, Responsibility, Realism.” Pages 320-340 in The Bakhtin Circle and Ancient Narrative (Ancient Narrative Supp. 3). Groningen, 2005.
- “Rethinking Time: from Bakhtin to Antiphon.” Pages 187-219 in Bakhtin and the Classics, ed. R. B. Branham. Evanston, 2002.
- (with John Kirkpatrick) “Heracles, Cercopes and Paracomedy.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 132 (2002) 29-61.
- “Protagoras and the Parts of Time.” Hermes 129 (2001) 547-550.
- “Euripidean Aetiologies.” Classical Bulletin 76 (2000) 3-27
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