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Dorota Dutsch
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., McGill University, 2000
Specialization: Roman Comedy; Theater and Performance in the Ancient World (and beyond); Latin Language and Society.

Recently Published
  • “The Language of Gesture in the Illuminated Manuscripts of Terence” forthcoming in Gesture 2006: 2.
  • "Roman Pharmacology: Plautus’ blanda venena" Greece and Rome 2005 52 2 (205-220).
  • “Female Furniture: A Note on Plautus’ Poenulus 1146,” Classical Quarterly 54: 2004 (625-30).
  • “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 2: 2002: 265-287.

Selected Articles
  • “Lullabies for the Dead: Gender and Genre in the Roman Lament” in Lament Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean (ed. Ann Suter).
  • The Poetics of Ambiguity: Enacting Gender on the Roman Stage (a book based on Ph.D dissertation)

Recently Taught Classes
  • Latin 114/214 – Comedy: Plautus
    Description: Study of one complete play by Plautus, combining current critical approaches to theater with traditional classical scholarship.

Contact
Office: HSSB 40??
Telephone: 805-893-3025
Email: ddutsch@classics.ucsb.edu
Rcent Publications
"Plautus’ Bacchides 884-9: On mice and vampires" forthcoming in Mnemosyne.

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