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Dorota Dutsch

Telephone: 805-893-3025 Email: ddutsch@classics.ucsb.edu

Dorota Dutsch, Associate Professor of Classics,  has an MA from the Jagiellonian University  in Krakow (Poland) and a PhD (2000) from  McGill University (Canada). She has taught  at the Jagiellonian University, Université de  Montréal, and worked as exchange scholar  at the Conseil National de la Recherche Scientifique  (France).
Professor Dutsch's research focuses on social performance (comprising anything from comedy to funeral rites). She has published articles on Plautine jokes, vampire mice, pharmacology of seduction, the language of gesture, and illustrations of Carolingian manuscripts.

Graduate supervision:
Dorota Dutsch welcomes inquiries from prospective students on performance, gender studies.

Book

  • Feminine Discourses in Roman Comedy: On Echoes and Voices. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Selected Articles

  • Nenia: Gender and Genre in the Roman Lament” in Ann Suter (ed.) Lament Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean, Oxford University Press, 2008: 258-279.
  • “The Language of Gesture in the Illuminated Manuscripts of Terence” Gesture 2007: 2 (39-70).
  • "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)

Work in Progress

 

 
   
 

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