TEACHING and ADMINISTRATION
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1998-2005 |
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1997-1998 |
Lecturer in Classics, University of Texas at Austin |
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1989-1997 |
Lecturer in Biblical Studies, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary |
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1994 |
Assistant Instructor, University of Texas at Austin |
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
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2004-05 |
Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC |
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2001-02 |
Favorite Teacher (Brooklyn College Excelsior) |
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2001-02 |
Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation fellowship for outstanding teaching in the humanities |
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2001-02 |
PSC-CUNY Research Grant: "Two Unpublished Papyri in the University of Texas Collection" |
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2001-02 |
Faculty Fellow for Pew-Knight project |
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2000-2001 |
Release Time for Unsponsored Research, Brooklyn College |
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1999-2000 |
PSC-CUNY research grant: "Story Patterns and Social Functions in Homeric and Ancient Near Eastern Epic Poetry" |
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1996-97 |
Liberal Arts Dissertation Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin |
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1996-97 |
P. E. O. Scholar Award |
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1995-96 |
William S. Livingston Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin |
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1989 |
Pyle-Morgan Fellowship, Austin Presbyterian Seminary |
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1987-89 |
Jean Brown Scholar, Austin Presbyterian Seminary |
PUBLICATIONS
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The Trojan War (Cambridge University Series: Key Conflicts in Classical Antiquity). Forthcoming, Cambridge University Press |
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"Demodokos' Iliad and Homer's". Forthcoming in Approaches to Homer: Ancient and Modern |
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Ransom. Revenge, and Heroic Identity in the Iliad. 2002, Cambridge University Press. |
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"Lion Kings: Heroes in the Epic Mirror." 2002. Colby Quarterly, 35.2, 231-54 |
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"Symbolic Violence in Iliad 9." Classical World 93.2 (1999) 131-47 |
BOOK REVIEWS
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Review of Homer's People: Epic Poetry and Social Formation, by J. Haubold (Cambridge, 2000). Religious Studies Review |
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Review of The Beginnings of Jewishness: Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties, by S. Cohen (University of California Press, 1999). Classical World |
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Review of Heritage and Hellenism. The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition, by E. S. Gruen (University of California Press, 1998). Classical World 93.3 (2000) 308-9 |
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Review of Reciprocity in Ancient Greece, edited by C. Gill, N. Postlethwaite, and R. Seaford. (Oxford University Press, 1998). Religious Studies Review 26.1 (2000) 77. |
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Review of Intimate Commerce: Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy, by V. Wohl (University of Texas Press, 1998). Religious Studies Review 25 (1999) 289. |
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Review of Immortal Armor: the Concept of Alke in Archaic Greek Poetry, by D. Collins (Rowman and Littlefield, 1997). Religious Studies Review 25 (1999) 289. |
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Review of Warrior Women: The Anonymous Tractatus de Mulieribus, by D. Gera (Leiden, 1997). Religious Studies Review, January 1999. |
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Review of Mind, Body, and Speech in Homer and Pindar, by H. Pelliccia (Göttingen, 1995). Religious Studies Review, October 1997. |
PAPERS READ FOR PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
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"Polu-Metis Homer:;metis and dolos in the Iliad and Odyssey". APA (January 2004) |
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"Demodokos' Iliad and Homer's". CAMWS (April 2003) |
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"Wind-blasted and Worm-eaten: contingency or curse?" APA, American Society of Papyrologists panel (January 2002) |
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"Wind-blasted and Worm-eaten: 'acts of God' in documentary papyri and the Septuagint" (SBL, Papyrology and Early Christian Backgrounds panel (November 2001) |
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"In the Name of the Father: ransom and the rhetoric of reparation in Iliad 9" (APA, December 1998) |
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"Disguising Dora: The Politics of Phoinix' Litai and Ate Story," (CAMWS, April 1998) |
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"An Unnoticed Parallel to go'el haddam in Iliad 14.485," (ASOR, March 1997). |
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"Figuring the Female: Omophagy and the Construction of Heroic Identity in the Iliad," (APA, December, 1996). |
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"Unspeakable Feasts: Female Figures and Disorder in the Iliad" (CAAS, April 1996). |
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"Words Fitly Spoken: An analysis of Iliad VI.61-62 in light of the theme of compensation" (CAMWS, April 1996). |
WORK IN PROGRESS
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Indo-European inheritancesin the Greek strength-intelligence polarity |
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PTexas 50 and 51: Two papyrus fragments in the University of Texas collection |
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Narrative Patterns and Social Functions in Homeric and Ancient Near Eastern Oral Poetry. |
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
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American Philological Association |
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American Society of Papyrologists |
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Classical Association of the Atlantic States |
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Columbia Seminar in Classical Civilization |
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New York Classical Club |