Fall 2024 office hours: Wednesday 10am-12pm; Thursday 12:30-2:20pm or by appointment
Fields of Interest
Language and performance of Athenian tragedy; emotion in Archaic and Classical Greek poetry, epic and tragedy; reception and adaptation of Greek and Roman drama
Education
2012 - PhD, Classical Languages and Literature, University of Chicago
2005 - A.Μ., Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago
2001 - B.A., Drama and Classics with a Greek concentration, University of Dallas
Academic Appointments
2022 – present Associate Professor, Classics, University of Dallas
2015 – 2021 Assistant Professor, Classics, University of Dallas
2012 – 2015 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Classics, University of Dallas
2013 – 2017 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Drama, University of Dallas (as needed)
Sept 2011 Instructor, Drama, University of Dallas
2004 – 2008 Instructor, Classics, University of Chicago
Honors & Awards
2016 King Haggar Scholar Award recipient
2011 – 2012 Ephron Research Scholarship
2003 – 2006 University/Paul Shorey Scholarship
Recent Courses
Roman Lyric (CLL 3326/5301)
Roman Drama: Plautus (3327/5301)
Greek Tragedy (CLG 3326/5302)
Seneca (CLL 3V50/5302)
ST/Selections from Greek Tragedy (CLG 5V50)
ST/Latin Readings (CLL 3V50) [1 credit course]
Greek Poetry (CLG 3V50)
Roman Satire (CLL 3329/5302)
Roman Drama: Terence (CLL 3327/5301)
Homer (CLG 3327)
Vergil & His Epic Successors (CLL 3V50/5303)
Publications
Dissertation
“The Agency and Affection of Pity in Sophocles” for the PhD in Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Chicago, 2012.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“The Tragedy of Pity in Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus.” American Journal of Philology 137.4 (Winter 2016) 565-599. excerpted in Oedipus Tyrannos: A Norton Critical Edition ed. & trans. Emily Wilson. W.W.Norton & Company (2021)
“Familial Pity in Greek Tragedy” Classical Journal 117.2 (December 2021) 313-336.
Invited Reviews
Tragic Rites: Narrative and Ritual in Sophoclean Drama. by Adriana Brook. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 2018. Classical Review 69.1 (April 2019)
The Ancient Emotion of Disgust ed. Donald Lateiner, Dimos Spatharas, NY: Oxford University Press. 2017. Classical Journal (online, 18.05.08)
Reviews
Performance of “Sophocles: Seven Sicknesses," Didaskalia 8.20 (2011)
Translation into Latin
Berenstain, Stan and Jan. Bears in the Night. Arts of Liberty Press. forthcoming.
Lee, Hector. I Had a Hippopotamus for Living Latin. Arts of Liberty Press. forthcoming.
Provensen, Alice and Martin. A Year at Maple Hill Farm – Summer (shortened version) for Living Latin. Arts of Liberty Press. forthcoming.
Provensen, Alice and Martin. A Year at Maple Hill Farm – Autumn (shortened version) for Living Latin. Arts of Liberty Press. forthcoming.
Author Unknown. “Peace is flowing like a river” for Living Latin. Arts of Liberty Press. forthcoming.
Author Unknown. “This Little Light of Mine” for Living Latin. Arts of Liberty Press.
forthcoming.
Author Unknown. “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes” for Living Latin. Arts of Liberty Press. forthcoming.
Editing
Karako, Tom. 2021. “Sing, Missile Muse, of Gods and Heroes: America’s MostFearsome Weapons Need Better Names.” warontherocks.com, June 7.
Eidt, Laura. 2020-21. Gouin Series Texts and Teacher Guides for Level 1 and 2, Themes 1-5. Living Latin. Arts of Liberty Press. forthcoming
Presentations
2024 - Panel Speaker. “Saving Tecmessa in Sophocles’ Ajax”, CAMWS, St. Louis
2023 - Speaker, “The Eumenides Trial Scene: Justice and Tragedy”, CAB and Classics Drama
Committee, University of Dallas (November)
2022 - Plenary Panel Speaker, “Is there an order to the disciplines?” Undergraduate Conference
in the Liberal Arts, University of Dallas (October)
2021 - Featured Guest, “Are All Translations Failures?” Liberal Learning for Life @ University
of Dallas Podcast (May)
2021 - Speaker, “An Introduction to Cicero’s De Amicitia” Braniff Salonette (April 9)
2020 - Panel Speaker. “Pitying Xerxes in Aeschylus’ Persians” CAMWS, Virtual (May 28)
2019 - Panel Speaker. “Reframing the Female Body in Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis” ALSCW,
Worchester (October 4)
2019 - Panelist, “Three Women and Hektor – Book 24 of Homer’s Iliad”. Braniff Salon (March
29)
2016 - Speaker, Clark Hall Toga Party. “Dies Festus: How to Party like it’s AD99.” (April
29).
2012 - Panel Speaker. "Pity in Action: The Tragedy of Oedipus," CAMWS, Baton Rouge