The poem for each year's contest is announced in the fall semester.
Translations are accepted from the latter half of the fall semester through the first half of the spring semester. The prize of $250 and a book of poetry is granted to the winning translator near the end of the Spring semester. For more information, contact Dr. Teresa Danze at tdanze@udallas.edu.
A Karl Maurer Memorial Lecture by Dr. Gwenda-lin Grewal of Sarah Lawrence CollegeMA, Ph.D. Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania
AB Classics, Dartmouth College
Literae Humaniores, Oriel College, Oxford
Associate Professor of Classics. University of Dallas (2004-2015)
Assistant Professor of Classics. University of Dallas (1998-2004)
T.A., Instructor, Lecturer, in Classical Studies. University of Pennsylvania (1988-1998)
Instructor of English. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina (1985)
Book:
Interpolation in Thucydides. Leiden: E.J. Brill (Mnemosyne Supplement 150), 1995.
Articles:
*"Greek and Roman Lyric", in The Prospect of Lyric, edd. Bainard and Louise Cowan,
Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture Press (2010).
*"Notiora Fallaciora. Exact Non-Allusive Echoes in Latin Verse" in Carl Deroux (ed.),
Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History: Tome XI, Collection Latomus 272 (Brussells,
2003) 121-156.
*"Thucydides 7.63.3 on the Sailors 'Considered Athenian'", in Oikistes: Studies in
Constitutions, Colonies, and Military Power in the Ancient World. Offered in Honor
of A. J. Graham, edd. Vanessa Gorman and Eric Robinson (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2002)
271-284.
*"Thucydides, Lorenzo Valla and Vat. lat. 1801," Latomus 58 (1999) 885-889 (on the
MS tradition of Valla's Latin translation of Thucydides).
*" Gallus' Parthian Bow," Latomus 57 (Juillet-Septembre 1998) 578-588 (on Vergil and
Parthia; on Vergil's self-repetitions).
*"Notes on Carlos German Belli," Plaza: Revista de Literatura 12 (Spring 1987) 39-46
(On the neoclassicism of a contemporary Peruvian poet).