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.螠., Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago
2001 - B.A., Drama and Classics with a Greek concentration, 吃瓜网
Academic Appointments
2022 鈥� present Associate Professor, Classics, 吃瓜网
2015 鈥� 2021 Assistant Professor, Classics, 吃瓜网
2012 鈥� 2015 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Classics, 吃瓜网
2013 鈥� 2017 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Drama, 吃瓜网 (as needed)
Sept 2011 Instructor, Drama, 吃瓜网
2004 鈥� 2008 Instructor, Classics, University of Chicago
Honors & Awards
2016 King Haggar Scholar Award recipient
2011 鈥� 2012 Ephron Research Scholarship
2003 鈥� 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
鈥淭he Agency and Affection of Pity in Sophocles鈥� for the PhD in Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Chicago, 2012.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
鈥淭he Tragedy of Pity in Sophocles鈥� Oedipus Tyrannus.鈥� 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)
鈥淔amilial Pity in Greek Tragedy鈥� 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 鈥淪ophocles: 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 鈥� Summer (shortened version) for Living Latin. Arts of Liberty Press. forthcoming.
Provensen, Alice and Martin. A Year at Maple Hill Farm 鈥� Autumn (shortened version) for Living Latin. Arts of Liberty Press. forthcoming.
Author Unknown. 鈥淧eace is flowing like a river鈥� for Living Latin. Arts of Liberty Press. forthcoming.
Author Unknown. 鈥淭his Little Light of Mine鈥� for Living Latin. Arts of Liberty Press.
forthcoming.
Author Unknown. 鈥淗ead, Shoulders, Knees and Toes鈥� for Living Latin. Arts of Liberty Press. forthcoming.
Editing
Karako, Tom. 2021. 鈥淪ing, Missile Muse, of Gods and Heroes: America鈥檚 MostFearsome Weapons Need Better Names.鈥� 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. 鈥淪aving Tecmessa in Sophocles鈥� Ajax鈥�, CAMWS, St. Louis
2023 - Speaker, 鈥淭he Eumenides Trial Scene: Justice and Tragedy鈥�, CAB and Classics Drama
Committee, 吃瓜网 (November)
2022 - Plenary Panel Speaker, 鈥淚s there an order to the disciplines?鈥� Undergraduate Conference
in the Liberal Arts, 吃瓜网 (October)
2021 - Featured Guest, 鈥淎re All Translations Failures?鈥� Liberal Learning for Life @ University
of Dallas Podcast (May)
2021 - Speaker, 鈥淎n Introduction to Cicero鈥檚 De Amicitia鈥� Braniff Salonette (April 9)
2020 - Panel Speaker. 鈥淧itying Xerxes in Aeschylus鈥� Persians鈥� CAMWS, Virtual (May 28)
2019 - Panel Speaker. 鈥淩eframing the Female Body in Euripides鈥� Iphigenia at Aulis鈥� ALSCW,
Worchester (October 4)
2019 - Panelist, 鈥淭hree Women and Hektor 鈥� Book 24 of Homer鈥檚 Iliad鈥�. Braniff Salon (March
29)
2016 - Speaker, Clark Hall Toga Party. 鈥淒ies Festus: How to Party like it鈥檚 AD99.鈥� (April
29).
2012 - Panel Speaker. "Pity in Action: The Tragedy of Oedipus," CAMWS, Baton Rouge