James Ker

Associate Professor of Classical Studies and Undergraduate Chair
Contact Information
Office Address: 
Cohen 263; OFFICE HOURS for spring 2012: MTRF 1.30-2.30
Phone: 
215-898-3027
Email Address: 
Education: 

Ph.D. (Classics) University of California, Berkeley, 2002 
M.A. (Greek) University of California, Berkeley, 1997 
B.A. (Classics and Linguistics) University of Canterbury, 1994

Research and Teaching Interests: 

Latin literature
Roman culture
Ancient philosophy

Selected Publications: 

“Nundinae: The Culture of the Roman Week,” Phoenix 64 (2010) 360-85

The Deaths of Seneca (Oxford University Press, 2009)

A Seneca Reader: Selections from Prose and Tragedy (Bolhchazy-Carducci, 2011)

Work in Progress: 

The Beginning of the Day in Ancient Rome (book-length project)

Elizabethan Seneca: Three Tragedies, co-editor with Jessica Winston, in Modern Humanities Research Association Tudor & Stuart Translations series

Recent Courses: 

(undergraduate) Nero and the Roman Imagination, Roman Tragedy, Petronius, Herodotus
(graduate) Latin Prose Composition, Roman Exemplarity, Graduate Latin Prose Survey, Seneca

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