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Julie Nishimura-Jensen
201 Cohen Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6304
215.898.7425

JULIE NISHIMURA-JENSEN

Lecturer in Classical Studies
Director, Post-baccalaureate Program in Classical Studies

Education

Ph.D. (Classics) University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1996
B.A. (Classics) Carleton College, 1987

Teaching and research

Greek and Latin literature, especially Hellenistic poetry

Recent courses

(undergraduate) Elementary and Intermediate Greek
(post-baccalaureate) Euripides, Homeric and Callimachean hymns, didactic poetry, Lucretius, and the Argo myth

Major publications

"The poetics of Aethalides: silence and poikilia in Apollonius' Argonautica," CQ 48 (1998) 456-469
"Unstable Geographies: The Moving Landscape in Apollonius' Argonautica and Callimachus' Hymn to Delos" TAPhA 130 (2000) 287-317

Contact

Office: Cohen 223
Phone: (215) 898-5846
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