Research in Poetry and Poetics

Faculty

Greek literature	Sheila Murnaghan, Ralph Rosen, Peter Struck, Emily Wilson
Latin literature	Cynthia Damon, Joseph Farrell, James Ker, Emily Wilson
Ancient literary theory	Rita Copeland, Ralph Rosen, Peter Struck
Dramatic poetry	James Ker, Sheila Murnaghan, Ralph Rosen, Emily Wilson
Epic poetry	Joseph Farrell, Sheila Murnaghan
Satiric and comic genres	Cynthia Damon, Raph Rosen
Reception	Rita Copeland, Cynthia Damon, Joseph Farrell, James Ker, Sheila Murnaghan, Ralph Rosen, Emily Wilson

Spring 2010:	Ancient Greek Aesthetic Theory (Rosen)
Spring 2010:	The Argonaut Myth in Latin Literature (Farrell and Ker)
Fall 2009:	The Argonaut Myth in Greek Literature (Murnaghan and Nishimura-Jensen)
Spring 2009:	Roman Republican Epic (Farrell)
Fall 2009:	Aristophanes (Rosen)
Spring 2008:	Vergil's Aeneid (Farrell)
Fall 2007:	Contemporary Approaches to Greek Tragedy (Wilson)
Spring 2007:	Lucretius (Wilson)
Fall 2006:	Homer (Murnaghan)
Fall 2006:	Seneca (Ker)
Spring 2006:	Greek Meter (Ringe)
Spring 2006:	Ovid's Exile Poetry (Farrell)
Fall 2005:	Callimachus (Rosen)
Fall 2005:	The Roman Exemplary Tradition (Ker)
Spring 2005:	Roman Elegy (Wilson)
Fall 2003:	Old Comedy (Rosen)
Spring 2003:	Sophocles (Murnaghan)
Fall 2002:	Roman Satire (Rosen)
Spring 2002:	Dionysus and Greek Drama (Murnaghan)
Fall 2001:	Hellenistic Poetry (Rosen)

Cynthia Damon	The Mask of the Parasite: A Pathology of Roman Patronage (1997)
Joseph Farrell	Juno's Aeneid: Narrative, Metapoetics, Dissent (in progress)
	Vergil's Georgics and the Traditions of Ancient Epic (1991)
James Ker	The Deaths of Seneca (2009)
Sheila Murnaghan	Most Tragic Sophocles (in progress)
	Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey (1987)
Ralph Rosen	Making Mockery: The Poetics of Ancient Satire (2007)
	Old Comedy and the Iambographic Tradition (1987)
Emily Wilson	Mocked with Death:Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton (2004)

Marian Makins, "Reading and Writing Ancient Battlefields"
Committee: Sheila Murnaghan, Cynthia Damon, Emily Wilson

Emlen Smith, "Names and Naming in Ovid's Exile Poetry"
Committee: Joseph Farrell, Cynthia Damon, Sheila Murnaghan, Ralph Rosen, Emily Wilson

Jeremy Lefkowitz, "Aesop's Pen: Adaptation, Authorship, and Satire in the Aesopic Tradition" (2009)

Sarah Wahlberg, "Callimachus' Aetia and Ovid's Fasti: An Intertextual Analysis" (2008)

Erin Kristine Moodie, "Metatheater, pretense disruption, and social class in Greek and Roman comedy," 2007

Bryce England Walker, "Moralizing discourse in Juvenal's later books," 2006

Meggan Jennell Arp, "Pre-socratic thought in Sophoclean tragedy," 2006

Mary McMenomy , "Roles of Hermes in Athenian drama," 2006

Carl A. Shaw III, "Greek comedy and the evolution of satyr drama," 2005

Andrew A. Fenton, "Cultural and poetic response in Vergil's Eclogues," 2004

Alex Claire Purves, "Telling space: topography, time, and narrative from Homer to Xenophon," 2002

Benjamin Todd Lee, "A commentary on Apuleius' Florida: Carthaginian orations with text, translation, and notes," 2001

Kathryn M. DiLorenzo, "Looking both ways: Janus, doubling, and intertextuality in Ovid," 2001

Kristin Elizabeth Holland, "Resisted transition in Euripidean tragedy,," 2001

Anne Elizabeth Duncan, "The hypocritical self: actors, acting, and identity in Greek and Roman culture," 2000

Catherine Clare Keane, "Model behavior: generic construction in Roman satire," 1999

Rebecca Lynn Frost, "The rhetoric of authority in the Propertian Monobiblos," 1998

Richard Gilder III, "Goddesses unbound: furies and furial imagery in the works of Seneca, Lucan, and Statius," 1997

Jacqueline N. Sadashige, "Roman things: matters of gender, nation, and culture in Plautus," 1995

Eric Kyllo , "Heliconiadum comites: the De rerum natura and epic tradition," 1994

Nigel Nicholson , "Mixed praise: sexual imagery, truth and discord in Pindar's Odes," 1994

Maria Suzanne Marsilio, "Dependence and self-sufficiency in Hesiod's Works and days," 1992

R. Alden Smith, "Allusions of grandeur: studies in the intertextuality of the Metamorphoses and the Aeneid," 1990