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CURRICULUM VITAE

Kathryn J. Gutzwiller
kathryn.gutzwiller@uc.edu
Department of Classics
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH 44221-0226
Phone: 513-556-1936; Fax: 513-556-4366

Education

• University of Wisconsin, Madison Ph.D. (Classics) 1977
• Bryn Mawr College M.A. (Latin) 1971
• Marshall University B.A. (Latin) 1970 (summa cum laude)

Positions Held

• University of Cincinnati:
  • Assistant Professor, 1978-85; Associate Professor, 1989-97; Women's Studies Affiliated Faculty, 1991-present; Professor, 1997-present, Fellow of the Graduate School, 2004-present.
• L'Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
  • Professeur invité, 2004.
• Case Western Reserve University:
  • Flora Stone Mather Visiting Professor, 1986-87; Jesse Hauk Shera Assistant Professor, 1987-89; Associate Professor, 1989.
• University of Massachusetts, Amherst:
  • Visiting Instructor, 1977-78.
• University of Wisconsin, Madison:
  • Teaching Assistant, 1974-75.

Awards and Honors

• American Council of Learned Societies, Fellow, 2009 ($60,000)
• Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, 2009 ($30,000)
• Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, Fall 2008
• Editor of APA Monograph Series, 2006-2010
• Gildersleeve Prize for best article in American Journal of Philology for "Seeing Thought: Timomachus' Medea and Ecphrastic Epigram," 2004
• Fellow of the Graduate School, elected honor, University of Cincinnati, 2004-present
• NEH Fellowship ($40,000) for critical edition and commentary on Meleager, 2004-2005.
• George Rieveschl Award for Creative/Scholarly Achievement, the University of Cincinnati’s highest award for research excellence, 2003
• University Research Council Grant ($5,000), 2003
• Director of American Philological Association, elected office for term 2002-2005
• Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit, awarded by American Philological Association for Poetic Garlands: Hellenistic Epigrams in Context, 2001
• Leadership Intern in Office of Vice-President for Advanced Research and Graduate Dean, 2000
• University Research Council Summer Grant ($3,145), 2000
• Participant in Women's Leadership Program Workshops, January-April, 2000
• McMicken Dean's Award for Distinguished Research, 1999
• Gildersleeve Prize for Best Article in American Journal of Philology for ôCallimachusÆ æLock of BereniceÆ: Fantasy, Romance, and Propaganda,ö 1992
• Nominated for Director of American Philological Association, 1991
• Association for Women Faculty Recognition Award, 1990
• Fellow, The Hellenic Center, 1986-87 (declined)
• University Travel Grant, Spring 1985
• University Research Council Grant, 1984
• Special Duty Assignment, Spring 1983
• Semple Fund Summer Research Grant, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
• Knapp Fellowship, 1976-77
• WARF Fellowship, 1975
• University Fellowship, 1973-74
• NDEA Fellowship, 1970

Publications

Books:

• Studies in the Hellenistic Epyllion in Beiträge zur klassischen Philologie, Heft 114.
  Meisenheim am Glan, 1981.
• Theocritus' Pastoral Analogies: The Formation of a Genre. Madison: University of
  Wisconsin Press, 1991.
• Poetic Garlands: Hellenistic Epigrams in Context. Berkeley: University of California
  Press, 1998.
• The New Posidippus: A Hellenistic Poetry Book (edited volume). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Revised Paperback edition, 2008.
• A Guide to Hellenistic Literature. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007.

Articles:

• "Homer and Ariadne," Classical Journal 73 (1977) 32-36.
• "Charites or Hiero: Theocritus' Idyll 16," Rheinisches Museum 126 (1983) 212-238.
• "Character and Legend in Idyll 8," Transactions of the American Philological
  Association 113 (1983) 171-182.
• "The Lover and the Lena: Propertius 4.5," Ramus 14 (1985) 105-115.
• "The Plant Decoration on Theocritus' Ivy-cup," American Journal of Philology 107
  (1986) 253-255.
• "Women and Other Strangers: Feminist Perspectives in Classical Literature,"
  co-authored with A. Michelini, in (En)gendering Knowledge: Feminists in
  Academe, ed. Joan Hartman and Ellen Messer-Davidow, University of
  Tennessee Press, 1991. Pp. 66-84.
• "Callimachus' 'Lock of Berenice': Fantasy, Romance, and Propaganda," American
  Journal of Philology 113 (1992) 361-85. Winner of Gildersleeve Prize.
• "The Nautilus, the Halcyon, and Selenaia: Callimachus Epigram 5 Pf. = 14 G-P,"
  Classical Antiquity 11 (1992) 194-209.
• "Anyte's Epigram Book," Syllecta Classica 4 (1993) 71-89.
• "Callimachus and Hedylus: A Note on Catullus 66.13-14," Mnemosyne 46 (1993)
  530-32.
• "Cleopatra's Ring," Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 36 (1995) 383-98.
• "Vergil and the Date of the Theocritean Epigram Book," Philologus 140 (1996) 92-99.
• "The Evidence for Theocritean Poetry Books," Theocritus, Hellenistica Groningana 2,
  edited by M. A. Harder, R. Regtuit, G. C. Wakker (Groningen, 1996).
  Pp. 119-38.
• "Comments on Rolf Rendtorff" in Reading Leviticus: Responses to Mary Douglas,
  edited by John Sawyer (Sheffield Academic Press, 1996) 36-39.
• "Theocritus," Dictionary of Literary Biography: Ancient Greek Authors, Vol. 176,
  edited by Ward W. Briggs (Detroit, 1997), pp. 363-70.
• "The Poetics of Editing in Meleager's Garland." Transactions of the American
  Philological Association 127 (1997) 169-200.
• "Genre Development and Gendered Voices in Nossis and Erinna," in Dwelling in
  Possibility: Women Poets and Critics on Poetry, ed. by Yopie Prins and Maeera
  Shreiber (Cornell University Press, 1997). Pp. 202-22.
• "Meleager: From Menippean to Epigrammatist," Genre in Hellenistic Poetry,
  Hellenistica Groningana 3, edited by M. A. Harder, R. Regtuit, G. C. Wakker
  (Groningen, 1998). Pp. 81-93.
• "The Tragic Mask of Comedy: Metatheatricality in Menander," Classical Antiquity,
  19 (2000)102-137.
• “Art’s Echo: The Tradition of Greek Ecphrastic Epigrams,” forthcoming in
  Hellenistica Groningana 5, edited by M. A. Harder, R. Regtuit, G. C. Wakker
  (Groningen).
• “A New Hellenistic Poetry Book:  P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309,” published by invitation on the APA web site (www.apaclassics.org)
• “Posidippus on Statuary.” In Papiro de Posidippo un anno dopo:  Atti del convegno internazionale di studi, a cura di Guido Bastianini and A. Casanova.  Studi e Testi de Papirologia, N.S. 4. Florence, 2002.  Pp. 41-60.
• “Visual Aesthetics in Meleager and Cavafy,” Classical and Modern Literature 32 (2003) 67-87.
• “Niconoe’s Rainbow (Posidippus 6 Austin-Bastianini),” ZPE 145 (2003) 44-46.
• “A New Hellenistic Poetry Book:  P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309,” in Labored in PapyrusLeaves: Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Posidippus, edited by B. Acosta- Hughes, E. Kosmetatou, andM. Baumbach, and (Washington, D. C., 2004).  Pp. 84-93.
• “Meleager as an Erotic Dolphin:  A Reading of AP 12.52,” Hermathena. 171.1 (2003) forthcoming.
• “Seeing Thought:  Timomachus’ Medea and Ecphrastic Epigram,” 52 pages in ms., accepted by American Journal of Philology
• “Gender and Inscribed Epigram:  Herennia Procula and the Worship of Thespian Eros,”forthcoming in Transactions of the American Philological Association, 134.2 (2004).
• “Introduction,” The New Posidippus:  A Hellenistic Poetry Book (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2005).  Pp. 1-16.
• “The Literariness of the Milan Papyrus, or ‘What Difference a Book?’,” The New Posidippus: A Hellenistic Poetry Book (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2005).  Pp. 287-319.
• “The Herdsman in Greek Thought,” in Brill's Companion to Greek and Latin Pastoral, edited by Marco Fantuzzi and Theodore Papanghelis.  Leiden/Boston:  Brill, 2006. Pp. 1-23.
• "Learning and Love in the Epigrams of Meleager," Συγχάρματα:  Studies in Honour of Jan Fredrik Kindstrand, in Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Studia Graeca Upsaliensia 21. Edited by Sten Eklund. Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet, 2006.  Pp. 67-85. Electronic version at http://publications.uu.se/abstract.xsql?dbid=7335.
• "The Bucolic Problem," Classical Philology 101 (2006) 380-404.
• "The Paradox of Amatory Epigram," in Brill's Companion to Hellenistic Epigram, edited by Peter Bing and Jon Bruss (Leiden:  Brill, 2007).  Pp. 313-32.
• “Forward” to Lucia Floridi, Stratone di Sardi, Epigrammi (Alessandrina:  Orso, 2007), pp. ix-xiv.
• "Images poétiques et reminiscences artistiques dans les épigrammes de Méléagre," forthcoming in Métamorphoses du regard ancient, edited by Évelyne Prioux and Agnès Rouveret (Paris).
• "Heroic Epitaphs of the Classical Age:  The Aristotelian Peplos and Beyond," to appear in Audh tecnhessa litho. Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram, edited by Andrej Petrovic and Ivana Petrovic, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
• “Literary Criticism,” to appear in The Blackwell Companion to Hellenistic Literature, edited by J. Clauss and M. Cuipers.  Oxford:  Blackwell Publishing.

Current Projects

• Critical edition and commentary for epigrams of Meleager; under contract with Oxford University Press.
• Essay entitled “Catullus and the Garland of Meleager” invited to appear in a volume on Catullus, edited by Tony Woodman and Ian duQuesnay; proposal accepted by Cambridge University Press.
• Essay entitled “All in the Family:  Forgiveness and Reconciliation in New Comedy,” invited to appear in a volume on forgiveness in the ancient world, edited by Charles Griswold and David Konstan.
• Essay entitled "Apelles and the Language of Painting" to appear in a volume in the Rethymnon Classical Studies, edited by Michael Pascalis and Marco Fantuzzi.

Book Reviews

• Jaan Puhvel, Comparative Mythology, Classical World 82 (1989) 476-77.
• David M. Halperin, One Hundred Years of Homosexuality: and Other Essays on Greek Love, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2 (1991) 14-16.
• Sally MacEwen, ed., Views of Clytemnestra: Ancient and Modern. Classical World 85 (1991) 126.
• Pomeroy, Sarah, ed., Women's History and Ancient History. Classical World 85 (1992) 726-27.
• Francis M. Dunn and Thomas Cole, eds., Beginnings in Classical Literature, Yale Classical Studies, 29. Classical World 86 (1993) 370.
• Oliver Taplin, Homeric Soundings: The Shaping of the Iliad. Classical World 87 (1994) 331-32.
• Therese Fuhrer, Die Auseinandersetzung mit den Chorlyrikern in den Epinikien des Kallimachos. American Journal of Philology 116 (1995) 146-49.
• J. Peradotto, ed., Bakhtin and Ancient Studies: Dialogues and Dialogies. Classical World 89 (1996) 232.
• Mary Douglas, In the Wilderness. Religion 26 (1996) 77-81.
• Paul Allen Miller, Lyric Texts and Lyric Consciousness and M. L. West, Greek Lyric Poetry. Classical World 90 (1996) 72-73.
• David Sider, The Epigrams of Philodemus. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 9 (1998).
• Paul Alpers, What Is Pastoral? and Richard Hunter, Theocritus and the Archaeology of Greek Poetry. Classical World 91 (1998) 444-45.
• Walter Steinbichler, Die Epigramme des Dichters Straton von Sardes: Ein Beitrag zum griechischen paiderotischen Epigramm. Classical World 93 (1999) 221-23.
• Guido Bastianini and Claudio Gallazzi, eds., with Colin Austin, Posidippo di Pella: Epigrammi (P.Mil. Vogl. VIII 309) and Colin Austin and Guido Bastianini, eds., Posidippi Pellaei quae supersunt omnia.  Classical World 97 (2003) 101-103.
• R. J. Clare, The Path of the Argo: Imagery and Narrative in the “Argonautica” of Apollonius Rhodius. Classical Philology 98 (2003) 301-305.
• Hans Bernsdorff, Hirten in der nicht-bukolischen Dichtung des Hellenismus. Gnomon 76 (2004) 63-66.
• John Vaio, The Mythiambi of Babrius.  Notes on the Consitution of the Text. Spudasmata Band 83.  Classical Review 54 (2004) 342-43.
• Gideon Nisbet, Greek Epigram in the Roman Empire: Martial's Forgotten
  Rivals (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2003).  Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.01.19.
• Valentina Garulli, Il Peri poiêtôn di Lobone di Argo (Bologna:  Pàtron Editore, 2004). Bryn Mawr Classical Review.  2008.01.48.

Scholarly Lectures

• "The Transformation of Epic in the Hellenistic Epyllion," University of Cincinnati, January 1978.
• "The Latin Epyllion: A Question of Origins," CAMWS, Columbus, Ohio, April 9,
  1983.
• "Form and Meaning in Theocritus' Idyll 6," APA, Toronto, December 30, 1984.
• "Changing Personae and Cohesive Design in Propertius' Book 4," University of Cincinnati, February 21, 1985.
• "Propertius' Lena Poem," Miami University, March 26, 1985.
• "Propertius 4.5," CAMWS, Minneapolis, April 12, 1985.
• "Poetic Mutability and Religious Obsolescence: Vertumnus in Propertius 4.2,"
  CAMWS, Tampa, April 18, 1986.
• "Ancient Bucolic Poetry: The Study of a New Genre," Case Western Reserve, October 2, 1986.
• "The Semantic Range of Bucolic in Theocritus," APA, New York, December 29, 1987.
• "Comatas' Victory in Idyll 5," CAMWS, New Orleans, April 8, 1988.
• "The Herdsman as an Analogy for the Poet in Early Greek Poetry," Ohio Classical Conference, Kent State, October 28, 1988.
• "Echoes of Erinna in Voices of Lament," panel on Polyphony of Voice in Hellenistic Poetry, Case Western Reserve, December 1, l988 and APA, Baltimore, January 8, 1989.
• "Genre Development and Gendered Voices in Hellenistic Poetry," C. W. Keeling Memorial Lecture, Case Western Reserve University, February 12, 1990.
• "The Animal Epitaphs of Anyte," CAMWS, Columbia, Missouri, April 5, 1990.
• "Theodotus, Philo the Elder, and Ezekiel as Hellenistic Poets," for Panel on Hellenistic Jewish Poets, Society for Biblical Literature, New Orleans, November 19, 1990.
• "The Nautilus and Selenaia: Callimachus Epigram 5 Pf. = 14 G-P," CAMWS,
  Hamilton, Ontario, April 5, 1991.
• "From Stone to Book: The Literary Art of the Hellenistic Epigram," University of
  Cincinnati, December 5, 1991.
• "Dynamics of Gender and Power in Hellenistic Poetry: Male Poets and Female Queens," Berkshire Conference on Women and History, Vassar College, June 11, 1993.
• "The Dice Game of the Erotes: Asclepiades' Epigram Book," Symposium on Greek Epigram, Emory University, November 12, 1993.
• "The Catullan Context of C. 66," CAMWS, Atlanta, April 6, 1994.
• "The Evidence for Theocritean Poetry Books," Workshop on Theocritus, Groningen, Netherlands, September 1, 1994.
• Commentator on Rolf Rendtorff, "Leviticus as a Book," Conference on Leviticus, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, England, May 31, 1995.
• "Continuing Survival: Tenure and After," National Women's Studies Association, Norman, Oklahoma, June 22, 1995.
• "Hellenistic Epigram Books: The Case of Leonidas," University of Cincinnati,
  November 28, 1995; Ohio State University, May 23, 1996.
• "The Theme of Poverty in Leonidas," APA, San Diego, December 30, 1995.
• "Meleager: A Menippean Epigrammatist," Conference on Genre and Hellenistic Poetry at University of Groningen, August 29, 1996.
• "Cleopatra's Ring," APA, New York, December 28, 1996.
• "The Poetics of Editing," CAMWS, Boulder, Colorado, April 3, 1997.
• "The Tragic Mask of Comedy: A Reading of Menander's Aspis," CAMWS,
  Cleveland, Ohio, April 15, 1999.
• "Royal and Civic Virtues: The Case of Forgiveness in Menander," APA, Dallas, TX, December 30, 1999; University of Cincinnati, April 25, 2000.
• "Timomachus' Medea and Ecphrastic Epigram," CAMWS, Knoxville,Tenn., April 7, 2000.
• “Art’s Echo:  The Tradition of Hellenistic Ecphrastic Epigram,” University of Uppsala, Sweden, May 4, 2000.
• “Forgiveness in Menander,” University of Uppsala, Sweden, May 5, 2000.
• “Art’s Echo:  The Tradition of Greek Ecphrastic Epigram,” University of Groningen, Sept. 1, 2000.
• “Euripides, Timomachus, and Ecphrastic Epigram,” Stanford University, May 10, 2001.
• “The Gendering of Inscription: Herennia Procula and the Thespian Eros,” The Inaugural Goodwin Award Lecture, University of Cincinnati, Oct. 10, 2001.
• “Herennia Procula and the Thespian Eros,” University of Pennsylvania, Oct. 25, 2001.
• “A New Hellenistic Poetry Book:  P.Mil.Vogl. VIII 309,” APA, Philadelphia, Jan. 5, 2002.
• “Herennia Procula and the Cult of Thespian Eros,” Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, Jan. 24, 2002.
• “Implications of Bucolic,” University of Leeds, Jan. 25, 2002.
• “Visual Aesthetics in Cavafy and the Greek Anthology,” University of Michigan, March 16, 2002.
• “Structure and Ecphrasis in the Andriantopoiika Section of the Milan Papyrus,” Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C., April 20, 2002.
• “Medea in Art and Text:  Euripides, Timomachus, and Ecphrastic Epigram,” Kalamazoo College, April 30, 2002.
• “Herennnia Procula and the Thespian Eros,” University of Washington, May 10, 2002.
• “Posidippus and the Tradition of Ecphrastic Epigram,” Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy, June 13, 2002.
• “Ecphrastic Epigram and the New Posidippus Papyrus,” Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, June 25, 2002.
• “Gendering Inscription:  Herennia Procula and the Thespian Eros,” Brown University, October 9, 2002.
• “The Literariness of the New Posidippus or What Difference a Book,” conference entitled “The New Posidippus:  A Hellenistic Poetry Book,” University of Cincinnati, Nov. 9, 2002.
• “Posidippus on Statuary,” University Lecture at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, March 26, 2003.
• “How Learned Is Meleager?” paper given for the Michaelmas term seminar on Learned in Verse or Learning for Verse -- the Hellenistic and Roman Poeta Doctus,”at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, October 29, 2003.
• “Implications of Bucolic,” University of California at Berkeley, March 29, 2004.
• “Scholars and Poets:  One Hundred Year of Scholarship on Hellenistic Poetry,” Classical Assoication of the Middle West and South, St. Louis, April 16, 2004, invited lecture for Centennial Presidential Panel
• “Seeing Thought:  Epigrams on Timomachus’ Medea,” Leeds Classical Seminar on Epigram, University of Leeds, May 14, 2004
  
• “The Herdsman from Homer to Theocritus:  Pastoral and Before,” École Normale Supérieure, Paris, December 2, 2004.
• “Visions érotiques dans les épigrammes de Méléagre,” Université de Paris X, Paris, December 10, 2004.
• “A New Epigram Papyrus and the Origins of Poetry Books, ” École Normale Supérieure and Institut National d’Histoire and l’Art, Paris, December 14, 2004.
• “Meleager as Learned Poet and Psychologist of Love,” University of Nijmegen, Netherlands, December 22, 2004.
• "Heroic Epitaphs of the Classical Age:  The Aristotelian Peplos and Beyond," Conference on Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram, University of Giessen, April 8, 2005.
• "The New Posidippus Papyrus," Summer Papyrological Institute, Cincinnati, July 8, 2005.
• "Hellenistic Literary Theory and Hellenistic Poetry," Plenary Session Address, Joint Committee of the Greek and Roman Societies Triennial Conference, Cambridge, July 27, 2005.
• "The Paradox of Amatory Epigram:  Origins and Development," Charles Gordon MacKay Lecture, Conference on "Creating the Hellenistic World," University of Edinburgh, February 25, 2006.
• "Posidippus and Hellenistic Epigram Books," Oberseminar "Texte in
  Sammlungszusammenhängen" of the Internationales Diktorandenkolleg "Textualität in der Vormoderne," Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Munich, July 11, 2006.
  
• "Ecphrastic Elements and Erotic Vision in the Epigrams of Meleager," Das antike Epigramm, Colloquium, Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Munich, July 15, 2006.
• "Hellenistic Poetry and Aesthetic Theory," Workshop on Hellenistic Literature and Aesthetics, University of Michigan, September 16, 2006.
• “The Theory and Practice of Hellenistic Poetry,” Emory University, March 1, 2007.
• “Seeing Love:  Eros in Hellenistic Art and Epigram,” University of Southern California,November 16, 2007.
• “Poetic and Artistic Imagery in the Epigrams of Meleager,” Ohio State University, February 25, 2008.

Panels and Conferences Organized

• Voice and Poetic Tone in Hellenistic Poetry, Panel presented at the American Philological Assoication, Baltimore, January 8, 1989.
• Feminism and Classics, Symposium co-organized with Ann Michelini, University of Cincinnati, November 5-7, 1992.
• Ohio Classical Conference Annual Meeting, Vernon Manor Hotel, Cincinnati, November 3-5, 1994.
• Urbanization in the Hellenistic World, Three-year colloquium co-organized with J. Clauss, M. Depew, C. Faraone, N. Krevans, and A. Sens, APA annual meetings for 1997-99.
• The New Posidippus, Special Panel presented at the American PhilologicalAssociation in Philadelphia, co-organized with Alex Sens, January 5, 2002.
• Workshop on Hellenistic Epigram, University of Cincinnati, October 15, 2003.
• Semple Symposium entitled “The New Posidippus:  A New Hellenistic Poetry Book,” held on Nov. 7-9, 2002 at the Vernon Manor Hotel
• Workshops on Hellenistic Poetry, Art, and Aesthetics, co-organized with Susan Stephens and Benjamin Acosta-Hughes; University of Michigan, September 16, 2006; University of Cincinnati, September 29, 2007, and to be held at Stanford University (Winter 2008).

Other Presentations and Participation

• Lecture on “Constellations and Mythology,” Cincinnati Astronomical Society, May 17, 1985.
• Lecture entitled "'It's Not the Same Thing': Aristophanes and Gender Equity," American Association of University Women, Marshall University, February 20,1993.
• Panelist at the National Women's Studies Association for Panel on Tenure and Promotion of Women, organized by Annette Kolodny and Annis Pratt, University of Oklahoma, 1995.
• Panelist at Classical Association of Atlantic States for Panel on rewriting professional papers as publishable articles, New Brunswick, N.J., October 11, 2002
  
• Interview on "All Things Considered" (NPR) with Steve Inskeep, December 1, 2002 , at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=863220
  
• Interview on Posidippus papyrus with "As It Happens" (CBC), December 5, 2002 at http://www.cbc.ca/insite/AS_IT_HAPPENS_TORONTO/2002/12/5.html
• Invited participant in Library Fund conference on “Library, Responsibility, and Forgiveness,” organized by Charles Griswold and David Konstan, San Francisco, June 14-17, 2007.
• Invited participant in Writing Greek Commentaries Workshop, organized by S. Doug Olson and Alex Sens, University of Minnesota, October 19-20, 2007.
• Organizer (with Justina Gregory) of Roundtable on “Publishing in the APA Monograph or Textbook Series” at APA in Chicago, January 5, 2008.

Editorial Boards

• Cincinnati Classical Series, 1995-present.
• Hellenistica Groningana, 1996-present.
• APA Monograph Series, 2006-(2010), Editor
• Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, Advisory Board (2007-12)

Publication Review Work

• Princeton University Press 1980
• Transactions of the American Philological Association 1990
• University of Oklahoma Press 1994
• Classical Journal 1995, 2004
• University of California Press, Berkeley 2000, 2002
• University of Wisconsin Press 1992
• Classical Antiquity 1999
• American Journal of Philology 2003, 2007
• Cambridge University Press 2003, 2007
• Helios 2004
• Oxford University Press 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 (bis)
• Materiali e Discussioni 2004, 2007
• Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 2006, 2007

Research Evaluation Work

• Academy of Finland Research Council, referee, 2004
  NEH Fellowships Panel, for Classical and Ancient Studies, Washington, DC, August 7, 2007
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Research Grant Application,evaluator, January 2008.

Courses Taught

• Graduate: Ancient Pastoral (seminar), Greek Elegy, Lyric, and Iambic Poetry, Sophocles, Euripides, Euripides (seminar), Comparative Grammar of Latin and Greek, Hellenistic Poetry (seminar), Vergil, Roman Elegy (seminar), Aristophanes, Greek Sight Reading, Greek Epigram (seminar), Callimachus (seminar), Roman Satire, Lucretius, Ancient Poetry Books (seminar), Homer (seminar), Propertius (seminar), Hellenistic Poetry; Literary Theory (interdisciplinay); Menander (seminar), Apollonius’ Argonautica (seminar), Ancient Novel (seminar), Ovid’s Metamorphoses (seminar), Greek Epic Poetry, Thucydides, Ancient Literary Criticism (seminar), Pindar (seminar), Greek Ecphrases (seminar), Greek Philosophical Prose (Plato’s Republic), Homeric Language.
• Undergraduate Language: Elementary Greek, Attic Prose, Xenophon and Plato, Greek Orators, Iliad, Odyssey, Tragedy, Elementary Latin, Intermediate Latin, Roman Epistolography, Aeneid, Roman Lyric Poetry, Latin Prose Composition, Lucretius, Catullus, Tacitus, Herodotus.
• Undergraduate Lecture: Classical Mythology, Classical Literature I and II (Greek and Roman), Classical Civilization (Greek), Religion and Myth in Rome, Vocabulary Building from Latin and Greek Roots.

Theses Directed

• Karen Haegemans, M.A., Character Drawing in Menander’s "Dyscolus":  Misanthropy and Philanthropy (2000)
• David Johnson, M.A., Mythical Exempla and Role Playing in Ovid’s "Tristia” (2000)
• Michael Klabunde, Ph.D., Boys or Women?  The Rhetoric of Sexual Preference in Achilles Tatius, Plutarch, and Pseudo-Lucian (2001)
• Gary Berkowitz, Ph.D., Narrative Problems in Apollonius Rhodius (2002)
• Dana Munteanu, Ph.D.,  Ancient Spectator of Tragedy:  Facets of Emotion, Pleasure, and Learning (2004)
• Joel Hatch, Ph.D., Poetic Voices and Hellenistic Antecedents in the Elegies of Propertius (2006)
• Steven Self, M.A. The Fragile Self in Theocritus (in progress)
  Alder Brannin, M. A., The Figure of Creusa in Greek and Latn Literature (2008)
• Valentina Popescu, Ph.D., Paxadoxography, Paradoxology, and the Aesthetics of Paradox in Lucian (in progress)
• Patrick Beasom, Ph.D., The Theme of Transgressive Viewing in Roman Literature (in progress)

Doctoral Dissertation Committees

D. Levine, 1980 (Greek literature), V. Petrick, 1980 (Greek literature); A. Leen, 1980 (Latin literature); C. Frost, 1980 (Greek literature), J. Gabbert, 1982 (Hellenistic history); W. Finney, 1985 (Latin literature); M. Cummins, 1993 (Greek literature); Peter Anderson, 2002 (Latin literature), Évelyne Prioux, 2004 (Greek and Latin literature, archaeology; at Université de Paris X); Kristine Trego (in progress).

Service

National, Regional, and State:

• Editor of APA Monograph Series, 2006-2010
• Director of American Philological Association, 2002-2005
• APA Committee on the Status of Women and Minority Groups
  • Member, 1997-2000
  • Chair, 1999-2000
• Liaison to Placement Committee, 1999-2000
• Liaison to Women's Classical Caucus, 1999-2000.
• Gildersleeve Prize Judge, for American Journal of Philology, 2001-2004. Chair, 2003-2004.
• CAMWS Subcommittee on Grant, Semple, and Benario Travel Awards, 2000-2002. Chair, 2001-2002.
• Ohio Classical Conference,
  • Council Member, 1989-97.
  • Chair, Search Committee for Editor of Humanitas, 1989-90.
  • Second Vice-President, 1991-92
  • Chair, Nominations Committee, 1991-92
  • First Vice-President, 1992-93
  • Chair, Latin Week Committee, 1992-93
  • President, 1993-94.
• Women's Classical Caucus, Membership Chair, 1992-95.
• NWSA's Task Force on Discrimination, Executive Committee, 1989-2004.

Case Western Reserve University:

• Ancient Studies Committee, 1987-88.
• Executive Committee, Humanities and Social Sciences, 1988-89.
• Women's Faculty Association, Steering Committee, 1988-90.
• Faculty Senate, 1989.

University of Cincinnati:

Departmental:

• Undergraduate Committee, 1978-79, 1989-90, 1992-96
• Lecture Committee, 1980-81, 2006-7
• Graduate Committee, 1979-81, 1996-2000, 2006-7
• Director of Graduate Studies, 1980-81
• Library Committee, 1981-85, 1991-92, 2003-4; Chair, 1982-83, 1991-92; Chair, 2003-4; Chair, 2006-7.
• Computer Committee, 1983-85, 1989-90
• Publications Committee, 1991-present
• Executive Committee, 1991-93, 2005-6, 2007-8
• Director of Undergraduate Studies, 1992-96
• RPT Criteria Committee, 1992-94.
  
• Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on General Education, 1992-94.
• Editorial Board of Cincinnati Classical Series, 1994-present
• Director of Graduate Studies for Philology and History, 1996-2000, 2001-2002.
• Greek TA Mentor, 1996-2000
• Search Committee for Junior Philologist, 1997-98.
• Search Committee for Junior Philologist, 1998-99.
• Search Committee for Junior Philologist/Historian, 2000-1.
• Chair, RPT Committee for Reappointment of Peter van Minnen, 2003-4.
• Chair, Search Committee for Visiting Philologist, 2004
• Search Committee for Roman Archaeologist, 2005-6
• Pedagogy Mentor, 2005-present
• Tytus Fellows Committee, 2005-6
• Chair, Search Committee for Visiting Philologist, 2006
• Chair, Search Committee for Junior Philologist (Tenure-track), 2006-7

Women's Studies Program

• Elected as Women's Studies Faculty, 1991
  • Grants and Awards Committee, 1992-94
  • Nominations Committee, 1995-97
• Faculty Representative to Friends of Women's Studies, 1996-99.

College:

• Advisory Council, 1979-80, 1984-85, 1989-90
• Correlation Committee, 1981-83, 1989-90
• Search Committee for Head of Classics Department, 1981-82
• Chair, Search Committee for Head of Department of Communication Disorders, 1990.
• Search Committee for Blegen Chair, 1992-93.
• Undergraduate Studies Council, 1992-96.
• Headship Review Committee, 1994.
• Search Committee for Head of Department of Germanic  Languages and Literatures, 1996.
• Graduate Council, 1996-2000.
• Design Team, 1996-98.
• Chair, Stakeholders Committee, 1996
• Team Leader, Centrality Team, 1997-98.
• Classics Headship Review committee, 1997.
• Search Committee for Classics Head, 1998-99.
• Search Committee for Classics Head, 1999-2000.
• Selection Committee to for McMicken Dean’s Award for Distinguished Scholarship, 2002.

University:

• University Research Council's Subcommittee on the Humanities and Arts, 1983-84.
• Organized workshop for women graduate students, "Surviving in the Academic World," sponsored by Women's Studies, November 19, 1983; sponsored by Association for Women Faculty, April 20, 1985.
• Lecturer in Continuing Education course Constellations and Mythology, Autumn 1984.
• Numerous invited lectures on women in antiquity and Greek poetry.
  • Association for Women's Faculty
    • Newsletter Editor, 1984-85
    • Vice-President for Support and Advocacy, 1990-91.
    • President, 1997.
    • Board member, 1997-2000
• General Education Course Approval Committee, 1995-96.
• University Distinguished Graduate Assistantships Selection Committee, 1999-2000.
• University Doctoral Investment Awards Committee, 2000
• WomenÆs Leadership Internship in Office of Vice President for Advanced Studies and Graduate Dean, 2000
• Organizer and Chair, Committee on Enhancing Doctoral Education, 2000-2.
• Mentor for junior faculty in History Department, 2000-2001.
• Mentor for junior faculty in Classics Department, 2001-2002.
• Mentor for junior faculty in German Department, 2003-2004.
• Graduate review Committee for Department of Philosophy, 2004.
• Rieveschl Award Committee, 2004-2006, 2007-.
• Graduate Fellows ad loc Committee on Academic Planning Document, 2006.
• Committee for selection of Distinguished Research Professor, 2007, 2008.
• Committee for selection of Recipient of Doctoral Mentoring Award, 2007.
• Mentor for junior faculty in Classics Department, 2007-2008.