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CURRICULUM VITAE

William A. Johnson
william.johnson@uc.edu
Department of Classics
University of Cincinnati
P.O. Box 210226
Cincinnati OH 45221
Tel. (513) 556-1924, fax (513) 556-4366

Education

• PhD in Classical Philology, Yale University (December 1992)
  • Dissertation: The Literary Papyrus Roll: Formats and Conventions. Directed by G. P. Goold.
• MA in Greek Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1981)
  • Thesis: External and Internal Echoes in Terence's Adelphoe. Directed by K. J. Reckford.
• BA in English Literature & Latin Literature, Oberlin College (1978)

Professional Employment

• (1999-  ) University of Cincinnati
  • Head of Department 2004 (acting), 2006-present (elected)
  • (2003-  ) Associate Professor,
  • (1999-2003) Assistant Professor
• (1997-1999) Bucknell University, Lewisburg PA
  • Assistant Professor
• (1996-1997) Ohio University, Athens
  • Assistant Professor
• (1993-1995) University of California, Irvine
  • Director of Research & Assistant Director, Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
  • Lecturer, Classics Department
• (1993) Thesaurus linguae Latinae, Munich, Germany
  • Lexicographer (honorary)
• (1984-1987) Ibycus Corporation
  • Vice President & Director
• (1981-1984) Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, University of California, Irvine
  • Senior Programmer
• In the period 1982-1992, I also acted as systems designer, programmer, and/or consultant for TLG Project, PHI Latin Data Bank, Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri; and as technical editor for the TLG Canon of Greek Authors and Works (Oxford University Press: 1986, 1990).

Awards

• Gildersleeve Prize (2000). Award for "Toward a Sociology of Reading in Classical Antiquity," in American Journal of Philology 121.
• Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies (2005-06)
• National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship (2003-04)
• National Humanities Center (2003-04, declined)
• Center for Hellenic Studies (2003-04, declined)
• Semple Fund Summer Research Grant (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
• John D. and Rose H. Jackson Fellowship (1997). Grant to produce the editio princeps of a papyrus with Greek musical notation in the Beinecke Library, Yale University
• Yale University Graduate School
• Charles A. Parcells Fellowship
• University Fellowships (several years)
• John F. Enders Grant
• Woolsey Travel Fellowship (research at Oxford, Cambridge, London)
• Pogue Fellowship, UNC-Chapel Hill Graduate School
• National Merit Scholar
• Phi Beta Kappa

Research

Publications

Books and Book under contract

• 2004 Bookrolls and Scribes in Oxyrhynchus. University of Toronto Press.
• 2009 Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome. Ed. with Holt Parker. Expected January 2009. In press at Oxford University Press.
• Readers and Reading Culture in Greece and Rome: A Study of Elite Reading Communities in the High Empire. Under contract with Oxford University Press. Delivery date Summer 2008.

Articles, Book Chapters, Reviews

• 2008 (forthcoming) "Hesiod's Theogony: Reading the Proem as a Priamel," Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies.
• 2008 (forthcoming) Review of Larry W. Hurtado, The Earliest Christian Artifacts: Manuscripts and Christian Origins (Eerdmans 2006). Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
• 2008 (forthcoming) Review of Melissa M. Terras. Image to Interpretation. An Intelligent System to Aid Historians in Reading the Vindolanda Texts (Oxford 2006).Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
• 2008 (forthcoming) "Books," "Literacy," "Readers and Reading," articles for the Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome
• 2008 (forthcoming) "The Ancient Book," chapter in the volume, The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology, ed Roger Bagnall. In press at Oxford University Press.
• 2006 “The Story of the Papyri of the Villa dei Papiri,” Journal of Roman Archaeology 19: 493-6. Essay and review of David Sider, The Library of the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum (Getty, 2005).
• 2005 "The Posidippus Papyrus: Bookroll and Reader," in The New Posidippus: A Hellenistic Poetry Book, ed. Kathryn Gutzwiller. Oxford University Press.
• 2004 "Greek Electronic Resources and the Lexicographical Function," in Biblical Greek Language and Lexicography. Eerdmans. 75-84.
• 2003 Review of Musique et posie dans l’antiquité (ed. G.-J. Pinault). Classical Review 53: 463-4.
• 2003 Review of M.L. West, Ancient Greek Music (Oxford University Press, 1992) and Egert Pöhlmann, M.L. West, Documents of Ancient Greek Music (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001) Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.04.08.
• 2002 "Reading cultures and education," in Reading Between the Lines: New Perspectives on Foreign Language Literacies, ed. P. Patrikis. Yale University Press.
• 2002 "P.Hibeh II 193 (Iliad VI 4-7)," Zeitschrift fr Papyrologie und Epigraphik 139: 1-2.
• 2001  "Towards a sociology of reading in classical antiquity." American Journal of Philology 121 (2000): 593-627. Appeared 2001. Winner of the 2000 Gildersleeve Prize.
• 2001  "New instrumental music from Graeco-Roman Egypt," Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 37 (2000): 17-36. Appeared 2001.
• 2000 "Musical Evenings in the Early Empire: New Evidence from a Greek Papyrus with Musical Notation," Journal of Hellenic Studies 120: 57-85.
• 1998 "Dramatic Frame and Philosophic Idea in Plato." The American Journal of Philology 119: 577-598.
• 1998 Review of R. Cribiore, Writing, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt. Classical Philology  93: 276-279.
• 1995 "Oral Performance and the Composition of Herodotus' Histories," Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 35 (1994, appeared Fall 1995) 229-254.
• 1995 "Computer Assisted Instruction in the Learning of Greek and Latin," with J. Conant et al., Bryn Mawr Classical Review 6.1.
• 1994 "The Appian Papyrus from Dura-Europus (P.Dura 2)," with Robert G. Babcock, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 31: 85-88.
• 1994 "Macrocollum," Classical Philology 89: 62-64.
• 1994 "The Function of the Paragraphus in Greek Literary Prose Texts," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 100: 65-68.
• 1994 "Percolare" and "percolere" in Thesaurus linguae Latinae vol. 10, 1, cols. 1215-1217.
• 1994 "Towards an Electronic Greek Historical Lexicon," Emerita 62 253-261.
• 1993 "Pliny the Elder and Standardized Roll Heights in the Manufacture of Papyrus," Classical Philology 88: 46-50.
• 1993 "Column Layout in Oxyrhynchus Literary Papyri: Maas's Law, Ruling and Alignment Dots," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 96: 211-215.
• 1993 "Is Oratory Written on Narrower Columns? A Papyrological Rule of Thumb Reviewed," Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Papyrology (Copenhagen) 423-427.
• 1992 "Multiple Copies of Literary Papyri, Fiber Patterns, and P.Oxy. XLVIII 3376 fr. 44," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 93: 153-154.

Papers

• 2009 Fall. Invited lecture at University of California, Berkeley (Language Center).
• 2008 September. Invited lecture at a conference, Ancient Libraries. University of St Andrews, Scotland.
• 2007 November. "Constructing Elite Reading Communities in Rome." Invited lecture at the American School for Classical Studies, Athens, Greece.
• 2007 October, "Constructing Elite Reading Communities in Rome." Invited lecture at Indiana University, Bloomington.
• 2006 November. “Scholars’ Texts and Reading Communities,” Classics lecture society (speaker elected by the Classics graduate students). University of Chicago.
• 2006 October. "Constructing Elite Reading Communities in Rome." Distinguished Classics Alumnus Lecture, invited at Oberlin College.
• 2006 April. "Constructing Elite Reading Communities in the High Empire." Lecture at a Semple Symposium, Constructing Literacy among the Greeks and Romans. Cincinnati.
• 2003 October. "The Posidippus Papyrus: Bookroll and Reader." "Seminar: Ancient Greek Music." Invited lecture and seminar at the University of California, Berkeley.
• 2003 April. "The Posidippus Papyrus: Bookroll and Reader." Invited lecture at the University of Illinois (Champagne-Urbana).
• 2002 November. "Bookrolls, readers, and the Posidippus papyrus." Invited lecture at the symposium on Posidippus at University of Cincinnati.
• 2002 January, "Commentary on Plato," at the panel, Plato as a Literary Author, presented at the American Philological Association meeting (Philadelphia, PA).
• 2001 October "Scholars and readers in Greco-Roman Egypt," invited lecture at the conference on Editing Ancient Texts at the University of Toronto.
• 2000 October "From papyrus to song: the discovery of two new fragments of ancient Greek music," invited lecture at Ohio University (Athens, Ohio).
• 2000 April "New discoveries in ancient Greek music," invited lecture at Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, Ohio).
• 1999 February "Did the Greeks and Romans read silently or aloud?" seminar presentation at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ).
• 1998 December "A New Greek Musical Papyrus (Beinecke CtYBR inv. 4510)," presented at the American Society of Papyrologists session at the American Philological Association meeting (Washington D.C.).
• 1998 November "Musical Evenings in the Early Empire: New Evidence from a Greek Papyrus with Musical Notation," invited lecture at Cornell University (Ithaca, New York).
• 1998 October "Reading Cultures and Education," invited lecture at a national conference, "Transformations: Technology, Foreign Languages, and Undergraduate Education" sponsored by Yale and MIT (Cambridge, Mass.).
• 1998 September "Paradigm Shifts: The Sociology of Reading in Ancient Greece and in Today's Computer Age," invited lecture at a conference, Anthos: A Symposium in honor of Nathan A. Greenberg, Oberlin College (Oberlin, Ohio).
• 1996 December "A new papyrus with musical notation: P. CtYBR 4510," informal lecture at the Greco-Roman lunch, Calhoun College, Yale University (New Haven, Conn.).
• 1996 February "When is a poem a poem? The Augustan poetry book and problems of poem division in Propertius and Ovid," invited lecture at Douglass College, Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ).
• 1995 November "Greek Electronic Resources and the Lexicographical Function," invited lecture for the panel on Resources for Biblical Lexicography at the annual meeting of the Society for Biblical Literature (Philadelphia, Penn.).
• 1994 May "Oral Performance and the Composition of Herodotus' Histories," Classics Department colloquium, University of California, Irvine. An earlier and oral version of the paper published in GRBS (supra).
• 1993 December "Towards an Electronic Greek Historical Lexicon," invited lecture at the Conference on Greek and Latin Lexicography, University of California, Irvine. An oral version of the paper published in Emerita (supra).
• 1993 October "The Aesthetic of the Luxury Book Roll," invited lecture at the Conference on the Greek and Roman Book, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minn.). (Publication pending decision.)
• 1992 August "Is Oratory Written on Narrower Columns? A Papyrological Rule of Thumb Reviewed," presented at the 20th International Congress of Papyrology (Copenhagen, Denmark).
• 1989 April "A Computer for the Classics: The Design Philosophy of the Ibycus Scholarly Personal Computer," invited lecture at Oberlin College (Oberlin, Ohio).

Contributions to Electronic Resources in the Classics

• Co-developer (1984-1987, with David Packard) of the Ibycus Scholarly Personal Computer, the first computer to allow the editing, search, and retrieval of classical texts in a fully integrated desktop package; and one of the first two companies in the United States to market an application to CDROM technology.
• Co-designer (1984-1992, with David Packard and Wilkins Poe) of the indices and other subsystems which permit rapid and discerning selection and retrieval of TLG and PHI texts on CDROM.
• Co-developer (1981-1984, with David Packard) of the intelligent, Greek-specific software which managed the correction of the TLG data bank.

Teaching

Graduate seminars: Villa Culture in (2008), Hesiod (2007), Pliny the Younger and the Construction of Culture (2005, 2000), Lucian and Historiography (2003), Ancient Libraries (2002), Herodotus the Traveler (2001), Greek Papyri and the early Transmission of Greek Texts (1995), Books, Readers, and Reading in ancient Greece (1994), Classics and Computing (1993)

Graduate courses: Roman Comedy (2007), Plato, Phaedrus (2005, private reading), Herodotus (2003, 2004, private readings), Plato, Protagoras (2003), History of Greek Prose (2001), Lucretius (2001), Tacitus (2001)

Graduate and advanced Undergraduate courses: Quintilian (2006, 1999), Introduction to Plato (2002), Homer: Odyssey (2002), Homer: Iliad (2003, 2001, 1994), Herodotus (2003), Attic Prose (1999, 1998, 1995), Plato’s Gorgias (1998, private reading), Latin Epistolography (2001), Roman Elegy (2002), Cicero (2001), Sophocles (1998), Documents illuminating the History of the Early Church (1999), Vergil (1996), Roman Comedy (1995)

Civilization courses: Myth, Reason, and Faith (1998), Ancient Epic: Tales of Heroes (1998), Classical Mythology (1997, 1995), Greek Tragedy (1997, 1996), Word Etymology (1996), Greek Civilization (1995)

Service (selected)

Panels and Conferences organized

• Organizer of a Semple Symposium, Constructing Literacy among the Greeks and Romans (Cincinnati, April 2006)
• Organizer of APA panel on "Classics, Computers, and Pedagogy" (New York, December 1996)
• Organizer of APA panel on "Classics and the Internet" (San Diego, December 1995)

Professional Societies

• American Philological Association (life member)
• American Society of Papyrologists
• Association internationale de papyrologues
• Egypt Exploration Society
• Phi Beta Kappa

National Service (selected)

• Board of Directors, Packard Humanities Institute (1996- )
• Board of Directors, Secretary-Treasurer, American Society of Papyrologists (2000- )
• Interim Director, Kea Excavations (2007- )
• American Philological Association
• APA representative to the Ancient World Mapping Center (2001- )
• L'Année philologique Advisory Board (1999- 2002, 2006- )
• DCB Advisory Board (1998-2005)
• APA Research Committee (1997-2000)
• APA Committee on Computer Activities (1994-96; Chair, 1995-96)
• APA Education Committee (1995-6)
• APA Committee on Non-print Publications (1995-6)
• Classics, Teaching, and Technology subcommittee (1995-6)
• Subcommittee to oversee development of an APA web site (1996)

Publication and Project Review

• Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities (2006)
• Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities (1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004)
• Reviewer, Wellcome Trust (2004, 2007)
• Reviewer, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2007)
• Publications review
• Classical Philology
• Illinois Classical Studies
• Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
• Communication Review
• P. Tebtunis
• American Studies in Papyrology

Theses and Dissertations

• Peter Anderson, "'Fame is the Spur': Memoria, Gloria, and Poetry among the Elite in Flavian Rome (PhD, 2002) Chair
• Gary Berkowitz, "Narrative Problems in Apollonius' Argonautica" (PhD, 2002)
• Joel Hatch, "Propertius' Elegiac Voice and Hellenistic Poetry" (PhD, 2006)
• Carrie Galsworthy, "Fire in Empedocles" (PhD, in progress)
• Elizabeth McNearney, "Domitian: The Making of a Tyrant" (MA, 2005)
• Valentina Popescu, "Paradoxography, Paradoxology, and the Aesthetics of Paradox in Lucian" (PhD, in progress)
• Mark Atwood, "Trajan's Column: The Construction of Trajan's Sepulcher in Urbe" (MA, 2006)
• Brian Sowers, "Eudocia: The Making of a Homeric Christian" (PhD, in progress)
• Jason Soenksen, "From Paenitentia to Patientia: Psalm 37 (MT 38) and Psalm 38 (MT 39) from Origen through the Classical Patristic Age" (PhD, HUC, in progress)
• John Ryan, "Rhetoric and Characterization in Sallust's Bellum Jugurthum" (MA, in progress) Chair