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Athens, Acropolis Museum; photo B. LaForse

   

Gregory Dobrov, Associate Professor


Office: Crown Center 555
Phone: 773.508.3655
E-mail: gdobrov@luc.edu

Degrees: B.Th., Holy Trinity Seminary; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University

Interests: History and criticism of ancient theater, lyric poetry, Second Sophistic, Byzantine literature, critical theory, linguistics

Work in Progress: Two long-range projects: One on historical linguistics, the other on the theory and practice of satire

Selected Publications:

  • Beyond Aristophanes (Scholars Press 1995)
  • The City As Comedy (Chapel Hill, 1997)
  • Figures of Play (Oxford, 2001)
  • A Companion to the Study of Greek Comedy (Brill, forthcoming 2009) - including "Comedy and her Critics"
  • "Comedy and the Satyr-Chorus," Classical World 100.3 (2007) 251-65.
  • "The Sophist on His Craft: Art, Text, and Self-Construction in Lucian," Helios 29.2 (2002) 173-92.
  • "Mageiros Poietes: Language and Character in Antiphanes," in The Language of Greek Comedy, A. Willi, ed., 167-90 (Oxford 2002).

Recent and Upcoming Talks:

  • "Comic Lethe and Poetic Truth", Why Like Lies? (Hesiod, Theogony 26-8) - Truths in the Fictions of Greek and Roman Literature - A Symposium by students of Pietro Pucci, Cornell University, 17-18 April 2009.
  • Response to Robert Wallace, Northwestern University, "Counterpoint Athens," inaugural lecture and roundtable for the 2008-2010 Andrew Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar Series, Northwestern University, October 2008.
  • "The Dionysalexandros of Cratinus: Parody and Poetics of Old Comedy," invited lecture at the Celtic Classical Conference, University College, Cork, July 2008. 
  • "Satyrs in Drama: Cross-Generic Hybrids in Comedy," invited lecture, Helsinki University, March 2008.
  • "The Satyrs of Cratinus," Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, January 2008.
  • "The Eight Modes of Byzantine Song: a Living Fossil of Deep Antiquity," Medieval Studies Center, Loyola University Chicago, 5 November 2007.

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Laura Gawlinski, Assistant Professor


Office: Crown Center 563
Phone: 773.508.3657
E-mail: lgawlinski@luc.edu

Degrees: B.A., Randolph-Macon College; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University

Academic Interests: Greek religion, epigraphy, archaeology and topography

Current Projects:

Representative Publications:

  • "'Fashioning' Initiates: Dress at the Mysteries." In Reading a Dynamic Canvas: Adornment in the Ancient Mediterranean World. edited by M. Heyn and C. Colburn, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
  • "The Athenian Calendar of Sacrifices: A New Fragment from the Athenian Agora." Hesperia 76 (2007): 37-55.

Recent and Forthcoming Papers:

  • "Finding the Sacred in Greek Sacred Law," What's Religious about Ancient Mediterranean Religions? Inaugural Meeting of the Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome, 28 June 2009
  • "Take My Wife, Please: Dangerous Comedy in Lysias I," APA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 2009
  • "Securing the Sacred: The Accessibility and Control of Attic Sanctuaries," CAMWS Annual Meeting, Tucson, 2008
  • "Property of the Gods: Managing Sacred Space in Ancient Greece," McMaster University, Keynote Address for Second Annual Undergraduate Classics Conference, 2008
  • "The Sanctuary of the Andanian Mysteries, Inside and Out," AIA/APA Annual Meeting Joint Panel, American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, San Diego, 2007
   

Pat Graham-Skoul, Adjunct Professor


Office: Crown Center 577
Phone: 773.508.3647
E-mail: pgraha1@luc.edu

Degrees: A.B., Loyola University Chicago; M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University

Teaching and Research Interests:

  • Greek Lyric Poetry; Epics and Tragedy, Mythology
  • Ethics, Emotions, Rhetoric
  • Influences of Gender and Social Constructs

Online Course Descriptions and Class Syllabi:

Recent Activities:

  • Organized annual performance of the play in Latin, Exitium Caesaris
  • Organized Public Reading of Aeschylus' Oresteia
  • Organized Student Panel on Euripides' Medea
  • Served as Fellow in Loyola's Center for Ethics

Recent Papers:

  • "Internet Interaction: Student Projects and Teacher Web Pages," American Classical League, June 2000
  • "Taking Care of Family Members While Maintaining a Career: Limitations and Reciprocities," Classics and Feminism 3, May 2000
  • "Ancient Greek Women Poets and Women's Studies," panel presentation with undergraduate students, National Women's Studies Association, June 1999

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Jim Keenan, Professor


Office: Crown Center 573
Phone: 773.508.3665
E-mail: jkeenan@luc.edu

On leave F08

Degrees: A.B., College of the Holy Cross; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University

Academic Interests: Papyrology, Roman Law, Byzantine Egypt

Recent Honors and Responsibilities:

  • Cooperating Partner, project on Imperium and Bureaucracy sponsored for the University of Vienna by the Austrian National Science Foundation
  • Onassis Senior Visiting Scholar by award of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, directing the American Society of Papyrologists' Summer Institute in Papyrology focusing on Byzantine and Coptic Egypt, 1-31 July 2009

Current Research:

  • "'Tormented Voices': P.Cair.Masp. I 67002," for the Acta of the Colloque International sur les Archives de Dioscore d'Aphrodite, Strasbourg, France, 8-10 December 2005.
  • Edition of BM 1075: A Sixth-Century Tax Register from the Hermopolite, with Roger S. Bagnall and Leslie S. B. MacCoull.
  • Excavating at Tebtunis, 1899-1902, supplementary volume to The Tebtunis Papyri, centered upon Crum notebook 67 in the Griffith Institute, Oxford, with Todd M. Hickey and Dominic Rathbone.
  • Co-editor, Law and Justice in Egypt from Alexander to the Arab Conquest 332 BC-640 AD (Cambridge UP), with J. G. Manning and Uri Liftach-Firanko.
  • Translation of al-Nabulsi's Tarikh al-Fayyum, with Petra Sijpesteijn and Lennart Sundelin.

Representative Publications:

  • "Egypt's 'Special Place'," in Edmund P. Cueva, Shannon N. Byrne, and Frederick Joseph Benda, S. J., eds., Jesuit Education and the Classics (Cambridge Scholars 2009).
  • "The History of the Discipline," in Roger S. Bagnall, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology (Oxford 2009)
  • "Egyptian Villages in the 13th Century. Al-Nabulsi's Tarikh al-Fayyum," Les villages dans l'empire et le monde byzantins (Ve-XVe siecle), edd. Cecile Morrison and Jean-Pierre Sodini, 567-576, Realites byzantines 11 (Editions Lethielleux 2005).
  • "P.Lond. V 1876 desc.: Which Landowner?" with Todd M. Hickey, Chronique d'Egypte 79 (2004) 247-254.
  • Introductory chapter, with Ann E. Hanson and assistance from Todd M. Hickey, Egypt from Alexander to the Copts: An Archaeological and Historical Guide, ed. Roger S. Bagnall and Dominic W. Rathbone (BM Press and Getty Museum 2004).
  • "Deserted Villages: From the Ancient to the Medieval Fayyum," BASP 40 (2003) 119-39.

Recent and Upcoming Papers:

  • "Byzantine Egypt: State of the Questions," panel on Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and early Byzantine Egypt sponsored by the American Society of Papyrologists, Annual Meeting of the AIA/APA, Orange County, California, 7 January 2010.
  • "Egypt's 'Special Place'," conference "At the Edges of Empire: Interpreting the Marginal Areas of the Roman Empire," The University of Chicago, Program in the Ancient Mediterranean World, February 17-19, 2006.
  • "'Tormented Voices': P.Cair.Masp. I 67002," Colloque International sur les Archives de Dioscore d'Aphrodite, organized by Jean-Luc Fournet, Strasbourg, France, December 8-10, 2005.
Personal Interests: Golf, Guitar

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Brian Lavelle, Professor and acting Undergraduate Program Director


Office: Crown Center 553
Phone: 773.508.3660
E-mail: blavell@luc.edu

Degrees: B.A., University of California San Diego; M.A., University of California Davis; Ph.D., University of British Columbia

Academic Interests: Archaic Greece: Archilochos and the 7th cent. BCE, Greek History and Archaeology; Greek Tyranny and Athenian Democracy, Popular Consciousness and Communication; Myth and History.

Recent Representative Publications:

    • "The Servant of Enyalios," in Paros II: Archilochos and his Age, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Archaeology of Paros and the Cyclades, D. Katsonopoulou, I. Petropoulos, S. Katsarou, eds. (Athens 2008).
    • "Egypt, Ionia, and the epikouroi," in Edmund P. Cueva, Shannon N. Byrne, and Frederick Joseph Benda, S. J., eds., Jesuit Education and the Classics (Cambridge Scholars 2009).
    • Review of J. H. Blok and A. P. H. M. Lardinois, Solon of Athens: New Historical and Philological Approaches (Leiden 2006) in Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2007.04.26).
    • Fame, Money and Power: the Rise of Peisistratos and 'Democratic' Tyranny at Athens (University of Michigan Press 2005).
    • Review of N. Luraghi, ed. The Craft of the Ancient Historian (Oxford, 2001), Classical Review (forthcoming).
    • "The Apollodoran Date for Archilochus," Classical Philology 97 (2002) 344-51.

    Current Scholarly Projects:

    • Peisistratos' successors and the end of tyranny at Athens (book ms).
    • Peisistratan colonization and Athenian imperialism.
    • Democracy, ancient and modern (book ms). 

    Personal Interests (not in order): Historical Fiction; topography and monuments of western Anatolia and the Aegean; any historical or ancient-themed movie (including dreadful ones like "Amazons and Gladiators"); biking; painting; roses; wind; family; Nancy Watkins.

       

    Edith Pennoyer (Penny) Livermore, INSTRUCTOR


    Office: Crown Center 334-A
    Phone: 773.508.8487
    E-mail: eliverm@luc.edu

    Degrees: B.A. Honors (Near Eastern Languages), National University of Ireland, Dublin; Graduate Research (Hebrew and Greek), Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., (Classics) Northwestern University

    Origins: From the San Francisco area and Napa Valley, California, currently living in Evanston - companioned by four-footed fur folk friends: Achilles, Odysseus, and [of course!] Penelope

    Personal Interests: "Connecting": Varieties of humans, languages, cultures; walking (anywhere - wilderness to back alleys); nature in any ilk, "All Creatures Great and Small," sparrow- and squirrel-feeding; weaving and stitching; threads and textiles, ancient and contemporary - including clothing in the ancient world; Baroque music and Broadway musicals; picnics; pots; star-watching; soup kitchens

       

    Jacqueline Long, Associate Professor and Chairman


    Office: Crown Center 579
    Phone: 773.508.3654
    E-mail: jlong1@luc.edu

    Degrees: A.B., Princeton University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University

    Academic Interests: Late Antique history & literature; Roman history & literature; women and gender in the Classical world

    Representative Publications:

    • "How to Read a Halo: Three (or More) Versions of Constantine's Vision," in The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity, ed. Noel Lenski and Andrew Cain, 227-35 (Ashgate, forthcoming).
    • "'Kill All the Dogs!' or 'Apollonius Says!': Two Stories against Punitive Violence," in Violence in Late Antiquity: Perceptions and Practices, ed. H. A. Drake, 225-33 (Aldershot, Hampshire and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing 2006).
    • "Julian Augustus' Julius Caesar," in Julius Caesar in Western Culture, ed. Maria Wyke, 62-82 (Oxford: Blackwell 2006).
    • Claudian's in Eutropium, or, How, When, and Why to Slander a Eunuch, University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
    • Barbarians and Politics at the Court of Arcadius, with Alan Cameron and a contribution by Lee Sherry, University of California Press, 1993.

    Forthcoming and Recent Talks:

    • Response, Emperor and Author: the Writings of Julian the Apostate, international conference at the Centre for Late Antique Religion and Culture, Cardiff University, Wales, 16-18 July 2009
    • "Culture-Vultures of the Historia Augusta, Circling over Roman Emperors," Shifting Frontiers VIII: Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2-5 April 2009
    • "Knowing Laughter in the Historia Augusta," panel on Late Latin Laughter organized by the Medieval Latin Studies Group for the American Philological Association, Annual Meeting, 8-11 January 2009
    • "The Problem with Scholarship (in the Historia Augusta)," symposium in honor of Alan Cameron, Columbia University, 6 December 2008

    Personal Interests: Food, cats and forms of mild athleticism in which I won't hurt myself too much.

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    John Makowski, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director


    on leave Fall 2009

    Office: Crown Center 575
    Phone: 773.508.3656
    E-mail: jmakow1@luc.edu

    Degrees: B.A., Xavier University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University

    Academic Interests: Roman literature, especially Augustan and Imperial; Latin language; Myth and Literature; Classical World in Cinema.

    Scholarly Activity: I have published articles on Lucan, Vergil, Maecenas, and Ovid, and collaborated on a  study of Roman arithmetic. In October 2009 I gave a paper at the Illinois Classical Conference at Northwestern University entitled "The Aeneid and the Problem of Cybele" and will be presenting "Petronius's Giton: Gender and Genre" at the Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association in Orange County, California, in January 2010.

    Teaching Interests: During Spring 2010 I will be teaching CLST 280 The Romance Novel in the Ancient World and CLST 384, the second semester of the department's capstone course.

    Other: My interest in Seneca has led to an annual performance of his drama Thyestes performed by Furibunda Productions, the department's theater ensemble. This year's performance is scheduled for 31 October 2007. This fall I worked on the local committee for the Illinois Classical Conference hosted by Loyola and organized the Latin Mass, and recently I was invited to serve on the local committee of the American Philological Association, which will hold its meeting in Chicago in January 2008.

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    Jonathan Mannering, Instructor


    Office: Crown Center 334-B
    Phone: 773.508.8488
    E-mail: jmannering@luc.edu

    Degrees: B.A., University of Chicago; M.Phil., Ph.D., King's College, Cambridge University

    Academic Interests:

    Latin prose and poetry from the late Republic and early Empire; rhetoric and oratorical performance in public spaces; literary reception. I am currently revising my doctoral thesis, which examines poetic quotations as a mechanism for cultural reproduction in the orations of Cicero, the declamations of the elder Seneca, and the philosophical epistles of the younger Seneca.

    Publications:
    • Seneca’s Letters and Philosophical Writings," in The Blackwell Companion to the Age of Nero (forthcoming).
    • Book review: Coffee, Neil, The Commerce of War: Exchange and Social Order in Latin Epic, JRS (forthcoming).

    Courses Taught and/or Proctored:

    Ancient Novel (CLST 280 001), Western Intellectual Traditions: Antiquity to the Middle Ages (Dev West Thght I Disc [HONR D101 08H]).

       

    Kirk Shellko, INSTRUCTOR


    Office: Crown Center 577
    Phone: 773.508.3647
    E-mail: kshellk@luc.edu

    Degrees: M.A. (Philosophy), John Carroll University; M.A., Ph.D. (Classical Studies), Loyola University Chicago

    Interests: Fourth-century tragedy, Comedy and tragedy in Plato; Aristotle's Metaphysics. I am currently re-writing my dissertation, which concerns the implications of a fourth-century Rhesus, for publication. It includes possible trends in the fourth century, the main theme of Rhesus, and an epistemological interpretation of the tragedy. I am also researching comic and tragic elements in Plato’s dialogues Euthydemus and Phaedo.

    Courses Taught: CLST 271, 272, 273; GREK 262, 275; LATN 283.

    Presentations:

    • "Apollonian and Dionysian Imagery in Virgil"s Aeneid" delivered as guest at The Summer Aeneid Reading Project, affiliated with Barrington High School and the Barrington Area Public Library, 15 July 2007
    • "Comic Ethics: Strepsiades and the Comic Bane and Socrates the Comic Antidote," Classical Association of the Midwest and South, 6 April 2006
    • "The Intuitive Appeal of Myth," Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 31 March 2005
    • "Partisan Inspiration: Literary Psychology and War Tactics in Caesar’s De Bello Civile," Classical Association of the Midwest and South - Southern Section, 5 November 2004
    • "Plato's Symposium and a Metaphysic of Seduction," Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 15 April 2004
    • "Caesar's Engagement of his Readers," Illinois Classical Conference, 11 October 2003

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    Benjamin M. Wolkow, INSTRUCTOR


    Office: Crown Center 565
    Phone: 773.508.3662
    E-mail: bwolkow@luc.edu

    Degrees: BA and MA, West Chester University (Philosophy); MA, Millersville University (German); MA, Villanova University (Classics); PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara (Classics)

    Academic Interests: Archaic and Classical Greek poetry; poetics and performance; Greek music and meter; mythology and religion

    Publications:

    • co-author with A. N. Athanassakis, Orphic Hymns: Translation and Notes, 2nd edition, JHUP (forthcoming)
    • "The Mind of a Bitch: Pandora's Motive and Intent in the Erga," Hermes 135.3 (2007): 247-62
    • co-translated with R. Morstein-Marx, "Methods, Models, and Historiography" by M. Jehne in A Companion to the Roman Republic, R. Morstein-Marx and N. Rosenstein, ed., Blackwell (2006)

    Papers:

    • "Pratinas, the Phliasian Satyr," Duke University, April 10, 2007
    • "Huporkhema: A Lost Genre?" APA Meeting, San Diego, January 7, 2007
    • "A Comic Fragment of Pratinas?" APA Meeting, Montreal, January 8, 2006
    • "The Mind of a Thief: Pandora's Motive and Intent in the Works and Days," CAAS Fall Meeting, Philadelphia, October 8, 2004

    Current Projects:

    • Pratinas: A Commentary (revision of dissertation)
    • A monograph on the genre huporkhema (with a commentary on the Pindar frr.)
    • Translation of Archaic Greek lyric
       

    Ed Menes, Professor emeritus


    Degrees: B.A., Xavier University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
    Interests: Latin Lyric and Elegy, Linguistics

    This page last updated 19 October 2009 by jlong1@luc.edu.

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