• Gregory Dobrov, Post-Baccalaureate Program Director
• Laura Gawlinski
• Pat Graham-Skoul
• Jim Keenan
• Brian Lavelle
• Edith Pennoyer (Penny) Livermore
• Jacqueline Long, Chairman
• John Makowski, Undergraduate Program Director
• Jonathan Mannering
• Ed Menes, Professor Emeritus
• John Paulas
• Kirk Shellko

Gregory Dobrov, Associate Professor and Post-Baccalaureate Program Director

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:

• A Companion to the Study of Greek Comedy, edited volume (Brill, 2010) - including "Comedy and her Critics," 1-33.
• Figures of Play (Oxford, 2001)
• The City As Comedy (Chapel Hill, 1997)
• Beyond Aristophanes (Scholars Press, 1995)
• "Plutarch's Comedy," invited chapter for Ancient Comedy and Reception, Boston University Studies in the Classical Tradition I, ed. W. Haase (published by the Institute for the Classical Tradition and Transaction at Rutgers University, 2011 - forthcoming).
• "Veiled Venom: Comedy, Censorship and Figuration," in Singing the Muses: Essays in Honor of Pietro Pucci (Berlin and New York, 2010 - forthcoming).
• Review of A. Bierl, Ritual and Performativity: The Chorus of Old Comedy (Cambridge MA and London, 2009): Classical World, summer 2010 - forthcoming.

Recent and Upcoming Talks:

• "Comedy, Censorship, and Metaphor," American Philological Association, San Antonio, 7 January 2011.
• "Tragedy at Play: Politics and Humor in Greek Drama", DePaul University, 18 October 2010.
• "Censorship and the Art of Comedy," Illinois Classical Conference, Knox College, 16 October 2010.

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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

Representative Publications:

• The Sacred Law of Andania: a New Text with Commentary. Sozomena 11. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2012.
• "'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

Current Projects:

• The Athenian Agora: a Guide to the Museum (revised edition)
• "Dress and Ornaments." In A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World, edited by J. Rupke. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell.
• field supervisor at the excavations of the Athenian Agora (see www.agathe.gr/ and www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/excavationagora)

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:

• CLST 271, Classical Mythology (2002)
• CLST 272, Heroes and Classical Epics
• CLST 273, Classical Tragedy
• CLST 295, Women in Antiquity

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

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" und "Officium": Comparative Studies in Ancient Bureaucracy and Officialdom sponsored for the University of Vienna by the Austrian National Science Foundation
• Participant, Workshop for Integrating Digital Papyrology, 15-18 July 2010
• 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:

• "Sale of a Moorish Slave Girl, A.D. 629(?)" Byzantine Studies Conference, DePaul University, 21-23 October 2011 and Second International Conference of the "Imperium" und "Officium" Project, 24-26 November 2011
• "The Bilingual Scribe of the Temseu Skordon Codex," 26th International Congress of Papyrology, Geneva, 16-21 August 2010.
• "'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:

• A Sixth-Century Tax Register from the Hermopolite Nome, with Roger S. Bagnall and Leslie S. B. MacCoull. American Society of Papyrologists Monograph 51. (Durham, NC 2011).
• "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).

Recent and Upcoming Papers:

• "Sale of a Moorish Slave Girl, A.D. 629(?), Byzantine Studies Conference, 21-23 October 2011, and Second International Conference of the "Imperium" und "Officium" Project, Vienna, 24-26 November 2011.
• "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.

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Brian Lavelle, Professor

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 (Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate 2009).
• "'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 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:

• "Making a New Tradition: Poetry at a Consular Inauguration in Late-Antique Rome," DePaul University, 27 February 2012
• "Two Brothers: Youth, Promise, and Prominence in Claudian's Roman Empire," The Classics Renewed: the Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity, Brown University, 13-15 October 2011
• "Churches in Rome," The Collectio Avellana - a Round Table, sponsored by the Istituto Patristico "Augustinianum," Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut te Rome, and Loyola University Chicago John Felice Rome Center, organized by Dr. Alexander Evers, Rome, 31 March - 3 April 2011

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

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.

Forthcoming and Recent Talks:

• "Transgression and Triangulation: Petronius' Women and Bisexual Men," Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 28-31 March 2012
• "Gallus as Cinaedus: A Problem for Roman Identity," Romosexuality: International Conference on the Reception of Rome and the Construction of Western Homosexual Identities, Collingwood College, Durham University, Durham, England, 16-18 April 2012
• "Transgression and Triangulation: Petronius' Women and Bisexual Men," Feminism and Classics VI: Crossing Borders, Crossing Lines, Brock University, Toronto, Canada, 24-27 May 2012

Other: My interest in Seneca has led to an annual staging of his drama Thyestes performed by Furibunda Productions, the department's theater ensemble. This year's performance took place 31 October 2011. I have worked on local committees of the Illinois Classical Conference and the American Philological Association, for annual meetings in Chicago.

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Jonathan Mannering, Instructor

Office: Crown Center 565 Phone: 773.508.3662 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:

Heroes and Classical Epics (CLST 272), Ancient Rhetoric (CLST 279), Ancient Novel (CLST 280), Elementary Latin II (LATN 102), Age of the Flavians (LATN 287/388), Western Intellectual Traditions: Antiquity to the Middle Ages (Dev West Thght I Disc [HONR D101 08H]).

JOHN PAULAS, INSTRUCTOR

Office: Crown Center 334-B Phone: 773.508.8488

Degrees: A.B., Davidson College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago

Academic Interests: Greek literature of the Roman Empire; Greek Comedy; Ancient Food Technology and Foodways; Reception Studies

Publications:

• "The bazaar fish market in fourth-century Greek comedy," forthcoming in Arethusa 43.3 (2010) 
• Entry on "Cheese," forthcoming in Wiley-Blackwell's Encyclopedia of Ancient History

Current Projects: I am currently writing an account of how modern readers can approach Athenaeus’s Deipnosophists, a unique and gargantuan work that claims to be an account of the dinner-time conversations of a group of intellectuals. Another project currently in progress considers community and friendship in Greek literature of the Roman Empire.

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, the comic and tragic representations of Socrates in Plato’s dialogues; Aristotle and Plotinus.

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

Presentations:

• "The Dramatic Characterization of Plato's Philosophical Hero," Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Grand Rapids Michigan, 7 April 2011
• "Fantastic Literary Elements in Plato's Hippias Minor," Comparative Drama Conference, LA California, 24 March 2011
• "The Curious Aesthetic of Rhesus," Comparative Drama Conference, Loyola Marymount University, 25-27 March 2010
• "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

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Ed Menes, Professor emeritus

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