Faculty
Deborah H. Roberts
Chairperson - Professor of Comparative Literature and Classics
Office: Hall Building 206
Email: droberts@haverford.edu
Current Courses: Language of Love and Hate in the Roman Republic (LATN101); History of Literary Theory: Plato to Shelley (CSTS290)
Recent Courses: Language of Love and Hate in the Roman Republic; Greek Tragedy; Homer
Interests: Greek tragedy and the tragic genre; Latin poetry; the ancient novel; the epic tradition; the classical tradition in western literature; ancient literary theory and the history of literary theory; translation studies; children's literature.
Recent Publication: "Translation and the 'Surreptitious Classic': Obscenity and Translatability" in A. Lianeri and V. Zajko, Translation and the Classic: Identity as Change in the History of Culture, Oxford 2008.; A translation of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound
Current Projects: A collaborative book, Classics and Childhood in the Twentieth Century (with Sheila Murnaghan, University of Pennsylvania)
Current Courses: Elementary Greek (GREK001-002); Senior Seminar (CSTS398); Roman Comedy (LATN102)
Recent Courses: Elementary Greek; Ancient Novel; Roman Comedy
Recent Publication: "The Politics of Roman Comedy" (in The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy); "Andria" (in The Blackwell Companion to Terence)
Current Projects: Mimetic Contagion: Art and Artifice in Terence’s Eunuchus (a book on works of art that draw people into imitating them); The Unity of Time: Temporal Mimesis in Ancient and Modern Theater (a book on the practice of writing plays to fit into a single day of story-time)
Current Courses: Elementary Latin (LATN001-002); Latin Epigram (LATN350); Classical Mythology (CSTS209); Homer (GREK102)
Recent Courses: Culture and Crisis in the Golden Age of Athens; Herodotus; Ovid's Love Poetry, Tales of Troy
Interests: Latin poetry, esp. of the Empire; Late antique literature and culture; epistolary literature; epic; epigrams; Classical Tradition; performance and instructional technology.
Recent Publication: “Animal Play: Bilingual Onomastics and the Arrangement of Statius Silvae 2”, (forthcoming, Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History 16).
Current Projects: Membra Commissa: The Poetics of Claudian’s Carmina Minora (a book on the political and playful short poems of "the last pagan poet of Rome"); “The Promiscuous Tongue: Oral Immoderation and Intellectual Mockery in the Epigrams of Claudian and Ausonius”; “Bad Scorpion: An Obscene Pun in Martial 3.44”; “Drunken Poets and Fallen Philosophers: Gout as a Metaphoric Disease in Antiquity”
Danielle La Londe
Visiting Assistant Professor
Office: Hall Building 001C
Email: dlalonde@haverford.edu
Current Courses: Vergil (LATN201); The Roman Revolution (CSTS121); Going Green in the Classical Imagination: Environment Ecology, and Landscape (CSTS233)
Recent Courses: Elementary Latin; Roman Revolution; Vergil; Classical Mythology
Interests: late republican and imperial Latin poetry, esp. epic; politics in Latin literature; Roman visual culture; ancient political thought and the Enlightenment.
Emeritus Faculty
Dan Gillis
Professor of Classics Emeritus
Interests: Greek and Roman history, Virgil’s Aeneid, the life of Wilhelm Furtwängler, fictions of the Holocaust.
Major publications:
- Eros and Death in the Aeneid, Rome 1983
- Collaboration with the Persians, Wiesbaden 1979
- Furtwängler and America, New York 1970
Joseph Russo
Professor of Classics and John and Audrey Dusseau Professor in the Humanities Emeritus
Interests: the Homeric epics, oral traditions, folklore, folktale, Sicilian oral traditions.
Recent publications:
- "Re-thinking Homeric Psychology: Snell, Dodds, and their Critics," Quaderni Urbinati (in press, 2012)
- "La grecité des proverbes grecs," in Les Fondements de la Tradition Classique: Hommages à Didier Pralon, Aix en Provence 2009
- (with Jack Zipes) The Collected Sicilian Folk- and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitrè, 2 vols, New York 2009.
- "Odysseus' Trial of the Bow as Symbolic Performance," in Antike Literatur in neuer Deutung (Festschrift Latacz), München-Leipzig 2004
- "Penelope's Gates of Horn and Ivory," in A. Hurst and F. Létoublon, eds., La Mythologie et l'Odyssée, Geneva 2002
Classics Faculty at Bryn Mawr
Annette Baertschi, Department of Greek, Latin, & Classical Studies, Bryn Mawr College
Interests: Latin literature; Roman drama; Imperial Epic.
Catherine Conybeare, Department of Greek, Latin, & Classical Studies, Bryn Mawr College
Interests: Late antique and medieval Latin literature.
Radcliffe Edmonds, Department of Greek, Latin, & Classical Studies, Bryn Mawr College
Interests: Greek culture, religion, magic, and mystery cults; mythology; history of ancient Greece.
Asya Sigelman, Department of Greek, Latin, & Classical Studies, Bryn Mawr College
Interests: Greek literature and History; lyric poetry.
Darby Scott, Department of Greek, Latin, & Classical Studies, Bryn Mawr College
Interests: Roman history and historiography; archaeology of Roman Italy, particularly the excavations at Cosa and in the Roman Forum.
Related Faculty
The Bi-College community sports many faculty whose primary teaching and research interests are related to Classical antiquity.
Mehmet-Ali Ataç, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College
Interests: Archaeology of the Ancient Near East and Egypt.
A. A. Donohue, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College
Interests: Greek Sculpture, Greek Archaeology, Historiography of Greek and Roman Art.
Darin Hayton, Department of History, Haverford College
Interests: History of Science
Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Department of Religion, Haverford College
Interests: Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity, comparative hermeneutics in Rabbinics and Patristics, Hebrew Bible, and Gender in Judaism.
Aryeh Kosman (emeritus), Department of Philosophy, Haverford College
Interests: Ancient and early modern philosophy,
Astrid Lindenlauf, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College
Interests: Greek Archaeology
Peter Magee, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College
Interests: Archaeology of Iran, Arabia and Pakistan.
Anne McGuire, Department of Religion, Haverford College
Interests: History and Literature of Early Christianity; Gnosticism; Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean; Gender and Religion; Feminist Interpretation of Scripture.
Maud McInerney, Department of English, Haverford College
Interests: literatures and languages, especially Middle English, Old French, and Medieval Latin.
Stella Miller-Collett, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College
Interests: Ancient Painting, Greek and Roman Archaeology, Macedonian Archaeology.
Stephen Salkever, Department of Political Science, Bryn Mawr College
Interests: Aristotle and Political Science
Pamela Webb, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College
Interests: Greek and Hellenistic art, architecture and archaeology.
Joel Yurdin, Department of Philosophy, Haverford College
Interests: Classical Philosophy
Travis Zadeh, Department of Religion, Haverford College
Interests: Islamic Literature and Culture, Comparative Literature.