Faculty

Kathryn Bosher
Assistant Professor of Classics
PhD, Classics, University of Michigan
k-bosher@northwestern.edu
Kathryn Bosher's research interests are the social context, the production, and the reception of ancient theater, both in the classical world and in later periods. Her current book project is a history of early Greek theatre in Sicily. She is an affiliate of the Classical Traditions Initiative and a member of the associate faculty of the Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Theatre and Drama.

Andrea Fishman
Lecturer in Classics
PhD, Classics, University of California, Irvine
andrea-fishman@northwestern.edu
Andrea Fishman's academic interests include ancient Greek and Latin epic and lyric poetry, women in Antiquity, ancient Greek tragedy, and ancient and modern Mediterranean music.  Her research focuses on the poetics and anthropology of female lament in the Greek tradition; she has an article forthcoming in Oral Tradition (October 2008).  She is currently working on an article on Greek lament and music, an essay on laments for the fall of Troy, and revising her dissertation, Thrênoi to Moirológia: Female Lament in the Greek Tradition in Poetry and Performance, for publication.  Andrea is an affiliate of the Classical Traditions Initiative.

Daniel Garrison
Professor of Classics
PhD, Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley
d-garrison@northwestern.edu
Dan Garrison's interests encompass Greek and Latin epic and lyric poetry, and ancient and Renaissance medicine. His recent publications include The Student's Catullus, 3rd edition (Oklahoma , 2004). Forthcoming is On the Fabric of the Human Body: An Annotated Translation of Andreas Vesalius De humani corporis fabrica (1543, 1555) with Malcolm Hast (four volumes: Thoemmes Continuum Press). See also, Vesalius Project. A descriptive list of Garrison's publications can be found at Daniel Garrison on the faculty web server. He is an affiliate of the Classical Traditions Initiative.

Reginald Gibbons
Professor of Classics, English, and Spanish and Portuguese
PhD, Comparative Literature, Stanford University
rgibbons@northwestern.edu
Reginald Gibbons is the author of eight books and two chapbooks of poems, a novel, and other works, including translations (with Charles Segal) of Bakkhai and Antigone. He has translated Selected Poems of Luis Cernuda (1977), a volume of poems and prose by Jorge Guillén (1979, trans. with Anthony L. Geist), and he edited and served as principal translator for New Writing from Mexico (1992). His translations of Sophokles, Selected Poems: Odes and Fragments, will be published in autumn, 2008, by Princeton. He is Director of the Center for the Writing Arts, has served as Chair of the English Department, and is an affiliate of the Classical Traditions Initiative.

Gibbons and the 2008 National Book Award Nominations
for poetry collection, Creatures of a Day

See also, http://www.english.northwestern.edu/people/gibbons.html

Judith Hayes
Adjunct Lecturer in Latin
M.A. Latin, Northwestern University
judith-hayes@northwestern.edu
Ms. Hayes is a scholar of Latin pedagogy who has taught Latin in the Chicago area for over twenty years and in Italy on year-abroad programs. In 1997 she was named the Illinois Classical Conference's Latin Teacher of the Year. She teaches two sections of Latin 201 in the fall 2009. Her academic interests have focused on facilitating the transition between the study of the grammatical and syntactical elements of Latin and the reading of Latin literature. Her commitment to prose authors, particularly Cicero, has resulted in several endeavors, i.e., delivering a presentation on Cicero at the American Philological Association, serving as editor of a Teachers' Guide to Cicero and, most recently, co-authoring a student workbook to make the prose of Cicero more accessible.

Marianne Hopman
Assistant Professor of Classics and Comparative Literary Studies
PhD, Classical Philology, Harvard University/University of Paris-IV Sorbonne
m-hopman@northwestern.edu
Personal Website
Marianne Hopman specializes in ancient Greek poetry and mythology. Her publications include articles on the Orphic Hymns, Juvenal's Satires, and the figure of Niobe in Sophocles. She is currently working on articles on Euripides' Medea and Aeschylus' Persians, and on a book that explores the development of the semantics attached to the sea-monster Scylla in Greek and Roman cultures. She is an affiliate of the Classical Traditions Initiative and French Interdisciplinary Group.

Richard Kraut
Professor of Classics and Philosophy
PhD, Princeton University
rkraut1@northwestern.edu
Richard Kraut is Charles and Emma Morrison Professor in the Humanities. His principal research interests are the moral and political thought of Plato and Aristotle, and he frequently teaches courses on these topics. He joined the Northwestern faculty in 1995, having previously taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Among his publications are Socrates and the State (Princeton University Press, 1984), Aristotle on the Human Good (Princeton University Press, 1989), Aristotle Politics Books VII and VIII, translation with commentary (Clarendon Press, 1997), and Aristotle: Political Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2002). He edited The Cambridge Companion to Plato (1992), Critical Essays on Plato's Republic (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), and The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (2006). His most recent book, What Is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being, was published by Harvard University Press in April 2007. With Steven Skultety, he co-edited Aristotle's Politics: Critical Essays (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).  In 2006 he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is an affiliate of the Classical Traditions Initiative.
See also, http://www.philosophy.northwestern.edu/people/kraut.html

Chris Love

Adjunct Lecturer in Classics

PhD, University of Michigan

love@northwestern.edu

Chris Love will teach Classics and Cinema (CLA 245) in Winter of the academic year 2009-2010.  His research and teaching interests center on reception studies and on ancient Greek drama, focusing on recent adaptations of Aeschylus and Sophocles' tragedies. He has recently published on the Côte d'Ivoirien playwright Koffi Kwahulé's Bintou as a reworking of Sophocles' Antigone, and another article on HBO's The Wire as an adaptation of ancient Greek tragedy forthcoming in Criticism. He is currently working on an article on Gabriel García Márquez's Edipo Alcalde and is revising his dissertation, Creating Tragic Spectators: Rebellion and Ambiguity in World Tragedy, for publication.

S. Sara Monoson
Associate Professor of Classics and Political Science
Chair, Department of Classics
PhD, Politics, Princeton University
s-monoson@northwestern.edu
Sara Monoson is the author of Plato's Democratic Entanglements: Athenian Politics and the Practice of Philosophy (Princeton University Press, 2000), which was awarded the 2001 American Political Science Association's Foundations Book Prize for Best First Book in Political Theory. She has also written articles on Athenian democratic thought, Thucydides, and international relations theory. Her current project examines creative appropriations of Socrates in post-war American popular media. She has been a fellow in Northwestern's Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities. Monoson is director of the Classical Traditions Initiative.
See also, www.polisci.northwestern.edu/people/profiles.html#monoson

Martin Mueller
Professor of Classics and English
PhD, Classics, Indiana University
martinmueller@northwestern.edu
Martin Mueller is the author of Children of Oedipus and Other Essays on the Imitation of Greek Tragedy 1550-1800 (1980), a monograph on the Iliad (1984), and a variety of essays on the Nachleben of ancient literature, Shakespeare's use of his sources, and the place of literary studies in a professional and technological environment. He is the editor of the Chicago Homer, a multilingual database that uses the search and display capabilities of electronic texts to make the distinctive features of Early Greek epic accessible to readers with and without Greek. He is also the general editor of WordHoard, an application for the close reading and scholarly analysis of deeply tagged texts, funded by the Mellon Foundation. Together with John Unsworth he is the co-principal investigator of MONK (Metadata Create New Knowledge), a project to create something like a "cultural genome" of nearly a billion words of written English from Caxton's Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye (1474) to Virginia Woolf's fixing of December 1910 as the beginning of the modern world--and a date conveniently close to the current expiration of copyright. MONK is also funded by the Mellon Foundation. He is an affiliate of the Classical Traditions Initiative.
See also, http://www.english.northwestern.edu/people/mueller.html

Barbara Newman
Professor of Classics, Religion, and English
PhD, Yale
bjnewman@northwestern.edu
Barbara Newman holds the John Evans Chair of Latin Language and Literature. She is known for her work on medieval religious culture and women's spirituality. Her most recent book, God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages (University of Pennsylvania Press) , was published in 2002. She is also the author of From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature (1995) and three works on Hildegard of Bingen: an edited volume, Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World (1998), an edition and translation of Hildegard's collected songs, Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum (1988, rev. 1998), and Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard's Theology of the Feminine (1987). Professor Newman has been a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities at Northwestern. Professor Newman's translations of medieval Latin texts include Hildegard's Symphonia, the Life of St. Juliana of Mont-Cornillon, the Life of Abbot John of Cantimpré, and excerpts from the Speculum virginum. With other faculty she leads the year-long, noncredit Medieval Latin Workshop for graduate students. She previously held a Charles Deering McCormick Chair of Teaching Excellence (2003-06). She is an affiliate of the Classical Traditions Initiative.
See also, http://www.english.northwestern.edu/people/newman.html

Diana Y. Ng

Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow

PhD, Classical Art and Archaeology

University of Michigan

diana-ng@northwestern.edu

Diana Ng's research focuses on urban life and environments in Asia Minor, particularly as they relate to issues of civic and cultural identity. Her dissertation, which is being revised for publication, deals with the depiction of foundation myths and heroes, and of local religious cults in public sculptural programs and architectural monuments.  Her work traces the intersections among architecture, decoration, ritual, and intercity rivalries and imperial politics in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD.  In addition, Diana Ng has academic and teaching interests in the history and politics of collecting and in historical and social memory.  She is an affiliate of the Classical Traditions Initiative.

Jeanne Ravid
Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Classics
MA, Classics, Northwestern University
j-ravid@northwestern.edu
Jeanne Ravid's teaching interests include Latin epic and lyric poetry and the Greek and Latin roots of medical terminology. In addition to her position in classics, she serves as pre-law adviser and Wingspread Fellowships coordinator in the Weinberg College (WCAS) advising office. She is also chair of the Subcommittee on Language Proficiency of the WCAS Council on Language Instruction, and an affiliate of the Classical Traditions Initiative.

John Schafer

Assistant Professor

PhD, Harvard University

john-schafer@northwestern.edu

John Schafer's research interests focus on the intersection of ancient philosophy and Latin literature, especially in the works of Seneca. He is the author of Ars Didactica: Seneca's 94th and 95th Letters (2009). He also maintains wider interests in Latin literature and lexicography, and is spending 2009-10 in Munich contributing to the Thesaurus linguae Latinae. He is an affiliate of the Classical Traditions Initiative.

Francesca Tataranni
Lecturer in Classics and Director of Latin Instruction
PhD, University of Pisa

f-tataranni@northwestern.edu
Francesca Tataranni's teaching and research interests include Latin language and literature, Greek and Roman history, and the social and cultural history of Republican and Early Imperial Rome. She has published articles on the ethnic identity and self-representation of the Samnites and other ancient peoples of central and southern Italy. At Northwestern, Francesca has discovered a true passion for teaching Latin language and literature to undergraduate and graduate students.

Tataranni is a 2009 winner of a Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Teaching Award. She was also elected three times to the ASG (Associated Student Government) Honor Roll (2006-2009).  She is an affiliate of the Classical Traditions Initiative.

Robert Wallace
Professor of Classics
PhD, Harvard University
rwallace@northwestern.edu
Robert Wallace is the author of some fifty articles on various aspects of Greek history, intellectual history, law, numismatics, and music theory. His books include The Areopagos Council, to 307 BC (1989) which was awarded the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities by the Council of Graduate Schools and Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece, co-authored with Josiah Ober and Kurt A. Raaflaub (2007). He has co-edited four volumes: Harmonia Mundi: Musica e filosofia nel'antichità, Poet, Public, and Performance in Ancient Greece, Transitions to Empire 360-146 BC, and Symposion 2001 (on Greek law). His current projects include two books, Reconstructing Damon: Music, Wisdom Teaching, and Politics in Ancient Athens and Freedom and Community in Democratic Athens. He has lectured widely in the United States and in Europe. He is an affiliate of the Classical Traditions Initiative.

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Amanda Wrigley
Mellon-Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow 2009-2010

PhD, Open University (UK)

a-wrigley@northwestern.edu

Amanda Wrigley comes to Northwestern from the University of Oxford, where from 2001 to 2009 she was
Researcher at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, a research centre in the
Faculty of Classics. Her research focuses on public engagement with Greek drama—as educational
subject, cultural phenomenon and dramatic entertainment—in Britain in the 20th century:
this encompasses the printed word, non-elite educational institutions, the amateur and semi-professional stage, and especially BBC Radio. Her doctoral thesis with the Open University is entitled
Greek drama and epic poetry on BBC Radio in the 1940s and 1950s. She has also written a book,
Performing Greek Drama in and out of Oxford (forthcoming with Exeter University Press, 2009).

See also the Sawyer Seminar web site

John Wynne
Assistant Professor of Classics
PhD, Classics, Cornell University
j-wynne@northwestern.edu
John Wynne has interests in ancient philosophy and in Latin literature.  He has concentrated on philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, writing on Cicero's dialogues On the Nature of the Gods, On Divination, and On Fate.  He also maintains interests in the art of technical writing in antiquity--the dialogue and didactic poetry--and in ancient science. He is an affiliate of the Classical Traditions Initiative, and a faculty affiliate of the Department of Philosophy.