Faculty

Amalia Avramidou
Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow
PhD, Classics, Johns Hopkins University
a-avramidou@northwestern.edu
Amalia Avramidou is the author of articles on Greek vase painting and sculpture. Her latest research deals with the reception of Attic vases and matters of Greek and Etruscan iconography. She is revising her dissertation for publication as The Codrus Painter: Questions of Iconography and Reception of Attic Vase-Painting of the Second Half of the Fifth Century B.C.E.  An excavation project in Northern Greece is also in process. She teaches in both the art history and classics departments at Northwestern. She is an affiliate of the Classical Traditions Initiative.

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.

Michael de Brauw
Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Classics
PhD, Classical Philology, University of Texas at Austin
m-debrauw@northwestern.edu
Michael de Brauw's main research interests are rhetoric, law, social history, and prose (especially Cicero). His current book project, Cicero and the Field of Law, studies the 'semi-professionalization' of jurisprudence and oratory in the late Republic. He has also published work on Greek law and oratory, including pieces in Classical Journal, Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung, and, most recently, Blackwell's Companion to Greek Rhetoric. He 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.
See also, http://www.english.northwestern.edu/people/gibbons.html

Marianne Hopman
Assistant Professor of Classics and Comparative Literary Studies
PhD, Classical Philology, Harvard University/University of Paris-IV Sorbonne
m-hopman@northwestern.edu
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
Chair, Department of Classics
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

S. Sara Monoson
Associate Professor of Classics and Political Science
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

Helmut Müller-Sievers
Professor of Classics and German
PhD, German Literature and Humanities Special Program, Stanford University
hms@northwestern.edu
Helmut Müller-Sievers works on the history of philology and hermeneutics, and the intersection of science, technology, and literature. His books include Self-Generation. Literature, Philosophy, and Science around 1800 (Stanford, 1997), and Desorientierung (Wallstein, 2003). He is currently editing an anthology entitled Radical Philology and writing a book on nineteenth-century technology and literature. For 2007-2008, he has been awarded a fellowship at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, where he will participate with other senior scholars in a yearlong program on historical change. He will complete "The Cylinder: Kinematics of the 19th Century," a book under contract with University of California Press. He is a former director of the Kaplan Center for the Humanities and the Program in Comparative Literary Studies. He is an affiliate of the Classical Traditions Initiative.
See also, http://www.german.northwestern.edu/faculty/ mullersievers.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

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.

Anise Strong
Visiting Assistant Professor in Classics
PhD, Classical Studies, Columbia University
Anise-strong@northwestern.edu
Anise K. Strong's primary areas of interest are Roman social history, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, and the reception of classical culture, especially in modern mass media. She is currently working on transforming her dissertation entitled, "Labeled Women: Roman Prostitutes and Persistent Stereotypes," into a book. She has published articles on ancient incest laws and sexuality in the HBO series "Rome," and has presented at multiple major conferences, including thrice at the American Philological Association annual meeting. Strong was presented with the 2007 Oral Paper Award from the Women's Classical Caucus in January 2008 for "Daughter and Employee: Mother-daughter Bonds Among Prostitutes."  She 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 (Studi Classici e Orientali 47.3 (2001), 65-84; Athenaeum 93.1 (2005), 291-304) and is currently revising her dissertation, Le aristocrazie locali del Sannio Pentro (VI-I BCE), for publication. At Northwestern, Francesca has discovered a true passion for teaching Latin language and literature to undergraduate and graduate students.

Tataranni has been selected by the Northwestern student body as one of the outstanding Faculty of the Year for 2006-2007 and 2007-2008. Associated Student Government called her to the ASG Faculty Honor Roll, for which honorees are selected "based on their quality of instruction and contribution to the academic lives of undergraduate students." She is an affiliate of the Classical Traditions Initiative.

William Tortorelli
Lecturer in Classics and Director of Greek Instruction
PhD candidate, Classics, Brown University
w-tortorelli@northwestern.edu
William Tortorelli's main research interest is the lyric, elegiac, and iambic poetry of the Greek archaic period and of the 1st century BCE in Rome . He focuses on archaic poetics, the development of genres, problems of fragmentary literature, textual criticism, meter and colometry, the influence of the Lesbian poets on Horace, and the post-classical tradition of lyric poetry. He has produced scholarship on the archaic Greek poets, Hesiod, Ovid's exile poetry, Horace, Catullus, and Vergil, as well as Greek and Latin pedagogy. He 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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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.