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.
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Graziela Byros

Adjunct Lecturer in Latin

PhD, Classics, Yale University

g-byros@northwestern.edu 

Graziela Byros completed a dissertation which reconstructs the diverse types of individual and collective identities negotiated by the provincial inhabitants of Roman Dacia (roughly modern-day Romania), as reflected in the religious epigraphy and archaeology of this northern frontier province. Her research interests include Roman history of the Imperial period, religions of the Roman Empire, Greek and Latin historiography, Latin language and literature, and Latin epigraphy.  At Northwestern she has taught Latin 201-1 (Latin Prose) during the fall quarter 2010, and is teaching Classics 110-CN (Scientific Vocabulary through Classical Roots) at SCS in the spring quarter 2011.  In Fall 2011-12, she instructs the class in introductory Latin, and in Winter teaches Classics 320-0-21 Greek and Roman History, "Roman Imperial Ideology: Texts and Images."

Daniel Garrison
Professor Emeritus (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, 4th edition (Oklahoma, 2012) and an edited volume, A Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity (Berg, 2010), as well as The Fabric of the Human Body: An Annotated Translation of Andreas Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica (1543, 1555) (two volumes: Karger, forthcoming).  A third book is The China Root Epistle of Andreas Vesalius (1546): an annotated translation (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

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 English & Classics
Frances Hooper Chair in the Arts and Humanities
Director of the Center for the Writing Arts
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

Ann C. Gunter

Professor of Art History, Classics, and in the Humanities

Chair of Classics

PhD, Near Eastern Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University

classics-chair@northwestern.edu

Ann C. Gunter received her Ph.D. in Near Eastern art

history and archaeology from Columbia University and in 1987 joined the staff of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, as curator of ancient Near Eastern Art. In 2004 she was appointed

Head of Scholarly Publications and Programs at the Freer and Sackler Galleries, and she also holds an adjunct appointment in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, John Hopkins University.

A specialist in ancient Near Eastern art and Anatolian archaeology, Dr. Gunter has curated several exhibitions

at the Freer and Sackler galleries, including When

Kingship Descended from Heaven: Masterpieces of Mesopotamian Art from the Louvre (1992), Preserving Ancient Statues from Jordan (1996), and Caravan Kingdoms: Yemen and the Ancient Incense Trade (2004). Her numerous publications include Gordion: The Bronze

Age (1991), Ancient Iranian Metalwork in the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (co-authored with

Paul Jett, 1992), A Collector’s Journey: Charles Lang Freer and Egypt (2002), Ernst Herzfeld and the Development of Near Eastern Studies, 1900–1950 (co-edited with

Stefan R. Hauser, 2005), and Greek Art and the Orient (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). She is currently preparing for publication the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age ceramics excavated from the site of Kinet Höyük, Turkey, an archaeological field project under the

auspices of Bilkent University, Ankara.  She is an affiliate

of the Classical Traditions Initiative.

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

Mark Kauntze

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

PhD, University of Bristol

m-kauntze@northwestern.edu

Mark Kauntze’s research focuses on the Latin literature and philosophy of the High Middle Ages. He is particularly interested in the transmission of ancient thought, the theory and practice of rhetoric, and medieval accounts of the history of philosophy. He is completing a monograph on the twelfth-century poet Bernardus Silvestris, and working on a critical edition of the second part of Roger Bacon’s Opus maius. He teaches Medieval Latin in the Graduate Classics Cluster.

Richard Kraut
Professor of Classics and Philosophy
PhD, Princeton University
rkraut1@northwestern.edu
Charles and Emma Morrison Professor in the Humanities. Ph.D. Princeton University. His interests include contemporary moral and political philosophy, as well as the ethics and political thought of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. He is the author of Against Absolute Goodness (Oxford: 2011) and What is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being (Harvard, 2007). His historical studies include Socrates and the State (Princeton: 1984), Aristotle on the Human Good (Princeton: 1989), Aristotle Politics Books VII and VIII , translation with commentary (Clarendon: 1997), Aristotle: Political Philosophy (Oxford: 2002), and How to Read Plato (Granta: 2008). He is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Plato (1992), Plato's Republic: Critical Essays (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), and the Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (2006). He served as President of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association in 1993-4, and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Center for Hellenic Studies. He served from 2002 to 2004 as the Vice-Chair of the Board of Officers of the American Philosophical Association. In 2006 he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the Starr Fellowship of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University, for 2008-09. 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
S. Sara Monoson is Associate Professor of Political Science and Classics and Director of the Graduate Classics Cluster.  She is the author of Plato’s Democratic Entanglements: Athenian Politics and the Practice of Philosophy (2000).  Her research interests include Greek political theory in historical context and classical reception studies, especially the history of appropriations of Greek philosophers in American political discourse (e.g., about abolition, war and peace, labor and industry, cold war, civil rights, education).  She is currently working on two projects, Socrates in the Vernacular, a study of the figure of Socrates in 20th century popular media in the US, Canada and Greece, and Socrates in Combat, an account of the significance Plato attaches to military service and return in his theory of justice and in his portrait of Socrates’ distinctiveness.
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

James Packer
Professor Emeritus (Classics)
PhD, Roman History, UC Berkeley

j-packer@northwestern.edu; jpacker328@gmail.com

James Packer’s major interests include Roman archaeology and the architecture of imperial Rome. His recent excavations in the Theater of Pompey are reported in the American Journal of Archaeology 110 (2006): 93-122; 111 (2007): 505-522 and in the Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma 111 (2010). His Architecture of the Roman Forum in the Age of the Emperors (with Professor G. Gorski, Department of Architecture, Notre Dame University) (Cambridge University Press) will appear in 2013.

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. She also serves as the department’s Director of Undergraduate Studies. In addition to her position in Classics, she serves as pre-law adviser in Weinberg College and chairs the Subcommittee on Language Proficiency of the Weinberg Council on Language Instruction (CLI). She is 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 spent 2009-10 in Munich contributing to the Thesaurus linguae Latinae. He is an affiliate of the Classical Traditions Initiative.

Francesca Tataranni
Senior 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 four times to the ASG (Associated Student Government) Honor Roll (2006-2009, 2011).  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 eighty 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, 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.

Claudia Zatta
Lecturer in Classics and Director of Greek Instruction
PhD, Johns Hopkins University
c-zatta@northwestern.edu
Claudia Zatta's teaching interests include Greek language and literature, Greek historiography and philosophy. In addition to several articles on different aspects of the Greek world, she has published a monograph on the figure of Proteus in Homer and the subsequent literary tradition, Incontri con Proteo (Venice, 1997). Interested in the interface between literature and philosophy, she is now working on the representation of the polis as a subject of pathos in the literature of the fifth-century BC. She is an affiliate of the Classical Traditions Initiative.