felsonnancy@gmail.com
PHONE: (706) 254-0424
255 Broadway, #5
Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522
INTERESTS:
Homeric Epic, Lyric (Pindar; Archilochus), Homeric Hymns, Greek Tragedy, Latin Poetry (Vergil, Elegiac, Horace), Gender Studies, Performance Theory, Myth Theory, Narratology, Semiotics
EDUCATION:
University of Cincinnati B.A. High Honors 1964
Columbia University M.A. 1965, Ph.D. 1972
DISSERTATION:
Thematic Structure and Figures of Speech in Pindar (with Howard N. Porter)
MASTER'S THESIS:
Pairing as a Structuring Device in Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes (with Helen Bacon)
EMPLOYMENT:
Visiting Instructor, Bard Prison Initiative (Eastern Correctional Institution), Fall Semester, 2018
Whitehead Professor, American School for Classical Studies in Athens, 2010-2011
University of Georgia:
Professor Emerita June 2010-
Professor of Classics, 1993-2010
Director of “Reacting to the Past,” 2000-2010
Associate Professor, 1981-92
Assistant Professor, 1975-81
Visiting Lecturer, 1974-75
Associated Faculty, Department of Religion, 1984-2010
Graduate Coordinator, 2003-2006
Visiting Professor, Smith College, 1986‑87; Visiting Scholar, Fall 1987
Lecturer, Herbert H. Lehman College of CUNY, 1973‑74
Lecturer, Hunter College of CUNY, 1967 and 1971‑72
COURSES TAUGHT:
Culture courses: Archaic Greece, Epic, Tragedy, Comedy, Gender and Greek Religion, Goddesses and Heroines in Greek Poetry, Greek Sanctuaries and Festivals (team taught), Greek and Roman Culture, Mythology, Myth Theory, Sex and Power in Ancient Greece, Masculinities in Ancient Greek Literature
Greek: Aristotle (Poetics, Nicomachean Ethics), Elementary and Intermediate Greek, Euripides, Herodotus, Homer, Hesiod, Lyric, Lysias, Menander, Pindar, Plato, Sophocles, Graduate Survey of Poetry
Latin: Vergil, Ovid, Catullus, Cicero, Propertius, Suetonius, Horace, Plautus
Comparative Literature: "The Problem Wife" in Fiction (at Smith College)
Art/Classics: "In the Antique Style," team taught with Shelly Zuraw, Professor of Renaissance art
Innovative Pedagogy: Reacting to the Past
“Athens in 403 BCE”
“Rousseau, Burke, and the French Revolution, 1791,” team taught with Laura Mason, Professor of French History
BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES:
Guest Editor, The Poetics of Deixis in Alcman, Pindar, and Other Lyric, Arethusa 47.3 (2004), 253-472.
Regarding Penelope: From Character to Poetics in Homer’s Odyssey. Princeton UP: 1994. Paperback, U of Oklahoma Press: 1997. Second edition was reissued electronically (2022)
https://chs.harvard.edu/book/regarding-penelope-from-character-to-poetics/ Regarding Penelope will appear in paperback in March 2024 (Harvard UP).
Co-Editor with Thomas Falkner and David Konstan, Contextualizing Classics: Ideology, Performance, Dialogue. Rowman and Littlefield: 2000.
Guest Editor, Semiotics & Classical Studies, Arethusa 16.1/2 (1983), 1-275.
Guest Editor, Symbols in Ancient Greek Poetry and Myth, Classical World 74.2 (1980), 1-144.
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS:
“Book 21: The Contest, the Nod, and Penelope’s Timely Departure,” forthcoming. In J. Christensen, Critical Essays on the Odyssey. Oxford UP.
“Exchanges in the Underworld,” with L. M. Slatkin, 2020. In M. Christopoulos and M. Paizi-Apostolopoulou, eds., The Upper and the Under World in Homeric and Archaic Epic:Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on the Odyssey (Ithaki: The Centre for Odyssean Studies), 263-77.
“Eurycleia: the Odyssey’s Best Supporting Character,” SKENÈ: Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies 8.2 (2022), 5-23.
“Thebes, Akragas, and Syracuse in Two of Pindar's Sicilian Odes,” Pindar in Sicily, eds. H. Reid and V. Lewis (Fonte Aretusa: 2021), 241-70.
with Richard J. Parmentier. “The ‘Savvy Interpreter’: Performance and Interpretation in Pindar’s Victory Odes,” Signs and Society 3.2 (2015): 261-305, repr. In R. Parmentier, Signs and Society (Indiana UP 2016), 208-38.
with Jared S. Klein. “Deixis in Linguistics and Poetics.” In Encyclopedia of Greek Linguistics and Language Vol.I, 429-33.
“Children of Zeus in the Homeric Hymns: Generational Succession”. In Andrew Faulkner, ed., The Homeric Hymns (Oxford UP 2011), 254-79.
“Victory and Virility in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo: at whose expense?” In P. Brillet et al., eds. Greek Hymns. (Lyon 2012), 269-74.
“Plot Structure and Semantic Resonances in Ancient Greek ‘Almost Incest’ Narratives,” In V. Ambros et al., eds., Structuralism Today (Legas Press 2009), 121-37.
with L. M. Slatkin, “Nostos, Tisis, and Two Forms of Dialogism in Homer’s Odyssey.” In Crime and Punishment in Homeric and Archaic Epic: Proceedings of the 12th Symposium on “Revisiting the Odyssey” (Ithaki 2014), 121-32.
“The Partnership of Zeus and Gaia in Hesiod’s Theogony.” In L. Athanassaki, C. Nappa and A. Vergados, eds., Gods and Mortals in Greek and Latin Poetry: Studies in Honor of Jenny Strauss Clay (Ariadne Supplement Series 2). (Rethymnon 2018), 57-80.
“Epicinian Apollo in Story Time.: Pythian 9, Olympian 6 and Pythian 3” In L. Athanassaki, V. Karasmanis, R. Martin, and J. Miller, eds. Apolline Politics and Poetics (European Cultural Centre of Delphi. Athens 2009), 149-68.
“Epinician Ideology at the Phaeacian Games: Od. 8.97-265.” In D. Maronitis, ed. Contests and Rewards: Athla kai Epathla sta Omerika Epe. (Ithaca 2007), 129-43.
“The Poetics Effects of Deixis in Pindar’s Ninth Pythian Ode.” In N. Felson, ed., The Poetics of Deixis in Alcman, Pindar, and Other Lyric, Arethusa 47.3 (2004), 365-89.
“Introduction,” “Glossary” and “Bibliography.” In N. Felson, ed., The Poetics of Deixis in Alcman, Pindar, and Other Lyric, Arethusa 47.3 (2004), 253-66, 445-47, and 449-66.
with L. M. Slatkin. “Gender and Homeric Epic.” In R. Fowler, ed., Cambridge Companion to Homer. (Cambridge UP, 2004), 91-114 (nominated twice for outstanding feminist article of the year).
“Paradigmes de la paternité: pères, fils, et prouesses athlétiques / sexuelles dans l’Odyssée d’Homère.” In F. Létoublon, ed. Rechèrches Homerique (2002), 259-72.
“Reading and Teaching Classics after 9/11,” Outreach 2002: 6-7.
“Threptra and ‘Invisible Hands’: The Father/Son Relation in Iliad 24.” In Epos and Mythos, ed. C. Higbie and M. Malamud, Arethusa 35.1 (2002) 35-50 and 189-200.
“Paradigms of Paternity: A Study of the Gentle Father in Homer’s Odyssey.” In A. Rengakos and J.N. Kazazis, eds., Euphrosyne: Studies in Ancient Epic and its Legacy in Honor of D.N. Maronitis (Stuttgart 2000), 89-98.
“Alienated Couples in Euripidean Tragedy: A Bakhtinian Analysis.” In P. A. Miller, C. Platter et al., eds., Carnivalizing Difference: Bakhtin and the Other (Harwood Press 2000), 23-50.
“Vicarious Transport in Pindar’s Pythian Four,” HSCP 99 (1999) 1-31.
“Artful Manipulation: Od.10.203-60.” In F. Létoublon, ed., Hommage À Milman Parry (J. C. Gieben Press 1998), 283-91.
“Signposts in Oral Epic: Metapragmatic and Metasemantic Signals." In C. Mihailescu, ed., Fictions Updated (Toronto UP 1997) 175-86.
“Bakhtinian Alterity, Homeric Rapport,” Arethusa 26.2 (1993) 159-71.
“‘Getting It’—A Response to G. Arnott.” In N. W. Slater and B. Zimmermann, eds., Intertextualität in der griechisch-römischen Komödie, special issue of Drama, Band 2 (1993) 33-38.
“Behind the Poet’s Back: Characters Who Scheme.” In B. Dauenhauer, ed., Textual Fidelity and Textual Disregard (Peter Lang 1990) 121-38 and 175-79.
“Classics in the Eighties: New Ways to Read Old Text,” New England Classical Newsletter 16.1 (1988) 15‑22.
“Penelope's Perspective: Character from Plot.” In J.M. Bremer, I.J.F. de Jong, and J. Kalff, eds., Recent Trends in Homeric Interpretation (Amsterdam 1988) 61‑83.
“Regarding Penelope.” In S.L. Schein, ed., Reading the Odyssey: Selected Interpretive Essays (Princeton UP 1996) 163-83.
“A Model for the Analysis of Character in Ancient Greek Lyric: The Poet Figure in Pindaric Odes.” In M. Herzfeld, ed., Semiotic Theory and Practice (de Gruyter 1987) 1065-71.
“The Epinician Speaker in Pindar’s First Olympian: Toward a Model for Analyzing Character in Ancient Choral Lyric,” Poetics Today 5.2 (Fall 1984), 377‑97.
with W. M. Sale. “Meleager and Narrative Theory, Arethusa 17.2 (1984), 211‑22.
with W. M. Sale. “Meleager and Odysseus: A Structural and Cultural Study of the Greek Hunting‑Maturation Myth,” Arethusa 16 (1983), 137‑71.
“Radical Semantic Change in Archilochus,” Classical Journal 77.1 (1981) 1‑8.
with H. M. Deal. “Some Functions of the Demophoon Episode in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter,” Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica n.s. 5 (1980), 7‑21, reprinted in H. Foley, ed., The Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Princeton UP 1993), 190-97.
“Pindar’s Creation of Epinician Symbols,” Classical World 74.2 (1980), 83‑103.
with H. M. Deal. “One Formula, Many Meanings, and the Myth of the Aloades,” Semiotica 29.1/2 (1980), 39‑52.
“Olympian 7: The Toast and the Future Prayer,” Hermes 108.2 (1980), 248‑52.
“Eco’s Semiotics: A Classicist’s Perspective,” Helios n.s. 6.2 (1978‑79), 17‑32.
“Some Functions of the Enclosed Invective in Archilochus’ Erotic Fragment,” Classical Journal 74.2 (1978-79), 136‑41.
“Narrative Structure in Pindar’s Ninth Pythian Ode,” Classical World 71.6 (1978), 353‑69.
“Why Classics and Semiotics?” Introduction to a special issue on “Semiotics and Classical Studies,” Arethusa 16 (1983), 15‑33.
Introduction to “Symbols in Ancient Greek Poetry and Myth,” a special issue of Classical World 74.2 (1980), 65‑67.
Entries in M. Finkelberg, ed., Blackwell’s Homer Encyclopedia. (Oxford 2011).
World Book Encyclopedia, 17 entries on mythology.
AWARDS, GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
UGA Grant for “Performing Pindar,” Festival of the Arts, 2021
Margo Tytus Scholar, University of Cincinnati (fall 2011)
Elizabeth A. Whitehead Visiting Professor at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (2010-2011)
Grant for Reacting to the Past pedagogy program (2005-2010, $15,000 annually)
Franklin College Nominee for Meigs Professorship for Excellence in Teaching 2007 and 2008
Margo Tytus summer residency scholar, University of Cincinnati (summer 2005)
UGA Center for Humanities and Arts Collaborative Teaching Award 2004/05
UGA Humanities Center Grant (spring 2002) - for Deixis and Pindar project
VPR, VPAA, IAPDF, and Greek Ministry of Culture Grants for “Deixis at Delphi” Conference (June 2000)
VPAA State of the Arts Grant (March 1997 conference)
Humanities Center/Honors Program Interdisciplinary Teaching Award (fall 1997)
Center for Hellenic Studies Summer Scholar Grant (1996)
Second Discipline Award (1995-96) to study anthropology at Emory U & UGA
Honors Program Teaching Award (1994)
Sandy Beaver Teaching Award (1993)
UGA Humanities Center Grant (1991) for Olympia project
UGA Senior Faculty Research Grant (1991) for Olympia project, (1988‑89) - for Penelope project
Women's Studies Curriculum Development Grant (1990).
Smith College Grant for Research (1986‑87)
Junior Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies (1981‑82)
NEH Research Conference Grant to organize Classics & Semiotics Colloquium at the 2nd International
Summer Institute for Semiotic & Structural Studies, Nashville (1981)
Andrew Mellon Faculty Development Grant to conduct a seminar at the Second International Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies, Nashville, on Applications of Semiotics to Ancient Greek Texts (1981)
UGA Summer Research Fellowships (1980, 1982)
NEH Fellowship to participate in a seminar on Modern Theories of Mythology at SUNY, Buffalo (1976)
Semple‑Taft Stipend at the University of Cincinnati (1962‑64)
LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PAPERS:
With L. M. Slatkin, "Shaping Audience Perspectives through Deictic Patterns: Aeschylus' Persians." Yale Classics Department Workshop, U of British Columbia, and U of Washington, Seattle (2015).
With L. M. Slatkin, “Rethinking Aeschylus’ Persians in Syracuse,” Fonte Aretusa Conference, Siracusa (2015).
Miami U Lecture: “What Does Gaia Want in Hesiod’s Theogony,” (2013).
Ohio State U Lecture: “Pindar of Thebes: An Invitation to Travel Vicariously in Olympian 3.”
U of Michigan Lecture (Else Seminars): “Pindar of Thebes and his Invitation to Travel: Olympian 2 and Pythian 3” (2011)
U of Cincinnati Classics Department and Taft Center: Lecture on Pindar of Thebes (2011)
Yale U lecture: “Pindar of Thebes: the source of the poet’s authority” (2011)
U of Patras, Greece Lecture: “Pindar of Thebes,” (2011)
U of Crete, Rethymno Lecture: “Pindar of Thebes” (2011)
APA Meeting, San Antonio: commentator on Homeric Pedagogy panel (2011)
London: Conference on Cognitive Poetics and Classics Lecture: “Masculinity Narratives” (2008)
Lyon, France: Conference on the Hymn: Lecture on Hymn to Apollo (2008)
Hamilton College: Lecture on masculinity and athletics (2008).
U of Thessaloniki Conference on “Narratology and Interpretation. The Content of the Form in Ancient Texts”: Lecture on masculinity (2007)
CAMWS, Cincinnati: “Two Kingdoms, Two Brides: The Bellerophon Narrative of Iliad 6” (2007).
7th International Orality Conference, Auckland, NZ: “How Not to Get Skinned: Politics and Poetics in The Homeric Hymn to Apollo” (2006).
CAMWS, Gainesville: “How Not to Get Skinned: Politics and Poetics in The Homeric Hymn to Apollo” (2006).
Center for Odyssey Studies, Ithaki, Greece: “Contests and Rewards: Athla kai Enathla” Lecture: “A Proto-Epinikion Among the Phaiakians” (2004).
U of Pennsylvania and APA: “Apollo in Story Time” (2003).
Delphi, Greece: Conference on Apollo: Lecture on “Apollo in Story Time” (2003)
U of Texas: Lecture on Homer (2003).
U of Thessaloniki: Lecture on Pindar (2002)
U of Crete at Rethymno: Lecture on Pindar (2002)
New York University, New York: Lecture on Pindar (2001)
U of Texas, Austin: Lectures on Pindar and Paternity in Homer (2001)
APA Meeting, San Diego: “Over There, Back Then: The Land of Cyrene in Pindar’s Pythian IX” (2001)
Delphi: Conference on Deixis in Fiction and Performance: “Over There, Back Then: The Land of Cyrene in Pindar’s Pythian IX” (2000)
SUNY, Buffalo: “Disrupting the Patriline in Iliad XXIV” (2000)
Colloque Homère, Grenoble, France: “Paradigms of Paternity in Homer’s Odyssey: A Study of the Gentle Father,” (1999)
CAMWS, Cleveland: “Spatial Deixis and the Structure of Journeys in Pindar's Pythian 4 (1999)
Haverford College: “Paradigms of Paternity in Homer’s Odyssey: A Study of the Gentle Father” (1999)
University College London: “Vicarious Transport in Pindar’s Pythian 4" (1998)
Emory U: Conference on Bakhtin—commentator on J. Peradotto (1998)
U of California at Davis: “Fathers and Sons in the Odyssey: Two Interlocking Paradigms.” Odyssey Conference (1998)
U of Lampeter, Wales: panelist on APA Panel on Dialogue (1998)
Wesleyan U: “The Construction of Male Sexuality in Pindar (Pythian Odes 4, 5, and 9)” (1997)
Northwestern U: “Olympian 3, Olympia, and the Ancient Olympics” (1997)
UGA Humanities Center Lecture: “Deixis in Pindaric Odes” (1997)
APA in NY: “A Blueprint for the Classics Future: New Venues, Services and Networks for M.A. Programs” (1996)
U of Chicago: “Being Transported: Olympian 3, the Ancient Olympics and the Enduring Power of Place” (1996)
UC Davis: “Alienated Couples in Greek Tragedy: A Bakhtinian Analysis” (1996)
U of Cincinnati Lecture: “Being Transported: Poetic Travels and Pindaric Victory Odes” (1996)
U of Kentucky Lecture: “Being Transported: Poetic Travels and the Ancient Olympics” and Seminars on Ovid and Homer’s Odyssey (1996)
Emory U: “Penelope and Telemachus” (1995)
APA in Atlanta: “Spatial Deixis and the Structure of Journeys in Pindar’s Olympian 3” (1994)
U of Arizona Homer Institute (NEH Lecturer): “Lures and Entrapments in the Odyssey” and “Audience Diversity (gender, age) for Homer’s Odyssey” (1994)
Mercer College NEH Lecture: “Recollecting Discordant Courtship: The Alienated Wife in Greek Tragedy” (1994)
Texas Tech U Conference on Carnivalizing Difference Keynote Speaker: Bakhtin and the Other: “Recollecting Discordant Courtship: The Alienated Wife in Greek Tragedy (1994)
APA Meeting, Washington, DC: Panel on Character and Epic: “Regarding Penelope” (1993)
Université de Grenoble, France: Colloquium on Milman Parry: “Artful Manipulation: Od.10.203-60” (1993)
U of Exeter, UK: Conference on Reciprocity in Ancient Greece: “Alterity and Rapport in the Odyssey and Greek Tragedy” (1993)
UGA Humanities Center: “Spatial Deixis and the Structure of Journeys in Pindar's Olympian 3” (1993)
Smith College: “Spatial Deixis and the Structure of Journeys in Pindar’s Olympian 3” (1993)
Mt. Holyoke College: “Bakhtinian Alterity/Homeric Rapport” (1993)
U of Toronto Comparative Literature Circle: “Bakhtinian Alterity/Homeric Rapport” (1992)
U of Rochester Classics and Women’s Studies: “Bakhtinian Alterity/Homeric Rapport” (1992)
Plato Conference, Emory U: Commentator on Andrea Nightingale, “Alien Voices in Plato’s Phaedrus (1992)
Emory U Women’s Studies Colloquium: “Juno’s Dissidence and the New Roman Order” (1992)
Miami U Lecture: “Regarding Penelope: From Character to Poetics” (1991)
U of Wisconsin, Madison: “Regarding Penelope” (1990)
Goshen College Keynote Lecture: “Canonizing Revision” (1990)
Washington U Lecture: “Regarding Penelope: From Courtship to Poetics” (1990)
Emory U Women’s Studies class: “Regarding Penelope” (1990)
CAMWS, Columbia, MO: “Men in Feminism: Odysseus Regards Penelope” (1990)
U of Cincinnati, Department of Psychiatry: “Men in Feminism: Odysseus Regards Penelope” (1990)
Graduate Center of CUNY: Panel on Bakhtin and Feminist Literary Criticism: “Juno’s Dissidence and the New Roman Order: Dialogicity in the Aeneid” (1990)
APA, Boston: Panelist on The Fate of the Female Voice in Vergil’s Aeneid: “Juno’s Dissidence and the New Roman Order” (1989)
UGA Humanities Center: “Audience and the Construction of Character: Homer’s Odyssey” (1989)
Emory U Psychoanalytic Center: “Men in Feminism: Odysseus Regards Penelope” (1989)
UGA Women’s Studies: “Men in Feminism: Odysseus Regards Penelope” (1989).
Poetics and Comparative Literature Department Symposium, Tel Aviv U,: “Behind the Poet’s Back: Characters Who Spin” (1988)
UGA Humanities Center Conference: “Behind the Poet’s Back: Characters Who Spin” (1988)
CAMWS, New Orleans: “Two Not Entirely Incompatible Readings of Plato’s Phaedrus Suggested by the Text Itself” (1988)
UGA Women’s Studies Brown Bag Talks: “Regarding Penelope” (1988)
UGA Romance Languages Graduate Seminar on Semiotics: “Semiotic Approaches to Classics” (1988).
APA, NYC Workshop on Graduate Education: Constraints and Options in our Graduate Curricula: “Beyond Philology: Training in Theory and Criticism” (1987).
SUNY at Buffalo: “The Suitors, Regarding Penelope: Perspectives on Character in Homer’s Odyssey” (1987); two additional workshops with a feminist and a cognitive science group on my Odyssey work
Emory U Conference on Images of Women in Ancient Greece: Commentator on Jack Winkler’s “The Authoress of the Odyssey: Penelope’s Metis and Homer” (1987)
Amherst College: “Telemachos, Regarding Penelope: Perspectives on Character in the Odyssey” (1987).
Smith College Work-in-Progress Series, Committee on Women and Social Change: “Regarding Penelope: In Dialogue with Bakhtin” (1987)
Cornell U Lecture: “Regarding Penelope” (1987)
CAMWS, Boulder CO: “Penelope’s Perspective” (1987)
Smith College Classics Colloquium: “Regarding Penelope: A Perspectival Look at Character in the Odyssey” (1987)
Smith College General Studies Lecture: “Introduction to the Iliad” (1987)
Wesleyan U Lecture: “Agamemnon’s Penelope” (1986)
International Colloquium on Recent Trends in Homeric Interpretation, Amsterdam: “Penelope’s Perspective: Unrealized Plot Possibilities” (1986)
CAMWS Meeting, Tampa: Panel on Pindar’s First Olympian: “The Epinician Speaker in Pindar’s First Olympian: A Model for the Analysis of Character in Ancient Choral Lyric” (1986)
Boston U: “Penelope‑Plots,” and graduate student seminar: “Semiotics and Classics (1986)
UC, Santa Cruz Lecture: “Penelope-Plots” (1986)
UCLA Lecture: “Penelope-Plots” (1986)
USC Lecture: “Penelope‑Plots” (1986)
U of Kentucky Lecture: “Penelope as Seductress, and Other Unrealized Plot Possibilities in the Odyssey” (1985)
Tel Aviv U, Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics: “Penelope as Seductress, and Other Unrealized Plot Possibilities in the Odyssey” (1985)
APA, Toronto: “New Areas for Doctoral and Postdoctoral Training” (1984)
CAMWS Southern Section: “Telemachus as Usurper, Penelope as Seductress, the Suitors as Bridegrooms, and Other Unrealized Plot Possibilities in the Odyssey” (1984)
Emory U Lecture: “Telemachus as Usurper, Penelope as Seductress, the Suitors as Bridegrooms, and Other Unrealized Plot Possibilities in the Odyssey” (1984)
Washington U Lecture: “The Speaking Subject in Archilochus, Sappho and Yeats” (1984)
UGA Panel on Character and Genre: “The Speaking Subject” (April 1984)
APA, Cincinnati: “The Epinician Speaker in Pindar’s Odes: Toward a Model for Analyzing Character” (1983)
Rijksuniversiteit, Holland: “The Epinician Speaker in Pindar’s Odes: Toward a Model for Analyzing Character in Ancient Choral Lyric” (1983)
UGA Winter Forum on Narrative Poetics: “Telemachus as Usurper, and Other Unrealized Plot Possibilities in the Odyssey” (1983)
Third International Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies, Toronto U: “Character in Pindaric Encomia” (1982)
U of Texas: “Efficacy of Logoi in Pindaric Myth” (1982)
Howard U: “Telemachus as Supplanter, and Other Unrealized Plot Possibilities in Homer’s Odyssey” (1982)
APA, San Francisco: “Telemachus as Supplanter, and Other Unrealized Plot Possibilities in Homer’s Odyssey” (1981)
International Conference on The Structure of Reality in Fiction, Ossabaw Island, GA: “Principles of Causality in Pindaric Epinicia” (1981)
Classics and Semiotics Colloquium, International Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies, Vanderbilt U: “Hunting and Sexuality in Myth and Epic: Odysseus and Meleager” (1981)
Duke University: “The Tragic Hunters and Odysseus (1981)
SUNY, Buffalo, Graduate Semiotic Circle: “Functions of Embedded Narratives in Ancient Texts: The Hymn to Demeter” (1980)
Second International Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies, Toronto U: “Functions of Embedded Narratives in Ancient Texts” (1981)
Semiotic Society of America: “Embedded Narratives: Some Functions of the Dido Episode in Vergil’s Aeneid” (1980)
CAMWS: “Radical Semantic Shifts in Archilochus’ Thumos Poem” (1980)
APA, NY: “Pindar's Mythic and Future Prayers: Ol. 7 and Isthm. 5” (1979)
International Association for Semiotic Studies Meeting, Vienna, Austria: “A Typology of Embedded Narratives and Their Functions” (1979)
Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: Synopsis II: Narratology, Participant (1979)
APA, Atlanta: Panel on Personal and Conventional Symbols in Early Greek Poetry and Myth: “Pindar’s Creation of Epinician Symbols: Olympians 6, 7 and 10” (1977)
UGA Winter Forum on Structuralism: “Structural Analysis of Myth” (1977)
APA, NY: Women’s Classical Caucus Panel on Women and Religion: “Proppian Analysis of Women as ‘Heroes’” (1974)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE:
Member, SCS Committee on Making Friends (2013-2020)
Whitehead Professor, American School of Classical Studies (2010-2011)
Director, “Reacting to the Past, UGA” (2004-2010)
Member, National Board of Directors, “Reacting to the Past” (2007-2011)
UGA’s University Council (Chair of Executive Committee 2005-2006, Vice-Chair 2004-2005), Member (1996-99; 1988-91), Faculty Benefits Committee (1996-98); Faculty Affairs Committee (1997-99, 1990-92); Committee on Intercollegiate Athletics (1987-92, Chair, 1991-92)
APA Nominee for President (2010), Director (2001-2004), Committee on Minority Scholarships (2006-2008, Chair 2006-2008), Nominating Committee (1994-97, Co-Chair, 1996-97); Subcommittee on Performance (1987‑88, Founder); Committee on Educational Services (1984‑87): Committee on the Status of Women and Minorities (Chair,1983‑85); Committee on Placement (1983‑85)
UGA Faculty Senate (Presiding Officer 2003-2004, Chair of Steering Committee 2002-2003, member Awards Committee 2000-2001, Secretary 1982‑83)
UGA Women’s Studies: Awards Cm (Chair, 2002-2003), Brown Bag Speakers (Co-chair, 1993-95), Curriculum Cm (1988), Review Cm (Chair
Georgia Review Editorial Board (2000-2003)
UGA Faculty Advisor to Eta Sigma Phi (1999-2002)
UGA Review Cm for Women’s Studies, for Comparative Literature (1990-91)
UGA Tenure Review Committee (1995, 1997, chair 1999, 2000, 2001)
UGA Humanities Center Board of Directors (1986‑89 and 1991-94, Chair, 1992-94)
UGA Classics Department, Graduate Coordinator ( ) Search Cm (Chair, 1993-94, member, 1997-98); Cm on Space and Facilities (Chair, 1999-), Special Events Cm (Chair 2002-2003, 1993-99)
UGA University Center
UGA Athletic Association, Board of Directors (1988-90)
UGA Women’s Faculty Caucus (Co-Founder and Co-Convener, 1991-95)
UGA Graduate Council (1987‑89)
Women’s Classical Caucus (Steering Cm, 1974‑86; Member, 1974-)
American Philological Association, member (APA)
American Institute of Archaeology, member (AIA)
Classical Association of the Middle West and South, member (CAMWS)
International Association for Semiotic Studies (1979‑86) (IASS)
PANELS AND CONFERENCES ORGANIZED:
Organizer of “Reacting to the Past” Conference, UGA (2005)
Organizer of Roundtable, “Reading and Teaching after 9/11,” APA, Philadelphia (2002)
Organizer (with Egbert Bakker, Jenny Strauss Clay and Jared Klein) of International Conference on “Deixis in Fiction and Performance” (Delphi, Greece, 2000)
Organizer (with Jared Klein) of CAMWS Panel on Deixis and the Text (2000)
Organizer of State of the Arts Conference on “Interdisciplinarity and the Classics” in honor of John Peradotto and Arethusa, Athens GA (1997)
Organizer of Panel on “Classical Philology: The German Connection, American Comparative Literature Association Meeting, Athens, GA (1995)
Co-Founder of the UGA Humanities Center (1984-86)
Organizer of Workshop on “Graduate Education: Constraints and Options in our Graduate Curricula,” APA, NYC (1987)
Participant, Smith College Women’s Studies: “Women Taking A/Part” (1986‑87)
Organizer of Colloquium on Character Theory, UGA (April 1984) (first UGA Humanities Center event)
Organizer of Winter Forum on Narrative Poetics, UGA (January 1983); co-founder of Forum (1980)
Organizer of Panel on “Semiotics and Classical Philology,” APA Meeting, Philadelphia (December 1982
Organizer of Classics and Semiotics Colloquium, Vanderbilt University, at International Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies (June 1981), NEH Funded. Invited speakers included Classicists and Semioticians. Team taught month-long Colloquium on Classics & Semiotics
Organizer of Panel on “Personal and Conventional Symbols in Early Greek Poetry and Myth,” APA Meeting, Atlanta (December 1977)
EDITORIAL AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Editorial Board, Signs and Society (U of Chicago) 2012-present, U of Oklahoma Press (1992- ), Helios (1977‑83), Georgia Review (1997-2008, Chair, 1999-2004)
Reacting to the Past Consortium Executive Cm
AJP’s Gildersleeve Prize Cm (1999-2002, Chair 2001-02)
Center for Humanities and Arts (Subvention Cm, 2001-03)
Referee: American Journal of Philology, Arethusa, Classical Antiquity, Classical Journal, Classical Outlook, Classical Philology, Helios, Phoenix, SIGNS, TAPA, Signs and Society and for SUNY at Albany Press, U of California Press, U of Chicago Press, U of Oklahoma Press, Princeton U Press
Referee for grants and awards: ACLS (1990), UGA Junior Faculty Research Grants (1989, 1990), Guggenheim Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, John J. Winkler Award