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SPECIAL INTERESTS: 1) Greek Poetry (Archaic and Hellenistic). 2) Greek Tragedy and Comedy. 3) Greek Religion and Myth. 4) Roman Comedy. ACADEMIC HISTORY: Bowdoin College, 1972-1976; B.A. magna cum laude in Classics Univ. of Tübingen, 1974-1975; 1978-1979 Univ. of Michigan, 1976-1978; M.A. April 1978; 1979-1981; Ph.D. Sept. 1981 with dissertation on Callimachus, Hymn to Delos 1-99: Introduction and Commentary (Prof. L. Koenen, advisor) V + 197pp EMPLOYMENT AND TEACHING: Bowdoin College: Teaching Fellow in Religion (Biblical Prophecy), Fall 1975 Asst. to Editor, Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt, Tübingen 1977 University of Michigan: Teaching Assistant, Great Books 191 (Homer to Vergil;english composition) Fall 1979; Great Books 201, Fall 1980 University of Pennsylvania: Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, 1981-1987; Co-Chairman of Theatre Arts Program 1982-1983 Case Western Reserve University: Assistant Professor of Classics and Modern Literature, 1987-1989 Emory University: Associate Professor of Classics 1989-2007; Professor of Classics 2007- ; Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of the Classics 2010- ; Chairman 1990-1991, 1994-1995, 1996-1999, 2009-2013 HONORS: Phi Beta Kappa, Bowdoin College 1976 DAAD Fellow, University of Tübingen, 1978-1979 Junior Fellow, The Center for Hellenic Studies, 1984-1985 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow, Univ. of Tübingen, 1985, 1992-1993 Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge University 1999-2000; Life-Member 2000- Emory University Research Committee (URC) Grant 1999-2000 Member, Cambridge Philological Society 2000- Barrington Fellow of the Margo Tytus Visiting Fellowship Program, Univ. of Cincinnati 2005-2006 Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award for 2005/2006 BOOKS: 1. Translation of W. Burkert's Homo Necans (Berkeley 1983) XXV + 334pp. 2. The Well-Read Muse. Present and Past in Callimachus and the Hellenistic Poets, Hypomnemata 90 (Göttingen 1988) 163pp. Reviews: R. Schmiel, Phoenix 44.3 (1990) 281-283; D. Donnet, LEC (1990) 196; C. Dobias-Lalou, REG 104 (1991) 651-652; W.H. Mineur, Mnemosyne (1992) 544-546; G. Benedetto, Maia N.S. 45.1 (1993) 82-87 3. Contributor to Musa Tragica. Die griechische Tragödie von Thespis bis Ezechiel. Ausgewählte Zeugnisse und Fragmente, griechisch und deutsch (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1991) 4. Games of Venus: An Anthology of Greek and Roman Erotic Verse from Sappho to Ovid, co-authored with R. Cohen (Routledge Press 1991) 279pp. Paperback edition 1993, Selection of the Reader's Subscription Book Club. Reviews: A. Petrecca, “Hey, Sappho, Baby”, Libido 9 (1991) 73-74; C. Stace, “Sapphic Delight”,The Daily Telegraph 28 March (1992) 126; S. MacEwen, Journal of the History of Sexuality (1992/3) 320-322; J.J. Clauss, BMCR 3.2 (1992) 96-100; J. Smith, “All Greek to Latin lovers”,The Independent on Sunday 12 Jan. (1992) 27; L. Deschamps, REA 94 (1992) 275-276; S. Murray, Publ. of the Soc. of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists 14.3 (1992) ; E.M. O’Connor, CW 86.6 (1993) 510 5. Translation of W. Burkert’s Savage Energies (Chicago 2001). 6. The Brill Companion to Hellenistic Epigram, P. Bing and J. Bruss edd. (Leiden,2007) Reviews: T. Purola, Arctos 41 (2007) 135-136; L. A. Guichard, MH 64.4 (2007) 242: http://retro.seals.ch/digbib/view?lp=242&rid=mhl 001%3A2007%3A64%3A%3A204&Submit=ok; D. Donnet, Ant.Cl. 77 (2008) 376-377; M. A. Tueller, BMCR (06.19.2008); R. Höschele, CW (2008) 200-201; E. Prioux, CR 58.2 (2008) 397-400 7. The Well-Read Muse. Present and Past in Callimachus and the Hellenistic Poets. 2nd ed. with New Introduction (Michigan Classics Press, 2008) Reviews: B. Acosta-Hughes, Aitia 1 (2010) http://aitia.revues.org/198?lang=it 8. The Scroll and The Marble: Studies in Reading and Reception in Hellenistic Poetry (Ann Arbor 2009) Reviews: S. Halliwell, TLS 6 Aug. (2010) 13; C. Cusset, L’antiquité classique (2010) 9. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, Area Editor for Greek Literature; general editor, Michael Gagarin (Oxford 2010) Review: C. Kelly, TLS 17 Sept. (2010) 23 10. Aristaenetus: Erotic Letters. Introduced, Translated and Annotated, with Regina Höschele (Society of Biblical Literature)