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Robert Gurval is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and former Department Chair (2000-05; 2013-14). He is currently the Faculty Undergraduate Advisor for all Classical Civilization and language majors in the Department of Classics. In Fall 2014, he was appointed the Director of the Mellon Program in Post-Classical Latin. His research explores the intersections of politics and literature in the Augustan Age and early Empire. His major publication is Actium and Augustus: The Politics and Emotions of Civil War (University of Michigan, 1996). His interests include Latin literature, ancient biography, Roman numismatics, and the reception of Classics in popular culture. His current project examines the construction of Cleopatra as a myth and image from antiquity to the 21st century. His undergraduate teaching includes Discovering the Romans (CL 20); Cinema and the Ancient World (CL 42); Ancient Lives: The Art of Biography (CL 137); Ancient Epic (CL 142); The Female in Roman Thought (CL 150B); and the capstone seminar, Hadrian: The Enigmatic Emperor (CL 191). He has taught Honors Collegium seminars on Representing Cleopatra (HC 5); Male Identity and Sexuality (HC 43); and the Hollywood Myth of Rome (HC 34) and five different Fiat Lux Seminars (CL 19), most recently Ancient Rome and the Monuments of Washington, D.C. (Winter 2015). He also directs the Travel Study Program in Rome (CL M114 & B/History M112C & E), and is next scheduled to teach it in summer 2016. He has supervised the Elementary Latin program. He is creator and developer of the hybrid online section of Latin 1-3 and taught a section in Fall 2014. He also teaches intermediate Latin (LA 100); Vergil (LA 105A & B); Elegy (LA 108); Horace (LA 109); Livy (LA 111); Tacitus (LA 112); Sallust (LA 117); Suetonius (LA 119A) and other authors. He has taught graduate seminars on Augustus, Topics in Roman History, Tacitus, Vergil, Horace, and Roman biography. He is the former faculty Chair of College Honors College (2009-10); 2011-13); General Education Governance (2006-10); and Undergraduate Honors, Awards and Prizes (1992-96; 1997-2002; 2004-05). He is currently serving on CUARS, the Committee on Undergraduate Admissions and Relations with Schools. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the Chinese University Hong Kong in 2010-11. As a Fulbright, he was a participant in a four-year, 20-person team effort to assist in building a program of General Education as the eight public universities of Hong Kong prepare to shift from a three to four-year system of undergraduate education in Fall 2012. At Chinese University of Hong Kong he taught a pilot of the foundation course, In Dialogue with Humanity. Since his Fulbright year, he has been actively engaged in promoting the teaching Classics in China and has given public lecture on Classics, especially on Cleopatra, and GE related events in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macau. Most recently, in Spring 2014, he was a Visiting Professor in the Department of History at Fudan University, Shanghai, where he taught a graduate seminar on ancient biography. He is also co-Principal Investigator of a series of workshops to be held at UCLA and Hong Kong on comparative approaches to the study of religion in 2014-16. He welcomes questions from Chinese mainland students interested in studying Classics in the U.S.