Education
A.B. Northwestern University, 1966
M.A. Harvard University, 1971
Ph.D.Harvard University, l972 (dissertation: The Greek Version of Ovid's Metamorphoses)


Fellowships

Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for graduate study, 1966-67
Junior Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC 1974-75
Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, Washington, DC 1990-91; 2007-08

Professional Employment
Professor of Classics, George Washington University, 2001-
Associate Professor of Classics, George Washington University, 1983-2001; Chairman, Department of Classics 1988-2001, 2002-2004
Assistant Professor of Classics, George Washington University, 1978-1983
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Classics (part-time), Georgetown University, 1976-1978
Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Minnesota, 1971-1976
Teaching Fellow, Harvard University Summer School, 1968

Research Publications
Books

•Michaelis Pselli orationes hagiographicae (Stuttgart and Leipzig: B.G. Teubner 1994) xxv+323, indices. [Reviews: Koinonia 18 (1994) 222 (Garzya); Byzantion 65,2 (1995) 553 (Yannopoulos); Analecta Bollandiana 113 (1995) 437-8 (Lequeux); Revue des Études Byzantines 53 (1995) 359 (Congourdeau); Hellenika 450 (1995) 387-93 (Agapitos); Platon 47-8 (1995-6) 201-4 (Georgountzos); Scriptorium 50 (1996.1) 67-8 (Förstel); L'Antiquité Classique 66 (1997) 354-9 (Schamp); Byzantinische Zeitscrift 90 (1997) 147-51 (Bevegni)]

•Planudes' Translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses (doctoral dissertation with new preface published by Garland Press, 1990) xii+118 [Reviews: The Classical Review 41 (1991) 523-24 (Kenney); Speculum 67 (1992) 407-9 (Baldwin)]

Refereed Articles
•“Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Sailing to Byzantium” accepted for interactive web publication in Remusings: Essays on the Translation of Classical Poetry (site sponsored by Harvard University/ Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC); also forthcoming in Classical and Modern Literature 27.1 (Spring 2007).

•“Michael Psellos in a Hagiographical Landscape: The Life of St. Auxentios,” Reading
Michael Psellos, edd. Charles Barber and David Jenkins (Brill 2006), 57-71.

•“Manuel Holobolos, Alfred of Sareshal, and the ‘Anonymous’ Greek Translator of ps.- Aristotle’s De Plantis,” Classica et Mediaevalia 57 (2006), 189-211.

•600-word articles on “Metaphrasis” and on “Michael Psellos,” invited submission for The Classical Tradition ed. Anthomy Grafton, Glenn Most, Salvatore Settis (Harvard University Press) forthcoming 2007.

•“Planoudes' Technique and Competence as a Translator of Ovid's Metamorphoses,” Byzantinoslavica 62 (2004) 143-160

•Translation of "Ignatios the Deacon: Life of Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople" in Defenders of the Images (Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Saints' Lives in Translation vol. 3, Washington DC 1998) 25-142 [Review: Speculum 77 (2001) 254-6 (Allison)]

•"Image and Ekphrasis in Michael Psellos' Sermon on the Crucifixion," Byzantinoslavica 55 (1994) 44-55

•"Michael Psellos on the Rhetoric of Hagiography and the 'Life of St. Auxentius,'" Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 17 (1993) 43-55

•"Planudes" entry for Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (New York: Oxford, 1991) 1381-2

•"Greek Translations of Latin Literature in the Fourth Century A.D.," Yale Classical Studies 28 (1982) 173-215

•"Theodora and Antonina in the Historia Arcana: History and/or Fiction?" Arethusa 11 (1978) 253-280. Rpt. in Women in the Ancient World: The Arethusa Papers (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1984) 287-313

•"A Note on Pachymeres' De Andronico Palaeologo," Byzantion 40 (1970) 230-5

•"Two Notes on the Heroides," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 74 (1968) 193-205

Other Articles
•“Aristophanes' Acharnians,” “Aristophanes' Birds,” “Seneca's Thyestes,” 350-word entries for Cyclopedia of Literary Places (Salem Press, 2002)

•"Planudes, Maximos (Manuel)" 1000-wd. entry with bibliography for Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition, ed. Graham Speake (Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000)

•"Innovation Through Translation: The Greek Version of Ovid's Amatory Poems," invited contribution for Originality and Innovation in Byzantine Literature, Art and Music (Oxford: Oxbow 1995) 93-8

•"Nicomedia or Galatia? Where Was Psellos' Church of the Archangel Michael?" Gonimos. . . Presented to L.G. Westerink (Buffalo, NY: Arethusa 1988) 175-87

•"Ovid's Metamorphoses, Planudes and Ausonians," Arktouros: Hellenic Studies Presented to Bernard M.W.Knox (New York: DeGruyter, 1979) 440-6

Publications in Pedagogy and the Humanities
Refereed Articles

•"Epic Parrot/Parrot Epic: The Parrodyssey," Classical Outlook 65 (1988) 77-80

•"The Study Question: An Avenue to Understanding Homer," in Approaches to Teaching Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (New York: MLA, 1987) 119-124

•"A Short Literature-Through-Language Series: A Taste of Honey," Classical Journal 77(1982) 259-64

•"Guests of the Prophet's People," (short story) GW Forum 13 (1982) in collaboration with Robert A. Hadley

Other Articles
•"On Ovid: Reflections of an Alumna," Nota Bene (Newsletter of Harvard Classics Department) 1.3 (1996) 4

Greece: 478-336 B.C. Handbook, for National University Consortium for Telecommunications in Teaching (1982) with Ellen Reeder Williams, William A. Banner, and Valerie French

•"Two Ancient Accounts of the Eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79," (in collaboration with Robert A. Hadley) Pompeii and the Vesuvian Landscape: Papers of a Symposium Sponsored by the AIA Washington Society and the Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.: AIA, 1979) 9-15

 Reviews
•Jean Schneider, Les traités orthographiques grecs antiques et byzantins. (Corpus Christianorum, Lingua Patrum, 3). Speculum 77(2002)

•Theodora Antonopoulou, Homilies of Leo VI. Speculum 75 (2000) 149-51

•Angeliki E. Laiou, editor. Consent and Coercion to Sex and Marriage in Ancient and Medieval Societies. Newsletter of the Women's Classical Caucus, Fall 1997

•Jacques Y. Perreault ed., Les Femmes et le monachism byzantin/ Women and Byzantine Monasticism. Phoenix 48 (1994) 183-5

•Herbert Hunger, Die hochsprachliche profane Literatur der Byzantiner, Bd. I, II (forthcoming in Byzantine Studies/Études byzantines)

•Carl Ruck, Latin: A Concise Structural Course. New England Classical Newsletter (Dec. 1988)

•Barry Baldwin, Timarion. Phoenix 40 (1986) 239-41

•Herbert Hunger and Otto Kresten, eds. Katalog der griechischen Handschriften der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek Teil 3/1 Codices theologici 1-100. Byzantine Studies/Études byzantines 4 (1977)

•Tomas Hägg, Photos als Vermittler antiker Literatur. Byzantine Studies/Études byzantines 3 (1976)102-3

•Hans-Georg Beck, ed., Studien zur Frühgeschichte Konstantinopels. Byzantine Studies/Études byzantines 2 (1975) 183-4

•Photius, Bibliotheca VII (Budé), ed. René Henry. Classical World 70 (1976) 195-6

•Daniel Crena deIongh, Byzantine Aspects of Italy. RALPH 2 i (1975)

ca. 40 short reviews of books on classical subjects for Library Journal (1972-78)

Conferences and Invited Talks
•“Monks, Monasteries and the Latin Language in Constantinople,” presented at the Sevgi Gönul Byzantine Studies Symposium,
Istanbul Archaeological Museum, Istanbul, Turkey, June 28, 2007.

•“Planoudes’ De trinitate, the Art of Translation, and the Beholder’s Share,” invited presentation for “Orthodox Readings of
Augustine,” conference at Fordham University, NYC, June 14-16, 2007.

•“Manuel Holobolos and the Medieval Tradition of the Translator’s Preface,” presented at the 21st International Congress of
Byzantine Studies, London England August 21-26,
2006.

•“How To Interpret Solecism and Latinism in the Anonymous Commentary on Nicomachean Ethics VII,” Second Biannual Workshop in Byzantine Intellectual History, “The Medieval Greek Commentaries on Aristotle's Nicomachan Ethics,” February 3-4, 2006, University of Notre Dame, South Bend IN

•“Hagiography in a Landscape: Psellos and Symeon the Metaphrast,” Thirtieth Annual By zantine Studies Conference, Baltimore MD, October, 2004

•"Travelling in Roman Syria," Classical Association of the Atlantic States, Cherry Hill PA, April 2002

•"Planoudes and the Intellectual Context of Translation," Twenty-seventh Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Notre Dame IN, November 2001

•"A Translator and his Readers: Planoudes' Authograph ms. of Ovid's Metamorphoses," Twentieth International Congress on Byzantine Studies, Paris, France, August 2001

•"Planoudes, Ovid, and the Byzantine Audience for Latin Literature," Twenty-fifth Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, College Park MD, November 1999

•"Forum Romanum in the Intermediate Latin Class," Classical Association of the Atlantic States/ Washington Classical Society Joint Meeting, April, 1999

•"Ovid's Metamorphoses, Sailing to Byzantium,"Translation in Context Seminar at 100th Annual American Philological Association/ Archaeological Institute of America Joint Meeting, Washington DC,

•December 1998 (expanded version presented to GWU Seminar on Ancient Mediterranean Cultures, October, 1998)

•"Educating an Intellectual Warror in Ignatios the Deacon's Life of the Patriarch Nikephoros,"

•Twenty-fourth Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Lexington KY, November 1998

•"Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople, in Word and Image," Twenty-third Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Madison WI, November 1997

•"Classical Allusion in the Life of the Patriarch Nikephoros by Ignatios the Deacon," Twenty-first Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, New York NY, November 1995

•"Michael Psellos and the Literary Survival of Romulus," Twentieth Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Ann Arbor MI, October, 1994 (expanded version presented to GWU Seminar on Ancient Mediterranean Cultures, March, 1995)

•"Psellos on Life in Eleventh-century Sykeon," Nineteenth Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Princeton NJ, November 1993

•"Icon and Rhetoric: Michael Psellos on the Crucifixion," Eighteenth Annual U.S. Byzantine Studies Conference, Urbana-Champaign IL, October, 1992

•"Psellos' Life of St. Auxentius: A Case Study in the Theory and Practice of Hagiography," Seventeenth Annual U.S. Byzantine Studies Conference, Brookline, MA, November, 1991

•"The Art of Translation: Planudes, Cicero and Caesar," Eighteenth International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Moscow, USSR, August, 1991

•"Ovidiana Graeca: The Greek Version of Ovid's Ars Amatoria, Amores, and Remedia Amoris," Thirteenth Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Columbus OH, November, 1987

•"Euripides' Trojan Women 1-97: A Warning for Athens?" GWU Seminar on Ancient Mediterranean Cultures, November, 1986

•"Michael Psellos' Oration on the Miracles of the Archangel Michael as Evidence for Popular Belief," Seventeenth International Byzantine Congress, Washington D.C.. August, 1986

•"Elegantissime: Greek Translation Style in the Late Fourth Century," Fourth Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Ann Arbor MI, November, 1978

•"Planudes and the 'New' Literature of the Thirteenth Century," Second Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Madison WI, November, 1976

•"Greek Knowledge of Latin Literature in the Fourth Century," First Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Cleveland OH, October, 1975

•"Women as Monsters in the Secret History of Procopius," Ninth Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May, 1974. Revised version delivered at the Johns Hopkins University, February, 1975

•"Ovid in Byzantium: Planudes' Translation of the Metamorphoses," Eighth Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 1973

Lectures
•"Latin in an Hour," Washington College, Chestertown MD, February, 1994

•"The Acropolis of Athens: Literary and Historical Perspectives," with Robert A. Hadley, Washington College, Chestertown, MD and Wesley College, Dover DE, February, 1994

•"From Priam to Constantine: Ancient Cities and Monuments of Aegean Turkey," Mediterranean Society of America, Richmond VA, November, 1988

•"Classical Mythology," Voice of America interview, October 30, 1986

•"Heroes and Heroines of the Classical World" and "Heracles Reborn: Digenes the Border Lord," Smithsonian Resident Associate Program course, March, 1980

•"Greek Mythology, Literature, and Philosophy," Smithsonian Institution Greece Pre-departure Program, April, 1979, April, 1980, and May, 1981

•"Byzantine History and Culture," Advanced Area Studies Course (Greece), Foreign Service Institute- Department of State, October, 1977

Courses Taught
Classical Greek and Latin language (elementary through advanced levels); classical mythology; Greek, Roman and Byzantine literature and culture (in translation); Medical Terminology from Greek and Latin

Service
Classics Program Coordinator, 2004-present
Department: Chair, Department of Classics/ Semitics, 1988-2001, 2002-2004; Acting Chair, 1984-85; Advisor: Classics Club, 1994-2001
Columbian School of Arts and Sciences: CSAS Dean's Council, 1996-98
University: Co-convener, GW University Seminar on Ancient Mediterranean Cultures, 1984-2001; University Senate, Fall 1995
Professional Societies: Washington Society, Archaeological Institute of America, Secretary, 1986-90, 1995-99, Assistant Secretary, 1977-86; Byzantine Studies Conference Governing Board, 1995-98, Chair, Program Committee, 1996; Dumbarton Oaks Alumni Association, President, 1991-93, 2001-2

 
Professional Memberships

Archaeological Institute of America (Washington Society), Dumbarton Oaks Alumni Association, Byzantine Studies Conference, American Philological Association, APA Women's Classical Caucus, Medieval Academy of America, Classical Association of the Atlantic States, Washington Classical Society, U.S. National Byzantine Committee (1994-present).

Languages Read
Latin, ancient and modern Greek, German, French, Italian, Spanish.

Read and speak some Turkish. Speak German.

Travel
Germany, Austria (July-August 1966, June 1984, August 2001); Turkey (August 1972, August 1977, May 1979, June 1983, May 1986, May-June 1988, June 1990, July 1997); England (August 1974, January 1977, August 1981, August 1992, August 1995, August 1999); Greece (July 1978, June 1984, May 1987, August 1996); Bulgaria, Yugoslavia (June-July 1978); France (January 1979, August l98l, June 1982, June 1985, January 1989, August 2001); Syria (June 1979, June 1983, June 1986, October 1993, May 1994); Egypt (January 1982, May 1987); Italy (June 1982, June 1985, July 2000); Russia (August 1991); Jordan (September, 1993)