HONORS SINCE JOINING VANDERBILT:

Distinguished Faculty award: Honorary Captain at Homecoming Football game. 2016.

Tennessee Foreign Language Teachers Association Jacqueline Elliott Award for Service in Higher Education.  2016.

Alumni Outstanding Freshman Adviser Award, 2009. 

Harriet S. Gilliam Teaching Award, 2001.

 

PUBLICATIONS:

Review of D. Markovic, “The Rhetoric of Explanation in Lucretius’ “De Rerum Natura,” in Classical Review, 59.2 (2009)

“Lucretius’ Progressive Revelation of Nature in DRN, 1.149-502,” in Phoenix, 58.4-5 (2005).

“The Poetic ‘Hodeporicum’ of Flavio Cardinal Chigi’s Mission to Paris in 1664: ‘Iter Romam in Galliam ac Reditus,’ in Humanistica Lovaniensia, 52 (2003).

Review of Schrijvers, P. H., Lucrèce et les Sciences de le Vie, Brill, 1999, in The Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 37 (3), 2001.

“Lucretius and the End of the World.  Should We Care?,” in Ancient Philosophy, 19 (1999).

 

PRESENTATIONS SINCE JOINING VANDERBILT:

“The Roman Empire in 395 AD.”  Presented at Model UN Event hosted by Vanderbilt. October 24, 2014.

“’Pluck the Day’– The Original Meaning of carpe diem” Vanderbilt Department of Classical Studies Latin Day.  Nashville, TN.  April 9, 2014.

“The gods of the Aeneid.” Tennessee Foreign Language Teachers’ Association, Brentwood, TN. November 2, 2012.

“Nice guys finish last: the function of Jupiter’s character in Vergil’s poetry.”  American Classical League Convention, Las Vegas, NV.  June 30, 2012.

“Top Ten Reasons to Learn Latin.” Tennessee Junior Classical League Convention, Franklin, TN. Keynote speech. April 8, 2011.

“Hadrian – Empire Builder,” at the Italian Cultural Institute, Louisville, KY. October 20, 2010

“Top Ten Reasons to study Latin.” Michigan Classical League, Plenary Talk I.  Grand Rapids.  October 17, 2008

“Baths, aqueducts, sewers, latrines: the Roman Water Supply.”  Michigan Classical League Plenary Talk II.  Grand Rapids.  October 17, 2008

“Cicero the Reluctant Teacher: Style and Self-Presentation” American Classical League Institute.  Nashville.  June 29, 2007.

“What are you going to do with that?!  Top Ten Reasons to Major in Classical Studies.”  Plenary Talk at the American Classical League Institute.  Nashville.  June 28. 2007.

“Political progression from Vergil’s  Eclogues to Georgics.” Address to AP Latin students at University School of Nashville, October 4, 2006.

“Superstitious ‘Addition of Opinion’ in Lucretius,  2. 598-660.” Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, January 2-5, 2004.

“Ides of March.”  Address and discussion as part of Carmichael Towers Lecture Series.      Vanderbilt University.  March 20, 2003.

“Popular perceptions of Roman Republic and Empire.”  Annual Meeting of the Tennessee Foreign Language Teachers Association, November 1-2, 2002.

“The Sound of Silence: Pleasure, Pain, and the Weather in the De Rerum Natura.” Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, January 3-7, 2001.

TEACHING/ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:

Senior Lecturer, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN                                 1998-present

Honors Thesis, Dana Longton, “Oral Rape in Catullus” (2005)  A section of this thesis won the national Winkler Prize (administered by Oberlin) for best essay on an original and provocative topic (May, 2005)

M.A. paper, Matt Yokell, “The courtesan speaks: reevaluating the role of courtesans in the comedies of Terence” (2007)

M.A. paper, Chris Neuendorf, “Zeus and Saturn in Vergil’s Georgics” (2006)

 

UNIVERSITY SERVICE:

Director of Undergraduate Studies, 2005-present

Supervisor for Graduate Latin Instructors, 1999-2014

Supervisor for Dept. SACS accreditation, 2009-present

Primary editor for Departmental web page, 2008-present

Second Language Studies Committee, 2002-present

 

EXTERNAL SERVICE:

Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association:

Executive Board Member, 2013-2016

Jacqueline Elliott Service Award Committee, Chair, 2013-2016

Tennessee Classical Association:

Teacher of the Year Committee, Chair, 2013-present

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