| Francisco Barrenechea
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classics and the College
University of Chicago
1115 E. 58th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
Office: Wieboldt 117
Phone: (773) 702-8516
Email: barrenechea@uchicago.edu
INTERESTS
- Ancient drama (Old and New Comedy, Euripides, modern adaptations)
- Greek literature (Hellenistic poetry)
- Latin literature (epic, novel)
- Papyrology
EDUCATION
Columbia University, New York, NY
Ph.D. in Classics, October 2005
Dissertation: "Narrative in Aristophanes' Wealth"
Advisor: Helene Foley
M.Phil. in Classics, February 2003
Fields of concentration: Lucan, Narrative in Greek drama
M.A. in Classics, February 1999
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
Licenciatura in Classics, May 1996, graduated with distinction
Dissertation: "Eurípides: Faetón e Hipsípila, dos tragedias fragmentarias" ("Euripides: Phaethon and Hypsipyle, Two Fragmentary Tragedies")
TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Visiting Assistant Professor, 2006-8.
Columbia University, New York, NY
Lecturer of Classics, 2005-6.
Preceptor in the Columbia College Core Curriculum, 2004-5.
Teaching Fellow, 1999-2003.
Teaching Assistant, 1998-9.
List of courses: Beginning Greek and Latin (including intensive courses); intermediate Latin: prose (Cicero, Sallust, Apuleius) and poetry (Ovid, Lucan); study abroad course on Greek antiquity and its legacy (ancient drama); survey of Western literary masterpieces (Literature Humanities); graduate and advanced undergraduate courses on Greek tragedy (Euripides) and on ancient Greek drama and performance criticism
Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, Mexico City, Mexico
Research Assistant, 1996-7. Corrected and annotated passages in Latin and wrote an introductory essay for an edition of texts on melancholy from the Spanish Golden Age, under the supervision of Dr. Roger Bartra.
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
Research Assistant, 1994-6. Selected passages, collaborated in the writing of the introductions, and corrected the proofs of Lecturas Áticas II-IV, a textbook for learning ancient Greek, under the supervision of Dr. Pedro C. Tapia Zúñiga.
PUBLICATIONS
"Monstruo, discurso, y caracterización en Melanipa sabia de Eurípides," in Acta Poetica (accepted for publication)
"Didactic Aggressions in Lucan's Nile Excursus," in progress
"A Fragment of Old Comedy: P. Col. inv. 430," forthcoming in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik
"The Star Signs at Brundisium: Astral Symbolism in Lucan 2. 691-2," Classical Quarterly 54 (2004): 312-7
Lecturas Áticas II: Cuestionarios y ejercicios, in collaboration with José Molina Ayala, Pedro C. Tapia Zúñiga, and María A. Valdez García (Mexico City, 2001)
"A New Document from the Sempronius Dossier: A Letter from Maximus," Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 38 (2001): 21-34
"Modelo para romper: Velásquez y la crítica a la autoridad médica del Siglo de Oro," in Roger Bartra, El siglo de oro de la melancolía (Mexico City, 1998): 229-53
"El fragmento, una estética," in Memorias de las Jornadas Filológicas de 1995 (Mexico City, 1996): 123-9
PAPERS
"Peculiarities of the Messenger Speech in Aristophanes," Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop, University of Chicago, March 2007
"Wealth in Words: The Epiphany of a Concept in Aristophanes' Ploutos," paper presented at the colloquia of the Department of Classics, Columbia University, February 2005
"The Role of Asclepius in Aristophanes' Wealth," paper presented at the Graduate Colloquium on Aspects of Ancient Drama, Yale University, March 2001
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Core Preceptor, Columbia University, 2004-5
Faculty Fellow, Columbia University, 2003-4
Morton S. Smith Fellow, Columbia University, 2002-3
CONACYT Fellowship-Loan, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Mexico City, 1997-2002
Gabino Barreda Medal (for the highest grade point average upon graduation from a program), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, August 1996
SERVICES
Organizer, Undergraduate Convivium Program, Department of Classics, University of Chicago, 2007-8
Referee, Nova Tellus: Anuario del Centro de Estudios Clásicos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2006
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