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EDUCATION
1968-72: Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass.
1972: B.A. summa cum laude in Classics (Latin)
1972-73: Corpus Christi College, Oxford University
1973-76: Department of Comparative Literature, Yale
University, New Haven, Conn.
1978: M. Phil.
1980: Ph.D.; thesis: "The Bait of Falsehood: Studies
in the Rhetorical Strategy of Poetic Truth in the Romantic
Period" (director: Paul de Man)
1976-78: Philologisches Seminar, Universität Tübingen
1980: D. Phil.; thesis: "Pindar's Truth: Unity
and Occasionality in the Epinician Ode" (director:
Richard Kannicht)
ACADEMIC HONORS
- 1968-72: National Merit Society Scholarship
- 1970: Detur Prize and J.O. Sargent Prize (Harvard)
- 1971: Phi Beta Kappa and J.O. Sargent Prize (Harvard)
- 1972: Latin Prize (Harvard)
- 1972-73: Knox Fellowship (Harvard)
- 1973-74: University Fellowship (Yale)
- 1974-75: Samuel Botwinik Fellowship (Yale)
- 1975ff.: Kent Fellowship, Danforth Foundation
- 1976-78: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
- 1982-83: Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, American Academy
in Rome
- 1984-86: John Witherspoon Bicentennial Preceptorship
(Princeton)
- 1988-89: Fellow (Wissenschaftliches Mitglied), Wissenschaftskolleg
zu Berlin
- 1993: Visiting Fellow, Institute for the Humanities,
University of Michigan
- 1994-99: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Preis, Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft
- 2003: Collège de France, Visiting Professorship
- 2006: Université Paris 4-Sorbonne, Visiting Professorship (chaire Alphonse Dupront)
EDITORIAL BOARDS
1. Philosophia naturalis 26 (1989) - 43 (2006)
2. Arion N.S. 3.1:3 (1990) -
3. Phoenix 45 (1991) - (Corresponding Member)
4. Internationale Zeitschrift für Philosophie 1 (1992)-
5. Poetica 25 (1993) -
6. md. Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi
classici 29(1992) -
7. Nietzsche-Studien 26 (1997) -
8. Methodos 1 (2001) -
9. Ideengeschichte 1 (2007) -
POSITIONS HELD
1. Yale University: Teaching Assistant
Summer 1975: "Philosophy of the Creative Imagination,"
Prof. E. Casey
Spring 1976: "Introduction to Literary Theory,"
Prof. H. von Staden
2. Universität Tübingen: wissenschaftlicher
Hilfskraft
Winter 1977-Summer 1978: Grosses Latinum (Oberstufe)
3. Yale University: Visiting Lecturer
Fall 1978:College Seminar, "Marxist LiteraryTheory
and Criticism"
4. Universität Heidelberg: wissenschaftlicher
Angestellter
Summer 1979: Sprachübung, Latin I
Winter 1979-80: Proseminar, "Catullus"
Lektüre, "Horace, Satires" Summer 1980:
Sprachübung, Latin I
5. Princeton University: Andrew W. Mellon Assistant
Professor of Classics
Fall 1980: Latin 104, "Catullus and his Circle"
Classics/Comp.Lit. 335: "Studies in the Classical
Tradition: The European Epic"
Spring 1981: Greek 108, "The Mind of Archaic
Greece" Humanistic Studies 202, "The Origins
of Modern Western Culture 1350-1750" (preceptor)
Student-Initiated Seminar, "The Odes of Horace"
Fall 1981: Classics/English 322, "English Literature
and the Classics"
Spring 1982: Classics/Comp.Lit. 334, "Modern
Transformations of Classical Themes: The Romantic
Lyric" Classics 514, "Ancient Literary Theory"
Fall 1983: Classics/English 322, "English Literature
and the Classics" Classics 514, "Authenticity
and the Prometheus Bound "
Spring 1984: Classics/Comp. Lit. 335, "Studies
in the Classical Tradition: Novel and Romance",
Greek 306, "Greek Rhetoric: Theory and Practice"
Fall 1984: Greek 213, "The Tragic Poetry of
the Late Fifth Century" Humanities 205, "The
Classical Roots of Western Literature" (preceptor)
Science in Human Affairs 291, "The Origins of
Modern Science 1500- 1750" (preceptor)
Spring 1985: Latin 334, "Vergil's Eclogues and
Georgics " Classics/Comp.Lit. 334, "Modern
Transformations of Classical Themes: The Romantic
Lyric", Greek 305, "Aristophanes"
6. Università degli Studi di Siena: Professore
a Contratto
1985-86: "Cicero, De Natura Deorum"
7. University of Michigan: Visiting Associate Professor
of Classics
Fall 1986: Greek 101, "Elementary Greek"
Classical Civilization 463, "Greek Drama"
Winter 1987: Classical Civilization 303, "Early
Sources for English Literature", Greek/Latin/Comp.Lit.
791, "Ancient Allegorical Interpretation",
Greek 499, "Menander, Dyscolus"
8. Universität Innsbruck: Ordentlicher Universitäts-Professor
für Klassische Philologie und Altertumskunde I
Winter 1987/88: Seminar,"Euripides, Hippolytus"Konversatorium,"Seneca,Phaedra"Konversatorium,
"Plato, Protagoras"
Summer 1988: Proseminar, "Theocritus"
Konversatorium, "Tibullus"
Lateinische Lektüre, Oberstufe
Winter 1988/89: Seminar, "Greek Myths in German
Literature from Goethe to Christa Wolf"
Winter 1989/90: Seminar, "Aristophanes: Two
Comedies: Acharnians, Peace"
Vorlesung, "Ennius, Annales"
Vorlesung, "Callimachus"
Summer 1990: Proseminar, "Hellenistic Epigrams"
Vorlesung, "Roman Literary History: Preclassicism"
Konversatorium, "Ovid, Heroides"
Winter 1990/91: Seminar, "Sophocles, Philoctetes"
Vorlesung, "Roman Literary History: Classicism"
Konversatorium, "Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica
3"
Summer 1991: Seminar, "Appendix Vergiliana"
Lektüre, "Valerius Flaccus"
Problemorientierte Lektüre, "Tragic Choral
Odes"
9. Universität Heidelberg: C-4 Universitäts-Professor
für Gräzistik
Winter 1991/92: Vorlesung,"Tragic Choral Odes"Lektüre,"Aeschylus,
Choephori; Sophocles, Electra; Euripides, Electra"Seminar,
"Heliodorus, Aethiopica"
Summer 1992: Griechische Stilübung I
Seminar, "Aristophanes, Lysistrata and Ecclesiazusae"
Winter 1992/93: Vorlesung, "Ecphrasis"
Lektüre, "Ecphrasis"
Proseminar, "Aristotle, Poetics"
Summer 1993: Lektüre, "Plutarch, How the
Young Man Should Read Poets"Griechischer Klausurenkurs
Seminar, "Hesiod"
Summer 1994: Vorlesung, "Friedrich Nietzsche
and Classical Philology"
Lateinischer Proseminar, "Propertius"
Griechische Stilübung III
Summer 1995: Seminar, "Euripides, Phoenissae"
Proseminar, "Bacchylides"
Griechische Stilübung III
Winter 1995/96: Vorlesung, "The Tragic"
Proseminar, "Appendix Vergiliana: Culex, Ciris"Lektüre,
"Homer, Iliad 19-24"
Summer 1996: Lektüre, "Euripides, Orestes"
Winter 1996/97: Vorlesung, "The Tragic, Part
II"
Proseminar, "Plato, Gorgias"
Griechische Stilübung III
Summer 1997: Hauptseminar, “Aristophanes, Ranae”
Winter 1997/98: Vorlesung, "Medea in World Literature"
Hauptseminar (with Prof. L. Giuliani), "Myth
in Text und Image"
Lektüre, "Euripides, Medea"
Summer 1998: Hauptseminar, "Seneca, Medea"
Winter 1997/98: Hauptseminar (with Prof. D. Borchmeyer),
"Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris and Goethe, Iphigenia
auf Tauris"
Lektüre, "Cicero, Cato Maior de senectute"
Griechische Stilübung III
Summer 1999: Hauptseminar, "Boethius, De consolatione
philosophiae"
Winter 1999: Hauptseminar, "Terence, Adelphoe"
Summer 2000: Vorlesung, "Eros in ancient Greece"
Proseminar, "Longos, Daphnis and Chloe"
Lektüre, "Menander, Dyskolos"
Winter 2000/01: Hauptseminar, "Sophocles, Oedipus
Coloneus"
Summer 2001: Hauptseminar, "Plato, Symposium"
10. University of Michigan: Visiting Professor, Institute
for the Humanities
March-April 1993: History 401/Classical Civilization
411/Institute for the Humanities 411/002:Minicourse:
"Parody and Utopia in Aristophanes," with
Prof. Sarah C. Humphreys
11. University of Chicago: Lurcie Visiting Professor,
Committee on Social Thought
Spring 1996: Seminar, “The Idea of the Tragic”
12. University of Chicago: Professor, Committee on
Social Thought
Spring 1997: Seminar, "Hamlets"
Seminar, "Seneca, Medea and Thyestes"
Seminar (with Prof. Ian Mueller), "Aristotle,
Metaphysics Zeta"
Spring 1998: Seminar, "Proust, Swann's Way"
Seminar, "History of Classical Scholarship and
Introduction to Methods in Classics"
Seminar (with Prof. Ian Mueller), "Aristotle,
Metaphysics Zeta"
Spring 1999: Seminar, "Proust, Within a Budding
Grove"
Seminar (with Prof. Mark Strand), "Shakespeare,
Two Comedies: Midsummer Night's Dream and The Winter's
Tale"
Seminar (with Prof. Charles Larmore), "Wordsworth,
The Prelude"
Winter 2000: Seminar, "History of Classical
Scholarship and Introduction to Methods in Classics"
Seminar (with Prof. Wendy Doniger), "Medea in
World Literature"
Spring 2001: Seminar, "Sophocles, Oedipus in
Colonus"
Seminar (with Prof. Wendy Doniger), "Ovid, Ars
Amatoria, and Vatsyayana,The Kama Sutra"
Seminar (with Prof. Paul Friedrich): "Selections
from Horace and Ovid"
Seminar (with Prof. Nathan Tarcov), "Shakespeare,
Two Roman Plays: Coriolanus and Julius Caesar"
Fall 2002: Seminar, “Hesiod”
Seminar, “Nietzsche on the Greeks”
Seminar, "History of Classical Scholarship and
Introduction to Methods in Classics"
Fall 2003: Seminar, "Aeschylus, Agamemnon"
Seminar, "Introduction to Comparative Literature"
Seminar (with Prof. Mark Strand), "Dante, Divine Comedy"
Winter 2005: Seminar, "Aeschylus, Choephori"
Spring 2005: Seminar, "Gospel of John"
Spring 2006: Seminar (with Prof. Jas' Elsner), "Writing Art History: From Antiquity to Modernity"
Seminar: "Aeschylus, Eumenides"
13. Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa: Professore Ordinario
di Filologia Greca
2001/2: Corso Ordinario, “Hesiod”
2002/3: Corso Ordinario, “Aeschylus, Agamemnon”
2003/4: Corso Ordinario, "Aeschylus, Choephori"
2004/5: Corso Ordinario, "Aeschylus, Eumenides"
14. Venice International University
March 2002: Hauptseminar (with Prof. Ulrich Broich),
"Ovid's Metamorphoses and their Presence in Contemporary
English and American Literature"
15. Collège de France
June 2003: Lectures, “Doubting Thomas”
16. Université Paris 4-Sorbonne
February 2006: Lectures and seminars on Greek literature and its reception
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