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Mark Payne
Assistant Professor
Department of Classical Languages and Literature
Book Review Editor, Classical Philology
University of Chicago
1010 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
773 702-2516
mpayne@uchicago.edu
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Interests
Greek poetry from Homer to the Hellenistic period, modern European and American poetry, literary theory
Education
Ph.D. Classics, Columbia University, 2003
M.A. Romanticism and Modernism, Southampton University, 1990
B.A. English Language and Literature, Magdalen College, Oxford, 1989
Academic Employment
2003-present
Assistant Professor, Department of Classics and the College, the University of Chicago
Publications
Books
2007. Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Articles and Chapters
Forthcoming. "Pastoral." In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature, edited by Richard Eldridge.
Forthcoming. "Visual Representation and Literary Imagination: Callimachus, Iambs 6 & 7." In The Brill Companion to Callimachus, edited by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Luigi Lehnus and Susan Stephens.
Forthcoming. "Archilochus, Animals, Abjection." In Mélanges Suzanne Saïd, edited by Sandrine Dubel, Sophie Gotteland, and Estelle Oudot.
Forthcoming. "The Bucolic Fiction of Theocritus." In The Blackwell Companion to Hellenistic Literature, edited by M. P. Cuypers and James Clauss.
Forthcoming. "Ideas in Lyric Communication: Pindar and Paul Celan." Modern Philology 105.
2006. "On Being Vatic: Pindar, Pragmatism, and Historicism." American Journal of Philology 127: 159-84.
2003. "Narrative Technique in Theocritus’ Idyll 12." Arethusa 36: 37-48.
2001. "Ecphrasis and Song in Theocritus’ Idyll 1." Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 42: 263-87.
2000. "Three Double Messenger Scenes in Sophocles." Mnemosyne 53: 403-18.
Reviews
2004. S.A. Stephens, Seeing Double: Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria, Classical Philology 99: 267-72.
Talks
Department of Classics, The University of Michigan, September 16, 2006.
Seminar: Hellenistic Poetry and Philodemus.
“Visual Representation and Literary Imagination: Callimachus, Iambs 6 & 7.”
The Franke Institute for the Humanities, The University of Chicago, 3-4 March 2006
Conference: How to Read. What to Do. The Future of Poetry Criticism
“Ideas in Lyric Communication: Pindar and Paul Celan”
Annual Meeting, American Philological Association, 5-8 January 2006, Montreal
Colloquium: Interrogating Theory, Critiquing Practice
“Truth Claims in Archaic Poetry?”
The University of Chicago, 22 October 2005
Humanities Open House
“The Invention of Fiction in Ancient Greece: Theory and Practice”
The Franke Institute for the Humanities, The University of Chicago, 2 March 2005
New Faculty Talk
“Pindar, Pragmatism, and Poetic Interpretation”
Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop, Poetry and Poetics Workshop, The University of Chicago, 4 October 2004
Joint Workshop Talk
“On Being Vatic: Thinking about Pindar and Historicism.”
Teaching
Introduction to Accelerated Attic Greek (GREK 11100): Autumn 2004, 2005, 2006
Greek Thought and Literature 2 (HUMA 12100): Winter 2006
Greek Thought and Literature 3 (HUMA 12200): Spring 2004, 2005, 2006
Greek Lyric and Epinician Poetry (GREK 2/31700): Autumn 2003, Autumn 2006
Greek Elegy (GREK 2/31700): Autumn 2004
Greek Epic (GREK 2/31800): Winter 2006
Vergil (LAT 2/31600): Spring 2005
Survey of Greek Literature 3: Introduction to Literary Theory (GREK 32900): spring 2004, 2006
Theocritus: Graduate Seminar (GREK 41700): Winter 2004
Hellenistic Poetry: Graduate Seminar (GREK 42700): Autumn 2005
Service
Humanities Division
University Center for Creative and Performing Arts: departmental representative
Creative Writing Committee: member
Dissertation Fellowship Selection Committee, 2006: member
Poetry and Poetics Program: member
Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop: faculty sponsor
Humanities Open House 2005: presenter
Classics Department
Classical Philology: book review Editor, referee
Member of two search committees
Dissertation advising:
Francesca Sardi, “Psychological activity in the Homeric Circe episode”: Chair
Other Professional Service
Referee: American Journal of Philology; Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies; Transactions of the American Philological Association
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