David Wray

Associate Professor
Departments of Classics and Comparative Literature
Editor, Classical Philology
Residential Master, Max Palevsky Residential Commons
University of Chicago
1010 East 59th Street
Chicago IL 60637
(773)702-8563
dlwray@uchicago.edu

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EDUCATION

Ph.D., Classical Philology, Harvard University, 1996.
B.A. summa cum laude, Classics, Emory University, 1980.
Summer study, American School of Classical Studies in Athens, 1980.

PUBLICATIONS

Book

Catullus and the Poetics of Roman Manhood (Cambridge University Press 2001).

Articles

“Apollonius’ Masterplot: A Reading of Argonautica I,” in Hellenistica Groningana IV: Apollonius Rhodius, ed. M. A. Harder et al. (Groningen 2000) 239-65.
“Lucretius,” in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Roman Authors, ed. W. W. Briggs (Detroit 1999).
”Attis’ Groin Weights (Catullus 63.5),” Classical Philology 96 (2001) 120-26.
“What Poets Do: Tibullus on ‘Easy’ Hands,” Classical Philology (forthcoming).
“Manly Matrons and Stoic Ethics in Seneca and Valerius Maximus,” American Journal of Philology (forthcoming).

Reviews

The Odes of Horace, tr. David Ferry, in Modernism/Modernity 6(1999) 169-171.
The Passions in Roman Thought and Literature, S. Braund and C. Gill, eds., in Classical Philology 94 (1999) 481-6.
Christopher Nappa, Aspects of Catullus’ Social Fiction, in Journal of Roman Studies 92 (2002) 234.
Don Fowler, Lucretius on Atomic Motion, in Journal of Roman Studies (forthcoming).
Roland Mayer, Seneca: Phaedra, Classical Review (forthcoming).

Literary translation

“Theocritus, Thyrsis and the Goatherd (Idyll 1),” Near South (Spring 2001) 12-18.
“How to be Tibullus (Elegiae 1.1),” Chicago Review 48.4 (Winter 2002/3) 102-7.

Work in progress

Phaedra’s Virtue: Ethics, Gender, and Seneca’s Tragedy (book).
Seneca and the Self, multiauthor volume coedited with Shadi Bartsch.
Translation of Seneca’s Phaedra for the Chicago Seneca Project, a new translation of the complete prose and poetic works of Seneca to be published by the University of Chicago Press and edited by Shadi Bartsch, Martha Nussbaum, Elizabeth Asmis and David Wray.
Edition and introduction of a volume of the Latin translations of Louis Zukofsky (the poems of Catullus and Plautus’ Rudens), under consideration by the University of Chicago Press.
“Statius and the Poetics of Wood,” to appear in David Larmour and Diana Spencer, eds., The Sites of Rome: Time, Space, Memory.
“’cool rare air’: Zukofsky’s Breathing with Catullus and Plautus,” to appear in Chicago Review.
Review of Paul Veyne, Seneca: The Life of a Stoic, to appear in Classical Review.

OTHER SERVICES

• lecturer on sites of classical and Renaissance interest in Rome, Pisa, Florence, Assisi, Verona and Venice (to groups of high school students traveling with ACIS), April 1995.
• co-editor of The Georgia Classicist for University News, 1994-5.
  produced a set of cassette tapes to accompany Ecce Romani I and II for area high school classes, 1995.
• served regularly as competition judge at Fall Forum, Foreign Language Association of Georgia and Georgia Junior Classical League conventions, 1993-7.
• Indo-European, Latin and English: An Introduction to Some Ideas in Historical Linguistics for Students of Latin," The Georgia Classicist 19 (May 1994) 15-19.

LANGUAGES (in order of proficiency)

English, French, Latin, classical Greek, Italian, German, Spanish, modern Greek, Sanskrit, classical Hebrew.

AWARDS AND HONORS

2001-2, Franke Institute for the Humanities fellow, University of Chicago
1980, Scholarship from Emory University chapter of Eta Sigma Phi, for summer study at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens
1979, Phi Beta Kappa, Emory University

MEMBERSHIPS

American Philological Association
Classical Association of the Middle West and South
American Classical League
The Academy of American Poets

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