Department of Classics

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News and Kudos

The Classical Traditions Initiative and the Department of Classics announce an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant for a John E. Sawyer Seminar Series entitled "Theatre after Athens: Reception and Revision of Greek Drama."

The Department of Classics warmly welcomes two new scholars for 2008-2010.  Diana Ng (PhD University of Michigan) joins us an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, teaching courses in ancient art history and archaeology.  Andrea Fishman (PhD University of California, Irvine) will teach Latin and a course on Women in Antiquity. 

Both scholars have extensive additional interests. Please see their faculty profiles at http://www.classics.northwestern.edu/faculty/index.html.

Francesca Tataranni, lecturer in Classics, and the department's director of Latin instruction, was selected by the Northwestern student body as one of the outstanding Faculty of the Year for 2006-2007 and again for 2007-2008. Associated Student Government called her to the 2007 and the 2008 ASG Faculty Honor Roll, for which honorees are selected "based on their quality of instruction and contribution to the academic lives of undergraduate students" (2007), saying also that, "We deeply appreciate the time, effort, and intelligence you bring to your classes and how much you care about how much we learn" (2008). All of us join the students in offering congratulations, and thank you for your hard work and dedication!

In other news about faculty work in classics, Bob Wallace's co-authored volume with Kurt Raaflaub and Josiah Ober, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece is now in bookstores (University of California Press, 2007); Kate Bosher directed a production of Aristophanes' Assemblywomen in Ann Arbor in 2008; Marianne Hopman's article, "Revenge and Mythopoiesis in Euripides' Medea" has been accepted for publication in TAPA; Amalia Avramidou's article, "Attic Vases in Etruria: Another View on the Divine Banquet Cup by the Codrus Painter," appeared in the American Journal of Archaeology 110 (2006) 565-79; Dan Garrison's Vesalius Project is nearly complete.  Richard Kraut's most recent publications are as editor of The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (2006), and What is Good and Why? The Ethics of Well-Being, published by Harvard in April 2007.

Amalia Avramidou, with us as Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics 2006-2008, moves to Brussels 2008-2009, having been awarded a research fellowship from the Centre de recherches archéologiques (CReA-ULB). She will be part of a research program entitled "Pottery in ancient Societies. Production, distribution and uses." Congratulations and best wishes, Amalia; you will be missed!

Michael de Brauw has joined the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois.  He was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics with the department 2005-2007.  Thank you for your good work, Michael; we'll miss you.

Dan Garrison has been awarded a WCAS Course Enhancement Grant to assist him in developing a new course on the topic of how the Greeks constructed the human body in ways consistent with their view of nature and their place in history. The course will rely chiefly on the evidence of ancient art and what the Greek themselves said in antiquity.

Anise Strong, along with Adam and McLevy, moved to the Bay area in August 2008.  Anise reports that she is very much looking forward to getting back to teaching, and will do so as an Intro-Humanities Fellow at Stanford University beginning in September.  Congratulations, Anise, and thank you for all your contributions to Classics at NU while you were with us as a visiting assistant professor!