SPECIAL INTERESTS

Ancient Philosophy, Early Greek Poetry, Greek Historiography

EDUCATION

Ph.D. UNC Chapel Hill, 1996. Dissertation: "A Commentary on Plato's Alcibiades" (directed by Peter M. Smith)

Associate Member (1995-1996) & Regular Member (1994-1995), American School of Classical Studies at Athens

M.A. UNC Chapel Hill, 1990. Thesis: "Hesiod's Cosmology" (directed by Edwin L. Brown)

B.A. St. John's College, Annapolis, MD and Santa Fe, NM, 1988

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Lecturer (1998-1999); Assistant Professor 1999-present

Large Lecture courses:
Mythology
Greek civilization

Language courses:
Introductory Latin (Oxford Latin Course
Introductory Greek (Hansen and Quinn)
Intermediate Latin (Petronius; Catullus; Vergil)
Intermediate Greek (Plato, Lysias)

Discussion courses (in translation)
Sex and Gender in Antiquity
The Trial of Socrates
Homer in translation

Illinois State University, Lecturer 1997-1998

Mythology
Introductory Latin (Oxford Latin Course)
Intermediate Latin (Catullus & Vergil)
Introductory Greek (New Testament Greek)
Intermediate Greek (Herodotus & Plato)

Phoenix College, Professor of Classical Studies 1996-1997

History 100/English 101 (Western Civilization/Great Books through the Middle Ages)
History 101/English 102 (Middle Ages through the French Revolution)

UNC Chapel Hill, Teaching Assistant 1989-1993

Greek Mythology
Introductory Latin
Intermediate Latin
Roman Civilization
The Heroic Journey

PUBLICATIONS

Socrates and Alcibiades: Four Texts. Translation with notes and glossary forthcoming from Focus Press as part of a collection on Socrates and Alcibiades.

"Herodotus' Storytelling Speeches: Socles (5.92) and Leotychides (6.86)." Classical Journal 97 (2001) 1-26.

"God as the True Self: Plato's Alcibiades I." Ancient Philosophy 19 (1999) 1-19.

"Hesiod's Descriptions of Tartarus." Phoenix 53 (1999) 8-28.

Review of D. Gribble, Alcibiades and Athens. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 99.11.12.

Review of C. Gill, Personality in Greek Epic, Tragedy, and Philosophy. AJP 119 (1998) 119-22.

Latin Laughs: A Production of Plautus' Poenulus. Bolchazy-Carducci, 1997. Actor, translator, commentator (with others).

SCHOLARLY TALKS

"Xenophon's Socrates on Law and Justice" CAMWS Annual Meeting, 2002.

"Ischomahcus the Model Husband? A Moderately Ironic Reading of Xenophon's Oeconomicus" APA Annual Meeting, 2002.

"Xenophon's Socrates on Writing." CAMWS Annual Meeting, 15 April 1999.

"Socratic Education and Socrates' Daimonion in the Theages and the Theaetetus."
CAMWS Annual Meeting, 1997.

"God as Mirror for the Soul: Plato, Alcibiades 133c." APA Annual Meeting, 1995.

"Hesiod's Chaos." CAMWS Annual Meeting, 1994.

"Hesiod's Tartarus." APA Annual Meeting, 1992.

"The Speech of Socles (Herodotus 5.92) and Herodotus' Story-telling Method."
CAMWS Southern Section, 1992.

AWARDS/HONORS

Edward Capps Fellow, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1995-1996.

Thomas Day Seymour Fellow, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1994-1995.

Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1994.

Students' Undergraduate Teaching Award, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1993.

ALIA

" The Odyssey and 9/11" Public talk, SIU Carbondale, November 2001

"Ancient Ghosts" Public Talk, October 2001, SIU Carbondale

"Teaching Your First Big Lecture Class." In The Insider's Guide to Teaching at ISU, 1998.

Community Seminar Leader, Phoenix College, 1996-1997.

Director, student presentation of the trial of Socrates, Phoenix College, 1997.

Acted, in original languages: Socrates in the contemplation scene from Aristophanes' Clouds; Lycus in Plautus' Poenulus.

Omnibus operator. Chapel-Hill NC. 1994.