Interests:
Greek and Latin literature, especially poetry;
Indo-European linguistics and metrics;
ancient theater;
classical tradition, including modern Latin
Experience:
Tufts University, department of classics, 2000-present.
Lecturer. Courses include: Indo-European linguistics,
Survey of Greek literature in translation,
Survey of Latin literature in translation,
Greek tragedy in Greek and English,
Greek and Roman comedy with sections in English, Greek, Latin,
elementary Greek.
Directed study courses for graduate students on Latin and Greek prose composition, Roman comedy, Homer.
Directed studies for undergraduates on Greek mathematics, Homer, Latin prose, pedagogy, Sanskrit.
I have also advises undergraduate classics majors and first-year (pre-major) undergraduates,
directed undergraduate honors theses, and supervised graduate teaching assistants.
Courses in the Experimental College include:
King Arthur: The Power of a Legend,
Workshop on literary translation,
Tufts University history.
Series editor, Focus Classical Commentaries, 2003-present.
Stoa Consortium, 2000-2004. Co-editor, responsible for technical implementation.
Perseus Project, 2000-2004. Post-doctoral research fellow, working on tools and standards for text encoding; QA testing and installation procedures; editing Greek and Latin texts and writing material for the Perseus Digital Library.
Boston University, Editorial Institute, Fall 2000. Lecturer. Electronic publishing and structured markup (part of a graduate course).
Boston University, department of classical studies, 1996-2000. Lecturer. Elementary and intermediate Latin (prose, verse), Sports in Antiquity, Greek civilization.
Pegasystems Inc, 1987-1998. Principal Software Engineer. Systems programming, application programming, and system management on a variety of systems. Devised and documented programming standards for use of C++ and gave training sessions for other developers.
Microwave Development Laboratories, 1984-1987. Senior Programmer/Analyst.
Boston University, department of computer science, 1983-1984. Teaching Fellow. Ran discussion and lab sections for programming courses. Tutored in Basic, Fortran, Pascal, and theory of computation.
Fordham University, department of mathematics, 1982-1983. Instructor. Taught undergraduate mathematics.
Boston University, department of mathematics, 1979-1982. Teaching Fellow. Taught several independent courses as well as discussion sections.
M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science, summer 1980. Research Assistant. Studied logics and semantics of programming languages.
Books:
Bennett's Essentials, revised edition of Charles E. Bennett's New Latin Grammar, Focus Publishing, March 2007.
Morice's Stories in Attic Greek, intermediate reader, revised edition with updated notes and new preface, Focus Publishing, December 2005.
Plautus: Amphitryo, text and commentary, Focus Publishing, June 2004.
Roman Sports and Spectacles: A Sourcebook, Focus Publishing, October 2001.
Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar, revised edition; metrical sections re-written and new preface. Focus Publishing, July 2001.
Articles:
"The Feet of Greek and Sanskrit Verse," Cambridge Classical Journal, Proceedings of the Cambridge
Philological Society Supplementary Volume 32, ed. C. George, M. McCullagh, B. Nielsen, A. Ruppel,
O. Tribulato. Cambridge: 2007; 179-187.
"Sudoku Puzzles for Latin or Greek," Classical Outlook 85.1 (2007), 34-35.
"Key Terms in Birds," Classical World 100.3 (2007), 267-278.
"Poetic Play: Pascoli's Catullocalvus and Catullus 50," International Journal of the Classical Tradition 12.3 (2006), 346-363.
"Epigraphy and the TEI," chapter in Electronic Textual Editing, ed. L. Burnard, K. O'Brien O'Keefe, J. Unsworth. New York: MLA, 2006.
"Animals in Catullus," New England Classical Journal 32.4 (2005), 313-318.
"Assembly Required," New England Classical Journal 32.2 (2005), 119-120.
"The Forms You Really Need to Know," Classical Outlook 81.3 (2004), 101-105.
"Talking About Meter in SGML," Computers and the Humanities 37.4 (2003), 469-473.
"Exploring Homeric Language with Perseus," Classical Journal 99.1 (2003), 71-76.
"The Stoa Consortium and Scholarly Publication," New England Classical Journal 30.3 (2003), 141-146. (Preprint at the Stoa)
"The Saturnian Lullaby in Pascoli's Thallusa," Humanistica Lovaniensia 51(2002), 311-321.
"Integrating Harvesting into Digital Library Content" (joint with D. A. Smith and G. Crane). Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, July 2002, Portland, Oregon. (Preprint at Perseus)
"Vocabulary Building in the Perseus Digital Library" (joint with J. A. Rydberg-Cox). Classical Outlook 79.4 (2002), 145-149.
"Finding Texts in Perseus," New England Classical Journal 29.1(2002), 32-34.
"Studying the Word Study Tool," New England Classical Journal, 28.3 (2001), 171-173.
"Document Quality Indicators and Corpus Editions" (joint with J. A. Rydberg-Cox and G. Crane), Proceedings of the First ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 24-28 June 2001, Roanoke, Virginia, 435-436 (Preprint at Perseus)
"Drudgery and Deep Thought: Digital Libraries for the Humanities" (joint with G. Crane, R. F. Chavez, T. L. Milbank, J. A. Rydberg-Cox, D. A. Smith, and C. E. Wulfman). Communications of the ACM 44.5 (May 2001), 31-40. (Expanded preprint at Perseus)
"Management of XML Documents in an Integrated Digital Library" (joint with D. A. Smith and J. A. Rydberg-Cox.) Markup Languages: Theory and Practice 2.3 (2001), 205-214.
"Alliteration in Saturnian Verse." New England Classical Journal 28.2 (May 2001), 78-82.
"Knowledge Management in the Perseus Digital Library" (joint with J. A. Rydberg-Cox, R. F. Chavez, D. A. Smith, and G. R. Crane). Ariadne, issue 25.
"Tools for Students in the Perseus Digital Library." CALICO Journal 18.2 (2001), 269-282.
"A Note on Scrabble in Latin" (joint with J. A. Rydberg-Cox). Classical Outlook 78.2 (2001), 58-59.
Suda On Line, translations of entries including "Abraham." I have translated over 200 entries.
"A Theory of Probabilistic Programs" (joint with R. Parikh). Logics of Programming Proceedings 1983, Lecture Notes in Computer Science no. 164, pp. 396-402.
Reviews:
Review of Indo-European Poetry and Myth, M. L. West, Classical Outlook 85.3 (2008), 124-125.
Review of Oedipus at Colonus: Sophocles, Athens, and the World, Andreas Markantonatos, Classical Review 58.2 (2008), 355-357.
Review of The Theatricality of Greek Tragedy: Playing Space and Chorus, Graham Ley, Classical Outlook 85.2 (2008), 89-91.
Review of Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World, Nicholas Ostler, New England Classical Journal 34.4 (2007), 375-376.
Review of The Dance of the Muses: Choral Theory and Ancient Greek Poetics, A. P. David, Versification volume 4 (2007), posted 9 November 2007.
Review of Metrical Constraint and the Interpretation of Style in the Tragic Trimeter, Nicholas Baechle, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007-10-39, posted 27 October 2007.
Review of Constructing Literature in the Roman Republic, Sander M. Goldberg, New England Classical Journal 34.2 (2007), 163-165.
Review of The Soul of Tragedy: Essays on Athenian Drama, Victoria Pedrick and Steven M. Oberhelman, eds., Classical Bulletin 82.2 (2006), 247-249.
Review of M. A. Muret, Iulius Caesar, M. Virdung, Brutus: Zwei Neulateinische Tragödien, Text, Übersetzung und Interpretation, Andreas Hagmaier, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007-04-36, posted 19 April 2007.
Review of Pindar's Songs for Young Athletes of Aigina, Anne Pippin Burnett, New England Classical Journal 34.1 (2007), 76-78.
Review of Found in Translation: Greek Drama in English, J. Michael Walton, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006-11-21, posted 16 November 2006.
Review of O Tempora! O Mores! Cicero's Catilinarian Orations, Susan O. Shapiro, New England Classical Journal 33.4 (2006), 322-323.
Review of Humanist Comedies, ed. and trans. Gary Grund, New England Classical Journal 33.3 (2006), 250-252.
Review of Ancient Greek, Silvia Luraghi, LINGUIST 17.1392, posted 6 May 2006.
Review of Aristocracy and Athletics in Archaic and Classical Greece, Nigel James Nicholson, Classical Outlook 83.1 (2005), 40.
Review of Sophocles: Oedipus Coloneus, ed. and trans. R. C. Jebb with new intro by Rush Rehm, New England Classical Journal 32.3 (2005), 247-250.
Review of Bodily Arts: Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece, D. Hawhee, Classical Outlook 82.3 (2005), 124.
Review of Indo-European Perspectives: Studies in Honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies, ed. J. H. W. Penney, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005-06-25, posted 26 June 2005.
Review of Sophocles: Theban Plays, trans. Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff, and Aristophanes: Lysistrata, trans. Sarah Ruden, New England Classical Journal 32.1 (2005), 36-38.
Review of The Transformation of Mathematics in the Early Mediterranean World: From Problems to Equations, R. Netz, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004-10-25, posted 28 October 2004.
Review of The Essential Euripides: Dancing in Dark Times, R. E. Meagher, and Greek Drama and Dramatists, A. Sommerstein, New England Classical Journal 31.2 (2004), 156-159.
Review of Die Rezeption der lyrischen Partien der attischen Tragödie in der griechischen Literatur, Argyri Karanasiou, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004-05-08, posted 3 May 2004.
Review of La Tradizione Metrica della Tragedia Greca, Carmela Concilio, Massimiliano D'Aiuto, Sara Polizi, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003-06-49, posted 22 June 2003.
Review of Programming for Linguists: Perl for Language Researchers, M. Hammond, LINGUIST 14.1536, posted 29 May 2003.
Review of Pocket Oxford Classical Greek Dictionary, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003-05-03, posted 7 May 2003.
Review of Tragic Narrative: A Narratological Study of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, A. Markantonatos, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002-12-18, posted 13 December 2002.
Review of Aristophanes and the Definition of Comedy, M. S. Silk, New England Classical Journal 29.4 (2002), 257-259.
Review of Euripides: Iphigenia in Tauris, M. J. Cropp, New England Classical Journal 29.4 (2002), 263-265.
Review of Innovazione e tradizione: Le risorsse telematiche e informatiche nello studio della storia antica, P. Donati Giacomini, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002-10-40, posted 31 October 2002.
Review of Ancient Mathematics, S. Cuomo, New England Classical Journal 29.3 (2002), 176-179.
Review of Computer-Aided Translation Technology: A Practical Introduction, L. Bowker, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002-07-28, posted 26 July 2002.
Review of Die Unfähigkeit, sich zu erkennen: Sophokles' Tragödien, E. Lefèvre, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002-07-01, posted 5 July 2002.
Review of La Rete di Arachne - Arachnes Netz, A. Cristofori, C. Salvaterra, U. Schmitzer, eds., Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2001-12-14, posted 17 December 2001.
Review of Electronic Texts in the Humanities, S. Hockey, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2001-07-10, posted 10 July 2001
Review of Figures at Play, G. Dobrov, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2001-06-19, posted 21 June 2001
Review of The Songs of Aristophanes, L. P. E. Parker. Versification 1(1997), posted 9 December 1997.
Review of Meter in English, D. Baker, ed. Versification, 1(1997), posted 29 May 1997.
Informal publications:
Edition of Gildersleeve's commentary on Pindar's Olympian and Pythian odes, with introduction and bibliography, posted 9 July 2004.
Translation of Sophocles' Ichneutae, Perseus Project, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, posted 2 January 2001.
"Overview of Latin Syntax," Perseus Project, posted 1 August 2000.
"Sulpicia: Text, Translation, and Commentary," Perseus Project, posted 1 August 2000.
"Introduction to Structured Markup" and "Guidelines for Structured Markup," Stoa Consortium, http://www.stoa.org/markup, posted September 1999.
Presentations:
"Giovanni Pascoli: Neo-Latin Poet." ACL Institute, June 2008.
"Poetry on the Menu: Pascoli's Cena in Caudiano Nervae." APA annual meeting, January 2008.
"Tachypaedia Byzantina: The Suda On Line as Collaborative Encyclopedia." Changing the Center of Gravity workshop, University of Kentucky, October 2007.
"Friendship and Poetry: Catullus and Horace." CANE annual meeting, March 2007.
"In Praise of Patrick: St. Sechnall's Hymn." CANE annual meeting, March 2006.
"The Feet of Greek and Sanskrit Verse." Greek and Latin from an Indo-European Perspective, Cambridge, July 2005.
"Animals in Catullus." CANE annual meeting, April 2005.
"A Dramatic Backbone for Greek 1." CANE annual meeting, March 2004.
"Greek Drama for Our Time." CANE Summer Institute seminar, July 2003.
"Comic Conventions in Plautus' Amphitryo." CANE annual meeting, March 2003.
"Behind the Scenes at Perseus." Invited address, Fairfield University classical studies program, March 2003.
"Gide's Euripidean Oedipus." Tufts University Classics Department seminar series, February 2003.
"A Musical Motif in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus." APA annual meeting, January 2003.
"'Key Words' in Birds." CAAS fall meeting, October 2002.
"Electronic 'publication': current issues." Panel discussion, along with A. Bowman and C. Carey, at the Digital Epigraphy Workshop of the International Epidoc Initiative, King's College London, July 2002.
"Interoperability, Interconnection, and the Suda On Line." CAMWS annual meeting, April 2002.
"Catullus 50: The Prequel." CANE annual meeting, March 2002, on Pascoli's "Catullocalvos."
Organizer for "Beyond the Web: Electronic Texts for the 21st Century," a panel presented at the APA Annual Meeting, January 2002.
"A Musical Motif in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus." Tufts University Classics Department seminar series, October 2001.
"Synergy in the Digital Library." Boston University Editorial Institute seminar series, October 2001.
"Exploring Homeric Language with Perseus." CANE annual meeting, March 2001.
"Generalizing the Perseus XML Document Manager" (joint with J. A. Rydberg-Cox, D. A. Smith, and C. E. Wulfman). Paper delivered at Linguistic Exploration, Workshop on Web-Based Language Documentation and Description, December 2000.
"Creating the Infrastructure for Scholarly Publishing." Paper delivered at Ancient Studies - New Technology, Newport, RI, December 2000.
"What You See is Only What You See: Making Structured Markup Accessible." University of Kentucky Center for Computational Sciences seminar series, October 2000.
"Two Models for Scholarly Publishing On Line." Boston University Editorial Institute seminar series, September 2000.
"Management of XML Documents in an Integrated Digital Library" (joint with D. A. Smith and J. A. Rydberg-Cox.) Extreme Markup Languages 2000 conference, August 2000.
"Explicit and Implicit Searching in the Perseus Digital Library." Paper delivered at Information Doors, pre-conference workshop at ACM Hypertext '00 conference, May-June 2000.
"Ovid's Use of Pindar in Metamorphoses 5." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 2000.
"The Stoa Consortium and Electronic Publishing in the Humanities." Presentation at Society for Biblical Literature annual meeting, November 1999.
"Poets and Poetry in Aristophanes' Birds." APA annual meeting, December 1997.
Education:
Boston
University, 1994-2000. M.A., classical studies, May 1996. Ph.D., May 2000.
Ph.D. qualifying exams in Latin literature, Latin
translation, Greek literature, Greek translation, French, and German, and
special exam on Pindar.
Dissertation: "On the Colometry of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus";
see abstract.
Advisor: Jeffrey Henderson
Harvard University, division of continuing education, 1990-1993. Not a degree candidate. Studied Greek, historical linguistics, Old English, Sanskrit.
Boston University, 1979-1985. M.A., mathematics, January 1985. I completed all Ph.D. requirements except the thesis.
Fordham University, 1975-1979. B.A., mathematics and economics, summa cum laude, May 1979. Extensive work in French literature.
Service:
Member, Experimental College board, 2006-present;
chair for 2008-09.
Reader for SAT essay, spring 2005 and occasional subsequent administrations.
Member, nominating committee, Classical Association of New England, 2003, 2006.
Member, editorial board, New England Classical Journal, 2003-2006. Section editor, "Ratio et Res" (formerly "Auxilia Magistris"), 2007-present.
Member, editorial board, Versification: An Electronic Journal of Literary Prosody.
Member, editorial board, Classical Outlook, 2008-present.
I have refereed for Classical Journal, Classical Outlook, New England Classical Journal,
International Journal of the Classical Tradition, Teacher's College Record,
and Computers and the Humanities, and reviewed proposals for the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Professional societies:
American Philological Association
American Classical League
Classical Association of New England
American Mathematical Society