My Curriculum Vitae

 
 
EMPLOYMENT        University of Puget Sound (July 2004 to present)
                                        Assistant Professor of Classics
 
EDUCATION            University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
                                        Ph.D. Classical Studies, May 2004
                                        Dissertation: Compositions with Blood: Violence in Late
                                        Republican Prose (Brent D. Shaw, Director)
                                        M.A. Classical Studies, December 2002
                                    University of Washington, Seattle, WA
                                        B.A. Classics, 1998 summa cum laude with distinction in Classics
                                        B.A. English, 1998 summa cum laude
 
PAPERS                    "Strange Battle Narratives in Caesar's Bellum Civile," at CACW, March 2009,                                             Winnipeg, Manitoba.
                                    "Violence and Closure in Bellum Gallicum I," CAMWS, April 2009,                                                         Minneapolis, Minnesota.
                                    "Citizen as Enemy in Sallust's Bellum Catilinae,"Penn-Leiden Colloquium on                                             Ancient Values, June 2008.
                                   "The Domestication of Vir-tus," Feminism and the Classics V, Ann Arbor,                                                  May 2008.  
                                    "Exemplarity in the Bellum Africum," CAMWS, April 2008.
                                    " The Enemy in Sallust's Bellum Catilinae," April, 2007 at the
                                            Classical Association of the Middle West and South Meeting.
                                    "The Crisis of Rhetoric in Sallust's Bellum Catilinae," American
                                           Philological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, 2006.
                                    “Twinned Fortunes in Cicero’s Pro Milone,” APA, San Francisco, 2004.
                                    “Conjuring the Imperator and Other Uses of the Cohortatio in Caesar,”
                                           APA, New Orleans, 2003.
                                    “Two Disguised Battle Exhortations in Caesar,” Classical Association of
                                            the Atlantic States, New Brunswick, New Jersey 2002.
                                    “The Monkey in Chaucer’s Physician’s Tale,” International Congress on
                                            Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan 2002.
                                    “The Historiography of Sallust’s Letter of Mithridates,” APA, San Diego,
                                            2001.
                                    “Storm, Mare, & Sibyl:  Aeneid Book VI,” CAAS, Conshohocken,
                                        Pennsylvania 2000.
                                    “Philoctetes:  Isolation and Integration,” at the conference on Malady and                                                 Literature at Fordham University, NYC, 2000.
 
INVITED TALKS    "What would Pompey do?" University of Michigan, November 2008.
                                    "Caesar in Vietnam: Did Roman soldiers suffer PTSD?" PBK Magee
                                       Address, UPS, November 2008.
                                    "Blood and Rhetoric in Caesar's Writings," UC Davis, November 2007.
                                    "Creating the Enemy in the Late Roman Republic," Daedalus Lecture,
                                           UPS, March 2007.
                                    "Diarists of Violence," Mortar Board Honor Society "Last Lecture," UPS,
                                           Spring 2005.

PUBLICATIONS    Articles:
                                    "Twinned Fortunes and the Publication of Cicero's Pro Milone." Classical
                                            Philology 103.3 (2008) 282-297.
                                     "What Would Pompey Do?  Exempla and Pompeian Failure in the Bellum                                                 Africum." Classical Journal 104.3 (2009) 241-57.
                                 
                                    Reviews:
                                     BMCR 2004.7.18:  Wounding and Death in the Iliad (Friedrich).
                                     BMCR 2006.09.32: Caesar in Gaul and Rome (Riggsby).
                                     Mnemosyne 61 (2008) 674-76: Caesar's Civil War (Batstone and Damon).
                                     Classical World 102.2: Blackwell's Companion to Roman Rhetoric (Dominik
                                         and Hall eds.).     
                                    Classical Bulletin 84.2: Roman Military Service (Phang).

                                    Poetry:
                                    "Upon rereading Catullus 63 on the self-castration of Attis" and "Kalypso"                                             in Amphora 7.1 (Spring 2008). 

                                    In preparation:
                                    "Citizen as Enemy in the Bellum Catilinae."  Under consideration.
                                    "A theme-based argument against a common emendation of the Bellum                                                      Africum."   
                                    Violence and Closure in Caesar's Commentarii.  
                                          
                                    
TEACHING               Persuasion and Power: ancient rhetoric, written and spoken argument
                                     Beginning Latin (Moreland and Fleischer and Wheelock)
                                     Intermediate Latin (Sallust, Cicero, Ovid, Catullus, Caesar)
                                     Advanced Latin (Vergil, Cicero, Sallust)
                                     Intermediate Greek (Plato)
                                     Greek and Roman Epic (Homer, Vergil, Lucan).
                                     Greek Mythology: "Transgression and Transformation"
                                     Gender and Identity in Greece and Rome
                                     Greek and Roman Comedy (Aristophanes, Menander, Terence, Plautus)
 
HONORS                    T. A. Davis Teaching Excellence Award (2007)
                                     Martin Nelson Junior Sabbatical Fellowship (2007-2008)
                                     Dean’s Scholar (2003), University of Pennsylvania
                                     Ezra Pound Prize for Literary Translation (twice: 2002 and 2003)
                                     Mellon Fellow (1998)
                                     Dean’s Medal for the Humanities (1997-1998), University of Washington
                                     Phi Beta Kappa (1997)
                                     Jim Greenfield Scholarship in Classics (twice), University of Washington
 
PROFESSIONAL       Co-organizer: panel "Caesar's Uses of Narrative in the Bellum Gallicum,"                                            (CAMWS, Minneapolis, 2009).     
                                      PBK Visiting Scholar Judith Reppy, organizer (Fall 2005)
                                      Graduate Student Liaison to Faculty Hiring Committee (2002)
                                     “Other Ages” Graduate Conference, co-organizer (2001)
                                     “Other Worlds” Graduate Conference, promotion (2000)
                                     APA Annual Meeting, volunteer (1999, 2002)
                                     Inaugurated the “Fish Pickle” Lecture Series (1999)
 
MEMBERSHIPS    American Philological Association
                                  Women’s Classical Caucus
                                  Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest
                                  Classical Association of the Atlantic States
                                  Classical Association of the Middle West and South
                                  University of Puget Sound Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa
 
SERVICE                Phi Beta Kappa COMIC Committee (2008-2009)
                                  Student Life Committee (2008-2009)               
                                  Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Committee (2005-2006)
                                  Phi Beta Kappa Events Committee (2006-2007)
                                  University Enrichment Committee (2005-2007)
                                  Honors Thesis Advisor:  Julia Hawthorne, Laura Zientek
                                  Honors Thesis Reader:  Kristin Jurist
 
REFERENCES      Available upon request.  Contact amelchior AT ups.edu