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Curriculum Vitae
N. Gregson G. DavisClick here for a printer-ready version, or
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- Personal
Birth: 20 October, 1940 in St.John's, Antigua, West Indies
Family: Spouse: Daphne L. Davis
Children: Anika, Julian, Oliver, & Sophia
- Education
| PhD in Comparative Literature (Latin, Greek, French), | University of California at Berkeley | 1969 |
| AB in Classics, Magna cum laude | Harvard College | 1960 |
- Professional Experience / Employment History
- Duke University
- Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, 1994-present
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- Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, 1994-present
- Cornell University
- Goldwin Smith Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, 1991-94
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- Professor of Comparative Literature and Classics, 1989-1994
- Stanford University
- Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, 1985-89
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- Associate Professor, 1975-85
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- Assistant Professor, 1969-75
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- Acting Assistant Professor, 1967-69
- Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Duke University, 1994-present
Goldwin Smith Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, Cornell University, 1991-94
King/Chavez/Parks Visiting Professor, University of Michigan, March 8-23, 1988
Internal Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center, 1983-84
University Fellow, Stanford University, 1975-77
Mellon Junior Faculty Leave Fellow, Stanford University, 1973-74
Study Fellow, Committee on the Comparative Study of Africa and the Stanford Unversity, 1971
Arthur D.Cory Travelling Fellow, Harvard University, 1961-63
Latin Orator, Harvard Commencement Exercises, 1960
Bowdoin Prizewinner in Latin Translation, Harvard College, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959
- Selected Recent Invited Talks
- Venus/Venatio: Amore e la Caccia nelle Metamorphosi di Ovidio, Università di Venezia, Spring 1996
- "Antigua in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park: the historical and cultural context, Antigua, 13 November 2003
- 'Shades of Borrowed Ancestors': The Figure of Helen in Derek Walcott's
Omeros, Department of Classics, Oberlin College, May 3, 2002
- Fractured Beeches: Dissonance and its Resolution in Vergil's Bucolics.The 15th Russell and Kathryn Rutledge Memorial Lecture in Classics., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenessee, March 30, 2000
- Fractured Beeches: Loss and Consolation in Vergil's Bucolics., Department of Classics, Swarthmore College, February 2000
- The Hero and The Other in Vergil's Aeneid., Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, Fall 1998
- Anacreonte in Orazio, Università di Padova, Dipartimento di Scienze dell' Antichità, Spring 1996
- Imago Scribentis: the inscription of the female writer in Ovid: Heroides 15, Invitational Lecture, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, Spring 1994
- Scribentis Imago: the inscription of the female as elegiac composer in Ovid's Heroides 15, Leeds University: Leeds International Latin Seminar, Spring 1994
- Genre, polyphony, self-definition: the figure of Anacreon in Horatian lyric, American Philological Association: 125th annual Meeting. Program Unit: “Approaches to Horace, A Toast to another Two Thousand Years.", Winter 1993
- Between Cultures: Redrawing the Boundaries of a Liberal Education, New Directions for the 21st Century. St. Lawrence University, 1991
- The`plain meaning' of the text? Classical philology, hermeneutics, and the study of literature, Conference on Comparative Literature and the Classics. State University of New York at Buffalo, 1991
- Horace on the Art of Living, Second Elroy L. Bundy Memorial Lecture, Dominican College of San Rafael, San Rafael, California, 1990
- The Disavowal of Iambic Invective in Horace's Odes, Columbia Seminar on Classical Civilization. Columbia University, 1990
- The Death of Procris: The Grammar of the Hunt in the Erotic Narrative of Ovid's Metamophoses, Conference on Classics and Structuralis/PostStructural Thought, Princeton University, 1976
- Doctoral Theses Directed
- Meredith Prince, Magic, Love and the Limits of Power: The Figure of Medea in Latin Love Elegy, (2002)
- Neil W Bernstein, Stimulant Manes: The Ghost in Lucan, Statius and Silius Itlalicus, (2000)
- Joseph Romero, The Ethics of Genre: Towards a Rhetoric of Apology in Vergilian Bucolic Discourse, (1999)
- David Banta, Literary Apology and Literary Genre in Martial, (1998)
- Publications (listed separately)
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