Research Interests for N. Gregson G. Davis

My primary field of research in Classical Studies is ancient Greek and Latin poetry, and my the focus of my published word has been on the interpretation of the poetry of the Augustan poets, Horace, Vergil and Ovid. I also pursue research in contemporary Caribbean Literature, with special emphasis on the Francophone and Anglophone literary traditions (particularly the poetry of the Martinican, Aime Cesaire, and the St.Lucian, Derek Walcott). My chief current research project is a monograph on the interplay of ideas in Vergil's Bucolic verse (Eclogues).

Keywords:

Europe, Caribbean, Classics, Horace, Ovid, Cesaire, Vergil, Walcott

Current projects:

Vergil

Walcott

Antigua

Areas of Interest:

rhetoric
semiotics
Classics
poetry

Recent Publications

1. Negritude-as-performance: the interplay of efficacious and inefficaciuos speech acts in Cahier d'un retour au pays natal, Research in African Literatures, vol. 41 no. 1 (Spring, 2010), pp. 142-154
2. Thalea: the Interplay of Ideas in Vergil's Bucolics (2010) (Submitted for publication: 10/15/2010.)
3. A Companion to Horace (2010), Wiley-Blackwell Oxford 2010
4. Daybook of a Homecoming. English translation, with Introduction, of Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (2010)
5. Introduction, in Eclogues,, Trans. Leonard Krisak (2010), University of Pennslyvania Press, 2010