Title:	Dean of Humanities, Professor and Literature and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities
Office Location:	233G Allen
Office Phone:	919-684-3244
Email Address:	gdav@duke.edu
Web Page:	http://www.duke.edu/web/classics/~gdav

• Lat90, Advanced intermediate latin Synopsis

• Lat301, Sem latin lit: hymns

• Lat91, Trans to adv latin

• Clst 196s, Jr/sr seminar: formal conventions of greek and latin lyric Synopsis

• PhD in Comparative Literature (Latin, Greek, French), University of California at Berkeley, 1969
• AB in Classics, Magna cum laude Harvard College, 1960

Research Interests:

Greek and Latin Poetry; Francophone Caribbean Literature; rhetoric; semiotics; pragmatics

1.  Aimé Césaire.  Cambridge University Press, 1997. (Cambridge)
2.  Polyhymnia: The Rhetoric of Horatian Lyric Discourse.  University of California Press, 1991. (Berkeley/Los Angeles/ Oxford)
3.  Non-Vicious Circle: Twenty Poems of Aimé Césaire.  Stanford University Press, 1984. (Stanford, Ca.)
4.  The Death of Procris: "Amor" and the Hunt in Ovid's Metamorphoses.  Edizioni dell' Ateneo, January, 1983. (Rome, Italy)
5. "Ait Phaselus: The Caricature of Stylistic Inelegance in Catullus 4"." "Materiali e discussioni per l'analysi dei testi classici."  vol. 48  (August, 2002): 111-143.
6. "Carmina/Iambi: the literary-generic dimension of Horace's Integer vitae (C.1, 22)." Quaderni Urbinati di cultura classica  vol. 27.3  (1987): 67-78. (Why Horace: A Collection of Interpretations, ed. W.S. Anderson, Bolchazy-Carducci, Wauconda, Ill, 1999, 51-62)
7. "'With no Homeric Shadow': The Disavowal of Epic in Derek Walcott's Omeros.." South Atlantic Quarterly  vol. 96.2  (1997): 321-33.