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Curriculum Vitae
Gregson G. Davis
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Department of Classical Studies
Duke University
Box 90103
Durham, NC 27708-0103
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919-684-3244 (office)
gdav@duke.edu (email)
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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
Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, 1994-present
Cornell University
Goldwin Smith Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, 1991-94
Professor of Comparative Literature and Classics, 1989-1994
Stanford University
Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, 1985-89
Associate Professor, 1975-85
Assistant Professor, 1969-75
Acting Assistant Professor, 1967-69
Publications
Books
- Journal of a Homecoming. Englis Translation, with INtroduction of Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal. (Currently Researching).
- Meditating Thalia: The Interplay of Ideas in Vergil's Bucolics (tentative title). (Currently Researching).
- Aimé Césaire. Cambridge University Press,
(1997). (Cambridge)
- Polyhymnia: The Rhetoric of Horatian Lyric Discourse. University of California Press,
(1991). (Berkeley/Los Angeles/ Oxford)
- Non-Vicious Circle: Twenty Poems of Aimé Césaire. Stanford University Press,
(1984). (Stanford, Ca.)
- The Death of Procris: "Amor" and the Hunt in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Edizioni dell' Ateneo,
(1983). (Rome, Italy)
- Antigua Black: Portrait of an Island People. Scrimshaw Press,
(1971). (San Francisco)
Articles
- "Reframing the Homeric: images of the Odyssey in the art of Derek Walcott and Romare Bearden." Blackwell Companion to Classical Receptions Forthcoming: Oxford University Press (2007).
- "'Homecomings without Home': representations of (post)colonial nostos (homecoming) in the lyric of Aimé Césaire and Derek Walcott'." Homer in the Twentieth Century: between World Literature and the Western Canon. Edited
by Emily Greenwood & Barbara Graziosi. Forthcoming: Oxford University Press (2007).
- "Ut pictura poesis." Agenda (Special Issue on Derek Walcott) vol. 39 no. 1-3, (2002-2003) 198-9.
- "Beyond Disciplinary Hierarchies in Higher Education." Bruce A. Kimball: The Condition of American Liberal Education: Pragmatism and a Changing Tradition. Edited
by Robert Orrill. College Entrance Examination Board, New York (1995).
- "Between Cultures: toward a redefinition of Liberal Education." African Studies and the Undergraduate Curriculum. Edited
by P. Alden, D. Lloyd & A. Samatar. Lynne Reicher Publishers, Boulder, Colorado & London (1994) 19-3.
- "Lyric worlds: Old and New under the sun." Arts and Sciences Newsletter vol. 12 no. 1, Cornell University (1991).
- "The mind at the end of the palm." The Stanford Magazine (1982) 46-5.
Papers Published
- "From Lyric to Elegy: The inscription of the Elegiac Subject in Heroides 15 (Sappho to Phaon)." Defining Genre and Gender in Latin Literature: Essays Presented to WIlliam S. Anderson on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday. Edited
by William W. Batstone & Garth Tissol. Lang Classical Studies vol. 51 Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., New York 175-191.
- "Jane Austen's Mansfield Park: the Antigua Collection." (2004). [html]
- "Consolation in the Bucolic mode: The Epicurean cadence of Vergil's First Eclogue." Vergil. Philodemus, and the Augustans. Edited
by David Armstrong, Jeffrey Fish, Patricia Johnston, and Marilyn Skinner. University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas (2003) 63-74.
- "Ait Phaselus: The Caricature of Stylistic Inelegance in Catullus 4"." "Materiali e discussioni per l'analysi dei testi classici." vol. 48 111-143.
- "Introduction." Horace: Odes. Trans. James Michie Modern Library Random House .
- "'Pastoral sites': aspects of bucolic transformation in Derek Walcott's Omeros.." Classical World vol. 93.1 43-9.
- "L'intertextualite comme strategie dans un programme postcolonial: 'Ferrements' d'Aime Cesaire.." Europe vol. 832-3 109-18.
- "'With no Homeric Shadow': The Disavowal of Epic in Derek Walcott's Omeros.." South Atlantic Quarterly vol. 96.2 (1997) 321-33.
- "The figure of Anacreon in Horatian lyric." Hellas vol. 7.2 (1996) 63-74. (Special issue in honor of Wesley Trimpi)
- "Cupid at the Ivory Gates: Ausonius as a reader of Vergil." Colby Quarterly vol. 30.3 (1992) 162-170. (Studies in Roman Epic)
- "Desire and the Hunt in Ovid's Metamorphoses." The Burnett Lectures: A Quarter Century. Edited
by E.N.Genovese. (1993) 142-170. (San Diego, Ca.)
- "Ingenii cumba?: literary aporia and the rhetoric of Horace's O navis referent (C.1.14)." Rheinisches Museum für Philologie vol. 132 (1989) 331-345.
- "Quis...digne scripserit?: The topos of alter Homerus in Horace C.1.6." Phoenix vol. 41.3 (1987) 292-295.
- "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)
- "Silence and Decorum: Encomiastic Convention and the Epilogue of Horace Carm 3.2." Classical Antiquity vol. 2.1 (1983) 9-26. (Studies in Classical Lyric : A Homage to Elroy Bundy)
- "The Disavowal of the Grand (Recusatio) in two poems by Wallace Stevens." Pacific Coast Philology vol. 17 no. 1-2, (1982) 92-102.
- "The Problem of Closure in a carmen perpetuum: Aspects of Thematic Recapitulation in Ovid Metamorphoses 15." Grazer Beiträge vol. 9 (1980) 123-132.
- "Ovid Metamorphoses 3.442ff. and the Prologue to Menander's Misoumenos." Phoenix vol. 32 (1978) 339-342.
- "Towards a `Non-Vicious Circle': The Lyric of Aimé Césaire in English." Stanford French Review vol. 1.1 (1977) 135-146.
- "The Persona of Licymnia: a Revaluation of Horace Carm. 2.12." Philologus vol. 1.119 (1975) 70-83.
- "Ad Sidera Notus: The Rhetoric of Lament and Consolation in Fortunatus' De Gelesuintha." Agon vol. 1.1 (1967) 118-134.
Book & Monograph Reviews
- Horace's Narrative Odes by Michèle Lowrie (Oxford 1997). Classical Review ns. 49 1
50-2.
- Epic of the Dispossessed: Derek Walcott's Omeros by Robert D. Hammer (Columbia 1997). South Central Review 15 2
(1998) 59-61.
- Derek Walcott's Poetry: American Mimicry by Rei Terada (Boston 1992). American Literature 69 1
(1997) 241.
- “On Césaire.” Review-essay on Aimé Césaire: le nègre inconsolé by Roger Toumson and Simonne Henry-Valmore (Paris/Fort-de-France 1993); Aimé Césaire: une traversée paradoxale du siècle by Raphael Confiant (Paris 1993); Cahier d’un retour au pays natal ed. Abiola Irele. Research in African Literatures 26 2
(1995) 173-184.
- Redeeming the Text: Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception by Charles Martindale (Cambridge 1993). New England Classical Newsletter and Journal 20 4
(1993) 203-206.
- From a Sabine Jar by L. Edmunds (Chapel Hill 1992). Classical Journal 88 2
(1993) 203-206.
- Metaformations by F. Ahl (Ithaca 1985). Classical Philology 83 3
(1988) 260-262.
- N.G. Davis, The Art of the Aeneid by W.S. Anderson. Comparative Literature 24 1
(1972) 93-4.
Other
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
Conferences Organized
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Carribean Studies: Intercultural Perspectives, May 26-28, 1977
Professional Lectures
Invited Lectures: - 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
- Scribentis Imago: the inscription of the female as elegiac composer in Ovid's Heroides 15, Leeds University: Leeds International Latin Seminar, Spring 1994
- Imago Scribentis: the inscription of the female writer in Ovid: Heroides 15, Invitational Lecture, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 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
- 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
- Between Cultures: Redrawing the Boundaries of a Liberal Education, New Directions for the 21st Century. St. Lawrence University, 1991
- The Disavowal of Iambic Invective in Horace's Odes, Columbia Seminar on Classical Civilization. Columbia University, 1990
- Horace on the Art of Living, Second Elroy L. Bundy Memorial Lecture, Dominican College of San Rafael, San Rafael, California, 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
Professional Service
University Committees/Service
- Arts and Sciences Administration, Dean of Humanities, 2004
- Provost's Task Force on Diversity, committee member
- Search Committee for an External Chair of the Department of Religion, Chair
- Academic Council, Representative
Departmental Committees/Service
- Curriculum Committee, Member, ex officio
- Lecture Committee, Member, ex officio
- Department of Classical Studies, Duke University, Chair, 1999-2003
- Department of Classics, Cornell University, Chair, 1993-94
- Department of Comparative Literature, Cornell University, Chair, 1990-91; 1992-3 (Spring Semester)
- College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University, Associate Dean (interim), 1991-92
Service to the Profession
- Latin Advanced Placement Committee, Educational Testing Service, 1991
- Foreign Language Advisory Committee, The College Board, 1992 - 1995
- Editorial Board, Diacritics, 1991 - 1993
- The College Board, Delegate to the Academic Assembly, 1992 - 1994
- Editorial Board, Journal of Comparative Literature, Member
- Advisory Board, Stanford Humanities Center, Member
- The Poetics of Derek Walcott: Intertextual perspectives (South Atlantic Quarterly 96.2. 1997), Guest editor of special issue, 1997
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)
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