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Curriculum Vitae 
Georgia A. Machemer
Department of Classical Studies
Duke University
Box 90103
Durham, NC 27708-0103
919-684-5076 (office)
georgia.machemer@duke.edu (email)

Education:

MA, PhD Classical Studies University of Pennsylvania, 1976
BA Greek Wellesley College, 1965

Professional Experience / Employment History

    University of North Carolina
        Part-time Lecturer, Department of Classics, 1989 - present
        Part-time Lecturer, Department of History, 1997, 2004, 2005
    Su '97 (W. Civ.), F '04 (Medieval Survey), S '05 (W. Civ.)
    American Journal of Philology
        Editorial Associate, May, 1996 - August, 1996

Visiting Positions

    Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina, 1978-79
    Assistant Professor, Duke University, 1993-94, 1997, 2001-6
    Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1980 - 1991

Publications

   Articles

Michael Collier. "Euripedes Medea translation, introduction, and notes."  The Greek Tragedies in New Translations Oxford (2006).
"Medicine, Music, & Magic: The Healing Grace of Pindar's Fourth Nemean." Harvard Studies in Classical Philology  no. 95,  (1993) 113-141.

   In Preparation

Empedocles' Zoogony.  (2007).

   Reviews

Review of Charles Kahn, Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans: A Brief History (Indianapolis: Hackett 2001). Classical Review  (2003).
Review of Judith Mossman, Wild Justice (Oxford 1995). American Journal of Philology :118 (1996).
Review of Irene J. F. de Jong, Narrative in Drama: The Art of Euripidean Messenger-Speech, Mnemosyne Supplement(Leiden: 1991). American Journal of Philology :116 (1995).

Professional Lectures

  Invited Lectures:

Sassy Aphrodite (On the prologue to Euripides' Hippolytus with a masked performance demonstration by Matt Panciera, NC Classical Association, NC Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, April 1997
Brown Bag Lunches on Euripides' Hippolytus, Empedocles, and Simplicius on Empedocles, 1996-2000
Allegorizing Plato on the Parents of Love, Forum for Late Ancient Studies, Duke University, December 1993
Plotinus on Matter, Triangle Greek Philosophy Group, Duke University, February 1992
  Conference Papers:
Empedocles' Zoogony, Colloquium "New Approaches to Ancient Science," APA, New Orleans, January, 2003
Medea's Dignity: The Opening Arguments of Medea's First Speech", CAMWS-SS, Richmond, VA, October 2002
Pagenesis in Empedocles' Zoogeny, accepted by the Society for Ancient Medicine and Pharmacy, APA (undelivered), 2002
Empedocles' Celibacy, CAMWS-SS, Savannah Georgia (short version) and Triangle Greek Philosophy Group, 1996
Hippolytus Philosophicus, CAMWS, Nashville, TN (short verstion), Royal Holloway College, University of London, Surrey, UK, and Exeter University, Exeter, UK, 1996
Kômos at the City Dionysia, APA, New Orleans, December 1992

Professional Service

  University Committees/Service

Director and choreut, "Selections from Euripdies' Medea," as masked, musical performance in the Original Greek with originally composed music, UNC-CH, March 1993

  Service to the Profession

Organizer and conductor of informal Greek reading groups for colleagues, graduate students, and friends of the Classics at UNC & Duke, mostly during t, 1993 - 2002
Convener, Triangle Greek Philosophy Group, 1996 - 1998
Master's Thesis Committee, Fall 1996
North Carolina Classical Association, IB Committee (spring 1996-7), Secretary and Editor of the NCCA Newsletter 1983-1989, founding Director of NCCA Placement Service, 1986


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