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Curriculum Vitae 
José M. González
Department of Classical Studies
Duke University
Box 90103
153 Chapel Drive (for FEDEX, UPS, etc.)
Durham, NC 27707-0103
919-684-5105 (office)
jose.gonzalez@duke.edu (email)

Education:

PhD in Classical Philology Harvard University, 2005
PhD in Theoretical Physics Princeton University, 1995
MA in Classical Philology Harvard University, 2000
Post-Baccalaureate in Classical Studies University of Pennsylvania, 1997
MA in Physics. Princeton University, 1991

Professional Experience / Employment History

    Duke University
        Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Classics, Department of Classical Studies, 2010-present
        Assistant Professor of Classics, Department of Classical Studies, 2007 - present
    University of Oregon
        Assistant Professor of Classics, Department of Classics, 2005 - 2007
    Harvard University
        Teaching Fellow, Department of the Classics, 2000 - 2005
    Princeton University
        Teaching Assistant, Physics Department, Fall 1992
        Lab Preceptor, Physics Department, 1989 - 1992, Spring 1993
    California Institute of Technology
        Head Teaching Assistant, 1987 - 1989

Editorships

Member of the Advisory Board, Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies, 2008 - present
Managing Editor of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 2001, Harvard University, 2001

Publications

   Books

 Manuscript in Preparation: In the Mind's Eye: The Diachronic Poetics of Ancient Greek Revelatory Performance (working title). (2013).
 The Epic Rhapsode and His Craft: Homeric Performance in a Diachronic Perspective.  Hellenic Studies Series 47, Harvard University Press, (2011).

   Edited Volumes

González J. M., ed. Diachrony: Diachronic Aspects of Ancient Greek Literature and Culture.  MythosEikonPoiesis (de Gruyter) (2012).

   Papers Published

"The Catalogue of Women and the End of the Heroic Age (Hesiod fr. 204.94–103 MW)." TAPA  vol. 140 no. 2,  (2010) 375–422.
"Theokritos' Idyll 16: The Kharites and Civic Poetry." HSCP  vol. 105  (2010) 65–116.
"The Meaning and Function of Phantasia in Aristotle's Rhetoric III.1." TAPA  vol. 136  (2006) 99–131. [pqdlink]
"Musai Hypophetores: Apollonius of Rhodes on Inspiration and Interpretation." HSCP  vol. 100  (2001) 269–292. [sici]

   Forthcoming

A Diachronic Metapoetics of Reception: Homeric κλέος and Biblical זרע (zera`). Diachrony: Diachronic Aspects of Ancient Greek Literature and Culture MythosEikonPoiesis, Walter de Gruyter (2012).

   Book & Monograph Reviews

 Review of A.P.M.H. Lardinois et al., Sacred Words: Orality, Literacy and Religion. Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World, vol. 8 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011). Classical Review  (Winter, 2012).
 Review of A. Beecroft, Authorship and Cultural Identity in Early Greece and China. Patterns of Literary Circulation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Classical Review 61 2  349–51.
 Review of A. Scholtz, Concordia Discors. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. NECJ 36.2 (2009) 111–13.
 Review of C. Lehmler, Syrakus unter Agathokles und Hieron II. Die Verbindung von Kultur und Macht in einer hellenistischen Metropole. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Antike, 2005. BMCR  (August, 2006). (BMCR 2006.08.40) [html]
 Review of C.J. Mackie ed., Oral Performance and Its Context. Leiden: Brill, 2004. BMCR  (September, 2004). (BMCR 2004.09.44) [html]

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, 2010/11

Junior Fellowship, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC, 2010/11

University of Oregon New Faculty Award, University of Oregon, 2006

Deanne H. and Herbert S. Winokur, Jr. Fellowship in the Humanities, Harvard University, 2003-2005

Derek Bok Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University, 2002-2003, 2004-2005

Graduate Society Fellowship, Harvard University, 2000

Lawler Fellowship, American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece, 2000

Norton Fellowship, Harvard University, 2000

Harvey Fellowship, Mustard Seed Foundation, 1997-2001

Joseph Henry Merit Prize, Princeton University, 1990

Henry Ford II Scholarship Award, California Institute of Technology, 1989

Haren Lee Fisher Memorial Award in Junior Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1988

Carnation Scholarship Merit Award, California Institute of Technology, 1987-1989

Conferences Organized
Diachrony: Diachronic Aspects of Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, Conference organizer, 2009

Professional Lectures

  Invited Lectures:

Aristotle on Theôria, Bryn Mawr College, March 25, 2011
Theôria and the Hymnic Poetics of the Greek Festival, University of Pennsylvania, November 18, 2010
'Tell me, O Muse!': Of Recomposition in Performance and the Notional Fixity of the Homeric Tradition, University of Iowa, March, 2004
  Conference Papers:
The Paian as a Competitive Genre, APA Anaheim, CA, January 9, 2010
From Homeric Transcripts to Homeric Scripts: Rhetorical autoskhediasmos and Rhapsodic Practice in V-VI BC, APA San Francisco, CA, January, 2004
Civic Comedy in a Paratragic Key: Euripides and his Telephos in Aristophanes' Akharnians, University of Lille, France, June, 2003
Ho basilikos logos: Hesiod and Isokrates on Tyranny, APA Philadelphia, PA, January, 2002
Theokritos' Idyll 16, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC, June, 2001
The Status of the Moirai in Orphic Literature, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, May, 2000

Professional Service

  University Committees/Service

UO Classics Department Websmaster, 2005-2007
Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), President of the Eugene OR Society, 2006-2007
Graduate Teaching Fellows (GTF) Oversight Committee, 2005-2007
Graduate Student Representative for Faculty Searches, 2003 - 2004

  Departmental Committees/Service

General Examinations Committee, 2009 - 2010
Preliminary Examinations Committee, 2009 - 2010
Greek Reading Examinations, 2009 - 2010
Greek Reading Examinations, 2007 - 2009
Preliminary Examinations Committee, 2011-2012

  Service to the Profession

GRBS, Member of the Advisory Board, 2009 - present
Refereed some papers for GRBS and referred others to various scholars

Doctoral Theses Directed

Alexander Loney, Narrative Revenge and the Poetics of Justice in the Odyssey: A Study on τίσις, (2007 - 2010)

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