Research Interests for José M. González

Professor González's research focuses on the intersection between literary and other modes of social performance (such as religious rituals and festivals). He is particularly interested in the ways ‘literary performance’ (poetry and prose) serves the symbolic articulation of culture; and in the dialectic that obtains between the performer, his work, and his larger cultural matrix.

Areas of Interest:

Greek poetry (archaic to Hellenistic)
Ancient rhetoric and literary criticism
Performance studies
Greek religion
Historical linguistics and Greek dialects
Ancient commentaries and scholia

Recent Publications

1. Manuscript in Preparation: In the Mind's Eye: The Diachronic Poetics of Ancient Greek Revelatory Performance (working title) (2013) [abs]
2. 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)
3. A Diachronic Metapoetics of Reception: Homeric κλέος and Biblical זרע (zera`), in Diachrony: Diachronic Aspects of Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, MythosEikonPoiesis, (2012), Walter de Gruyter [abs]
4. González J. M., ed, Diachrony: Diachronic Aspects of Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, MythosEikonPoiesis (de Gruyter) (2012), Walter de Gruyter
5. The Epic Rhapsode and His Craft: Homeric Performance in a Diachronic Perspective, Hellenic Studies Series 47, (2011), Harvard University Press [abs]