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Fragment of a marble Sarcophagus
ca. 230-240 ACE
Duke Museum of Art
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Books

  1.  Reflections in a Serpent’s Eye: Thebes and Rome in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. (Forthcoming). (being revised according to readers’ reports for Oxford University Press)
  2.  The Politics of Desire: Propertius IV.  University of California Press, (2001).
  3.  "When the Lamp Is Shattered": Desire and Narrative in Catullus.  Southern Illinois University Press, (1994). (named an Outstanding Academic Book of 1994 by Choice (January 1995 [32.5] 723))

Articles

  1. "'In the Name of the Father': Ovid's Theban Law." The Sites of Rome: Time, Space, Memory. Edited by David H. J. Larmour and Diana Spencer.  Oxford University Press (2007) 102-137.
  2. "Was the Aeneid Augustan propaganda?." History in Dispute. Edited by Charles Platter and Paul Allen Miller.  vol. 20  (March, 2005).
  3. "The Snake Sheds its Skin: Pentheus (Re) Imagines Thebes." Classical Philology 99 (2004)    130-46.
  4. "The Muse Unruly and Dead: Acanthis in Propertius 4.5." Cultivating the Muse - Struggles for Power and Inspiration in Classical Literature. Edited by Effrossini Spentzou and Don Fowler.  Oxford University Press  187-206.
  5. "Beyond Good and Evil: Tarpeia & Philosophy in the Feminine (Propertius 4.4)." Classical World  vol. 92.5   433-47. (special issue on Augustan elegy)
  6. "Refashioning Hercules: Propertius 4.9." Helios  vol. 25.1   65-77.
  7. "'There Beneath the Roman Ruin Where the Purple Flowers Grow': Ovid's Minyeides and the Feminine Imagination." The American Journal of Philology  vol. 115   427-48.
  8. "The Labyrinth and the Mirror: Incest and Influence in Metamorphoses 9." Arethusa  vol. 24   239-56.
  9. "'The Book of Good Love?': Design vs. Desire in Metamorphoses 10." Ramus  vol. 17   110-37.

Papers

  1. "Narcissus on the Text: Psychoanalysis, Exegesis, Ethics." American Philological Association, Boston, MA   (2005).
  2. "That Way Madness lies”: The Outrageous Father of Ovid’s Thebes." Classical Association, Manchester, UK,   (2004).
  3. "Delusion and Desire in the Fatherland: The Law in Ovid’s Thebes." American Philological Association, San Francisco, CA   (2004).
  4. "A Snake in the Glass: Pentheus Fashions Thebes (Met. 3.531-63)." Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Austin, TX   (2002).
  5. "Rome’s Mirror Stage: Ovid, the Classics and Reflexive Identity." Psychoanalysis across the Disciplines Conference, Rutgers University   (2001).
  6. "The Parallax View: Arethusa Writes (to) Lycotas." American Philological Association, Dallas, TX   (1999).
  7. "Speaking as (the Ghost of) a Woman: Acanthis as the 'Other Voice' of Prop. 4.5." American Philological Association, Washington, D.C.   (1998).
  8. "Arethusa to Lycotas: The Metaphysics of Decadence." Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Charlottesville, VA   (1998).
  9. "Refashioning Hercules: Propertius 4.9." American Philological Association, Chicago, IL,   (1997).
  10. "Infidelities: (Un)making Belief in Propertius 4.8 (the Lanuvium Elegy)." American Philological Association, New York, NY   (1996).
  11. "The Phenomenology of the Spirits: The Cornelia Elegy (Propertius." American Philological Association, San Diego, CA   (1995).
  12. "'Beyond Good and Evil': Tarpeia & Philosophy in the Feminine." American Philological Association, Atlanta, GA   (1994).
  13. "Hercules in Rome: Propertius 4.9." Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Southern Section, Chapel Hill, NC   (1994).
  14. "Changing the Subject: Hercules and the Interpretation of Catullus 68." Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Atlanta, GA   (1994).
  15. "'Shadow of a Doubt': Framing the Subject in Propertius' Gallus-poems." American Philological Association, Washington, D.C.   (1993).
  16. "`There Beneath the Roman Ruin Where the Purple Flowers Grow': Ovid's Minyeides and the Feminine Imagination." American Philological Association, New Orleans, LA   (1992).
  17. "Double Trouble, or, How Lacan Invented the Anxiety of Influence for Ovid: A Reading of the Caunus/Byblis Tale in Ovid's Metamorphoses." University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (1991).
  18. "The Politics of Interpretation: Judging the Hermaphrodite." American Philological Association, Boston, MA   (1989).
  19. "`Stop Making Sense': Drawing the Line(s) in Catullus 68." Utah Academy of Arts and Sciences, Logan, UT   (1989).
  20. "The Labyrinth and the Mirror: Incest and Influence in Metamorphoses 9." Rocky Mountain Modern Languages Association, Las Cruces, NM   (1988).
  21. "Desire and Narrative in Catullus 11 and 51." Utah Academy of Arts and Sciences, St. George, UT   (1988).
  22. "New Twine in Old Shuttles: Women Weaving Rebellion in Metamorphoses IV." Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, Santa Cruz, CA   (1985).
  23. "The Pen and the Phallus, or, `Eros by Any Other Name...'." Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, Santa Barbara, CA   (1983).

Reviews

  1.  Readers and Writers in Ovid's Heroides, by Effrossini Spentzou. Classical Philology 99:4 (2004) 381-85.
  2.  The Roman Mistress by Maria Wyke. Classical Journal 100:2 (2004-2005) 201-03.
  3.  Roman Propertius and the Reinvention of Elegy, by Jeri Blair DeBrohun. American Journal of Philology 125:4 (2004) 622-26.
  4. Jeri Blair DeBrohun, Roman Propertius and the Reinvention of Elegy. American Journal of Philology 125.4 (2004) 622-26.
  5.  Ovid’s Poetics of Illusion, by Philip Hardie. Classical World 97.2 (2004)   216-217.
  6.  Powerplay in Tibullus, by Parshia Lee-Stecum. BMCR 99.6.6 (electronically published 1999).
  7.  Catullan Provocations, by William Fitzgerald. Phoenix 50.3-4 (1996) 344-5.
  8.  Lyric Texts and Lyric Consciousness, by Paul Allen Miller. Classical Outlook 74.1 (1996) 40-2.
  9.  Torture and Truth, by Page Dubois. Ancient Philosophy 14 (1994) 217-22.
  10.  100 Years of Homosexuality, by David Halperin. Women's Classical Caucus Newsletter 17 (Fall, 1991) 40-3.

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