José M. González, Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Classical Studies

Office Location:	230 Allen Building
Office Phone:	919-684-5105
Email Address:

Office Hours:

On Leave 2010/11 Academic Year

Education:

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

Research Interests:

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.

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Areas of interest: Greek poetry (archaic to Hellenistic); ancient rhetoric and literary criticism; performance studies; Greek religion; historical linguistics; Greek dialects; ancient commentaries and scholia

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

Current Ph.D. Students  

• Joseph Gresham Miller  

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]

Conferences Organized

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