Title:	Associate Professor of Classical Studies
Office Location:	230 Allen Bldg
Office Phone:	919-684-2257, 919-684-5076
Email Address:	mjanan@duke.edu
Web Page:

Office Hours:

M 5:50-6:50

• Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Classics, Princeton University, 1988
• B.A. in Classics, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1979

Research Interests:

• Latin Literature: Latin poetry; Livy; Cicero
• Greek Literature: Homer
• Comparative literature: epic; film
• Gender: gender and identity in antiquity
• Theory: new approaches to classics; psychoanalytic theory; feminist theory

1.  The Politics of Desire: Propertius IV.  University of California Press, 2001.
2.  "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))