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Curriculum Vitae

N. Gregson G. Davis

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Department of Classics
New York University
Silver Center
100 Washington Square East, Room 503M
New York, NY 10003

919-636-2716 (home)
(email)
Personal

Birth: 20 October, 1940 in St.John's, Antigua, West Indies

Family: Spouse: Daphne L. Davis
Children: Anika, Julian, Oliver, & Sophia

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University
Dean of Humanities, Arts and Sciences, 2004 - 2009
Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, 1994-present
Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, 1994-present
Cornell University
Goldwin Smith Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, 1991-94
Professor of Comparative Literature and Classics, 1989-1994
Stanford University
Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, 1985-89
Associate Professor, 1975-85
Assistant Professor, 1969-75
Acting Assistant Professor, 1967-69
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Duke University, 1994-present
Goldwin Smith Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, Cornell University, 1991-94
King/Chavez/Parks Visiting Professor, University of Michigan, March 8-23, 1988
Internal Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center, 1983-84
University Fellow, Stanford University, 1975-77
Mellon Junior Faculty Leave Fellow, Stanford University, 1973-74
Study Fellow, Committee on the Comparative Study of Africa and the Stanford Unversity, 1971
Arthur D.Cory Travelling Fellow, Harvard University, 1961-63
Latin Orator, Harvard Commencement Exercises, 1960
Bowdoin Prizewinner in Latin Translation, Harvard College, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959
Professional Service

Univ Services
Dean of Humanities, Arts and Sciences Administration, 2004 - 2009  
Univ Committee
Member, Academic Council, 1 January 2009  
committee member, Provost's Task Force on Diversity, 2002-03  
Chair, Search Committee for an External Chair of the Department of Religion, 2002-03  
Representative, Academic Council, 2001-03  
Dept Committee
Member, ex officio, Curriculum Committee, 1999-2003  
Member, ex officio, Lecture Committee, 1999-2003  
Dept Officer
Chair, Department of Classical Studies, Duke University, 1999-2003  
Chair, Department of Classics, Cornell University, 1993-94  
Chair, Department of Comparative Literature, Cornell University, 1990-91; 1992-3 (Spring Semester)  
Associate Dean (interim), College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University, 1991-92  
Papers Refereed
Review of candidates' publications for tenure, promotion and recruitment, January 2009  
Comparative Literature, January 2009  
Foreign Language Advisory Committee, The College Board, 1992 - 1995  
Editorial Board, Diacritics, 1991 - 1993  
Service to the Profession
The College Board, Foreign Language Advisory Committee, 1992 - 1995  
Delegate to the Academic Assembly, The College Board, 1992 - 1994  
Educational Testing Service, Foreign Language Advisory Committee, 1986 - 1991  
Reviews And Panels
Institutional Representative, ACLS, 2004 - 2009  
Academic Council Member, Venice International University, 2004 - 2009  
Member, Advisory Board, Stanford Humanities Center, 1993-98  
Special Projects
Guest editor of special issue, The Poetics of Derek Walcott: Intertextual perspectives (South Atlantic Quarterly 96.2. 1997), 1997  
Other
Advisory Board, ICCS, 2009 - present  
Editorial Board, Journal of Comparative Literature, 1996 - present  
Editorial Board, Diacritics, 1991 - 1993  
Selected Recent Invited Talks

Negritude as Performance: The Parade of Black Masks in Aimé Césaire's "Journal of Homecoming.", Florida International University Graduate Colloquium Lecture, 2009  
Framing a Dialogue on vicissitude (Vergil, Eclogues 1). New York University, 2009  
Il programma filosofico della prima egloga (Bucoliche, I) di Virgilio. University of Bologna, 2009  
Lectures on Vergil's Aeneid at Bard College and Purdue University, 2009  
"Antigua in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park: the historical and cultural context, Antigua, 13 November 2003  
'Shades of Borrowed Ancestors': The Figure of Helen in Derek Walcott's Omeros, Department of Classics, Oberlin College, May 3, 2002  
Fractured Beeches: Dissonance and its Resolution in Vergil's Bucolics.The 15th Russell and Kathryn Rutledge Memorial Lecture in Classics., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenessee, March 30, 2000  
Fractured Beeches: Loss and Consolation in Vergil's Bucolics., Department of Classics, Swarthmore College, February 2000  
The Hero and The Other in Vergil's Aeneid., Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, Fall 1998  
Anacreonte in Orazio, Università di Padova, Dipartimento di Scienze dell' Antichità, Spring 1996  
Imago Scribentis: the inscription of the female writer in Ovid: Heroides 15, Invitational Lecture, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, Spring 1994  
Scribentis Imago: the inscription of the female as elegiac composer in Ovid's Heroides 15, Leeds University: Leeds International Latin Seminar, Spring 1994  
Genre, polyphony, self-definition: the figure of Anacreon in Horatian lyric, American Philological Association: 125th annual Meeting. Program Unit: “Approaches to Horace, A Toast to another Two Thousand Years.", Winter 1993  
Between Cultures: Redrawing the Boundaries of a Liberal Education, New Directions for the 21st Century. St. Lawrence University, 1991  
The`plain meaning' of the text? Classical philology, hermeneutics, and the study of literature, Conference on Comparative Literature and the Classics. State University of New York at Buffalo, 1991  
Horace on the Art of Living, Second Elroy L. Bundy Memorial Lecture, Dominican College of San Rafael, San Rafael, California, 1990  
The Disavowal of Iambic Invective in Horace's Odes, Columbia Seminar on Classical Civilization. Columbia University, 1990  
The Death of Procris: The Grammar of the Hunt in the Erotic Narrative of Ovid's Metamophoses, Conference on Classics and Structuralis/PostStructural Thought, Princeton University, 1976  
Doctoral Theses Directed

Meredith Prince, Magic, Love and the Limits of Power: The Figure of Medea in Latin Love Elegy, (2002)  
Neil W Bernstein, Stimulant Manes: The Ghost in Lucan, Statius and Silius Itlalicus, (2000)  
Joseph Romero, The Ethics of Genre: Towards a Rhetoric of Apology in Vergilian Bucolic Discourse, (1999)  
David Banta, Literary Apology and Literary Genre in Martial, (1998)  
Publications (listed separately)

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