| William Johnson, Professor
William A. Johnson works broadly in the cultural history of Greece and Rome, with particular interest in ancient books, readers, and reading, and with a general interest in how literary pursuits intersect with cultural context in antiquity.
- Contact Info:
- Office Hours:
- Office hours only appointment, on Zoom
- Education:
Ph.D. | Yale University | 1992 |
M.A. in Greek Literature | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | 1981 |
BA in English Literature & Latin Literature | Oberlin College | 1978 |
- Research Interests:
Greek historiography; Greek and Roman literature and cultural history; ancient books and readers; ancient music; literary papyri
- Keywords:
- Athens (Greece)--Intellectual life • Books and reading • Libraries • Literature and society • manuscripts, greek (papyri) • Manuscripts, Greek (papyri) • Music, Greek and Roman • Readers • Second Sophistic movement
- Curriculum Vitae Bio
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- Johnson, W, Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome, edited by Johnson, WA; Parker, H
(2009),
pp. 1-448, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780199793983 [doi] [abs] [author's comments]
- Johnson, WA, Bookrolls and scribes in oxyrhynchus
(January, 2003),
pp. 1-414, University of Toronto Press, ISBN 9781442626416 [abs] [author's comments]
- Johnson, WA, The Oxyrhynchus Distributions in America: Papyri and Ethics,
BASP
(2012)
- Johnson, WA, Libraries and Reading Culture in the High Empire,
in Ancient Libraries, edited by Woolf, G
(2013), Cambridge University Press
- Johnson, WA, Pliny Epistle. 9.36 and Demosthenes' Cave,
Classical World, vol. 106 no. 4
(2013),
pp. 665-668 [abs]
- Johnson, WA, Cicero and Tyrannio: Mens addita videtur meis aedibus (ad Atticum iv.8.2),
Classical World, vol. 105 no. 4
(2012),
pp. 471-477 [doi] [abs]
- Johnson, WA, Teaching the Children How to Read: The Syllabary,
Classical Journal, vol. 103 no. 4
(2010),
pp. 445-463, Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Inc (CAMWS) [doi]
- Johnson, WA, The Ancient Book,
in The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology, edited by Bagnall, R
(2009), Oxford University Press
- Johnson, WA, Hesiod's Theogony: Reading the Proem as a Priamel,
Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, vol. 46 no. 3
(2008),
pp. 231-235
- Johnson, WA, The Posidippus Papyrus: Bookroll and Reader,
in The New Posidippus: A Hellenistic Poetry Book, edited by Gutzwiller, K
(2005), Oxford University Press
- Johnson, WA, Reading cultures and education,
in Reading Between the Lines: New Perspectives on Foreign Language Literacies, edited by Patrikis, P
(2002), Yale University Press
- Johnson, WA, New instrumental music from Graeco-Roman Egypt,
Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, vol. 37
(2000),
pp. 17-36 (Appeared 2001.)
- Johnson, WA, Musical Evenings in the Early Empire: New Evidence from a Greek Papyrus with Musical Notation,
Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. 120
(2000),
pp. 57-85, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi] [abs]
- Johnson, WA, Toward a sociology of reading in classical antiquity,
American Journal of Philology, vol. 121
(2000),
pp. 593-627 (Appeared 2001. Winner of the 2000 Gildersleeve
Prize..)
- Johnson, WA, Dramatic Frame and Philosophic Idea in Plato,
The American Journal of Philology, vol. 119
(1998),
pp. 577-598
- Johnson, WA, Oral Performance and the Composition of Herodotus' Histories,
Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, vol. 35
(1994),
pp. 229-254 (appeared Fall 1995.)
- Conferences Organized
- AAH Panel, "The History of Books and Reading in Greco-Roman Antiquity", May, 2012
- Semple Symposium, Constructing Literacy among the Greeks and Romans, Organizer, April, 2006
- APA panel on "Classics, Computers, and Pedagogy, Organizer, December, 1996
- APA panel on "Classics and the Internet", Organizer, December, 1995
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