William A Johnson, Professor of Classical Studies

Contact Info:

Office Location:	229B Allen Building
Office Phone:	(919) 684-2082
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.duke.edu/~wj25

Teaching (Fall 2012):

• GREEK 203.01, INTERMEDIATE GREEK Synopsis

  Allen 229, MWF 12:00 PM-12:50 PM

• GREEK 580.01, GREEK LITERATURE SURVEY Synopsis

  Allen 326, WF 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

Office Hours:

Fall 2011: M 1:00, W 4:15, by chance, by appt.

Education:

PhD in Classical Philology	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

Curriculum Vitae  Bio

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. W.A. Johnson, Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire: A Study of Elite Reading Communities (2010, paperback with corrections 2012), Oxford University Press
2. Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome, edited by W.A. Johnson & Holt Parker. (2009, paperback with corrections 2011), Oxford University Press
3. W.A. Johnson, Bookrolls and Scribes in Oxyrhynchus (2004), University of Toronto Press  [author's comments]
4. W.A. Johnson, Teaching the Children How to Read: The Syllabary, Classical Journal, vol. 103 (2010), pp. 445-463
5. W.A. Johnson, The Ancient Book, in The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology, edited by Roger Bagnall (2009), Oxford University Press
6. W.A. Johnson, Hesiod's Theogony: Reading the Proem as a Priamel, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, vol. 46 (2008), pp. 231-235
7. W.A. Johnson, The Story of the Papyri of the Villa dei Papiri, Journal of Roman Archaeology, vol. 19 (2006), pp. 493-496 (Essay and review of David Sider, The Library of the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum (Getty, 2005)..)
8. W.A. Johnson, The Posidippus Papyrus: Bookroll and Reader, in The New Posidippus: A Hellenistic Poetry Book, edited by Kathryn Gutzwiller (2005), Oxford University Press
9. W.A. Johnson, Reading cultures and education, in Reading Between the Lines: New Perspectives on Foreign Language Literacies, edited by P. Patrikis (2002), Yale University Press
10. W.A. Johnson, 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..)
11. W.A. Johnson, 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
12. W.A. Johnson, Dramatic Frame and Philosophic Idea in Plato, The American Journal of Philology, vol. 119 (1998), pp. 577-598
13. W.A. Johnson, Oral Performance and the Composition of Herodotus' Histories, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, vol. 35 (1994), pp. 229-254 (appeared Fall 1995.)
14. W.A. Johnson, The Oxyrhynchus Distributions in America: Papyri and Ethics, BASP (Accepted, 2011)
15. W.A. Johnson, Libraries and Reading Culture in the High Empire, in Ancient Libraries, edited by Greg Woolf (Accepted, 2011), Cambridge University Press
16. W.A. Johnson, Cicero and Tyrannio: Mens addita videtur meis aedibus (ad Atticum iv.8.2), Classical World (Accepted, 2011)

Conferences Organized

• 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