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Personal

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

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

• 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

Lectures

  Invited Lectures:

• Venus/Venatio: Amore e la Caccia nelle Metamorphosi di Ovidio, Università di Venezia, Spring 1996
• "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
• Scribentis Imago: the inscription of the female as elegiac composer in Ovid's Heroides 15, Leeds University: Leeds International Latin Seminar, Spring 1994
• Imago Scribentis: the inscription of the female writer in Ovid: Heroides 15, Invitational Lecture, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 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
• 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
• Between Cultures: Redrawing the Boundaries of a Liberal Education, New Directions for the 21st Century. St. Lawrence University, 1991
• The Disavowal of Iambic Invective in Horace's Odes, Columbia Seminar on Classical Civilization. Columbia University, 1990
• Horace on the Art of Living, Second Elroy L. Bundy Memorial Lecture, Dominican College of San Rafael, San Rafael, California, 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

Publications

   Books

1.  Journal of a Homecoming. Englis Translation, with INtroduction of Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal. Currently Researching.
2.  Meditating Thalia: The Interplay of Ideas in Vergil's Bucolics (tentative title). Currently Researching.
3.  Aimé Césaire.  Cambridge University Press, 1997. (Cambridge)
4.  Polyhymnia: The Rhetoric of Horatian Lyric Discourse.  University of California Press, 1991. (Berkeley/Los Angeles/ Oxford)
5.  Non-Vicious Circle: Twenty Poems of Aimé Césaire.  Stanford University Press, 1984. (Stanford, Ca.)
6.  The Death of Procris: "Amor" and the Hunt in Ovid's Metamorphoses.  Edizioni dell' Ateneo, 1983. (Rome, Italy)
7.  Antigua Black: Portrait of an Island People.  Scrimshaw Press, 1971. (San Francisco)

   Articles

1.  "Reframing the Homeric: images of the Odyssey in the art of Derek Walcott and Romare Bearden." Blackwell Companion to Classical Receptions. Forthcoming: Oxford University Press, 2007.
2.  "'Homecomings without Home': representations of (post)colonial nostos (homecoming) in the lyric of Aimé Césaire and Derek Walcott'." Homer in the Twentieth Century: between World Literature and the Western Canon. Ed. Emily Greenwood & Barbara Graziosi Forthcoming: Oxford University Press, 2007.
3.  "Ut pictura poesis."  2002-2003: 198-9.
4.  "Beyond Disciplinary Hierarchies in Higher Education." Bruce A. Kimball: The Condition of American Liberal Education: Pragmatism and a Changing Tradition. Ed. Robert Orrill College Entrance Examination Board, New York, 1995.
5.  "Between Cultures: toward a redefinition of Liberal Education." African Studies and the Undergraduate Curriculum. Ed. P. Alden, D. Lloyd & A. Samatar Lynne Reicher Publishers, Boulder, Colorado & London, 1994: 19-3.
6.  "Lyric worlds: Old and New under the sun."  Cornell University, 1991.
7.  "The mind at the end of the palm."  1982: 46-5.

   Papers Published

1. "From Lyric to Elegy: The inscription of the Elegiac Subject in Heroides 15 (Sappho to Phaon)." Defining Genre and Gender in Latin Literature: Essays Presented to WIlliam S. Anderson on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday Lang Classical Studies51 (2005): 175-191.
2. "Jane Austen's Mansfield Park: the Antigua Collection."   (2004). [html]
3. "Consolation in the Bucolic mode: The Epicurean cadence of Vergil's First Eclogue." Vergil. Philodemus, and the Augustans  (2003): 63-74.
4. "Ait Phaselus: The Caricature of Stylistic Inelegance in Catullus 4"." "Materiali e discussioni per l'analysi dei testi classici." 48 (August, 2002): 111-143.
5. "Introduction." Horace: Odes. Trans. James Michie Modern Library (July, 2002).
6. "'Pastoral sites': aspects of bucolic transformation in Derek Walcott's Omeros.." Classical World 93.1 (1999): 43-9.
7. "L'intertextualite comme strategie dans un programme postcolonial: 'Ferrements' d'Aime Cesaire.." Europe 832-3 (1998): 109-18.
8. "'With no Homeric Shadow': The Disavowal of Epic in Derek Walcott's Omeros.." South Atlantic Quarterly 96.2 (1997): 321-33.
9. "The figure of Anacreon in Horatian lyric." Hellas 7.2 (1996): 63-74. Special issue in honor of Wesley Trimpi
10. "Cupid at the Ivory Gates: Ausonius as a reader of Vergil." Colby Quarterly 30.3 (1992): 162-170. Studies in Roman Epic
11. "Desire and the Hunt in Ovid's Metamorphoses." The Burnett Lectures: A Quarter Century  (1993): 142-170. San Diego, Ca.
12. "Ingenii cumba?: literary aporia and the rhetoric of Horace's O navis referent (C.1.14)." Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 132 (1989): 331-345.
13. "Quis...digne scripserit?: The topos of alter Homerus in Horace C.1.6." Phoenix 41.3 (1987): 292-295.
14. "Carmina/Iambi: the literary-generic dimension of Horace's Integer vitae (C.1, 22)." Quaderni Urbinati di cultura classica 27.3 (1987): 67-78. Why Horace: A Collection of Interpretations, ed. W.S. Anderson, Bolchazy-Carducci, Wauconda, Ill, 1999, 51-62
15. "Silence and Decorum: Encomiastic Convention and the Epilogue of Horace Carm 3.2." Classical Antiquity 2.1 (1983): 9-26. Studies in Classical Lyric : A Homage to Elroy Bundy
16. "The Disavowal of the Grand (Recusatio) in two poems by Wallace Stevens." Pacific Coast Philology 17.1-2 (1982): 92-102.
17. "The Problem of Closure in a carmen perpetuum: Aspects of Thematic Recapitulation in Ovid Metamorphoses 15." Grazer Beiträge 9 (1980): 123-132.
18. "Ovid Metamorphoses 3.442ff. and the Prologue to Menander's Misoumenos." Phoenix 32 (1978): 339-342.
19. "Towards a `Non-Vicious Circle': The Lyric of Aimé Césaire in English." Stanford French Review 1.1 (1977): 135-146.
20. "The Persona of Licymnia: a Revaluation of Horace Carm. 2.12." Philologus 1.119 (1975): 70-83.
21. "Ad Sidera Notus: The Rhetoric of Lament and Consolation in Fortunatus' De Gelesuintha." Agon 1.1 (1967): 118-134.

   Book & Monograph Reviews

1.  "Horace's Narrative Odes by Michèle Lowrie (Oxford 1997)."  Spring, 1999: 50-2.
2.  "Epic of the Dispossessed: Derek Walcott's Omeros by Robert D. Hammer (Columbia 1997)."  1998: 59-61.
3.  "Derek Walcott's Poetry: American Mimicry by Rei Terada (Boston 1992)."  1997: 241.
4.  "“On Césaire.” Review-essay on Aimé Césaire: le nègre inconsolé by Roger Toumson and Simonne Henry-Valmore (Paris/Fort-de-France 1993); Aimé Césaire: une traversée paradoxale du siècle by Raphael Confiant (Paris 1993); Cahier d’un retour au pays natal ed. Abiola Irele."  1995: 173-184.
5.  "Redeeming the Text: Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception by Charles Martindale (Cambridge 1993)."  1993: 203-206.
6.  "From a Sabine Jar by L. Edmunds (Chapel Hill 1992)."  1993: 203-206.
7.  "Metaformations by F. Ahl (Ithaca 1985)."  1988: 260-262.
8. N.G. Davis. "The Art of the Aeneid by W.S. Anderson."  1972: 93-4.

   Other

1.  "Translation of "Do not have Pity," "Sun Serpent," "Day and Night," by Aimé Césaire." The Norton Anthology: World Masterpieces. 7th Ed.1999: 1718-1719.
2.  "Translation of "Statue of Lafcadio Hearn"." Soleil éclaté: Melanges offerts à Aimé Césaire à l'occasion de son soixante-dixiéme anniversaire par une équipe internationale d'artistes et de chercheurs. Ed. Jacqueline Leiner Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen, 1984.