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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:

• Negritude as Performance: The Parade of Black Masks in Aimé Césaire's "Journal of Homecoming.", Florida International University Graduate Colloquium Lecture, 2009
• Il programma filosofico della prima egloga (Bucoliche, I) di Virgilio. University of Bologna, 2009
• Framing a Dialogue on vicissitude (Vergil, Eclogues 1). New York University, 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
• 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.  Aimé Césaire.  Cambridge University Press, 1997. (Cambridge)
2.  Polyhymnia: The Rhetoric of Horatian Lyric Discourse.  University of California Press, 1991. (Berkeley/Los Angeles/ Oxford)
3.  Non-Vicious Circle: Twenty Poems of Aimé Césaire.  Stanford University Press, 1984. (Stanford, Ca.)
4.  The Death of Procris: "Amor" and the Hunt in Ovid's Metamorphoses.  Edizioni dell' Ateneo, 1983. (Rome, Italy)
5.  Antigua Black: Portrait of an Island People.  Scrimshaw Press, 1971. (San Francisco)

   Edited Volumes

1.  A Companion to Horace. Wiley-Blackwell Oxford 2010, 2010 ().
2.  The Poetics of Derek Walcott: Intertextual perspectives. =South Atlantic Quarterly vol. 96 no. 2, 1997 ().

   Articles

1.  "Negritude-as-performance: the interplay of efficacious and inefficaciuos speech acts in Cahier d'un retour au pays natal."  Spring, 2010: 142-154.
2.  "Aimé Césaire." Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought. Ed. Abiola Irele and Byodun Jeyifo Oxford University Press, 2010.
3.  "Derek Walcott." Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought. Ed. Abiola Irele and Byodun Jeyifo 2010.
4.  "Reframing the Homeric: images of the Odyssey in the art of Derek Walcott and Romare Bearden." Oxford Companion to Classical Receptions. Ed. L. Hardwick and C. Stray Oxford University Press, 2007: , 401-414.
5.  "'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 Oxford University Press, 2007.
6.  "Ut pictura poesis."  2002-2003: 198-9.
7.  "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.
8.  "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.
9.  "Lyric worlds: Old and New under the sun."  Cornell University, 1991.
10.  "The mind at the end of the palm."  1982: 46-5.

   Forthcoming

1.  "Thalea: the Interplay of Ideas in Vergil's Bucolics."  2010. (Submitted for publication: 10/15/2010)
2.  "Daybook of a Homecoming. English translation, with Introduction, of Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal."  2010.
3.  "Archilochus lyricus and Horatian melos." In A Companion to Horace. Ed. Gregson Davis Wiley Blackwell, 2010.

   Papers Published

1. "Introduction." Eclogues, Trans. Leonard Krisak (2010).
2. "Jane Austen's Mansfield Park: the Antigua Collection."   (2004). [papersdavishtml]
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.