Curriculum Vitae

Peter Burian

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Academic and Professional Positions

Duke University

• Chair, Classical Studies, Department of Classical Studies, 2003-2007

• Professor of Classical and Comparative Literatures, Department of Classical Studies, 1996 - present

• Professor of Theater Studies, Department of Classical Studies, 2001 - present

• Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Classical Studies, 1970-72, 1976-79, 1993-96

• Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Classical Studies, 1981-83, 1990-92

• Associate Professor, Department of Classical Studies, 1977-1996

• Assistant Professor, Department of Classical Studies, 1971-77

• Instructor, Department of Classical Studies, 1968-1971

• Chair, Program in Comparative Literature, Program in Comparative Literature, 1985-1988

• Chair, Master of Arts Program in Humanities, Master of Arts Program in Humanities, 1981-83

• Instructor in the Summer Program, Talent Identification Program, 1986-87

Michigan-Wisconsin-Duke Program in Florence

• Director, 2002

Venice International University

• Visiting Professor and Director, Duke University Program in Venice, 1998

Dartmouth College

• Visiting Professor, Department of Classics, 1989

Vergilian Society Summer School, Italy

• Director, The Vergilian Society, 1980

Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies

• Assistant Professor, The Intercollegiate Center of Classical Studies, Rome Italy, 1975-76

Education

Ph.D.	Princeton University	1971
M.A.	Princeton University	1968
A.B. with high honors and high distinction in Classical Studies	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	1964

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Senior Associate, King's College, Cambridge, January-July 2003
Charles Dukes Award, Duke Alumni Association, 2001
Fellow of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1988
Fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C., 1980-81
Younger Humanist Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1972-73
Fulbright Fellow, University of Innsbruck, Austria, 1966-67
Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Princeton University, 1964-65

Publications (listed separately)

Professional Affiliations

American Philological Association
Classical Association of the Middle West and South
North Carolina Classical Association
Vergilian Society
American Comparative Literature Association
Association of Literary Scholars and Critics
Lyrica Society

Courses Taught

Greek

Undergraduate:

Elementary Greek
Intensive Elementary Greek
Intermediate Greek
Homer, Iliad
Homer, Odyssey and Greek lyric
Greek Comedy
Greek Tragedy
Greek Orators
Greek Historians

Graduate:

Prose Composition
Pre-Socratic Philosophy
Early Dialogues of Plato
Plato's Aesthetics
Homer
Sophocles' Theban Plays
Aeschylus' Oresteia
Aristophanes
Menander and new comedy

Seminars:

Euripides' Suppliants
Euripides' Helen
The Matter of Thebes in Greek Tragedy
Greek Comedy
"Peace Plays" of Aristophanes

Latin

Undergraduate:

Intermediate Latin (Cicero)
Vergil, Aeneid
Sight Reading

Graduate:

Horace, Odes

Classical Studies

Undergraduate:

Survey of Greek Literature
Survey of Latin Literature
Ancient and Medieval Epic
Drama of Greece and Rome
The Classical Tradition
Antiquity and the Making of the Modern World: Florence 1300-1600 (taught in Florence)

Seminars:

Ancient Comedy
The Greek Symposium
The Satirical Tradition
Varieties of Religious Experience in the Ancient Mediterranean
The World of Aristophanes (FOCUS Program)
The World of the Greek Theater (FOCUS Program)

Summer courses taught in Italy:

City and Country in Ancient Italy
Continuity and Change: Pagan to Christian Rome
Rome: History of the City

Comparative Literature (Program in Literature)

Undergraduate:

Foundations of Western Literature: Homer to Dante
Theory of Tragedy

Seminar:

The Oedipus Myth in Ancient and Modern Literature

Graduate:

Theory and Practice of Literary Translation (workshop-seminar)

Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (Seminars)

Fiction and its Truths
Rome: The City and Its Gods (taught partly in Rome)
Greek Theater in its Historical Setting (taught partly in Greece)
Performing Passion, Reason and Community

Kenan Institute for Ethics

Co-director, Graduate Colloquium, 2004-7

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