Curriculum Vitae 
J Clare Woods
Department of Classical Studies
Duke University
Box 90103
Durham, NC 27708-0103
(919) 684-6067 (office)
jcwoods@duke.edu (email)

Education:

Ph.D King’s College London, 1997
B.A. in Classics, First Class Honors King’s College London, 1990
M.A. in Classics King’s College London, 1991

Professional Experience / Employment History


Publications

   Books

with F. Glinister, J. North et al. Verrius, Festus and Paul: Lexicography, Scholarship and Society.  Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Special Supplement.
with Louise Rice, Clare Woods. Domenico Allegri: Music for the Thesis Defence of Ilario Frumenzio (Rome, 1617).  edited by Antony John in Recent Researches in the Music of the Music of the Baroque Madison, Wis.: A-R Editions, (2004).

   Edited Volumes

 Verrius, Festus and Paul: Lexicography, Scholarship and Society. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Special Supplement  (Fall, 2007).
 Verrius, Festus and Paul: Lexicography, Scholarship and Society. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Special Supplement  (Fall, 2007).
 Verrius, Festus and Paul: Lexicography, Scholarship and Society. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Special Supplement  .
 Verrius, Festus and Paul: Lexicography, Scholarship and Society. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Special Supplement  (2007).
 Proceedings of Collection Canonum Hibernensis: Text and Context. Peritia  no. 14 (2000) 1-110.

   Articles

C. Woods. "A contribution to the King's Library: Paul the Deacon's epitome of Festus' De verborum significatu." Verrius, Festus and Paul: Lexicography, Scholarship and Society. Edited by F. Glinister, C. Woods with J. North and M. Crawford.   (2007) 222-276.
"Six New Sermons by Hrabanus Maurus on the Virtues and Vices." in Revue Bénédictine  vol. 107  (1997) 280-306.

   Forthcoming

Hrabani Mauri Sermones de festis praecipuis, item de uirtutibus et uitiis [Sermons for the major feastdays, and on the virtues and vices].   Turnhout Brepols Publishers (2008).

   Reviews

 Review of: Mario de Nonno, Paolo de Paolis (eds.) Manuscripts and the Tradition of Grammatical Texts from Antiquity to the Renaissance (2 vols), Cassino, 2000. Classical Review 55:1 (2005) 165-167. (Proceedings of a Conference held at Erice, 16-23 October 1997, as the 11th Course of International School for the study of Written Records)
 Review of Bengt Lofstedt (ed), Hrabani Mauri Expositio in Matthaeum CCCM 174-174A. Turnhout: Brepols, 2000 in Journal of Medieval Latin 13 (2004) 271-274.
 Review of A. Moscadi, Il Festo Farnesiano. Classical Review 52:1 (2002) 197-198.
 Review of F. A. C. Mantello and A. G. Rigg (eds), Medieval Latin: An Introduction and Bibliographical Guide, Catholic Univ. of America Press, 1996. Medium Aevum LXVII:2 (1998) 316-318.

   Other

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Langford Lectureship, Duke University, 2007 - 2008

A.W. Mellon Asst. Prof. of Classical Studies, Duke University, Sept. 2004 - August 2005

Research Fellowship at the University College of London, funded by the (British) Arts and Humanities Research Board to work intensively on the Festus Lexicon Project based at University College of London., Aug. 1, 2003-July 31, 2004

Grant, Duke University Arts and Sciences Committee on Faculty Research, 2002-03

Duke Award fro New Research Initiatives in the International Field, 2000

Scholarship, British School at Rome, 1996

Frances A. Yates Fellowship, Warburg Institute, London, 1995-96

Travel Grant, British Academy, Spring 1993

Ph.D. Funding, British Academy, 1991-94

M.A. Funding, British Academy, 1990-91

Conferences Organized
Collectio Canonum Hibernensis: Text and Context, March, 1999

Professional Lectures

  Invited Lectures:

Scholarship and Gift Giving in Carolingian Francia, Duke University, November 27, 2007
"Schools and School Texts in the Early Medieval West to the Earlier Middle Ages", Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, London, January 2004
"Ezekiel and the Articulation of Anxiety: Jerome, Gregory the Great and Rome under Attack", presented to the London Society for Medieval Studies, May 2004
"To err is human, to emend divine? Editing a ninth-century sermon collection", to the Texts and Transmission Summer School at the Institute of Classical Studies, London, June 2004
"The manuscript transmission of Paul the Deacon’s ‘Epitome’ of Festus’ ‘De verborum significatu’", Conference on Festus held at University College, London, June 2002
"Cultural Wealth: the Power of Poetry in the Later Fourth Century", Colloquium ‘Power and Paideia in the 4th Century CE’ organized by the Dept. of Classical Studies and Center for Late Ancient Studies, Duke University, April 1, 2002
"Ezekiel and the Articulation of Anxiety: Jerome, Gregory and Rome Under Attack", Late Ancient Studies Seminar, Duke University, March 1, 2002
"Decent and Indecent Proposals: Women and Marriage in the ‘Hibernensis’", Late Ancient Seminar at Duke University, April 2000
"Towards a critical edition of the ‘Hibernensis’", Seminar on Problems in the Transmission of Greek and Latin Texts, Cambridge, England, June 1999
"The relationship between recensions A and B of the ‘Hibernensis’", Conference on the Hibernensis, Dublin, March 1999
"Biblical and Patristic Authority in the Sermons of Hrabanus Maurus", Board of Medieval Studies MPhil Seminar, University College, Dublin, February 1998
"The Stars Speak: the ‘Liber Iudiciorum’ of Raymond of Marseilles", Dublin Classics Seminar, February 1998
"Six New Sermons by Hrabanus Maurus on Discipline, Fornication and other Virtues and Vices", British School, Rome, February, 1996
"Hrabanus and the Bible: Scriptural citation in a Ninth-Century Sermon Collection", Director's Work in Progress Seminar, Warburg Institute, London, March, 1995
"Carolingian Latin: an Assessment frm the Evidence of Hrabanus's Sermon Collection for Haistulf of Mainz", Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar at the Institute of Classical Studes, London, February, 1995
  Meetings:
"Preaching sanctity: Hrabanus' sermons for the feastdays of saints", The International Medieval Congress (Leeds, UK), July 10, 2006
"To err is human, to emend divine?", Annual Meetng of the American Philological Association (Montreal, CN), January 08, 2006
"Froben Forster and Alcuin: scholars, teachers and their patrons", at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds, July 2004
"Festus and Roman Colour Perception", APA Annual Meeting (Boston, MA), January 7, 2005
"Ezekiel and the Articulation of Anxiety", South Eastern Medieval Association’s annual conference, New Orleans, October 18-20, 2001
"Bishops and the Black Arts: Firmicus Maternus in the Eleventh Century", Third International Medieval Latin Congress, Cambridge, England, September 1998

Professional Service

  University Committees/Service

Transcultural Humanities Steering Committee, 2007
Center for Late Ancient Studies, Director, 2006 - present
FOCUS Program: Memory and Invention, Medieval and Renaissance Worlds, Director, 2006 - present
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Member of Executive Committee, 2005 - present
Center for Late Ancient Studies, Member of Executive Committee, 2000 - 2005
Late Ancient Studies Reading Group at Duke University, Member, Fall 1999-present
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Executive Committee member, Fall 2001-present
Center for Late Ancient Studies, Committee, Fall 1999-present

  Departmental Committees/Service

Arts and Sciences Council, Department Representative, 2005 - 2006
Board of Medieval Studies, University College Dublin, Member, Fall 1997-Spring 1999
Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program, Director of Undergraduate Studies, 2006 - present

  Service to the Profession

Roman Life and Society in Festus' Lexicon, 2005
Panel participants: Dr Fay Glinister (UCL), ‘Festus on Roman mentalities’; Prof. John North (UCL), ‘Festus on Roman ritual’; Dr Clare Woods (Duke Univ.), ‘Festus on colour’; Dr Rebecca Flemming (KCL), ‘Festus and the gendering of Roman religion’. The panel session closed with a demonstration of the Festus Lexicon database.

Doctoral Theses Directed

Gregory Bell, , (2007)
Megan Drinkwater-Ottone, Epic and Elegy in Ovid's Heroides: Paris, Helen and Homeric Intertext, (2003)
Garry Crites, , (2005)
Samuel Findley, Theognis, Tibullus and the Effacement of Poetic Self, (2002)
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