William Johnson, Professor of Classical Studies

Contact Info:

Office Location:	236 Allen Building, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.profwilliamjohnson.com

Office Hours:

On leave 2024-25.

Education:

Ph.D.	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

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Johnson, W. Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome. Edited by Johnson, WA; Parker, H. Oxford University Press, 2009. 1-448 pp. [doi]  [abs] [author's comments]
2. Johnson, WA. Bookrolls and scribes in oxyrhynchus. University of Toronto Press, January, 2003. 1-414 pp.  [abs] [author's comments]
3. Johnson, WA. "The Oxyrhynchus Distributions in America: Papyri and Ethics." BASP (2012).
4. Johnson, WA. "Libraries and Reading Culture in the High Empire." Ancient Libraries (2013).
5. Johnson, WA. "Pliny Epistle. 9.36 and Demosthenes' Cave." Classical World 106.4 (2013): 665-668.  [abs]
6. Johnson, WA. "Cicero and Tyrannio: Mens addita videtur meis aedibus (ad Atticum iv.8.2)." Classical World 105.4 (2012): 471-477. [doi]  [abs]
7. Johnson, WA. "Teaching the Children How to Read: The Syllabary." Classical Journal 103.4 (2010): 445-463. [doi]
8. Johnson, WA. "The Ancient Book." The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology (2009).
9. Johnson, WA. "Hesiod's Theogony: Reading the Proem as a Priamel." Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 46.3 (2008): 231-235.
10. Johnson, WA. "The Posidippus Papyrus: Bookroll and Reader." The New Posidippus: A Hellenistic Poetry Book (2005).
11. Johnson, WA. "Reading cultures and education." Reading Between the Lines: New Perspectives on Foreign Language Literacies (2002).
12. Johnson, WA. "New instrumental music from Graeco-Roman Egypt." Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 37 (2000): 17-36. (Appeared 2001)
13. Johnson, WA. "Musical Evenings in the Early Empire: New Evidence from a Greek Papyrus with Musical Notation." Journal of Hellenic Studies 120 (2000): 57-85. [doi]  [abs]
14. Johnson, WA. "Toward a sociology of reading in classical antiquity." American Journal of Philology 121 (2000): 593-627. (Appeared 2001. Winner of the 2000 Gildersleeve Prize.)
15. Johnson, WA. "Dramatic Frame and Philosophic Idea in Plato." The American Journal of Philology 119 (1998): 577-598.
16. Johnson, WA. "Oral Performance and the Composition of Herodotus' Histories." Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 35 (1994): 229-254. (appeared Fall 1995)