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CURRICULUM VITAE

Holt N. Parker
holt.parker@uc.edu
Dept. of Classics
PO Box 210226
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0226
(513) 556-1944 fax: 556-4366

Special Interestes

• Gender Studies, Literary Theory, Augustan Poetry, Greek Lyric Poetry, Roman Comedy, Linguistics, Ancient Medicine.

Education

• 1978-1986: Yale University: MA (1980), M.Phil. (1982), Ph.D. (1986).
  • Dissertation: The Relative Chronology of Some Major Latin Sound Changes.
  • Advisor: Alan Nussbaum.
• 1975-76, 77-78: Tulane University: BA (1978).
• 1976-77: University College London.
• 1974-75: Abilene Christian College.

Teaching

• 2004- : Professor, Dept. of Classics, University of Cincinnati.
• 1994-2004 : Associate Professor, Dept. of Classics, Universisty of Cincinnati.
• 1991-1994: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Classics, Universisty of Cincinnati.
• 1986-1991: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Classics, University of Arizona.
• 1985-1986: Visiting Lecturer, Dept. of Classics, University of Arizona.

Awards and Honors

• Women's Classical Caucus Prize 2006 for "Why Were the Vestals Virgins? Or The Chastity of Women and the Safety of the Roman State," AJP 125 (2004) 563-601.
• Loeb Classical Library Foundation Grant, 2005
• Josephine Roberts Award 2004, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (Sixteenth Century Studies) for Olympia Morata.
• Honorary Visiting Research Fellow, Dept. of Ancient History, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, July-Sept. 2002
• 2001 Watkins Lectureship, DePauw University
• Rome Prize, Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, NEH Fellowship in Classical Studies and Archaeology, 1996.
• Nomination: A. B. Cohen Teaching Award, University of Cincinnati, 1996.
• Women's Classical Caucus Prize, 1992 ("Sappho Schoolmistress," APA 1991).
• NEH Fellowship, 1990-91, for research on women and medicine in antiquity.
• NEH Summer Stipend, 1989, for study of medical MSS in Vatican Library.
• University of Arizona:
  • 1988, Research Grant, matching funds for NEH.
  • 1987, Provost's Teaching Improvement Award for creating course "Women in Antiquity."
  • 1986, Nomination: 5-Star Teaching Award.
• Tulane University:
  • Graduation summa cum laude, Departmental Honors in Greek and in Latin, Phi Beta Kappa, Judah Touro Medal in Classics, Phi Delta Kappa (German), German Department Book Prize.
• University College London: Platt Prize in Greek.
• Second Prize, Oatmeal Cookies, Hamilton County Fair (1999)
• First Prize, Shaped Yeast Bread, Hamilton County Fair (1999)
• First Prize, Cold Soup, Hamilton County Fair (2001)
• First Prize, Yeast Bread (Open Class: Challah), Hamilton County Fair (2001)
• Second Prize, White Bread, Hamilton County Fair (2004).
• First Prize, Home-Canned Vegetables (Red Peppers), Hamilton County Fair (2004).

Publications

Books

• Olympia Morata: The Complete Writings of an Italian Heretic. In the series The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2003.

  Reviews:

  • Joy Connolly, Women’s Review of Books (April 2004) 9-10.
  • John A. Tedeschi, Catholic Historical Review 90 (2004) 552-553.
  • Abigail Brundin, Journal of European Studies 34 (2004) 169-70.
  • Fiora Bassanese, Renaissance Quarterly 58 (2005) 171-3.
  • J. K. Wickersham, Sixteenth Century Journal 36 (2005) 300-301.
• Censorinus: The Birthday Book (De die natali Liber) (1st English translation). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2007.

In Press

• Metrodora: The Gynecology. The earliest surviving work by a woman doctor and other works from the Florentine Manuscript. In the series Studies in Ancient Medicine. Leiden and Boston: Brill. Forthcoming.

Edited Volume.

• Ancient Literacies: the Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome, ed. William A. Johnson and Holt N. Parker.  Oxford: Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.

Articles

• 1988
  • "Latin *siso > sero and Related Rules," Glotta 66 (1988) 221-241.
• 1989
  • "Another Go at the Text of Philaenis (P. Oxy. 2891)," ZPE 79 (1989) 49-50.
  • "Crucially Funny or Tranio on the Couch," TAPA 119 (1989) 233-246. Reprinted in Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence, ed. Erich Segal. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2001. 127-37.
• 1991
  • "The Bones: Propertius 1.21.9-10," Classical Philology 86 (1991) 328-33.
• 1992
  • "Other Remarks on the Other Sulpicia," CW 86 (1992) 89-95.
  • "In the Mood: Prop. 2. 26. 1-3," Mnemosyne 45 (1992) 92-95.
  • "The Fertile Fields of Umbria: Propertius 1. 22. 10," Mnemosyne 45 (1992) 88-92.
  • "Fish in Trees and Tie-Dyed Sheep: A Function of the Surreal in Roman Poetry," Arethusa 25 (1992) 293-323.
  • "Love's Body Anatomized: The Ancient Erotic Manuals and the Rhetoric of Sexuality." In Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome, ed. Amy Richlin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. 90-111.
• 1993
  • "Sappho Schoolmistress," TAPA 123 (1993) 309-51. Reprinted in Re-Reading Sappho: Reception and Transmission, ed. Ellen Greene. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1996. 146-86. Available on-line at http://www.netlibrary.com/ebook_info.asp?product_id=13083
• 1994
  • "A Curiously Persistent Error: Satyricon 43.4," Classical Philology 89 (1994) 162-66.
  • "Innocent on the Face of it: An Overlooked Obscenity in Martial (6.6)," Mnemosyne 47 (1994) 380-83.
  • "Sulpicia, the Auctor de Sulpicia and the Authorship of 3. 9 and 3. 11 of the Corpus Tibullianum," Helios 21 (1994) 39-62.
• 1996
  • "Plautus vs. Terence: Audience and Popularity Re-examined," AJP 117 (1996) 585-617. Available on-line at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals
    /american_journal_of_philology/v117/117.4parker.html
  • "Heterosexuality." In The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3.ed., ed. Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. 702-703. Reprinted in Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization, ed. Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 342-43.
• 1997
  • "The Teratogenic Grid." In Roman Sexualities, ed. by Judith P. Hallett and Marilyn B. Skinner. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. 47-65.
  • "Latin and Greek Poetry by Five Renaissance Italian Women Humanists." In Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts, ed. Paul Allen Miller, Barbara K. Gold and Charles Platter. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. 247-85. Available online at www.netlibrary.com; bookid=5350
  • "Women Physicians in Greece, Rome, and the Byzantine Empire." In Women Physicians and Healers: Climbing a Long Hill, ed. Lilian R. Furst. University Press of Kentucky, 1997. 131-50.
• 1998
  • "Slips of the Tongue: Three Double Entendres in Terence (Adel. 215, Hec. 95 and 761),"Rheinisches Museum 141 (1998) 171-75.
  • "Loyal Slaves and Loyal Wives: The crisis of the outsider-within and Roman exemplum literature." In Women and Slaves in Greco-Roman Culture, ed. Sandra Joshel and Sheila Murnaghan. Routledge, 1998. 152-73.
• 1999
  • "Greek Embryological Calendars and a Fragment from the Lost Work of Damastes, On the Care of Pregnant Women and of Infants," CQ 49 (1999) 515-534.
  • "The Observed of All Observers: Spectacle, Applause, and Cultural Poetics in the Roman Audience." In The Art of the Ancient Spectacle, ed. Bettina Bergmann and Christine Kondoleon. Studies in the History of Art. Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. Symposium Papers. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art. 1999. 163-79.
• 2000
  • "Flaccus," CQ 50 (2000) 455-62.
  • "Horace Epodes 11.15-18: What's shame got to do with it?" AJP 122 (2000) 559-70. Available on-line at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/
    american_journal_of_philology/v121/121.4parker.html
    2001 "The Myth of the Heterosexual or The Anthropology and Sexuality for Classicists," Arethusa 34 (2001) 313-62. Available on-line (.pdf) at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/arethusa/toc/are34.3.html
• 2001
  • "The Myth of the Heterosexual or The Anthropology of Sexuality for Classicists," Arethusa  34 (2001) 313-6
• 2002
  • "Angela Nogarola (ca. 1400) and Isotta Nogarola (1418-1466): Thieves of Language."
  • "Costanza Varano (1426-1447): Latin as an Instrument of State"
  • "Olympia Fulvia Morata (1526/7-1555): Humanist, Heretic, Heroine."
  • Three articles in Women Writing Latin: From Roman Antiquity to Early Modern Europe, v. 3. Early Modern Women Writing Latin, ed. Laurie J. Churchill, Phyllis R. Brown, and Jane E. Jeffrey, 11-30, 31-53, 133-65.  New York : Routledge.
• 2004
  • "Why Were the Vestals Virgins? Or The Chastity of Women and the Safety of the Roman State," AJP 125 (2004) 563-601. Available on-line at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_journal_of_philology/toc/ajp125.4.html       
  • A slightly revised version will appear under the same title in Virginity Revisited. The Autonomy of the Unpossessed Body, ed. Bonnie Maclachlan.  University of Texas Press. 2007.
  • "Women and Humanism: Nine Factors for the Woman Learning," Viator 35 (2004) 581-616.
  • "An Epigram of Nossis (8 GP = AP 6.353)," CQ 54 (2004) 619-20.
• 2005
  • "Sappho's Public World." In Women Poets in Ancient Greece and Rome: New Critical Essays, ed. Ellen Greene, 3-24. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press
  • "Propempticon for Jean Wellington."  Latin poem in CJ 101 (2005) 223 .
• 2006
• "Sappho's Daughter/Clitoris/Slave," Rheinisches Museum 149 (2006) 109-12.
• Catullus and the Amicus Catulli,": The Text of a Learned Talk," CW 100 (2006) 17-29 (special issue on Sulpicia).
• "An Epigram of Nossis (8 GP = AP 6.353)," CQ.
• "A Fragment of the Athenian Dramatic Didascaliae for the Lenaia Re-examined (IG II/III2 2319)," ZPE 158 (2006) 55-60.
• "What Lobel Hath Joined Together: Sappho 49 LP," CQ 56 (2006) 374-392.
• Forthcoming
• "Morata, Fulvia Olympia, 1526/7-1555.” In Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance,, ed. Diana Robin. ABC-CLIO, 2007.
• "Free Women and Male Slaves Or Mandingo Meets the Roman Empire," in Proceedings of the 29th Conference of the Groupement International de Recherches sur l'Esclavage.
• “Daedalus and Icarus,” “Herm,” “Hermaphroditus,” “Maenad,” “Venus and Aphrodite.” Five articles for The Classical Tradition, ed. Anthony Grafton, Glenn Most, and Salvatore Settis.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
• "Vergil’s Mysterious Siler: A Possible Identification from a Lousy Clue," CQ.
• "The Magnificence of Learned Women." Viator 38 (2007).
• "Books and Reading Latin Poetry," in Ancient Literacies: the Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome, ed. William A. Johnson and Holt N. Parker.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• "Damastes" and "Metrodora": two articles in Biographical Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists, ed. Georgia Irby-Massie and Paul T. Keyser, Routledge.

Reviews

• "Unthinking Men," Classical Review 50 (2000) 226-28. L. Foxhall, J. Salmon (eds.): Thinking Men. Masculinity and its Self-Representation in the Classical Tradition. London, New York: Routledge, 1998.
• "The Body in Question," Classical Review 51 (2001) 138-39. James I. Porter (ed.): Constructions of the Classical Body. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. Both vailable online at http://www3.oup.co.uk/clrevj/

• A Sourcebook of Women Writers," Classical  Review 55 (2005) 484-85. Ian Plant (ed.): Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome: An Anthology. London: Equinox.

WEBWORK

• Vergil's Garden: A large site illustrating the plants in the Georgics. http://classics.uc.edu/~parker/hortus/vergilsgarden.html
• Latin Palaeography: a site under construction, growing out of a palaeography seminar, with links to scans of important Latin mss, with transcriptions, and other aids. http://classics.uc.edu/~parker/class.links.html

Works in Progress

• Sex and Sexuality in the Classical World (under contract to Cambridge
• Sex in the Classical World: A Sourcebook in Translation (under contract to Blackwell)
• Hermaphroditus by Panormita (a translation in the I Tatti series, under contract to Harvard University Press)
• Sex and Love and Roman Poetry (a book).
• How to Read Roman Poetry (a book).

Courses Taught

University of Cincinnati

• Beginning Languages
  • Intensive Latin (Winter-Spring '93, Fall-Winter-Spring 2000-1)
    Undergraduate
  • Homer, Odyssey (Winter '96, Winter '99, Winter '06)
  • Homer, Iliad (Winter '97)
  • Demosthenes (Winter '92)
  • Plato, Symposium (Fall '95, Fall '99, Fall '03)
  • Greek Lyric Poetry (Spring '95)
  • Sophocles (Fall '93, Winter '97, Fall '02, Fall '05)
  • Plato, Apology (Fall '97, Fall '01)
  • Xenophon (Spring '92)
  • Latin Epistolography (Fall '91, Fall '92, Fall '94, Fall '99, Fall '03)
  • Latin Sightreading (Fall '91-Spring '92; Fall '93-Spring '94)
  • Terence (Spring '93)
  • Latin Prose: Cicero (Fall '95)
  • Vergil, Georgics (Winter '94, Winter 2000)
  • Vergil, Aeneid (Winter '94, Spring '98)
  • Greek Tragedy (Spring '02)
  • Latin Elegy (Winter '04)
  • Herodotus (Spring '05)
• Undergraduate Lecture
  • Classical Civilization 111 (Winter '94. Winter '95, Winter '97, Winter '03, Winter '04, Winter '05, Winter '06)
  • Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Greece (Winter '98)
• Graduate
  • Greek Dialects (Fall '94)
  • Aristophanes Seminar (Winter '96)
  • Aristophanes (Directed Readings, Winter '96)
  • Greek Philosophical Prose: Aristotle (Spring '97)
  • Greek Lyric Poetry Seminar (Spring '97)
  • Greek Lyric Poetry (Directed Readings, Fall '97)
  • Greek Religion and Feminist Theory (Tutorial, Spring '97)
  • Catullus Seminar (Winter '92)
  • Catullus (Directed Readings, Fall '95)
  • Plautus Seminar (Spring '92)
  • Roman Novel Seminar (Fall '92)
  • Roman Popular Culture Seminar (Winter '95)
  • Horace (Winter '96, Winter '02)
  • Horace (Directed Readings, Winter '96)
  • Plautus and Terence (Spring '98, Spring '01, Spring '04)
  • Vergil, Eclogues/Georgics (Winter '94, Winter 2000, Winter '03, Fall '05)
  • Latin Prose Composition (Fall '00)
  • Sex as a Category for Historical Analysis: Seminar (Winter 2000)
  • Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin (Spring '01)
  • Aristophanes (Fall '01, Fall '04)
  • Roman Satire (Spring '02, Spring '05)
  • Power of Words in the Age of Augustus Seminar (Spring '03)
  • Homeric Philology Seminar (Spring '04)
  • Latin Palaeography (Winter '05)
  • Roman Satire (Spring '05)
  • Roman Erotics Seminar (Winter '06)

Service

• National
  • Juror, Review Panel, Divison of Preservation and Access, National Endowment for the Humanities (2000, 2001, 2003)
  • Juror, Peer Review Panel, National Endowment for the Humanities Program, Fellowships for University Teachers (1997, 1998)
  • Projects Evaluator, Divison of Preservation and Access, National Endowment for the Humanities (1998)
  • Evaluator, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2003)
  • Advisory Committee to the School of Classical Studies, American Academy in Rome.
  • WCC Prize for Scholarship (Oral Paper) Committee (1994).
  • Referee for articles for American Journal of Philology, Arethusa, Classical Antiquity, Classical Journal, Classical Philology, Classical World, Helios, Phoenix; French article reviewer for Echos du monde classique/Classical Views.
  • Reader for Oxford University Press, University of California Press.
• University of Arizona:
  • University Academic Standards Committee
  • Departmental 10-Year Review Committee
  • Departmental Search Committee
  • Women's Studies Department Committee
  • Comparative Literature Department Committee
• University of Cincinnati:
  • Affiliated Faculty Member, Women's Study Center
  • Library Committee (Chair)
  • Computer Committee
  • Undergraduate Committee
  • Graduate Committee
  • Inderdisciplinary Committee
  • Ad Hoc RPT Committee
  • Ad Hoc General Education Course Committee
  • Head, RPT Committee (1997)
  • Philology Search Commitee (1997-8)
  • Classics Chair Review Commiteee (1998)
  • Departement Head Review Committee (1998)
  • Head, RPT Committee (1999)
  • Head, Search Commitee (2000-1)
  • Head, Search Commitee (2002)
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies (2000- 2003)
  • Pedagogy Adviser (2003- )
  • M.A. Thesis Advisor: Elizabeth Manwell
  • Special Author Advisor (Petronius): Sherry Latimer
  • Dissertation Reader: Monessa Cummins
  • Latin Literature Examiner: Jason Fisher
  • Latin Literature Examiner: Lawrence Dean
  • Special Author Advisor (Aristophanes): Shannon Leslie
  • Greek Literature Examiner: Lawrence Dean
  • Special Area Advisor (Greek Religion and Anthropological Theory): Libby Percival
  • Special Author Advisor (Apuleius): Michael Klabunde
  • Dissertation Reader: Susan Walrodt (Archaeology and the Ritual of Birth)
  • Disseration Reader: Michael Klabunde (Sexuality and the Greek Novel)
  • Disseration Advisor: Shannon Leslie (Poetics and Particles: A Discourse Analysis of Lucretius)
  • Dissertation Reader: Alexandra Lesk (Healing Sanctuaries of Ancient Italy)
  • Special Author Advisor (Theognis and Lyric Poetry): Peter Anderson
  • Dissertation Reader: Carrie Galsworthy (Fire in Empedocles)
  • Special Area Advisor (Women in Greek Tragedy): Eugenia Gorogianni
  • Special Area Advisor (Roman Women): Lynne Kvapil (2004)
  • Special Area Advisor (Sophocles): Patrick Beasom (2005)
  • Greek Literature Examiner: Kris Trego (2005)
  • Greek Literature Examiner: Valentina Popescu (2005)
  • Greek Literature Examiner: Patrick Beasom (2006)
  • Dissertation Supervisor: Kris Trego (Plutarch and Narratology)
  • Dissertation Supervisor: Allison Sterrett-Krause (Women in Civic Life in Roman North Africa)
  • Dissertation Reader: Patrick Beasom (Transgressive Viewing in Roman Poetry)

Professional Lectures

• Semple Symposium "Constructing Literacy among the Greeks and Romans": "Reading Latin Poetry." Cincinnati, 2006.
• APA Seminar Panel The Gender of Latin: Invited paper “Women and Humanism.” 2005.
• "The Lesbian Marriage of Helena and Eleusis? An Aporetic Case Study." Feminism and Classics IV, Tuscon, May 2004.
• "Sex with Slaves or Mandingo Meets the Roman Empire." Conference on "Seeing Slaves," Berkeley, Nov. 2002; Ohio University, Feb. 2003.
• "Anthropology of Sexuality for Classicists." Australian National University, University of Melbourne, Macquarie University, University of Queensland, July 2002.
• "The Recreation of Time in the Augustan Secular Games." APA-AIA Joint Panel, Philadelphia, Jan. 2002; Triennal Conferrence, Wellington, New Zealand.
• The 2001 Watkins Lectureship, DePauw University. "Understanding Odysseus" and "The Myth of the Heterosexual: Anthropology of Sexuality for Classicists."
• "Anthropology of Sexuality for Classicists." Workshop and lecture at Feminism and Classics III, USC, Los Angeles, May 2000.
• "An Excerpt from the Lost Work of Damastes, 'On the Care of Pregnant Women and Infants'." APA, Dec. 1997 (Chicago).
• "The Observed of All Observers or Making a Spectacle of Oneself: Sexual and Cultural Poetics in the Roman Audience." Symposium on Roman Spectacles, American Academy in Rome, June 1996.
• "The Teratogenic Grid or The Myth of the Heterosexual." American Academy in Rome, Nov. 1996.
• "The Figure of the Adulteress in the Roman Popular Imagination." APA 1994 (Atlanta).
• "Plautus v. Terence." University of Indiana, Nov. 1994.
• "Photius on the Novel." 17th Groningen Conference on the Novel, April 1994.
• "Sappho's Public World." CAMWS, April 1994 (Atlanta).
• "Men in Love, Women in Love, Propertius in Love." Brown University, Feb. 1994.
• "Wo(men) in Love." APA 1992 (New Orleans).
• "Before Heterosexuality: The Case of Rome." Conference on "Feminism and the Classics." University of Cincinnati, Oct. 1992; Conference on "Foucault's History of Sexuality," Texas Tech University, April 1993; University of Buffalo, Nov. 1993; Brown University, March 1994.
• "Why Were the Vestals Virgins?" Miami University, April 1992; Vassar College, March 1993; different version at Conference "Virginity Reconsidered," University of Western Ontario, Oct. 1998.
• "Sappho Schoolmistress." APA 1991 (Chicago).
• NEH Summer Seminar 1991, "Periclean Athens." Tucson, Arizona:
• "Gender and Sex Roles"
• "The Philosophers on Women"
• "Changing Images of Women in Tragedy"
• "Comedy and Theater"
• "Women and Comedy"
• "Metrodora: The Only Surviving Text by a Greek Woman Doctor." APA 1990 (San Francisco).  A fuller version at University of Southern California and Occidental College, Oct. 1991; University of Cincinnati, Feb. 1992.  An updated version at the 18th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Urbana-Champaign, Oct. 1992.
• "Loyal Slaves and Loyal Wives." APA 1989 (Boston).
• "Fish in Trees and Tie-Dyed Sheep: A Function of the Surreal in Roman Poetry." University of Georgia, Feb. 1989, University of Cincinnati, Feb. 1991.
• "The Chastity of Women and the Safety of the Roman State." APA 1988 (Baltimore). A fuller version at University of Arizona, March 1989.
• "Crucially Funny: The servus callidus and jokes about torture." APA 1987 (New York).  A fuller version at Themes in Drama Conference: "Violence in Drama," UC Riverside, Feb. 1989.
• "Latin *s > r: How many rules?" APA 1985 (Washington).
• "Morphological Ionicisms in Sophocles." APA 1984 (Toronto).

Archaeological Fieldwork

• Caesarea Maritima, Israel, 1993; Prof. Barbara Burrell, Field Director, Prof. Kathryn Gleason, Project Director.  Registar, Promontory Palace excavation.
• Rome, Italy, 1988; Prof. Eric Hostetter, Director.  Dogsbody, Palatine East excavation.
• Kourion, Cyprus, 1987; Prof. David Soren, Director.  Epigrapher, Kourion excavation.

Memberships

• American Philological Association
• Society for Ancient Medicine
• Women's Classical Caucus (life member)
• Screen Actor's Guild