Faculty
Degrees: B.A., Queens College (City University of New York): History M.A., M.Phil., PhD., Yale University: Classics
Research Interests:
Religions of the Roman Empire; Roman provincial identities; the art, archaeology, and epigraphy of Roman Dacia; discourses on conquest, power, and identity in the Roman world, as reflected in literary, epigraphic, and visual media.
Teaching interests:
Latin Language and Literature; Roman History and Historiography; Greco-Roman and Near-Eastern Mythology; Classical Tragedy; Greek and Roman Epic Poetry; Women and Gender in the Greco-Roman World.
Gregory Dobrov
Title/s: Associate Professor and Post-Baccalaureate Program Director
Degrees
B.Th., Holy Trinity Seminary
M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University
Research Interests
History and criticism of ancient theater, lyric poetry, Second Sophistic, Byzantine literature, critical theory, linguistics
Selected Publications
Work in Progress: The Gospel of Hades: Greek Myth and the Invention of Easter: a monograph on katabasis (underworld journey) in Greek tradition
Selected Publications:
- A Companion to the Study of Greek Comedy, edited volume (Brill, 2010) - including "Comedy and her Critics," 1-33.
- Figures of Play (Oxford, 2001)
- The City As Comedy (Chapel Hill, 1997)
- Beyond Aristophanes (Scholars Press, 1995)
- "Veiled Venom: Comedy, Censorship and Figuration," in Singing the Muses: Essays in Honor of Pietro Pucci (Berlin and New York, 2010).
- Review of A. Bierl, Ritual and Performativity: The Chorus of Old Comedy(Cambridge MA and London, 2009): Classical World, summer 2010.
Recent Talks:
- "Comedy, Censorship, and Metaphor," American Philological Association, San Antonio, 7 January 2011.
- "Tragedy at Play: Politics and Humor in Greek Drama", DePaul University, 18 October 2010.
- "Censorship and the Art of Comedy," Illinois Classical Conference, Knox College, 16 October 2010.
Listen to Greg's music.