EMPLOYMENT EDUCATION NEH Summer Institute: The Image and Reality of Women in Ancient Near Eastern Societies, Brown University, June 14-July 18

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1 Denise Eileen McCoskey Department of Classics Miami University 2327 Upland Pl, #2 Oxford, OH Cincinnati, OH (513) (513) FAX (513) EMPLOYMENT 2001-present Associate Professor, Department of Classics and Affiliate, Black World Studies, Miami University Assistant Professor, Department of Classics and Affiliate, Black World Studies, Miami University EDUCATION 1995 Ph. D., Department of Classical Studies, Duke University dissertation: Gender Differentiation and Narrative Construction in Propertius Professor Lawrence Richardson, jr, Director 1995 NEH Summer Institute: The Image and Reality of Women in Ancient Near Eastern Societies, Brown University, June 14-July B.A. with Distinction in all Subjects, Cornell University Summa cum Laude in Classics, Majors in Classics and Archaeology Phi Beta Kappa AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS 2009 Winner of the American Philological Association s Award for Excellence in College Teaching 2004 Visiting Bye-Fellow, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, January-July 1999 Visiting Fellow, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, January-July Alumni Teaching Scholar, Miami University McCoskey, 1

2 1996 Visiting Scholar, American Academy in Rome, June 4-June Women s Studies Graduate Scholar, Women s Studies at Duke University, 1992 John J. Winkler Memorial Prize for the essay: Is There a Thesmophoria in This Text? Women s Spheres in Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae and Thesmophoriazusae GRANTS Part of a working group on the project Educating Citizens: Civic Education, Ethics, and Liberal Arts, directed by Joy Connolly, New York University (received funding from the Teagle Foundation) WORK IN PROGRESS with Zara Torlone, Latin Love Poetry (forthcoming from I. B Tauris/Oxford University Press) Ancient Roman Women in a Global Marketplace (under review at Akademeia - Online Academic Journal ) Inflecting American Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Latin Schoolbooks Books PUBLICATIONS Race: Antiquity and its Legacy (I.B. Tauris/Oxford University Press, 2012) with Emily Zakin, eds., Bound by the City: Greek Tragedy, Sexual Difference and the Formation of the Polis (SUNY Press, 2009) Articles with Mary Jean Corbett, Virginia Woolf, Richard Jebb, and Sophocles Antigone, in A Companion to Sophocles, ed. Kirk Ormand (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), with Emily Zakin, Introduction, in Bound by the City: Greek Tragedy, Sexual Difference and the Formation of the Polis (SUNY Press, 2009), McCoskey, 2

3 The Loss of Abandonment in Sophocles Electra in Bound by the City: Greek Tragedy, Sexual Difference and the Formation of the Polis (SUNY Press, 2009), Naming the Fault in Question: Theorizing Racism among the Greeks and Romans International Journal of the Classical Tradition 13 (Fall 2006), Gender at the Crossroads of Empire: Locating Women in Strabo s Geography in Strabo s Cultural Geography: The Making of a Kolossourgia, eds. Daniela Dueck, Hugh Lindsay, and Sarah Pothecary (Cambridge University Press, 2005), On Black Athena, Hippocratic Medicine, and Roman Imperial Edicts: Egyptians and the Problem of Race in Antiquity, in Race and Ethnicity Across Time, Space and Discipline, ed. Rodney D. Coates (Brill Press, 2004), Diaspora in the Reading of Jewish History, Identity, and Difference Diaspora 12.3 (2003), By Any Other Name? Ethnicity and the Study of Ancient Identity Classical Bulletin 79.1 (2003), Race Before Whiteness : Studying Identity in Ptolemaic Egypt Critical Sociology 28 (2002), Murder by Letters: Interpretation, Identity and the Instability of Text in Norfolk s Lemprière s Dictionary, Classical and Modern Literature 20/2 (2000), Reading Cynthia and Sexual Difference in the Poems of Propertius, Ramus 28 (1999), Answering the Multicultural Imperative: A Course on Race and Ethnicity in Classics, Classical World 92 (1999), I, whom she detested so bitterly : Slavery and the Violent Division of Women in Aeschylus Oresteia, in Differential Equations: Women and Slaves in Greco-Roman Culture, edd. Sheila Murnaghan and Sandra R. Joshel (Routledge 1998), Black and Female: The Politics of Interpretation in Classical Texts, SAPINA Bulletin, A Bulletin of the Society for African Philosophy in North America 6.1 (January-June 1994), On Reading Black and Female in Antique Texts, SAPINA Newsletter, A Bulletin of the Society for African Philosophy in North America 4. 1 (January-July 1992), McCoskey, 3

4 Book Reviews Review of Jacqueline M. Carlon, Pliny s Women in Sehepunkte Ausgabe 11 (2011), nr. 2. Review of Roy K. Gibson, Excess and Restraint: Propertius, Horace, and Ovid s Ars Amatoria in Classical Journal (2009), Review of Eve D Ambra Roman Women and Caroline Vout, Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome in Scripta Classica Israelica 27 (2008), Review of Phiroze Vasunia, The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander in Theatre Journal 55.1 (2003), Education Under the Raj? Greek Paideia in Egypt (a review of Gymnastics of the Mind) in Classical and Modern Literature 23/1 (2003), PRESENTATIONS Ancient Roman Women in a Global Marketplace presented at Mediterranean and Transalpine Connections, Miami University, March 31, Inflecting Young America in Ancient Latin presented at the interdisciplinary workshop Classical Education and American Slavery, Miami University, September 24, Panel Member for the workshop Recruiting and Retaining Minorities and Women in Classics: From Undergraduate to Tenured Faculty at the 141 st Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, January 6-9, Arms and the Woman: Encountering Amazons in Ancient Myth invited lecture at Butler University, March 18, Tarpeia s Betrayal: Reading Sexual Difference in the Augustan City presented at the 103 rd Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 11-14, Sex and the City: Tarpeia s Betrayal and Augustan Rome presented as the 2007 Virginia Hummel Lecture, Virginia Tech, March 14, Mapping the Female Subject in the Early Roman Empire invited speaker at The Ohio State University graduate student colloquium Cultures in Contact: Identity and Identifications in the Ancient World, April 15, McCoskey, 4

5 Gladiators, Slaves, and Tribunes: Reading Roman Law, Exclusion, and Agamben s Homo Sacer, presented at the European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam March, 2006 Respondent on panel Author Meets Critics: Derek Gregory, The Colonial Present: Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq at the European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam March, Writing as a Woman? The Epistolary Voice and Ovid s Exile, presented to the Historical and Cultural Geography Research Cluster Seminar, University of Cambridge, May 12, The Female Body as Imperial Border: Love in the Time of Augustus, presented at the European Social Science History Conference, March 24-27, Augustan Geographies: Mapping the Female Subject in the Early Roman Empire presented to the Literary Seminar of the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, February 18, Cynthia and the Geography of Empire in the Poems of Propertius presented at Oberlin College, September 22, Strabo s Geography and the Impossibility of Amazons presented at the University of Cincinnati, May 5, 2003 The Loss of Abandonment in Sophocles Electra presented at the 99 th Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 3-5, Sexual Difference & Imperial Space: Strabo s Geography and the Impossibility of Amazons presented at the conference Globalization and Cultural Diversity, Virginia Tech, September 20-21, Strabo s Geography and the Impossibility of Amazons, presented at the 55 th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 19-20, Femininity and/as Spatial Dislocation: Ovid s Heroides and Augustan Geography, presented at the 98 th Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 4-6, Identity Theory & the Study of Ptolemaic Egypt, presented at the 133 rd Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, Philadelphia, January 3-6, Strabo and the Amazon Homeland, presented at the 11 th International Conference of Historical Geographers, August 12-18, Spatial Location and Gender Identity: Plotting Women in Strabo s World, presented at the conference Strabo the Geographer: An International Perspective, University of Bar Ilan, Israel, June 25-27, McCoskey, 5

6 Mudslinging and Other Subversive Acts in Strabo, presented at the Joint Meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, October 13-14, Geography as Imperial Science: Strabo and Augustan Rome, presented at the 96 th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 4-8, Geography as Imperial Science: Strabo and Augustan Rome, presented at the 131 st Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, December 27-30, The Ethnicity/Race/Culture Conundrum: Unpacking Key Identity Terms in the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean, presented at the 130 th Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, December 27-30, with Mary McDonald, Teaching Culture Through Primary Texts, presented at the 10 th Annual Lilly Conference on College Teaching-West, March 6-8, with Mary McDonald, Teaching Culture Through Primary Texts, presented at the Presidents Day Teaching Effectiveness Retreat, Miami University, February 16, Reading Cynthia as Cleopatra in the Poems of Propertius, presented at the 129 th Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, December 27-30, Race Before Whiteness?: Lessons from the Ancient Mediterranean, presented at the 1997 Social Theory Commonwealth Conference Race and Whiteness, University of Kentucky, November 13-14, Mapping Empire/Mapping Identity: Representing Self and Cynthia in the Poems of Propertius, presented to the Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati, May 27, On Having a Bad Hair Day: The Body as National Text in Propertius and Ovid, presented at the 50 th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 17-19, Travel, Cartography, and Gender: Mapping Self and Cynthia in the Poems of Propertius, presented at the 93 rd Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 3-5, An Inclination for the Latin Tongue : The Classical Education of Phillis Wheatley presented at the 128 th Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, December 27-30, Myth, Metamorphosis and Madness: Teaching Lawrence Norfolk s Lempriere s Dictionary, presented at the 74 th Annual Meeting of the Ohio Classical Conference, October 17-19, Reading Cleopatra When Race Matters invited participant on the panel Not Out of Africa at Xavier University, September 20, McCoskey, 6

7 Reading Cleopatra When Race Matters, for Women s Studies, Miami University, April 30, Death and the Maiden: Foreignness, Difference and the Murder of Cassandra presented at the 49 th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 18-20, The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Levis Cynthia and the Poems of Propertius presented at the 92 nd Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 10-13, Is There a Thesmophoria in this Text? Women s Spheres in Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae and Thesmophoriazusae, presented to the Department of Classics, University of Kentucky, November 17, Key Words in African Studies: Origins, presented at the 1994 Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Toronto. On Not Knowing Greek: Feminism and the Project of Black Athena, presented at the Xth Congress of the International Federation of the Societies of Classical Studies (FIEC), Respondent, Ovide analysé: New Directions in Ovid Studies, Duke University, March 25-26, What Clytemnestra Knows: Deconstruction of the Male Mythic Tradition in Euripides Iphigeneia at Aulis, presented at the 1993 Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, Washington, D.C. Black and Female: the Politics of Interpretation in Classical Texts, presented at the 1993 Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Boston, MA. Panel Participant: Discovering Sappho s Sisters: Evidence and Research Methods for the Study of Women in Antiquity, at the Fourth Annual Graduate Research Conference, Women s Studies at Duke University, November 6, with Christopher Spelman, Resisting Interpretation in Theocritus Programmatic First Idyll, presented at Stat magni nominis umbra: Art and Literature of the Hellenistic and Silver Ages, the Second Annual Classics Colloquium, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, March 27, On Reading Black and Female in Antique Texts, presented at the 1991 Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, St. Louis, MO. McCoskey, 7

8 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Department of Classics, Miami University, Fall 1995-present Courses taught: CLS 121: Classical Mythology (on both Miami s Oxford and Hamilton campuses) CLS 121.H: Classical Mythology (honors version) CLS 210.P/CLS 310.P: From the Lair of the Cyclops to the Surface of the Moon: Travel and Self-Definition in Antiquity CLS 210.R: Race & Ethnicity in Antiquity CLS 212: Greek & Roman Tragedy CLS 235/335: Women in Antiquity CLS 310.E: Conflict in Greco-Roman Egypt CLS 310.J: Jews Among the Greeks & Romans CLS 310.L: Ancient Rome & Modern Europe: The Roman Past in the Making of Modern Europe (taught at Miami s Luxembourg campus in summer 2008) CLS 316: Greek & Roman Lyric Poetry CLS 380A: Greeks and Romans Bearing Gifts? Colonial America and the Classical Tradition CLS 380.I/E: Identity and Cultural Difference in Greco-Roman Egypt CLS 380.J: Women, Representation, and the State (co-taught) CLS 402: The Age of Augustus HON 300A: Identity and Cultural Difference in Contemporary Britain (at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge) IDS 151: (co-taught) Diversity Seminar LAT 101 & LAT 102: Beginning Latin LAT 201 & 202: Intermediate Latin LAT 310.G: Ovid s Heroides & the Epistolary Tradition in Latin Elegy LAT 310.G: Ovid s Metamorphoses LAT 310.N: The Latin Novel/Petronius: Text and Context LAT 310.T: Roman Comedy/Terence LAT 310.P: Latin Love Poetry LAT 410.F: Seneca Instructor, Department of Classical Studies, Duke University, Fall 1993-Spring 1995 Courses taught: Latin 1: Elementary Latin Latin 2: Elementary Latin Classical Studies 12: Roman Civilization Classical Studies 104S: Women in the Ancient World Program Assistant, Foreign Academics Program, Duke University, Summer 1993 Duke In Rome McCoskey, 8

9 Research Assistant, Department of Classical Studies, Duke University, & Summer 1993 Teaching Associate, Distinguished Professor Program, Duke University, Fall 1992 DPC 198: The Discovery of the Old World Field Experience, Cornell Halai and East Lokris Project, Greece, Summer 1989 & 1992 SELECT SERVICE Member, of the Academic Program Review Committee 2010 Chair, Internal Review Team for the Women s Studies Program Review 2008 Member, Internal Review Team for the French and Italian Program Review Mentor, STARS program Co-author, Department Development Grant, Howe Center for Writing Excellence Mentor, Miami Access Initiative Program Member, Altman Major Speakers Committee Member, Jewish Studies Advisory Committee Member, Black World Studies Advisory Committee Member, UK Selection Committee for the Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships Member, Committee for the Review of Chairs & Program Directors Member, Search Committee for the new Director of Black World Studies 2003 Member, Internal Review Team for the Philosophy Program Review, Miami University Member, John J. Winkler Memorial Prize Jury Member, Black World Studies Advisory/Benchmarking Committee Member, Committee on the Status of Women and Minority Groups, American Philological Association Member, Black World Studies Program Committee Adviser, Eta Sigma Phi, Sigma Chapter 1997 Co-Author, Diversity Resource Book, College of Arts & Science, Miami University Member, Linda Singer Memorial Lecture Committee Member, Diversity Committee, College of Arts & Science Chief Departmental Adviser, Department of Classics Member, Women of Color Committee Member, Diversity Enrollment Council, College of Arts & Science McCoskey, 9