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VASSILIKI PANOUSSI

Curriculum Vitae

ADDRESS

EDUCATION

**** **.*. ** ********, Brown University

**** *.*. ** ***** Philology, University of Athens, Greece

EMPLOYMENT

2011-present Robert and Sara Boyd Term Distinguished Associate Professor of Classical

Studies, The College of William and Mary

2009-2011Associate Professor of Classical Studies, The College of William and Mary

2005-2009Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, The College of William and Mary

1999-2005Assistant Professor of Classics, Williams College

1997-1999Lecturer in Classics and Modern Greek, University of Virginia

1991-1996Teaching Fellow, Brown University

1989-1991Secondary School Teaching, Athens, Greece

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Latin Literature (Late Republic, Augustan Age, Early Empire)

Greek Literature (Tragedy, Historiography, Hellenistic Poetry)

Intertextuality and Literary Criticism

Cultural Anthropology and Religion of the Ancient World

Sexuality and Gender in Antiquity

Ideology and Identity in Antiquity

FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS

2011-2014 Robert and Sara Boyd Term Distinguished Associate Professorship

2008 Suzann Wilson Matthews Summer Research Award, The College of

William and Mary

2007 Summer Research Award, The College of William and Mary

2006 Summer Research Award, The College of William and Mary

1998 Phi Beta Kappa

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1997 (Spring) Brown University Endowment / Manning Presidential Fellowship

1996 (Fall) Michaelides Fellowship

1996-1997 Alexander S. Onassis Foundation Fellowship (declined)

1991-1992 Brown University Fellowship

WORK IN PROGRESS

Books Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women s Rituals in Roman Literature

Articles Sulpicia s Gendered Poetics

Herodotus Funerary Epigrams

Harry Potter and Vergil s Aeneid

Divinity, Religious Space, and Eros in Sappho

PUBLICATIONS

Book

2009 Greek Tragedy in Vergil s Aeneid: Ritual, Empire, and Intertext.

Cambridge University Press: Cambridge [Reviews: BMCR

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009-09

BOOK REVIEWS

2011 Virgil, by R. Alden Smith, Vergilius 57: 125-7.

2007 Pastoral Inscriptions: Reading and Writing in Virgil s Eclogues, by Brian Breed,

NECJ: 35.1: 64-66.

2002 Vergil s Aeneid and the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius, by Damien Nelis,

Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.11.19.

2000 Roman Presences. Receptions of Rome in European Culture, 1789 -1945,

by Catharine Edwards, ed., Classical and Modern Literature 20/3: 81-7.

2000 Ideology in Cold Blood. A Reading of Lucan s Civil War, by Shadi Bartsch,

Classical Journal 95: 409-12.

1997 Odysseus Elytis. From the Golden to the Silver Poem, by Andonis Decavalles,

The Literary Review 40: 354-6.

INVITED LECTURES

March 22, 2012 Whatever Happened to Thoas? Hypsipyle s Rituals in Valerius and Statius,

Department of Classics, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA.

February 23, 2012 Mourning Orpheus: Poetry and Women s Rituals in Ovid s Metamorphoses,

Fink Fund Lecture, Department of Classics, Kenyon Coll ege, Gambier, OH.

April 2, 2011 Hercules and the Founding Mothers: Rome s Early History and Women s

Rituals in Augustan Poets, Conference on Gendered Issues in the Ancient

World: Texts and Material Culture, Department of Classics, University of

Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.

April 25, 2010 Dancing in Scyros: Women s Rituals in Statius Achilleid, Conference on

Religion and Ritual in Flavian epic, University of Illinois at Urbana -

Champaign, Champaign, IL.

February 7, 2010 Women s Rituals and Roman Cultural Identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses,

Symposium on Identity and Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean, The

College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA.

October 11, 2008 Facilitator, Workshop on Integrating the Blackwell Companion to Catullus

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into Secondary and College Classrooms, CAAS annual meeting, Princeton, NJ.

April 17, 2007 Funeral Games, Lessons in Mourning: Creating a New Nation in Vergil s

Aeneid 5,

Department of Classics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville,

VA.

April 12, 2006 Of Goddesses and Men: Tragedy and Reconciliation in Vergil s Aeneid,

first

annual Shilpa Raval Memorial Lecture, Drew University, Madison, NJ.

September 19, 2005 Of Gods and Men: Tragedy and Reconciliation in Vergil s Aeneid, Fink

Fund Lecture, Department of Classics, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH.

April 19, 2005 Mourning Glory: Ritual Lament and Roman Civic Identity in Vergil s

Aeneid, Department of Classics, Smith College, Northampton, MA.

October 26, 2004 Mourning Glory: Ritual Lament and Roman Civic Identity in Vergil s

Aeneid, Department of Classics, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY.

October 4, 2002Threat and Hope: Women s Rituals and Civil War in Roman Epic.

Conference: Women s Rituals in Context, Department of Classics,

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL.

April 17, 2002 Married to Bacchus: Maenadism and Marriage in Catullus, Department of

Classics, Brown University, Providence, RI

February 8, 2002 Turnus Deuotio: Ritual and Closure in Vergil s Aeneid, Department of

Classics, Yale University, New Haven, CT.

September 26, 2001 Turnus Deuotio: Ritual and Closure in Vergil s Aeneid, Department

of

Classics and Boston University Humanities Foundation Study Group On

Religion and Myth in the Ancient World, Boston MA.

September, 25, 1999 Towards a Tragic Epic? Response to Karl Galinsky, Homer and

Tragedy in

Vergil s Aeneid, second annual Christopher Roberts Lecture Series,

Department of Classics, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA.

November 13, 1998 Sacrificial Violence: Patterns of Scapegoating in the Aeneid,

Department of

Classics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.

October 8, 1998 Sacrificial Violence: Patterns of Scapegoating in the Aeneid,

Department of

Classics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

February 27, 1997 Drama and Sacrifice: the Aeneid and the Oresteia, Department of

Classics

Colloquium Lecture Series, Brown University, Providence, RI.

May 26, 1994 Sophoclean Vergil: The Figure of Ajax in the Aeneid, First Panhellenic and

International Conference on Ancient Greek Literature, organized by the

Hellenic Society for Humanistic Studies, May 23 -26, 1994, Athens, Greece.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

July 4, 2012 Hypsipyle s Greek Rituals in Valerius Flaccus and Statius, Flavian

Literature and its Greek Past, International Conference, Delphi, Greece.

March 31, 2012 Whatever Happened to Thoas? Hypsipyle s Rituals in Valerius and Statius,

annual meeting, CAMWS, Baton Rouge, LA.

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April 9, 2011 Dancing in Scyros: Women s Rituals in Statius Achilleid, annual meeting,

CAMWS, Grand Rapids, MI

April 17, 2010 Power, Poetry, and Women s Rituals in Ovid s Metamorphoses 10, 11,

annual meeting, CAMWS, Norman, OK.

January 9, 2010 Spinning Hercules: Gender, Religion, and Geography in Propertius 4.9,

Women s Classical Caucus panel, annual meeting APA, Anaheim, CA.

April 17, 2008 Harry Potter and the Mythology Class, CAMWS, Tucson, AZ.

January 6, 2006 Pacem aeternam pactosque hymenaeos: Juno, Venus, and Concordia in

Vergil s Aeneid 4, paper in the Vergilian Society Panel Reconciliation and

Concord in Vergil, annual meeting, APA, MontrEal, Canada.

April 2, 2005 Death and the City: Vergil s Dido and Euripides Alcestis, annual meet

ing,

CAMWS, Madison, WI.

April 4, 2002 Roman Cultural Identity in Cicero s Pro Archia, annual meeting, CAMWS,

Austin, TX.

January 5, 2001 Ritual Closure in Vergil s Aeneid, paper in the Vergilian Society Panel

Surgamus! Vergilian Closure, annual meeting APA, January 4-6, 2001, San

Diego, CA.

April 8, 2000 Dido s Ritual Slaughter, annual meeting, CAMWS, April 6 -8, 2000,

Knoxville, TN.

April 15, 1999 The Poet and the Pythia: Vergilian Allusion in Lucan s Delphic Episode,

paper in the panel Vergil and Post-Augustan Poetry, annual meeting,

CAMWS, April 14-17, 1999, Cleveland, OH.

December 28, 1998 Ego maenas: The Construction of Female Sexuality in Catullus 63,

annual

meeting, APA, December 27-30, 1998, Washington, DC.

April 17, 1998 Resisting the Male: Two Tragic Bacchants in the Aeneid, annual meeting,

CAMWS, April 15-18, 1998, Charlottesville, VA.

April 26, 1996 The Landscape of Poetic Creation in Lucan s Bellum Civile, spring

meeting,

CAAS, April 26-27, 1996, Baltimore, MD.

TEACHING

The College of Courses:

William and Mary Latin 101: Introduction to Latin

(2005-present) Latin 201: Seneca and Pliny (intermediate reading in Latin)

Latin 202: Catullus and Vergil (intermediate reading in Latin)

Greek 202: Homer and Lysias (inte rmediate reading in Greek)

Greek Tragedy (advanced reading in Greek)

Greek Historians (advanced reading in Greek)

Greek Lyric (advanced reading in Greek)

Vergil (advanced reading in Latin)

The Rhetoric of Cruelty (advanced reading in Latin)Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry (advanced reading in Latin)

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Women in Antiquity (classical civilization course in translation)

Greek Mythology (classical civilization course in translation)

Ritual, Authority and Power in Roman Literature (classical civilization seminar)

The Voyage of the Epic Hero (classical civilization course in translation)

Greek Civilization (classical civilization course in translation)

Williams College Courses:

(1999-2005) Homer and Herodotus (language instruction)

Herodotus (advanced reading in Greek)

Greek Tragedy (advanced reading in Greek)

Introduction to the Latin Language

Livy and Ovid (language instruction)

Cicero and Seneca (language instruction)

Vergil s Aeneid (advanced reading in Latin)

The Rhetoric of Cruelty (advanced reading in Latin )

Women in Greece and Rome (Classics course in translation)

Roman Literature (Classics course in translation)

Hollywood Classics (Classics course in translation)

Archaeological Tour of Greece (winter study travel course)

University of Virginia Courses:

(1997-1999) Vergil s Aeneid (advanced reading in Latin)

Catullus (advanced reading in Latin)

Greek Tragedy (advanced reading in Greek)

Roman Women: Gender, Power, and Violence (Latin undergraduate seminar)

Greek Tragedy and the Athenian Polis (Cla ssics course in translation)

Intermediate Greek 201, 202 (language instruction)

Brown University Courses:

(1992-1996) Introduction to Modern Greek 1, 2

Intermediate Modern Greek 1, 2

THESIS STUDENTS

Director: Brett Evans (2012-12); Irene Morrison-Moncure (2010-11); Barbara Blythe

(2007); Marcos

GouvEa (2005-2006); Lydia Haile (2001-2002); Elizabeth Spear (2001)

External Committee member: Brendan Higgins (English 2011); Carolyn Troha (Mathematics

2009).

PANEL PRESIDER

CAMWS 2011

CAMWS 2010

Proxima Poetis 2009

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

September 2011 Participant, W&M Raft Debate, College of William and Mary

st

December 2009 Panelist, W&M as a Liberal Arts University in the 21 century, College of

William

and Mary.

Spring 2009 Scholar, National Endowment for the Humanities Program Page and Stage:

http://www.pageandstage.org

Fall 2008 Participant, University Teaching Project, College of William and Mary

Spring 2007 Participant, Mellon Faculty Grant Writing Workshop, College o f William and

Mary

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1999-present Anonymous Referee for:

Journals

Acta Classica

American Journal of Philology

Classical Journal

Classical Philology

Classical World

Helios

Illinois Classical Studies

New England Classical Journal

International Journal of the Classical Tradition

TAPA

Vergilius

Academic Presses

Wiley-Blackwell

Focus Publishing

1998-1999 Organizer of the Conference, Greece Inside and Out: Authors and Translators

Visions of Hellenism, March 27, 1999, Department of Classics, University of Virginia,

Charlottesville, VA.

1997 Organizer of the Conference, Myth and History in Modern Greek Literature,

November 22, 1997, Department of Classics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville,

VA.

1996-1997 Organizing Committee for the Graduate Stu dent Conference, Viva Voce: Echoes of

Performance in Ancient Texts, February 7-8, 1997, Department of Classics, Brown

University, Providence, RI.

MEMBERSHIPS

American Philological Association (APA)

Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS)

Vergilian Society of America

Women s Classical Caucus

SERVICE

2005-present Faculty Assembly (2012-2015, elected member)

The College of Educational Policy Committee (2011-2014, elected member)

William and Mary New Faculty Mentor (2011-12)

Faculty Affairs Committee/Faculty Assembly (2010 -11) (elected member)

European Studies Program Faculty Committee (2005 -present)

Women s Studies Program Curriculum Committee (2007 -present)

Freshman advising (2006- present)

Major advising (Classical Studies and Euro pean Studies 2005-present)

Departmental Webmaster (2006-present)

2000-2005 Honor Committee (2001-02)

Williams College Discipline Committee (2001-02)

Faculty Review Panel (2001-03) (elected member)

Lecture Committee (2000-01)

First-year student advising (2000-2005)

National Organizations Committee on the Status of Women and Minority Groups, American

Philological Association (2006-2009)

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Regional Executive Committee, Member at Large, Classical Association of the

Organizations Middle West and South (2009-2012)

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