University Assistant

RUBY BLONDELL: CURRICULUM VITAE (*/**)

Department of Classics

University of Washington

Box 353110

Seattle, WA 98195

Phone 206-***-****

Fax 206-***-****

email ********@**.***

EDUCATION

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1984

M.A. Oxford University, 1981

B.A. Oxford University, Congratulatory First Class Honours, 1978

Oxford University First Class Honour Moderations in Classics, 1976

EMPLOYMENT

Professor of Classics, University of Washington, 2000-present

Adjunct Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies,

2002-present

Associate Professor of Classics, University of Washington, 1991-2000

Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Washington, 1985-91

Lecturer in the Classics, Harvard University, 1984-5

AWARDS AND HONORS

Martin Lecturer, Oberlin College, scheduled for Autumn 2015

Bogliasco Fellowship, Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities, 2011

NEH 2008 Summer Stipend Incentive Award (Simpson Center for the

Humanities)

Fellow, Society of Scholars, Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of

Washington 2006-7

Teaching Fellowship in the Humanities, University of Washington, 1999

Royalty Research Fund Scholarship, University of Washington, 1999

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend Award, 1998Junior Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC, 1991-2

Graduate School Research Professorship, University of Washington, 1989

PUBLICATIONS

Media, edd.

Ruby Blondell and Mary-Kay Gamel

REFEREED SUBMISSIONS

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"'Third Cheerleader from the Left': From Homer's Helen to Helen of Troy,"

Feminism and Classics V: Bringing it All Back Home, University of Michigan,

May 2008

"'Third Cheerleader from the Left': Diane Kruger as Helen in Wolfgang Petersen's

Troy," Classical Association Annual Meeting, Liverpool 2008

"Helen of Troy," Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American

Culture Association annual meeting, Albuquerque, February 2007

"Helen of Troy," Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association annual

meeting, Riverside, November 2006

"Hercules Psychotherapist," Holy Men in Tights: A Superheroes Conference,

Melbourne, June 2005

How to Kill an Amazon, American Philological Association annual meeting,

San Francisco, January 2004

"From Fleece to Fabric: Weaving Culture in Plato's Statesman," International

Conference on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Fordham University,

November 2003

Shifting Perspectives: Metaphor and Mimesis in Plato s Sophist and

Statesman, Three Year Colloquium on Plato as Literary Author, American

Philological Association annual meeting, Philadelphia, January 2002

Character and Method in the Republic, Seventeenth Annual International

Conference of the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science and

the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Binghamton, October 1998

Western Values/The Peoples Homer (with Kirk Ormand), Classical

Association of the Midle West and South annual meeting, Boulder, April 1997

Golden Age Pedagogy, conference, Feminism and Classics: Framing the Research

Agenda, Princeton University, November 1996

Self-Censorship in Plato s Republic, American Philological Association annual

meeting, New Orleans, December 1992

Hippias Polutropos, American Philological Association annual meeting, Boston

December 1989

Hippias Polutropos, Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest annual

meeting, Victoria, BC April 1989

Philia and Stoic Oikeiosis, American Philological Association annual meeting,

New York, December 1987

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Phusis in Sophocles Philoctetes, Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest

annual meeting, Seattle, April 1987

Odysseus in Sophocles Philoctetes, American Philological Association annual

meeting, San Antonio, December 1986

INVITED TALKS

Response to Michael Pakaluk, Silencing in Platonic Ethics, Eighth Annual

Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Tucson, February 2003

New Works in Print: The Play of Character in Plato s Dialogues, Simpson Center for

the Humanities, University of Washington, December 2002

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How do you solve a problem like Medea? The Birth of Pleasure Conference,

New York University, November 2002

The Man with No Name: Socrates and the Visitor From Elea, University of

Texas, Austin, April 2002

Response to Kathryn Morgan, "Imprisonment, Prophecy, and Authority in the

Phaedo," Seventh Annual Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Tucson,

February 2002

Response to Debra Nails, "Prosopography and the Image of Socrates," Sixth

Annual Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Tucson, February 2001

The Man with No Name: Socrates and the Visitor From Elea, University of

Kansas, March 2000

The Man with No Name: Socrates and the Visitor From Elea, Conference, Plato

as Author: the Rhetoric of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati, November 1999

Plato: an Equal Opportunity Paternalist, Willamette University, September

1999

The Man with No Name: Socrates and the Visitor From Elea, UCLA, May 1999

The Middle of Nowhere, response to J. Annas, What are Plato s Middle

Dialogues in the Middle Of? Fourth Annual Arizona Colloquium in Ancient

Philosophy, Tucson, February 1999

Reproducing Socrates: Dramatic Form and Pedagogy in the Theaetetus, Boston

Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy Public Lecture, Wellesley College,

March 1998

Plato s Drama of Method: The Republic and its Changing Cast of Characters,

Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy Seminar, Wellesley College,

March 1998

Reproducing Socrates: Dramatic Form and Pedagogy in the Theaetetus, New

York University, March 1998

Reproducing Socrates: Dramatic Form and Pedagogy in the Theaetetus, Hunter

College, New York, March 1998

Character and Method in the Republic, Third Annual Arizona Colloquium in

Ancient Philosophy, Tucson, February 1998

Barbecue at Colonus? response to Steven White, Socrates at Colonus,

conference, Reason and Religion in Fifth Century Greece, University of Texas,

Austin, September 1996

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Commentary on panel, Socrates in Plato s Middle and Later Dialogues,

American Philological Association annual meeting, Atlanta, December 1994

Plato: An Equal Opportunity Paternalist, Reed College Humanities Program

50th Anniversary Lecture, November 1994

THEATRICAL ACTIVITIES

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"Meat, Men, and a Mythological Murderess," essay in the Performance

Prospectus accompanying Michelle Ellsworth's Phone Homer at On the Boards,

Seattle, March 2012

(http://www.ontheboards.org/sites/default/files/michelle_essay.pdf)

"Where do girls come from? The creation of the feminine in the matrix of Greek

myth," podcast to accompany Hey girl! by Societas Raffaello Sanzio at On the

Boards, Seattle January-February 2008

(http://wpc.162D.edgecastcdn.net/00162D/audio/20071129_castelluccipodc

ast.mp3)

Creative Consultant, Medea Knows Best, Nebunele Theatre, December 2007

(http://nebunele.com/)

My translations of Greek tragedy have been used for a number of theatrical

productions.

MEDIA

Interviewed for Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines, dir.

Kristy Guevara-Flanagan (2012)

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