Vol. III · No. 1 : Page Four

Visiting Speakers

On Friday afternoon, September 20, Professor Patricia Rosenmeyer, currently of Yale University delivered a lecture to an overflow crowd in Education 220. Professor Rosenmeyer's lecture was jointly sponsored with the Department of Comparative Literature and supported with a grant from the Graduate Committee on the Arts of Humanities. Her topic was "Her Master's Voice: Sappho's Dialogue with Homer."

Professor Robert Rodgers of the University of Vermont is scheduled to visit the Department later in the semester.

Faculty Notes

Prof. J. Bradford Churchill, the Department's new-est facutly member, is also serving as Honors Advisor and the Core Curriculum Advisor. He chairs the Department's Diversity Committee and also serves on the Lecture Committee. Prof. Churchill will be delivering a paper at the Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association in December. He is also completing an article on the socio-political and legal connotations of the Roman term manubiae.

Prof. John Gibert steps aside as Undergraduate Adviser to become

the Department's new Director of Graduate Studies. His article "Euripides' Heracles 1351 and the Hero's Encounter with Death" will appear in Classical Philology. Another article, "Euripides' Hippolytus Plays: Which Came First?", is forthcoming in Classical Quarterly. He has also received a contract from Cambridge University Press for his commentary on Euripides' Ion.

Ms. Barbara Hill, Coordinator of the Beginning and Intermediate Latin classes, continues her effort to identify and disseminate teaching strategies helpful to students who experience difficulty learning foreign language. She conducted workshops on this topic at the National-Louis University/Illinois Classical Conference Pedagogy Workshop in July and at the University of Colorado Graduate Teacher Program Foreign Language Day in September. Ms. Hill also serves as a co-chair of the local planning committee for the CAMWS meeting in April, 1997, and the editor of The Colorado Classicist, the newsletter of the Colorado Classics Association.

Prof. Peter Knox is working on an edition and commentary on Ovid's Epistulae ex Ponto. In addition to serving as chair of the Department, he is also its representative to the Arts & Sciences Council, serving on its Personnel Committee. In October he will present a paper at the annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association.

Prof. Noel Lenski and his wife, Alison Orlebeke, spent the summer in Princeton with their new son, Paul. Prof. Lenski completed an article on "The Contemporary

Reaction to the Battle of Adrianople" as well as five entries for A Guide to Late Antiquity, ed. G. Bowersock, P. Brown, O. Grabar (Harvard University Press). And two book reviews appeared, one in the American Journal of Archaeology, the other in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review. This year Prof. Lenski will act as the Department's Undergraduate Adviser.Prof. Noel Lenski, his wife Alison Orlebeke and the newest member of the family

Prof. Eckart Schütrumpf attended a Symposion on Plato's Republic in June in Tübingen and presented a paper on book I of the Republic. He was also invited to give a paper at the University of Halle. He is at the moment collaborating with W.W. Fortenbaugh (Rutgers) in the publication of a new edition of testimonia and fragments of Demetrios of Phaleron.

Prof. Christopher Shields published two articles in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy for 1995 on "The Subjecthood of Souls and Some Other Forms in Aristotle" and "The Proofs of the Peri Ideon". He also has an article appearing in this year's Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy on "Aristotelian Intentionality". His book, Unity in Multiplicity: Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.