NEIL W. BERNSTEIN Associate Professor, Department of Classics and World Religions, Ohio University

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1 1 NEIL W. BERNSTEIN Associate Professor, Department of Classics and World Religions, Ohio University Research interests: Roman epic and rhetoric; Roman kinship; reception of classical literature. Courses taught: Greek and Latin language and literature, Greek and Roman civilization, classical mythology, ancient epic and drama, classical tradition, medical terminology. Professional Experience 2004-present Associate Professor (2010-present); Assistant Professor ( ). Department of Classics and World Religions, Ohio University, Athens, OH NEH Fellow, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC Fulbright Lecturer, Drama and Theatre, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan Visiting Asst. Professor, Classical Studies, The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH Education 2000 Duke University. Ph.D., Classical Studies Amherst College. B.A. summa cum laude, Classics and English. Awards, Honors, and Grants 2014 Ohio University College of Arts and Sciences grant ($5,000) to co-lead faculty seminar Taking Risks in Teaching Ohio University Research Council grant ($7,123) for project Developing Data Mining Strategies for Classical Latin Poetry Charles J. Ping Teaching Fellow, Ohio University NEH Fellowship, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship (sabbatical funding; declined) 2011 International Society for the History of Rhetoric Fellowship ($5,000) Fulbright Lectureship, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan ROC 2008 Loeb Classical Library Foundation grant (publication subvention) James B. Duke Fellowship, Duke University 1994 Phi Beta Kappa, Amherst College Books: 1. Ethics, Identity, and Community in Later Roman Declamation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, x pp. ISBN In the Image of the Ancestors: Narratives of Kinship in Flavian Epic. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, ix pp. ISBN Reviews: Phoenix (2011) ; Mnemosyne 64 (2011) ; Classical Journal Online ; Hermathena 187 (2009)

2 2 Peer-reviewed journal articles 3. Torture her until she lies : Torture, Testimony, and Social Status in Roman Rhetorical Education. Greece & Rome 59.2 (2012) Adoptees and Exposed Children in Roman Declamation: Commodification, Luxury, and the Threat of Violence. Classical Philology (2009) The white doe of Capua (Silius Italicus, Punica ). Scholia: Studies in Classical Antiquity 18 (2009) Each Man s Father Served as His Teacher: Constructing Relatedness in Pliny s Letters. Classical Antiquity 27.2 (2008) Bodies, substances, and kinship in Roman declamation: The sick twins and their parents in Pseudo-Quintilian Major Declamations 8. Ramus: Critical Studies in Greek and Roman Literature 36.2 (2007) Fashioning Crispinus through his Ancestors: Epic Models in Statius, Silvae 5.2. Arethusa 40.2 (2007) Mourning the puer delicatus: Status Inconsistency and the Ethical Value of Fostering in Statius, Silvae 2.1. American Journal of Philology (2005) Auferte oculos: modes of spectatorship in Statius Thebaid 11. Phoenix: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada (2004) Reprinted in Oxford Readings in Flavian Epic, edd. Antony Augoustakis and Helen Lovatt. Under contract, Oxford University Press. 11. Revisiting Ovid s Philomela: Silence, Revenge, and Representation in André Brink s The Other Side of Silence. Classical and Modern Literature 24.2 (2004) Ancestors, status, and self-presentation in Statius Thebaid. Transactions of the American Philological Association 133 (2003) The Text of Pervigilium Veneris 90: A Proposed Emendation. Classical Quarterly 50.1 (2000) Co-authored with Francis Newton. Chapters in edited volumes 14. Family and Kinship in the Works of Statius. In: Brill s Companion to Statius, ed. W.J. Dominik, Kyle Gervais, and Carole Newlands. (Leiden: Brill, 2014). 15. Distat opus nostrum, sed fontibus exit ab isdem: Declamation and Flavian epic. In: Flavian Epic Interactions, ed. Gesine Manuwald and Astrid Voigt. (Berlin: Walter DeGruyter, 2013). pp

3 3 16. Ritual Murder and Suicide in Statius Thebaid. In: Ritual and Religion in Flavian Epic, ed. Antony Augoustakis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013). Chapter 13, pp The Dead and their Ghosts in the Bellum Civile: Lucan s Visions of History. In: Brill s Companion to Lucan, ed. Paolo Asso (Leiden: Brill, 2011). Chapter 13, pp Family and the State in the Punica. In: Brill s Companion to Silius Italicus, ed. Antonios Augoustakis (Leiden: Brill, 2010). Chapter 16, pp Cui parens non erat maximus quisque et uetustissimus pro parente: paternal surrogates in imperial Roman literature. In: Growing Up Fatherless in Antiquity, edd. Sabine Huebner and David M. Ratzan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). Chapter 13, pp Forthcoming work 20. Word, Space, and Time: Digital Perspectives on the Classical World, ed. Neil W. Bernstein and Neil Coffee. Under contract, Anvil Academic. 21. Though the Great Song Return No More : Silver Latin Epic and Its Tradition. In: The Blackwell Companion to Latin Epic, CE, ed. Lee Fratantuono. Under contract, Wiley- Blackwell. 22. Romanas ueluti saeuissima cum legiones Tisiphone regesque mouet: Valerius Flaccus Argonautica and the Flavian Era. In: Brill s Companion to Valerius Flaccus, ed. M.A.J. Heerink and Gesine Manuwald. Under contract, Brill. 23. Historicizing Flavian Epic. In: The Blackwell Companion to the Flavian Age, ed. Andrew Zissos. Under contract, Wiley-Blackwell. 24. Persona, Identity, and Self-Presentation in Roman Declamation. In: Self-Presentation and Identity in the Roman World, ed. Andreas Gavrielatos. Under contract, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 25. Continuing the Aeneid in the First Century: Ovid's Little Aeneid and Silius' Punica, In: Brill s Companion to Epic Continuations, ed. Robert Simms. Under contract, Brill. 26. The Spectacle of War in Roman Epic. In: War as Spectacle, ed. A. Bakogianni and V. Hope. Under consideration, Bloomsbury Academic. 27. Revisiting Ovidian Silius, along with Lucretian, Virgilian, Livian, and Lucanian Silius, In: Repetition in the Metamorphoses, ed. Laurel Fulkerson and Tim Stover. Under consideration, Cambridge University Press.

4 4 Current projects in preparation Book: Silius Italicus, Punica 2: Text, translation, and commentary. Book: Symbolic Kinship in Roman Culture. Article: Comparative rates of text reuse in classical Latin epic, co-authored with Kyle Gervais and Wei Lin. Article: Controversiae in the Punica. Book reviews Newlands, Carole E. Statius: Silvae Book II (Cambridge, 2011). Forthcoming, Classical Bulletin. Parkes, Ruth. Statius: Thebaid IV (Oxford, 2012). Mnemosyne 66 (2013) Guérin, Charles. Persona: l'élaboration d'une notion rhétorique au Ier siècle av. J.- C. Volume I: antécédents grecs et première rhétorique latine (Paris, 2009). Volume II: théorisation cicéronienne de la persona oratoire (Paris, 2011). Bryn Mawr Classical Review Laes, Christian. Children in the Roman Empire: Outsiders Within (Cambridge, 2011). Ancient History Bulletin Online Reviews 1 (2011) Augoustakis, Antony. Motherhood and the Other. Fashioning Female Power in Flavian Epic (Oxford, 2010). Journal of Roman Studies 101 (2011) Zinsmaier, Thomas. [Quintilian] Die Hände der blinden Mutter (Größere Deklamationen, 6) (Cassino, 2009). Bryn Mawr Classical Review Kramer, Norbert, and Christiane Reitz. Tradition und Erneuerung. Mediale Strategien in der Zeit der Flavier (Berlin, 2010). SEHEPUNKTE: Rezensionsjournal für die Geschichtswissenschaften 11 (2011) no. 4. Brescia, Graziana, & Mario Lentano. Le ragioni del sangue: storie di incesto e fratricidio nella declamazione latina (Napoli, 2009). Bryn Mawr Classical Review Miller, John F. Apollo, Augustus, and the poets (Cambridge, 2009). Bryn Mawr Classical Review Longo, Giovanna. [Quintiliano.] La pozione dell odio (Declamazioni maggiori, 14-15) (Cassino, 2008). Classical Review 60.2 (2010) Coffee, Neil. The Commerce of War: Exchange and Social Order in Latin Epic (Chicago, 2009). Bryn Mawr Classical Review

5 5 Ripoll, François, and Jean Soubiran. Stace: Achilléide (Louvain, 2008). Gnomon 81 (2009) Ganiban, Randall T. Statius and Virgil. The Thebaid and the Reinterpretation of the Aeneid (Cambridge, 2007). Mnemosyne 62.2 (2009) Mal-Maeder, Daniëlle van. La fiction des déclamations (Leiden, 2007). Bryn Mawr Classical Review McNelis, Charles. Statius Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War (Cambridge, 2007). Electronic Antiquity 11.2 (2008) Cohen, Ada, and Jeremy B. Rutter (edd.), Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy (Princeton, 2007). Bryn Mawr Classical Review Méthy, Nicole. Les lettres de Pline le Jeune. Une représentation de l homme (Paris, 2007). Bryn Mawr Classical Review Goyet, Florence. Penser sans concepts: fonction de l épopée guerrière (Paris, 2006). Bryn Mawr Classical Review Heslin, P.J. The Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Genre in Statius Achilleid (Cambridge, 2005). American Journal of Philology (2007) Rühl, Meike. Literatur gewordener Augenblick. Die Silven des Statius im Kontext literarischer und sozialer Bedingungen (Berlin, 2006). Bryn Mawr Classical Review Nauta, R.R., H.-J. van Dam, and J.J.L. Smolenaars, Flavian Poetry (Leiden, 2006). Bryn Mawr Classical Review Ross, Charles Stanley. Publius Papinius Statius: The Thebaid: Seven against Thebes (Baltimore, 2004). Classical Outlook 82.4 (2005) 155. Aloni, Antonio, et al., edd. I Sette a Tebe: dal mito alla letteratura (Bologna, 2002). Bryn Mawr Classical Review Campbell, B.G. Performing and Processing the Aeneid (New York, 2001). Classical Review 52.2 (2002) 382. Conference Papers and Invited Lectures Approaches to Greek and Latin Text Reuse. American Philological Association, Chicago, January Using Tesserae in your Latin language class. Ohio Classical Conference, Athens OH, October 2013.

6 6 Torture her until she lies : Torture, Testimony, and Social Status in the Pseudo-Quintilianic Declamations, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil, September Omnibus patemus insidiis: elite vulnerability in Major Declamations 11. Reading Roman Declamation, Universidade de São Paulo; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September Using Tesserae to Extend the Philological Commentary. Digital Classics Association, University at Buffalo, April Video. Constructing a Roman Sophistopolis: Êthos and Verification in the Pseudo-Quintilianic Major Declamations. Duke University, February Torture, Testimony, and Social Status in Roman Rhetorical Education. UNC-Greensboro, January Narrative, Identity, and Community in the Pseudo-Quintilianic Major Declamations. University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, November Murderous Fathers, Disloyal Clients, and Stepmothers Worse than Tragic: Family Issues in Roman Declamation, Denison University, Granville, OH, March Tamquam nuntiaturus indubia, manifesta: figured argument in Major Declamations 7. American Philological Association, San Antonio, TX, January Ritual Murder and Suicide in Flavian Epic. Religion and Ritual in Flavian Epic, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, April Adoption and Fosterage in Roman Declamation. Keynote address, Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Family Conference, Fu Jen Catholic University, Hsinchuang, Taiwan, April Loci amoeni and loci horridi in Ovid s Metamorphoses. Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference, Fu Jen Catholic University, Hsinchuang, Taiwan, April Homer and Greek Myth, National Cheng Chi University, Taipei, Taiwan, April Virgil, Statius, and Dante: Reading the Roman epic tradition, National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, March Religions of Rome, National Cheng Chi University, Taipei, Taiwan, March Chair of session Philology, Literature, and Hermeneutics. The Global History of Philology: History and Philology in Different Cultural and Literary Traditions. Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, October 2008.

7 7 Adoptees and Exposed Children in Roman Declamation: Commodification, Luxury, and the Threat of Violence. Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS) Annual Meeting, April Cui parens non erat maximus quisque et uetustissimus pro parente: Paternal surrogates in imperial Roman literature. CAMWS, April The white doe of Capua (Silius Italicus, Punica ). CAMWS, April Each Man s Father Served as His Teacher: Ancestral Emulation and Fictive Kinship in Pliny s Letters. APA, January Eyes Wide Shut: Virgil, Statius, and the Aestheticization of Martial Violence. Association of Literary Scholars and Critics Annual Conference, November Nature and Nurture in Statius Achilleid. CAMWS, April Rome s Sword and Shield: Fabius, Marcellus, and the Poetics of Paternity in Silius Punica. APA, January Kinship and the Polity in Silius Punica: The conflict of Pacuvius and his son (Sil ). CAMWS, April Fashioning Crispinus through his Ancestors: Epic Models in Statius, Silvae 5.2. New Directions in Statius Silvae: A Colloquium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Feb Mourning the puer delicatus: Heirship, Cultural Capital, and Elite Self-Definition in Statius, Silvae 2.1. CAMWS, April Revisiting Ovid s Philomela: Silence, Revenge, and Metamorphosis in André Brink s The Other Side of Silence, Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association 24 th Annual Conference, February The ghost of Laius in Statius Thebaid and the revision of ancestral pietas in Roman epic. CAMWS, April The prehistory of modern canon formation: Statius and Silius in the Renaissance commentary tradition before Scaliger. 36 th International Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May Nil tamen his fingam, doctos imitando poetas: The Elegiac Models of Antonio Astesano, Charles d Orléans Lyric Translator. 35 th International Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2000.

8 8 Stimulant Manes: The Honored Ghost as Narrative Motivator in Imperial Epic. CAMWS, April Ancestor Ghosts in the Punica of Silius Italicus. Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, August The Ghosts of Crassus and Pompey in Lucan s Bellum Civile. University of Auckland, New Zealand, May These fragments I have shored against my ruins: Textual Instability in the Reception of the Pervigilium Veneris. APA, December After Poggio and before Poliziano: The Reception of Statius in an Unattributed 15 th -century commentary on Thebaid (Duke Latin Manuscript 90). Manuscripta: Twenty-Fourth Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, St. Louis University, October Other publications and presentations Athens, Ohio Public Library Book Club: Ovid s Metamorphoses, series of three lectures, February 2013; Virgil s Aeneid, series of four lectures, July 2012; Virgil s Aeneid, June Encyclopedia articles: Publius Papinius Statius, Statius, Thebaid, Statius, Achilleid, Silius Italicus, Pseudo-Quintilian, Declamationes Minores, Pseudo-Quintilian, Declamationes Maiores. The Literary Encyclopedia ( February Locus amoenus and locus horridus in Ovid s Metamorphoses. Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture 5.1 (2011) Religions of Rome, Ohio Junior Classical League, Columbus, OH, February 2011; February Studying Ancient Rome, Taipei First Girl s High School, Taipei, Taiwan, February Panelist: Difficult Dialogues: Religion, Hope and Hopelessness, Ohio University, May A closer look at classics, Wooster Daily Record (Wooster OH, 12/08/2003) C1, C4. Translation and commentary on 25 selected passages from Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae (2003). In: Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World. Dissertation committees James M. Lohmar, "The Anatomy of Roman Epic: A Study of Poetic Violence." PhD, Department of Classics, University of Florida. Service to the profession

9 9 Journal article referee for American Journal of Philology, Arethusa, Classical Journal, Classical Philology, Classical World, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Illinois Classical Studies, Mnemosyne, National Taiwan University Studies in Language and Literature, Phoenix, Syllecta Classica, Transactions of the American Philological Association, Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture. Book manuscript referee for E.J. Brill and Prentice Hall, Inc. Proposal referee for National Humanities Center. Consultant for the College Board. Editor, Humanitas: Newsletter of the Ohio Classical Conference, CAMWS Committee on the School Awards, Service to Ohio University Department of Classics and World Religions advising and admissions coordinator, present. Faculty Senator, 2012-present. Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2013-present. University Curriculum Council, , 2013-present. Friends of the Library Board of Directors, Committee to Enhance Undergraduate Success, Ohio University Library Committee, Service to The College of Wooster College of Wooster Judicial Board, Mentor, Worthy Questions program, Comparative Literature Curriculum Committee, College Scholars Committee, Campus advisor, Eta Sigma Phi Honor Society, Courses Taught at Ohio University (2004-present) College Scholars seminar: Tradition and Inquiry in the Classical World. Rome Under the Caesars. Beginning Latin; Intermediate Latin; Advanced Latin. Greek and Latin Roots in Biomedical Terminology. Online courses: Beginning Latin, Biomedical Terminology. Courses Taught at National Taiwan University ( ) Greek Tragedy and Comedy. Hellenistic and Roman Drama. Drama and Democracy in Classical Athens. The Classical Tradition in Contemporary Drama, Fiction, and Film. Courses Taught at The College of Wooster ( ) Beginning Greek; Intermediate Greek Beginning Latin; Intermediate Latin; Seminar in Latin Literature Classical Mythology I (Myth and Ancient Epic) and II (Myth and Greco-Roman Drama)

10 10 First-Year Seminar The Classical Tradition in Modern Drama, Fiction, and Film Courses Taught at Duke University ( ) Ancient Myth in Literature Greek Civilization; Roman Civilization Intensive Elementary Greek; Intermediate Greek Intensive Elementary Latin; Intensive Intermediate Latin; Advanced Latin Magic and Superstition in the Ancient World University Writing Course: Workshop in Rhetoric