Dylan Sailor Department of Classics University of California 7214 Dwinelle Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-2520 Professional Positions: 2008-present Associate Professor of Classics, University of California, Berkeley (UCB) 2005-2008 Assistant Professor of Classics, UCB 2002-2005 Assistant Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Education: 2002 PhD Classics, UCB 1997 MA Greek, UCB 1995 BA Classics, University of Washington BA History, University of Washington Awards and Honors: 2008 Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Rome 2006 Loeb Classical Library Foundation Grant, Harvard University 1995 Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities Publications: Book 2008 Writing and Empire in Tacitus. Cambridge UP. 359 pp. Paperback reprint 2011. Reviewed in BMCR 2009.07.44, GaR 56 (2009, 263), AJP 131 (2010, 167-71), CB 85 (2010, 174-76), CR 60 (2010, 135-37), Gnomon 82 (2010, 123-27), CW 104 (2010, 126-27), NECJ 37 (2010), Mnemosyne 64 (2011, 342-44), CJ 106 (2011, 498-502), JRS 101 (2011, 296-97), JRA 24 (2011, 561-4), Phoenix 65 (2011, 194-96), Arctos 45 (2011, 184-85). Articles and chapters Forthcoming Arminius and Flavus across the Weser. 23,000 words. TAPA 149. 2014 Youth and Rejuvenation in Tacitus Agricola and Dialogus. In O. Devillers, ed., Les opera minora et le développement de l historiographie tacitéenne, 101-13. Bordeaux. 2012 The Agricola. In V. Pagán, ed., A Companion to Tacitus, 23-44. Malden, Mass. 2006 Dirty Linen, Fabrication, and the Authorities of Livy and Augustus. TAPA 136: 329-88. 2004 Becoming Tacitus: Significance and Inconsequentiality in the Prologue of Agricola. ClAnt 23: 139-77. 1999 ΦΘΟΝΟΣ Δ ΑΠΕΣΤΩ: The Translation of Transgression in Aiskhylos Agamemnon. With S.C. Stroup. ClAnt 18: 153-82.
Reviews 2016 van den Berg, C., The World of Tacitus Dialogus de Oratoribus: Aesthetics and Empire in Ancient Rome. Cambridge 2014. CPh 111 (2016, 478-82). 2015 Ash, R., ed., Tacitus. Oxford 2012. CR 65 (2015, 153-55). 2011 Woodman, A. J., ed., The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus, Cambridge 2009. JRS 101 (2011, 295-96). Other 2015 Arminius and Flavus across the Weser. Histos. (working paper) 2009 Tacitus. In Oxford Bibliographies in Classics. Ed. D. Clayman. New York: Oxford University Press. (on-line resource) Papers presented: 2017 Exempla and Empire at Mons Graupius. University of California, Santa Barbara Tacitus, Annals 4.32-33 and Vergil s Georgics. Ancient Historiography Workshop, Stanford University Historiographical Patterns of Conquest and Cultural Transformation in Tacitus, Agricola 21. Guérard Colloquium, College of Charleston 2016 Some Historiographical Presences in Tacitus, Agricola 21. Ancient Historiography Workshop, Stanford University 2015 Arminius and Flavus across the Weser. Classical Association Meeting, University of Bristol, and Association of Ancient Historians Meeting, University of California, Santa Barbara 2014 The Empire of the Ancestors in Roman Imperial Thought. Keynote address, History and Classics Graduate Students Association Annual Conference, University of Alberta. 2013 Youth and Rejuvenation in the Minor Works of Tacitus. University of Washington The Empire of C. Verres. University of Victoria. 2012 Youth in the Early Work of Tacitus. Celtic Conference in Classics. University of Bordeaux III. (read in absentia) The Empire of C. Verres. University of Pennsylvania. 2007 The Education of Desire and the History of the Empire in Tacitus, Agricola 4-5. American Academy in Rome 2005 Origins and Empire in Tacitus Germania and Livy s Preface. PAMLA Annual Meeting, Malibu. Dirty Linen, Fabrication, and the Authorities of Livy and Augustus. UCB and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 2003 arcanus and the Politics of Imperial Domesticity. APA Annual Meeting, New Orleans 2002 Burning Temples: Loss, Memory, and Empire in Tacitus Histories. University of Minnesota and UCSD 1998 Changing the Subject: Augustan Compital Cult and Subaltern Identity. APA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. 1997 Transformation of ingenium in the Cena Trimalchionis. APA Annual Meeting, Chicago 2
Courses taught at UCB: Graduate: Classics 201B: Survey of Greek Literature II (Spring 2012) Classics 202A: Survey of Latin Literature I (Fall 2014, Fall 2018) Classics 202B: Survey of Latin Literature II (Spring 2015, Spring 2017) Classics 239: Civil War and Civil Strife in Roman Literature (Fall 2012) Classics 239: Livy 1-5 (Spring 2009) Classics 239: Roman Literature of Conquest and Administration (Fall 2010) Classics 239: Tacitus, Annals 1-6 (Spring 2014) Classics 239: Tacitus, Annals 13-16 (Spring 2006) Classics 260: Advanced Latin Prose Composition (Fall 2009, Spring 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2015) Classics 300: Teaching Methods (Fall 2005, Fall 2010) Undergraduate: Classics 10B: Introduction to Roman Civilization (Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2013, Spring 2017) Classics 24: Apuleius and Augustine (one-unit freshman seminar; Spring 2010) Classics 24: Lucretius, On the Nature of the Universe (one-unit freshman seminar; Fall 2016, Fall 2018) Classics 34: Ancient Epic (Spring 2016) Classics R44: Roots of Western Civilization (with E. Oliensis, Fall 2013, Fall 2015) Greek 100: Plato and Attic Prose (Fall 2009) Greek 102: Drama and Society (Fall 2008, Fall 2011) Greek 121: Thucydides (Spring 2011) Latin 100: Republican Prose (Fall 2014, Fall 2016) Latin 101: Vergil (Spring 2006, Fall 2008, Spring 2014) Latin 102: Lyric and Society (Spring 2016) Latin 116: Vergil s Georgics (Fall 2016) Latin 120: Cicero (Fall 2013) Latin 121: Tacitus (Fall 2005, Histories ; Spring 2012, Annals ; Fall 2018, Annals 1-6 ) Latin 122: Apuleius Metamorphoses (Spring 2013) Letters and Science R44: Western Civilization (Fall 2011, with E. Oliensis) Course taught at Stanford University: ClassGen 334: Sallust (graduate seminar) (Spring 2011) Course taught at UCLA: Latin 211B: Livy (graduate seminar) (Fall 2004) Courses taught at UCSD: Greek 130: Euripides (Spring 2004) Humanities 2: Rome, Christianity, and the Middle Ages (Spring 2004, Spring 2005) Latin 1: Beginning Latin (Fall 2002) Latin 2: Beginning Latin (Winter 2004) Latin 100: Intermediate Latin (Fall 2003, Summer 2004, Fall 2004, Summer 2005) 3
Latin 131: Suetonius (Winter 2003) Latin 134: Livy (Winter 2005) Literatures of the World 19C: Introduction to the Ancient Romans (Spring 2003) Literatures of the World 87: Ancient Rome in the Movies (one-unit freshman seminar; Winter 2003) Literatures of the World 106: The Ancient Novel (Fall 2003) Dissertations Supervised at UCB: Tom Hendrickson, Classics, Life and Libraries in Ancient Rome (awarded 2013) Dissertation Committee Service at UCB: Christopher Blunda, History (in progress) Morgan King, Classics (in progress) Kevin Moch, Classics (in progress) Joel Street, Classics, Atypical Lives: Systems of Meaning in Plutarch's Theseus-Romulus (awarded 2015) Stacey Battis, French, Eloquence non vaine: The Search for Suitable Style in Early Modern France (awarded 2014) Sasha-Mae Eccleston, Classics, Apuleius Novel Narrative: Speech, Ethics, and Humanity in the Metamorphoses (awarded 2014) J. Marilyn Evans, Classical Archaeology, Funerary Ritual and Urban Development in Archaic Central Italy (awarded 2014) Jared Hudson, Classics, On the Way: A Poetics of Roman Transportation (awarded 2013) Laura Pfuntner, Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology (AHMA), The Changing Urban Landscape of Roman Sicily (awarded 2013) Noah Kaye, AHMA, The Skeleton of the State: The Fiscal Politics of Pergamon, 188-133 B.C.E. (awarded 2012) Carolynn Roncaglia, AHMA, State Impact in Imperial Northern Italy (awarded 2009) Service at UCB: Department of Classics: Undergraduate Program Committee, Fall 2016-Spring 2017 Greek Literature Search Committee, Fall 2015-Spring 2016 Head Graduate Adviser, Classics, Fall 2014-Fall 2015 Roman Studies Search Committee, Fall 2014-Spring 2015 Ancient Philosophy Search Committee, Fall 2013-Spring 2014 Faculty Adviser for GSI Affairs, Fall 2010-Spring 2011 Graduate Placement Committee Fall 2010-Fall 2011, Fall 2013-Spring 2016 Lectures and Colloquia Committee, Fall 2010-Spring 2011 (chair), Fall 2012 (chair) Graduate Admissions, Fellowships, GSIships Committee, Fall 2010-Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2014-Fall 2015 Heller Committee, Fall 2009-Spring 2010 (chair) Graduate Program Committee, Fall 2008-Spring 2011, Fall 2013-Spring 2017 MA Committee, Fall 2008-Spring 2010 (chair), Fall 2013-Spring 2014 Sather Committee, Fall 2008-Spring 2009, Fall 2010-Spring 2012, Fall 2013-Spring 2014 PhD Committee, Fall 2005-Spring 2006, Fall 2010-Fall 2011 (chair Fall 2011), Spring 2013, 4
Spring 2016- Spring 2017 (chair Spring 2016) Director of GSIs, Fall 2005-Spring 2006, Fall 2010-Spring 2011 Academic Senate: Interviewer, Regents and Chancellor s Scholarships, Academic Senate, Berkeley Division, 2014-2017 Committee on Research, Academic Senate, Berkeley Division, Fall 2009-Spring 2014 (co-chair 2013-2014) Judge, Richardson Latin Translation Prize, Fall 2009- Service at UCSD: Department of Literature: Executive Committee, Fall 2004-Spring 2005 Graduate Admissions Committee, Comparative Literature Section, Fall 2002-Spring 2004 Public Events Committee, Fall 2002-Spring 2003 Program in Classical Studies: Director, Fall 2004-Spring 2005 Department of History: Roman History Search Committee, Fall 2004-Spring 2005 Tri-campus Graduate Program in Classics: Latin PhD Exam Committee, Fall 2004 (chair) Joint Executive Committee, Fall 2003-Spring 2005 Academic Senate: Committee on Preparatory Education, Academic Senate, San Diego Division, Fall 2004-Spring 2005 Professional Service: Member, American Philological Association Pearson Fellowship Committee, 2011-2014 (chair 2013-2014) Editorial Board Member, BMCR, ClAnt Referee, AJP, Arethusa, ClAnt, CW, Phoenix, TAPA, Hackett, UC Press 5