CURRICULUM VITAE Michèle Lowrie Department of Classics 3 Washington Sq. Village, 3-I 25 Waverly Place New York, NY 10012 New York, NY 10003 (212) 982-1629 (212) 998-8596 RESEARCH INTERESTS: Latin Literature and Culture (Republican and Augustan) EDUCATION Ph.D. in Classical Philology 1990, Harvard University. Dissertation, Horace's Lyric Exempla, supervisor R. J. Tarrant. B.A. in Classics 1984, magna cum laude, with distinction in the major, Yale University. EMPLOYMENT New York University, Associate Professor (1996 - present) New York University, Assistant Professor (1990-96) Latin / Greek Institute, City University of New York, Adjunct Assistant Professor (summer 1990) Harvard University, Instructor (1989-90) Harvard University, Teaching Fellow (1987-9) Phillips Exeter Academy, Teaching Fellow (1984-5) HONORS and AWARDS Invited to spend a semester as visiting research professor, Warburg-Haus in Hamburg, fall 2005 Burkhardt Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 2000-1. Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 2000-1. Presidential Fellowship, New York University, spring 1994. Danforth Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University: 1988, 1989. Translation prizes in Latin, Yale University 1981, 1983, 1984. PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS American Philological Association Association of Literary Scholars and Critics Columbia Seminar in Classical Civilization TEACHING Undergraduate Language and Literature: Elementary Latin (Kirtland and Rogers, Wheelock, Cambridge Latin Course, Moreland and Fleischer) Intermediate Latin (Caesar, Cicero, Livy, Nepos, Petronius, Ovid, Vergil, Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri) Elementary Latin Prose Composition ( Bradley s Arnold ) Advanced Latin (Catullus and Horace, Tacitus) Intermediate Greek (Plato, Homer) Advanced Greek (Sophocles, Euripides, Greek lyric)
Lowrie 2 Independent Studies (Pindar and Greek lyric, Vergil s Georgics, Propertius and Ovid, heroines in Latin poetry) Undergraduate Lectures: Greek Drama Greek and Roman Epic Greek and Latin Poetry and Poetics (new course) Sex and the City in Ancient Greece and Rome (new course) Undergraduate MAP: Conversations of the West, Medieval Section Conversations of the West, 19 th c Section Expressive Culture: Words, Wild Women in Western Drama (new course) Graduate Seminars: Survey of Latin literature (Republic and Augustan period; Poetry) Introduction to Ancient Studies: Categories of Evidence Horace: Odes; Political Poetry Lucretius Ovid s Metamorphoses Vergil s Eclogues and Georgics Vergil s Aeneid Occasionality and Speech Act Theory: Latin poetry (new course) Literary History in Latin Literature (new course) Civil War by Civil Warriors (new course) Independent Studies with graduate students in preparation for translation and literature exams PUBLICATIONS Book Horace s Narrative Odes (Oxford, Clarendon Press 1997). Reviewed: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 6.11 (1998) Greece and Rome (1998) 241-2 Classical Outlook 76 (1998-99) 151-3 Classical Review 49 (1999) 50-2 Classical Philology 94 (1999) 234-8 Journal of Roman Studies 89 (1999) 241-2 ReligiousStudies Review 25 (1999) 94 American Journal of Philology 121 (2000) 490-3 Articles Hic and absence in Catullus 68, CP 101 (2006) 115-32 Slander and Horse Law in Horace, Sermones 2.1, Law and Literature (2005) 17: 405-31 [out in 2006] Reading and the Law in Ovid, Tristia 2, in E. Horn, B. Menke, and C. Menke (eds.) Literatur als Philosophie Philosophie als Literatur (Munich, 2006) 333-46 Vergil and Founding Violence, Cardozo Law Review 25 (2005) 945-76 Inside out: in defense of form, TAPA 135 (2005) 35-48
Lowrie 3 Blanchot and the Death of Virgil Materiali e Discussioni 52 (2004) 211-25, volume in honor of Michael C. J. Putnam, edited by Glenn W. Most and Sarah Spence. Rome: City and Empire, CW 97 (2003) 57-68 Beyond Performance Envy: Horace and the Modern in the Epistle to Augustus, Rethymnon Classical Studies 1 (2002) 141-71. Horace, Cicero, and Augustus, or the Poet Statesman at Epistles 2.1.265 in Traditions and Contexts in Horace, ed. Denis Feeney and Tony Woodman, (Cambridge University Press, 2002) 158-71, 237-43. Literature is a Latin word, response paper, Vergilius 2001 (47) 29-38 Spleen and the Monumentum: Memory in Horace and Baudelaire, Comparative Literature 49 (1997) 42-58. A Parade of Lyric Predecessors, Horace Odes 1.12-18, Phoenix 49 (1995) 33-48. Lyric s Elegos and the Aristotelian Mean: Horace Odes 1.24, 1.33, 2.9, Classical World 87 (1994) 377-94 (solicited contribution to a special issue on Horace). Myrrha s Second Taboo, Ovid Metamorphoses 10.467-8, Classical Philology 88 (1993) 50-2. A Sympotic Achilles, Horace Epode 13, American Journal of Philology 113 (1992) 413-33. Review Articles Elegy and Subjectivity in the Transition to Empire, review article of Paul Allen Miller, Subjecting Verses: Latin Love Elegy and the Emergence of the Real (Princeton 2004), International Journal of the Classical Tradition (2005) 108-16 [out in 2006] Nisbet and Rudd, or Ambiguity in Horace s Odes, Review Article of R.G. M. Nisbet and N. Rudd, A Commentary on Horace, Odes, Book III. Oxford (2004), in New England Classical Journal 32.4 (2005) 329-39 Review Article of Michael C. J. Putnam, Virgil s Epic Designs: Ekphrasis in the Aeneid (Yale 1998), in Vergilius (1999) Review Article of Ronnie Ancona, Time and the Erotic in Horace's Odes, S. J. Harrison (ed.), Homage to Horace, Helmut Krasser, Horazische Denkfiguren, R. O. A. M. Lyne, Horace: Behind the Public Poetry, and David West, Horace Odes I: Carpe Diem, for Classical Journal 92 (1997) 295-301. Short Reviews and Abstracts Review of Lindsay Watson, A Commentary on Horace s Epodes (Oxford 2003) Classical Review(2006) Review of Thomas Habinek, The World of Roman Song: From Ritualized Speech to Social Order (Baltimore 2005), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.04.34 (5555 words) Review of Randall McNeill, Horace. Image, Identity, and Audience (Baltimore 2001), Electronic Antiquity 8.1 (2004) 39-43 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/elant/v8n1/mcneill.pdf Review of Michael C. J. Putnam, Horace s Carmen Saeculare: Ritual Magic and the Poet s Art (New Haven 2000) Classical World 96.2 (2003) 226-7
Lowrie 4 Review of Micaela Janan, The Politics of Desire: Propertius IV (Berkeley 2001) for Classical Review 52 (2002) 63-5 Review of Phoebe Lowell Bowditch, Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage (Berkeley 2001) for AJP123 (2002) 305-8 Review of Alessandro Barchiesi, Speaking Volumes: Narrative and intertext in Ovid and other Latin poets, ed. and trans. by M. Fox and S. Marchesi (London 2001), for BMCR 2002.06.38 (6 pages). Review of Don Fowler, Roman Constructions: Readings in Postmodern Latin (Oxford 2000), in Classical World 93 (2000) 633-4. Review of Ellen Oliensis, Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority (Cambridge 1998), in Classical Review 50 (2000) 49-50. Review of David West, Horaces Odes II: Vatis amici (New York 1998) in Religious Studies Review 26 (2000) 82. Review of Horace, l oeuvre et les imitations: un siècle d interprétation, ed. Walther Ludwig (Vandoeuvres 1993), in Classical Review 49 (1999)386-8. Review of Stephen Hinds, Allusion and Intertext: Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry, in Classical World 92 (1999) 384-5. Review of Ronnie Ancona, Time and the Erotic in Horace's Odes, Classical Review 47 (1997) 205-6. Review of David West, Horace Odes I: Carpe Diem, Vergilius 42 (1997)148-51. Abstract Stop Making Sense: Horace, C. 3.27, APA Abstracts (1995) 129. Review of A. Schiesaro, P. Mitsis, J. Strauss Clay (edd.), Mega nepios. Il destinatario nell'epos didascalico. The Addressee in Didactic Epic (Materiali e discussioni 31, Pisa 1994), in Byrn Mawr Classical Review 6.4 (1995) 328-32. Review of Kirk Freudenburg, The Walking Muse, Horace's Theory of Satire (Princeton 1993), in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 4.3 (1993) 166-70. Abstract Logocentrism in Horace, C. 1.6, APA Abstracts (1993) 73. Review of Lowell Edmunds, The Sabine Jar, Reading Horace C. 1.9 (Chapel Hill 1992) in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 3.4 (1992) 260-5. Review of Gregson Davis, Polyhymnia, The Rhetoric of Horatian Lyric Discourse (Berkeley, Los Angeles and Oxford 1991), in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2.7 (1991) 417-22. Forthcoming (accepted, turned in, or in proof) Making an Exemplum of Yourself: Cicero and Augustus, Classical Constructions. Papers in Memory of Don Fowler, Classicist and Epicurean, ed. S. J. Heyworth, with P. G. Fowler, and S. J. Harrison, Oxford University Press (2007) Horace and Augustus, Cambridge Companion to Horace, ed. S. J. Harrison, Cambridge University Press (2007) 77-89 Vergil and Founding Violence (2005), to be translated into German for Vorträge des Warburg-Haus Cornelia s Exemplum: Form and Ideology in Propertius 4.11, edited by G. Liveley and P. B. Salzman-Mitchell, Elegy and Narrativity. Columbus Performance, for Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies (2008) Review of S. Goldberg for CP
Lowrie 5 The Aesthetics of Empire and the Reception of Vergil, volume co-edited with Sallie Spence for Literary Imagination (2006) In Progress Performance, Writing, and Authority in Augustan Rome Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Horace s Odes and Epodes, edited anthology of articles, Oxford University Press (due July 2007) The Exemplum, the Exception, and Self-Authorization in Cicero, Caesar, and Augustus Caesar and the Intellectual Statesman in Cicero s Brutus Irony and Imitation: Tom Jones reads Horace Evidence and Narrative in La conjuration de Catilina Horace, Odes 4, article for a Companion to Horace, ed. Gregson Davis, Blackwell The law and the exemplum: Cicero on the Gracchi, commissioned article for the inaugural volume of Law and the Humanities