Dr. Zara Torlone
Assistant Professor

torlonzm@muohio.edu
115 Irvin Hall
Phone: (513) 529-1488
Fax: (513) 529-1480


Fall 2007 Office Hours:
MWF 3-4:00 p.m.
T 2-3:00 p.m.
and by appointment


Special Interests:
Latin Poetry
Alexandrian Poetry
Textual Criticism
Latin Prose under Nero
Genre Theory
Reception of Antiquity in Russian Literature

Education:
B.A. Classical Philology, magna cum laude, Moscow University, 1990.
M.A., Classics, Columbia University, 1994.
M.Phil., Classics, Columbia University, 1997.
Ph.D., Classics, Columbia University, 1999.
American Academy in Rome, Summer 1997.

Ph.D. Dissertation:
"Eclogue & Elegy: The Intergeneric and Intertextual Dialogue between Vergil's Eclogues and Roman Love Elegy" (advisor: James E.G. Zetzel)

Teaching Experience:
1992-1998 Columbia University
1998-2000 Bard College, New York
2000-present Miami University of Ohio

Classes Taught:
Elementary Latin
Elementary Greek
Intermediate Latin: Vergil's Aeneid, Eclogues, Ovid's Amores, Ars Amatoria
Intermediate Greek: Lysias and Plato, Homer's Odyssey, Oedipus Rex (Independent Study)
Roman Love Poetry (in translation)
Helen of Troy in Literature from Homer to Goethe (undergraduate seminar)
Greek Civilization in its Mediterranean Context
Classical Mythology (thematic sequence course)
Classical Mythology (honors course)
Roman Civilization
Greek Paleography and Textual Criticism (Independent Study)
Classical Tradition in Russian Poetry
Arts and Empire in Classical World and Russia
Roman Novel: Petronius and Apuleius

Publications:
"Ex omnibus in unum, nec hoc nec illud: Epic Frame and Generic Juxtaposition in Petronius' Satyricon", coauthored with Dr. Paul Christesen (Materiali e Discussioni 49, 2003).
"Classical Myth in Three Poems of Joseph Brodsky" (Classical and Modern Literature 23/1 2003: 95-114).
"Classical Philology in Russia: Past, Present, and Future" (Classical Bulletin, 78.2.2003).
"From Daphnis to Gallus: the Metamorphosis of a Pastoral Hero in the Eclogues" (NECJ, 29.4: 204-221, 2002).

Reviews:
Review of R.E. Meagher, The Meaning of Helen: In Search of an Ancient Icon (The Classical Outlook, vol. 80, No. 2)
Review of M. Gumpert, Grafting Helen. The Abduction of the Classical Past (The Classical Outlook, vol. 80, No. 3)
Review of Charles Martindale, Latin Poetry and the Judgement of Taste. An Essay on Aesthetics (Bryn Bawr Classical Review, 09-10-2005).
Review of Jacob E. Nyenhius, Myth and the Creative Process. Michael Ayrton and the Myth of Daedalus, the Maze Maker (Classical Outlook - Spring 2006)

Articles submitted for publication:
"The Tale of Two Cities: Ancient Rome and St. Petersburg of Osip Mandelshtam" (in the peer-reviewed volume Preserving Petersburg: History, Tradition, Memory, and Loss submitted to Indiana University Press)
Articles accepted for publication:
"The Olympic Victor List in Eusebius' Chronika: Background, Text, and Translation" (Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval Thought History and Religion, published by Fordham University Press, also under consideration by Brill Academic Publishers)

Articles in Progress:
"Vergil's Aeneid VI and Joseph Brodsky's Daedalus in Sicily: a Study in Intertextuality"

Books in Progress:
Et in Arcadia Gallus: Eclogues and Elegy (status: final revisions to be submitted to Ohio State University Press)
The Foreign Muse: Classical Tradition in Russian Poetry from Mikhailo Lomonosov to Joseph Brodsky (status: research)

Public Lectures:
"The Fragment of Gallus from Qasr Ibrîm and the Extent of its Influence on Roman Love Poetry" (CAMWS 2001)
"The Spectacle of Genre in Petronius' Cena Trimalchionis" (CAMWS 2002)
"Joseph Brodsky's Classical Antiquity" (Havinghurst Colloquia, 2002)
"Can the aurea mediocritas be Found? Teaching Classics in Russia and America" (OCC 2003)
"Petronius Satyricon as an Example of genua mixtum" (CATC, March, 2003)
"The Tale of Two Cities: Ancient Rome and St. Petersburg of Osip Mandelshtam" (Havinghurst Colloquia, 2003)
"Reception of Antiquity: a View from Russia" (Miami University Lyceum Lecture Series, 2003)
"Frater Adempte Mihi: Catullus 68 and 101" (American Classical League Institute 2004)
"Elegiac Discourse in the Eclogues: The Meaning of Libertas in the First Eclogue" (APA, 2005)

Awards:
1992-1993 Classics Scholarship, Columbia University
1994-1996 Presidential Fellowship, Columbia University
1997 New York Classical Club Scholarship for Study in Rome
2001-2004 Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Havighurst Center, Miami University of Ohio

Symposia and Conferences Organized:
Co-organizer of three undergraduate conferences for the Department of Classics at Miami University, each including presentations delivered by classics students from Miami University and neighboring colleges and universities.

March 18-22, 2002 "Reconfiguring the Humanities in the Post-Soviet World," six speakers and their respondents with lectures on the state of the humanities in post-Soviet Russia.

March 28-30, 2003 "St. Petersburg and Russian National Consciousness," eight speakers and their respondents with lectures on St. Petersburg and Russian National Identity.

April 1-3, 2004 "The Reel Russia: Cinema and Outsiders," eight speakers and their respondents with lectures on Russian cinema and its depiction of the "other."