CURRICULUM VITAE
Judith de Luce
Professor and Chair, Department of Classics
Affiliate, Women's Studies Program
Fellow, Scripps Foundation and Gerontology Center
Miami University
Oxford, Ohio 45056
Office telephone: 513-529-1480
E-mail: delucej@muohio.edu
Homepage: http://montgomery.cas.muohio.edu/delucej/index.html
Core faculty member, VRoma Project
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Colby College, 1964-68, A. B. magna cum laude, 1968; Major-Latin; 18 hrs. art history
Dartmouth College, 1967-68, summer, credit for courses in art history
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1969-74, M.A. Latin, 1971; Ph.D., Classics, 1974
Dissertation: "Mutatae Formae: Studies in Ovid's Metamorphoses"
Director: Herbert M. Howe
Special Authors: Lucretius, Homer
Special Area: Mythology
AWARDS and RECOGNITION
At Colby College:
John B. Foster Prize in Latin, 1967
Bixler Scholar, 1967-68
Phi Beta Kappa, 1968
At University of Wisconsin:
Knapp Fellowship, 1969-70
UW Ford Fellowship, 1971, 1972
Hugh E. Pillinger Prize for Translation (Horace, Ode 4.7), 1972
University Fellowship, 1973-74
At Miami University:
Outstanding University Woman, 1981
Omicron Delta Kappa , 1982
Nominee, Effective Educator Award, 1986, 1988, 1991
Regional/National:
Outstanding Young Woman of America Award, 1976
Ohio Outstanding Young Woman, 1979
Listed in Who's Who in the Midwest;
International Who's Who of Professional and Business Women
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Employer: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dares: 1970-73 Department of Integrated Liberal Studies
1971, 1973 Department of Classics
Position: Teaching Assistant
Employer: Miami University
Dates: 1974 - present
Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Classics;
Associate Professor, 1981; Professor, 1991
Employer: Hofstra University
Dates: Session III, winter, 1990
Position: Adjunct Associate Professor of the Humanities, New College
Employer: University of North Carolina-Asheville
Dates: Semester II, 1996
Position: Carol Belk Distinguished Professor in the Humanities
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE AT MIAMI UNIVERSITY
Coordinator, Women's Studies Program, 1979 -1985
Acting Chair, Department of Classics, 1983 -1984
Chair, Department of Classics, 1984 - 1991
Acting Chair, Department of Classics, semester I, 1995
Dean, School of Interdisiplinary Studies, 1996-1997
Chair, Department of Classics, 2001-
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Aging in the ancient world; Latin Literature of the Late Republic and early Empire (Cicero, Ovid); women's studies; animal behavior; ancient law; race and ethnicity; dramatic literature in performance; technology in the classroom.
SELECTED SCHOLARLY WORK
Edited Books:
-- Beyond Preservation: Restoring and Inventing Landscapes, co-edited, with A. Dwight Baldwin, Jr. and Carl Pletsch, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994.
-- Old Age in Greek and Latin Literature, co-edited, with an introduction by Thomas Falkner and Judith de Luce, SUNY press, 1989.
-- Language in Primates: Perspectives and Implications, co-edited, with an introductory essay by Judith de Luce and Hugh T. Wilder, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1983.
Edited Journal Issue
--Co-editor with Suzanne Bonefas and Susan Bonvallet, "Classics and Technology", special issue of the CALICO Journal, volume 18, number 2, January 2001.
Chapters:
-- "Reconsidering the Riddle of the Sphinx in Oedipus at Colonus and I'm Not Rappaport," in Qui Miscuit Utile Dulci:Festschrift Essays for Paul Lachlan MacKendrick, ed. Gareth Schmeling, Bolchazy Carducci, 1998.
-- "Reading and Re-Reading the Helpful Princess," in Compromising Traditions, ed. Judith P. Hallett andThomas Van Nortwick, Routledge, forthcoming.
-- "In the Beginning: Creation, Restoration, and Turner's Genesis," in Beyond Preservation: Restoring and Inventing Landscapes.
-- "Quod temptabam scribere versus erat: From the Despair of Old Age to the Confidence of the Artist" in Creativity, Aging and Gender in Literature of the Life Cycle, ed. Anne Wyatt-Brown and Janice Rossen, University Press of Virginia, 1993.
-- "O, For A Thousand Tongues to Sing": A Footnote on Metamorphosis, Silence, and Power", in Woman's Power, Man's Game: Essays on Classical Antiquity in Honor of Joy K. King, ed. Mary DeForest, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1993.
-- "A view from Antiquity: Greece, Rome, and Elders", co-authored with T. Falkner, in Handbook of Humanities and Aging, ed. T. Cole, et al, Springer Publishing, 1992.
-- "Ovid as an Idiographic Study of Creativity in Old Age" in Old Age in Greek and Latin Literature.
Articles:
--"Silence at the Newsstands", Generations, volume 25 no. 3, 2001, 39-43
-- "Roles for Technology in Collaborative Teaching" co-authored with Susan Bonvallet, in CALICO Journal, volume 18, number 2, 2001, 295-303
-- "Figures of Speech and Their Effects: Cicero and the First Catiliarian", Teacher's Guide AP Latin, 2001.
-- "The Blackboard or Virtual Reality: Suggestions and Caveats" Gerontology and Geriatrics Education, volume 21, Numbers 1 and 2, 2000, 49-66
-- Review essay, Odes of Horace, tr. David Ferry, Archaeology Odyssey, Fall, 1998, 63-66.
-- "Aging and Mythology," in Encyclopedia of Aging, 1996.
-- "Stage Performance in the Age of Virtual Reality: Part One", in "How Is It Played? Genre, Performance and Meaning", Didaskalia, Supplement 1, May, 1995.
-- Editor of special collection of essays on Cicero's De Senectute, "Reading Cicero on Aging"; author of introductory essay,"Continuity and Change: Four Disciplinary Perspectives on Reading Cicero's De Senectute" (335-338), author of article,"Theme and Variations in the De Senectute" (361-371) Journal of Aging Studies, 7(1994), 333-381.
-- "Genesis: An Epic Poem: Inventionist Ecology in Iambic Pentameter", Humanist 53(1994) 19-22.
--"Ancient Images of Aging: Did Ageism Exist in Greco-Roman Antiquity?", in "Changing Perceptions of Aging and the Aged", Generations 17 (1993), 41-45.
-- "Metamorphosis as Mourning: Pathological Grief in Ovid's Metamorphoses," Helios, N.S. 9 (1982) 77-90.
-- "Teaching Ancient Law," Classical World, 71 (1978), 449-453.
-- "Cygnus: Diversity and Unity in Ovid's Metamorphoses," Classical Outlook 54 (1977), 52-54.
-- "Ancient Law for Undergraduates," American Legal Studies Association Forum 2 (1977) 13-19. Co-author John R. More.
Translation:
-- Horace Ode 4.7, Classical Outlook 52 (1975), 110-111.
Videotape:
-- "Packaging Womanhood: the Language of Advertising and Images of Women," for the Marcum Conference Center "Informal Miami" Video Library, 1982.
Papers:
--"Going Public: Humanities at the Core of Knowledge Work", co-authored with Laura Mandell, Second International Conference on New Directio0ns in the Humanities, Prato, Italy, 2004
-- "Learning from an FLC Experience: The Technology and Humanities (TECHUM) Project", co-authored with Laura Mandell, Michele Simmons, Second International Faculty Learning Communities Conference, 2004
-- "Some New Poems for AP Catullus", co-authored with Susan Bonvallet, Summer Institute, American Classical League, 2004
--"Transforming Ovid from Page to Stage", annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 2003
--"Teaching Ariadne's Lament in an AP Class", co-authored with Susan Bonvallet, annual meeting of the Ohio Classical Conference, 2003
--"Cicero in the Upper Level Latin Class", Summer Institute, American Classical League, 2003
--"Intertextuality and Transformation in Performance: From Ovid's Philomela to Wertenbaker's Nightingale", annual meeting of the American Philological Association, 2003
-- "Ovid's Story of Rape and Revenge in Wertenbaker's Love of the Nighintgale", annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 2002
-- Workshop, AP English Vergil Syllabus, annual meeting of the Ohio Classical Conference, 2001
-- "Wertenbaker's The Love of the Nightingale and Ovid's Story of Rape and Revenge", Fifth International Conference on Theatre in Academe, 2001
-- "Technology as Scholarship," annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 2001.
-- "New Questions from Old Stories: Feminism, Gerontology, and the Myth Classroom", annual meeting of the American Philological Association, 2001.
--"Intimate Encounters with Aging", annual meeting of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, 2000.
-- "Looking Greek and Roman Sculpture in the Eye", annual meeting of the Ohio Classical Conference, 1999
-- "A Lesson from Arachne, Or, Weaving an Effective Classics Course on the Web", annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 1999
-- "Virtual reality or the Blackboard?"the annual meeting of the Association of Gerontology in Higher Education, 1999.
-- "What Feminist Classical Scholarship Does and Does Not Include" for the Women's Classical Caucus at the annual meeting of the American Philological Association. This paper, along with the rest of the panel, is on-line at Diotima , 1998 (http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/gender.html)
-- "Baucis and Philemon", part of the AP pre-Institute Workshop at the annual meeting of the American Classical League, 1998.
-- Moderator and organizer, Diversity Task Force Panel on "Attracting and Retaining African - American Students in Classics, annual meeting of the American Classical League, 1998.
--Demonstration of VRoma course on Plautus'Aulularia, annual meeting of the American Classical League, 1998.
-- "Using Dramatic Literature in a non-Theater Classroom", Ohio Classical Conference, 1998.
-- "Some Lessons on Visual Literacy in the Latin Classroom," American Classical League Summer Institute, 1997.
-- "Uncommon Commonplaces: De Senectute and De Amicitia", paper, and organizer of panel, "Reading Cicero's Laelius de Amicitia in Context", annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 1997.
-- "Remember Ariadne, Young Ariadne ...", for the Women's Studies Program, University of North Carolina at Asheville, March, 1996.
-- Ovid's Heroines", annual meeting of the Ohio Classical Conference, October, 1995.
-- "Drama as Evidence", First International Conference on Theatre in Academe, February, 1995.
-- "The Helpful Princess: Circe, Nausicaa, Ariadne, Medea, and Dido", part of the panel, "The Personal Voice in Classical Scholarship", annual meeting of the American Philological Association, December, 1994. Presented in a revised form in March, 1995, at the meeting of the British Classical Association.
-- "Stage Performance in the Age of Virtual Reality", co-authored with Lee Horvitz (Philosophy), presented at the conference "How Is It Played?", Texas A and M, October, 1994.
-- "Homer, Hesiod, and Vergil in Frederick Turner's Genesis, An Epic Poem", paper presented at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April, 1994.
-- "The Riddle of the Sphinx", Phi Beta Kappa Association lecture, Jacksonville State University, April, 1994.
-- "Homo Loquens...", paper presented at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 1993.
-- "Ovid in Exile: Creativity in Old Age", "Defying the Riddle of the Sphinx", Phi Beta Kappa Lufto-Amundsen Visiting Scholar, University of South Dakota, March, 1993.
-- "Uses and Abuses of Cicero's De Senectute", annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April, 1992.
-- "Gerontological Theory and the Old Women of Greek Drama", panel member, "Old Women in Greek Drama: Euripides", annual meeting of the American Philological Association, December, 1991.
-- "Women's Voices in the Heroides: Appearance or Reality?", panel member, "Ovid's Literary Transvestism: The (Fe)male Voices of the Heroides", annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April, 1991.
-- Organizer and moderator of panel, "Multi-disciplinary Reflections on the Myth of Gerontocracy and Its Implications;" and paper, "Was Ancient Rome a Model Gerontocracy?" annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, November, 1990.
-- "'Tune ille senectae sera meae requies': Mothers and Fathers Mourning the Death of an Adult Child," member of the panel "Family Practice in the Ancient World," annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. April 1988.
-- "Representations of Old Age in Ovid," member of the panel "The Imagination and the Meaning of Aging and the Life Cycle," at the conference "Aging and the Life Cycle in the Renaissance: The Interaction Between Representation and Experience," University of Maryland, 1988. Publication of proceedings forthcoming.
-- Organizer and moderator, "Workshop on Survival Skills for Junior Faculty at the Liberal Arts College," annual meeting of the American Philological Association - Archaeological Institute of America, December, 1987; "Introduction: The Professional 'Climate' for Women and Men: Gender and Other Atmospheric Conditions."
-- "Feminists Look at the Theseus Myth," invited paper at the University of Kansas, October 1987.
-- "Finding the Old Woman in Greco-Roman Antiquity," International Conference on the Study of Comparative Civilizations, April, 1987.
-- Organizer and moderator, panel on "The 'Tradition' (Reprise): Contemporary Revisions of Mythology;" paper, "The Challenge of Revising Traditional Tales: An Introduction and an Exemplar," annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 1987.
-- Co-organizer and moderator (with Thomas Falkner, College of Wooster) "Panel on Old Age in Ancient Literature and Society;" paper, "Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man: Ovid at 60," annual meeting of the American Philological Association - Archaeological Institute of America, December, 1986.
-- "Sharpening the Focus on Old Age in Antiquity," Humanistic Perspectives on Aging, Virginia Humanities Conference, College of William and Mary, April 1986.
-- "Is 'Healthy' 'Attractive'?: Body-Images as Predictors of Responses to Ads," National Women's Studies Association Annual Meeting. June 1986. Co-authored with Ann Fuehrer, Psychology.
-- "Fact, Fiction, and Old Women in Rome." Member of panel, "Aging and the Aged in some Greek and Latin Writers," Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual meeting. April 11-13, 1985.
-- "When a Woman Says No..." (Illustrated) Annual meeting of North Central Women's Studies Association. October 12-13, 1984.
-- "Homo Iudicans in Aeschylus?" Annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. April 1984.
-- "Mixed Signals in the Pages of the Sunday Magazine," (illustrated) Annual meeting of the National Women's Studies Association. June 1983.
-- "The Roles of Repetition in Narrative," at "Self, Sign and Structures: Narrative Strategies in Literature and Film," Eighth Annual Conference on Literature and Film, Florida State. January 1983.
-- "Reaching the Second Persona," Annual meeting of the Ohio Classical Conference. October, 1982.
-- Panelist, "Language and the Law," annual meeting of the American Legal Studies Association. November 1980.
-- "Love for Sale," (illustrated). Part of the panel "Masculinity and Femininity: Images in Advertising and Popular Culture," annual meeting of the National Women's Studies Association. May 1980, with Hugh T. Wilder, Philosophy, College of Charleston.
-- "Life and Death in the First Catilinarian," annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. April 1977.
-- "The Speech of Pythagoras in Ovid's Metamorphoses," annual meeting of the American Philological Association- Archaeological Institute of America. December 1976.
-- "Cincinnati, Mt. Ida, and a Campus Martius: A Classical Revival in Town Planning and Naming," (illustrated), annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. April 1976.
-- "Cygnus: Diversity and Unity in Ovid's Metamorphoses," annual meeting of the American Classical League. June 1975.
WEB MATERIALS
--Zenobia, co-authored with Darlene Brooks Hedstrom; a web site sponsored by the American Classical League and dedicated to teaching race and ethnicity in the Classics classroom. July, 2000 http://montgomery.cas.muohio.edu/zenobia/index.html
--Virtual Sculpture Gallery co-authored with Eric B. Case, June, 1999 http:eekman.com/virtual_gallery/
-- Baucis and Philemon: Resources for the Study of Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 8.614-724 1998 http://www.muohio.edu/~delucej/baucphil.html
-- Commentary to Plautus' Aulularia, 1998 http://www.vroma.org/~plautus/aulu.main.html(NB This is the collaborative product of the VRoma course on Plautus' Aulularia (http://www.muohio.edu/~delucej/Aulularia98.html) which I taught with Susan Bonvallet at The Wellington School in Columbus, OH. Our students worked on joint projects ( including projects completed on the VRoma MOO); instructors and students contributed to this in-line commentary which remains unfinished. Subsequent classes will continue to add to the commentary. I contributed essays on old age and on the family, as well as supervising my students own contributions.
Class project: -- Senectus; I provided the technical consulting for a Web site on old age in Greece and Rome; students in my CLS 322 (Old Age in Greece and Rome), Spring, 2000 created the content. http://montgomery.cas.muohio.edu/delucej/senectus_2000/home.html
COURSES TAUGHT AT MIAMI UNIVERSITY
Greek: Intermediate level (Euripides, Homer's Iliad)
Latin: Elementary; Intensive elementary; intermediate (Cicero's speeches, Cicero's letters, Catullus, Pliny's letters, Livy, Ovid's Metamorphoses); advanced reading of special authors: Cicero (speeches), Catullus and Horace, satire (Lucilius, Horace, Juvenal), Ovid (Metamorphoses), Lucretius, Livy, Pliny.
Classics: Introduction to Greek literature; introduction to Latin literature; introduction to Classical mythology; introduction to Classical humanities; advanced courses: Greek and Latin epic; justice and the law in antiquity; Classical influences in the American Republic (team-taught); women in antiquity; age of Augustus; old age in antiquity; race and ethnicity in the ancient world
Art: Advanced level: Greek and Roman sculpture, Greek and Roman painting.
Other: Introduction to Women's Studies; business ethics (team-taught); honors seminar "Talking Animals and Being Human" (study of animal language experiments); Elderhostel (primate language studies and their implications); Governor's Institute for Gifted and Talented Students (ages 14-16), coordinator and member of instructional staff for institute on oral tradition.
Courses Taught at Hofstra University: Feminist Revisions of Classical Mythology, Roman Law.
Course Taught at UNC-Asheville: the Ancient World
GRADUATE COMMITTEES
Doctoral Dissertation, History, 2001, Darlene Brooks HedstromDoctoral Dissertation, History, 2001, Steve Stannish
Master of Fine Arts creative thesis in directing, Theatre, 2001, Tyler Smith, Exit the King
Comprehensive Examination committee, History, 1995, John DeFelice
Comprehensive examination committee, History, 1994: Laura Dunn
Doctoral Dissertation, Political Science, 1994, Bart Cannon
Master of Arts, painting, 1993-94: Julie Harris
Master of Arts, Theatre, 1990-1991: Juanita Clement
Master of Arts, painting, 1990-1992: Michele Welkener
Master of Fine Arts creative thesis in directing, Theatre, 1990-91: Erin Fleming, Uncommon Women and Others
Master of Fine Arts, ceramics, 1989-1991: Mary Schuytema
Master of Fine Arts creative thesis in directing, Theatre, 1987-89: Darin Sloneker, Cloud Nine.
Master's thesis, Gerontology, 1987: Gloria Sherrill, What the Bible Implies About Aging.
Doctoral dissertation, Psychology, 1986-88: Andrew Nocita, Some Effects of Gender Socialization Upon Psychotherapy Experience.
Doctoral dissertation, Psychology, 1984: Patricia Bauer, Referential and Expressive Language Styles: A Longitudinal Follow-up.
Master's thesis, Psychology, 1983: Patricia Bauer, Referential and Expressive Language Styles.
SELECTED UNIVERSITY SERVICE
University:
- Quasi-departmental representative, University Senate, 2003-
- Member, Sherrif committee, 2002-
- Member, Women's Center Policy and Management Council, 1998; Co-chair, 2000
- Member, Ombuds ad hoc committee, 1998-2000, co-convenor, 2000
- Member, Faculty Conference, 2000
- Elected member-at-large, University Senate, 1993-96
- Chair, Executive Committee of University Senate, 1993-94
- Member, Executive Committee, University Senate 1994-95
- Member, Graduate Council, 1991-94
- Mentor, Harrison Scholars Program, 1990-94; Senior Mentor for the class of 1995
- Member, Admissions Advisory Committee, 1991-93
- Member, University Senate Committee on Governance, 1990-93; chair, 1990-92; member, 1994-95
- Member, Committee on the Summer Reading Program, 1984-88,1990-2000; Director, 1986
- Member, Honors Program Advisory Committee (Senate Liaison), 1986-89
- Member, Faculty Research Committee, 1980-81, 1999
- Chair, Title IX Working Committee, 1980-81
College:
- Member, Seasrch committee for joint position in WMS/BWS
- Member, Committee on the Enhancement of Teaching Excellence
- Member, ad hoc Committee on Faculty Workload, 1991
- Member, Classified Small Grants Committee, 1991-92
- Member, Language Laboratory Committee, 1986-1988
- Advisor, Arts and Science, Summer Orientation, 1978-79, 1981-86
- Member, Women's Studies Advisory Committee, 1977-87
- Member, Committee of Advisers, 1976-79
- Member, Liberal Education Requirement Committee, 1977-78
Department:
-Editor, Newsletter, 2000-
- Chief Departmental Advisor, 1991-1996
- Advisor, Sigma Chapter, Eta Sigma Phi, 1991- 1996
SELECTED COMMUNITY SERVICE AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
- President, Association of Women Faculty and Staff, 1991-92; member, executive committee, 1993-1995
- Mentor, Alumni Teaching Scholars Program, with Susan Tritten (Spanish), Linda Singer (Philosophy), Ellen Price (Art), Shannon Sullivan (Philosophy).
- Volunteer ESL tutor
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
--Scholarship reader, National Latin Exam, 2004-
-- Consultant-evaluator, Commission on Institutions of Higher Education, North Central Association, 1988-
-- Consultant- evaluator, Middle Atlantic States, 1995-
-- Member, Board of Overseers, Colby College, 1988-1996
-- Chief Faculty Consultant, Latin Advanced Placement Examinations, 1991-1995; faculty consultant, 1988-1991, 2001.
-- Panelist, Emerson Award Committee, United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, 1994-; chair, 1996; Lecturer, United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, 1994-; Panelist, Sibley Award of Phi Beta Kappa, 1999-2001
-- Referee, Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Helios, Classical Outlook, Classical World
-- Reviewer, Choice
-- Ohio Vice President, Classical Association of the Middle West and South
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- American Classical League(co-convenor, ad hoc committee on the Future of ACL; convenor, Diversity Task Force)
- American Philological Association
- Archaeological Institute of America (President, Oxford Society, 1994-).
- Association for Gerontology in Higher Education
- Cincinnati Association of Teachers of Classics
- Classical Association of the Middle West and South (Ohio Vice President, 2000-)
- Ohio Classical Conference (President, 1996; chair, Latin week committee, 1995; chair, Hildesheim Award, 2000-; member, coucil).
- Vergilian Society
- Women's Classical Caucus
Judith de Luce, Department of Classics, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056