Jerzy Axer, Professor Ordinarius at Warsaw University, is founder and director of the Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition in Poland and East-Central Europe. His interests include classical and Neo-Latin studies, the texts of historical sources (sixteenth-nineteenth centuries), and theatrical studies; his main research focuses on the reception of the classical tradition in Polish and European culture (sixteenth-twentieth centuries). His publications include M. T. Ciceronis oratio pro Q. Roscio Comoedo (Leipzig, 1976), Filolog w teatrze (Warsaw, 1991), Espanoles y polacos en la corte de Carlos V (Madrid, 1994, with A. Fontan), and Lacina jako j§zyk elit (Latin as the Language of the Elites), as co-author and editor (Warsaw, 2004).
Alastair J. L. Blanshard is Lecturer at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has published a number of articles in the fields of gender, sexuality, and the classical tradition. He is the author of Hercules: A Heroic Life (London, 2005) and is one of the founders of the Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN).
Ward Briggs is Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics and Louise Fry Scudder Professor of Humanities at the University of South Carolina. He has published widely on the history of American classical scholarship and is at work on a biography of the American classicist Basil L. Gildersleeve.
William J. Dominik is Professor of Classics at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is the author or editor of a number of books, including (with Jon Hall) The Blackwell Companion to Roman Rhetoric (Oxford, 2006), and is a contributor to The Blackwell Companion to Ancient Epic (Oxford, 2005). He has also published numerous chapters and articles on Roman literature and other topics and is the founding editor of the journal Scholia.
Katie Fleming is Lecturer in the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary College, University of London. Her research interests lie in the classical tradition, particularly in the intellectual and political thought of the twentieth century. She has published articles on the relationship between the politics of reception and the feminist appropriation of Antigone, and the use and abuse of the past.
Philip Ford studied French and Latin at King’s College, Cambridge, before embarking on a PhD there on the neoLatin poetry of George Buchanan under the supervision of Ian McFarlane. After a research fellowship at Girton College, Cambridge, his first teaching post, at the University of Aberdeen, was in seventeenth-century French literature. Since 1982, he has taught in the Cambridge University French Department, where he is now Professor of French and Neo-Latin Literature, as well as holding a fellowship at Clare College. His research, funded for two years by a British Academy Research Readership, is on the reception of Homer in Renaissance France.
Karl Galinsky is Floyd Cailloux Centennial Professor of Classics and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of numerous books and articles and has received awards both for his research and teaching.
Bruce Graver is Professor of English at Providence College. He edited Wordsworth’s Translations of Chaucer and Virgil for the Cornell Wordsworth series (1998), and coedited Lyrical Ballads: An Electronic Scholarly Edition for Cambridge University Press at Romantic Circles (Www. rc. umd. edu/editions/LB/).
He has published numerous articles on Romantic classicism and the history of classical scholarship in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Lorna Hardwick teaches in the department of Classical Studies at the Open University, UK, where she is Professor of Classical Studies and Director of the Reception of Classical Texts Research Project (www2.open. ac. uk/Classical
Studies/GreekPlays). Recent publications include Translating Words, Translating Cultures (London, 2000) and New Surveys in the Classics: Reception Studies (Oxford, 2003). She is working on a monograph analyzing the relationship between modern classical receptions and cultural change.
Kenneth Haynes teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University. His most recent books are English Literature and Ancient Languages (Oxford, 2003) and The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, vol. 4: 1790-1900 (Oxford, 2005), which he coedited with Peter France. He is preparing an annotated translation of selected philosophical works by Johann Georg Hamann, to appear in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy.
Richard Jenkyns is Professor of the Classical Tradition at the University of Oxford; he has been a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall since 1981 and was previously a Fellow of All Souls. His books are The Victorians and Ancient Greece (Cambridge, Mass., 1980), Three Classical Poets (Cambridge, Mass., 1982), Dignity and Decadence: Victorian Art and the Classical Inheritance (Cambridge, Mass., 1991), Classical Epic: Homer and Virgil (London, 1992), The Legacy of Rome, as editor (Oxford, 1992), Virgil’s Experience (Oxford, 1998), Westminster Abbey (Cambridge, Mass., 2004), and A Fine Brush on Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen (Oxford, 2004).
Craig W. Kallendorf is Professor ofClas-sics and English at Texas A&M University. A specialist in the reception of the Roman poet Virgil, his books include Virgil and the Myth of Venice: Books and Readers in Renaissance Italy (Oxford, 1999), Humanist Educational Treatises, as editor and translator (Cambridge, Mass., 2002), and The Other Virgil: Pessimistic Readings of the Aeneid in Early Modern Culture (Oxford, forthcoming). He is working on a bibliography of the early printed editions of Virgil.
Thomas Kaminski teaches in the English Department at Loyola University in Chicago. He is the author of The Early Career of Samuel Johnson (New York, 1987) as well as of a number of articles on the development of English neoclassicism.
Andrew Laird is Reader in Classical Literature in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick. He has held visiting positions at Princeton University, the University of Cincinnati, and the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin. His publications include Powers of Expression, Expressions of Power (Oxford, 1999), A Companion to the Prologue of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses (Oxford, 2001), Ancient Literary Criticism (Oxford, 2006), and The Epic of America: An Introduction to Rafael Landtvar and the Rusticatio Mexicana (London, 2006).
Gail Levin is Professor of Art History, American Studies, Women’s Studies, and Fine and Performing Arts at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of numerous books and articles, including Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonne (New York, 1995), Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography (New York, 1995), Aaron Copland’s America (New York, 2000), and Becoming Judy Chicago: A Biography (in press). Her writing has often been translated and has been published in more than a dozen countries. Her scholarship has been supported by grants from Fulbright, National Endowment for the
Humanities, Andrew Mellon Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, Pollock-Krasner/Stony Brook Foundation, Harvard University, Yale University, and Brandeis University, among others.
Luisa L<Spez Grigera was born in La Coruna, Spain, and studied at the Uni-versidad Nacional de Buenos Aires and at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, where she received her doctorate in romance philology. Catedratica at the Uni-versidad de Deusto (Bilbao, Spain) and Professor at the University of Michigan, she specializes in Spanish literature of the Middle Ages and of the Golden Age, with a particular interest in the evolution of rhetoric in the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries. She has published many books and articles in these areas.
David Marsh studied classics and comparative literature at Yale and Harvard, and is Professor of Italian at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He is the author of The Quattrocento Dialogue: Classical Tradition and Humanist Innovation (Cambridge, Mass., 1980) and Lucian and the Latins: Humor and Humanism in the Early Renaissance (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1998). He has translated Leon Battista Alberti’s Dinner Pieces (Binghamton, N. Y., 1987), Giambattista Vico’s New Science (London, 1999), and Paolo Zellini’s Brief History of Infinity (London, 2004). His recent editions of humanist Latin texts include Francesco Petrarca’s Invectives (Cambridge, Mass., 2003) and the anthology Renaissance Fables: Aesopic Prose by Leon Battista Alberti, Bartolomeo Scala, Leonardo da Vinci, and Bernardino Baldi (Tempe, Ariz., 2004).
Charles Martindale, Professor of Latin at the University of Bristol, has written extensively on the reception of classical poetry. In addition to the theoretical study Redeeming the Text: Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception (Cambridge, 1993), he has edited or coedited collections on the receptions of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, as well as Shakespeare and the Classics (Cambridge, 2004). His most recent book is Latin Poetry and the Judgement of Taste: An Essay in Aesthetics (Oxford, 2005).
Volker Riedel studied Latin and German at the Humboldt University in Berlin and since 1987 has been Professor of Classical Philology (Latin) at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. A specialist in classical reception, Roman literature of the first centuries BC and AD, and German literature of the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, he is the author of many publications in these areas and has recently edited Prinzipat und Kultur im 1. und 2. Jahrhundert (Bonn, 1995), Der Neue Pauly (coeditor, 18 vols., Stuttgart and Weimar, 1996-2003), and Die Freiheit und die Kunste (Stendal, 2001).
Ingrid D. Rowland is Visiting Professor of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame in Rome. Her most recent books include The Ecstatic Journey: Athanasius Kircher in Baroque Rome (Chicago, 2000), The Correspondence of Agostino Chigi (1466-1520) in Cod. Chigi R. V.c. (Vatican City, 2001), The Scarith of Scor-nello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery (Chicago, 2004), and From Heaven to Arcadia: The Sacred and the Profane in the Renaissance (New York, 2005).
Minna Skafte Jensen was Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin, Copenhagen University, from 1969 until 1993 and Professor of Greek and Latin, University of Southern Denmark, from 1993 until 2003. A member of the Danish, Norwegian, and Belgian Academies of Sciences and Letters, she is the author of The Homeric Question and the Oral-Formulaic
Theory (Copenhagen 1980) and the editor of A History of Nordic Neo-Latin Literature (Odense 1995). Friendship and Poetry: Studies in Danish Neo-Latin Literature, ed. M. Pade, K. Skovgaard-Petersen, & P. Zeeberg (Copenhagen, 2004), was prepared in her honor.
Fabio Stok teaches Latin literature at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata. He has published extensively on classical Latin authors (e. g., Cicero, Virgil, Ovid) and their reception. He specializes in particular in textual criticism and in ancient medicine, ethnography, and the biographies of Virgil (he has published the critical editions of the Vita Vergili of Suetonius-Donatus and ofother medieval and Renaissance lives). Professor Stok is also one of the editors of Niccolci Perotti’s Cornu copiae (8 vols., Sassoferrato, 1989-2001), and he is working at present on several other humanist and neo-Latin authors.
Christopher Stray is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology, University of Wales Swansea. He works on the history and sociology of classics teaching and learning, and also on the history of universities, on textbooks, and on family languages. His Classics Transformed: Schools, Universities, and Society in England 1830-1960 was published by Oxford University Press in 1998. He is editing a collection of essays on Gilbert Murray, to be published by the same press in 2007. Other projects include an edited reprint of Charles Bris-ted’s 1852 book Five Years in an English University (Exeter, 2007) and an edited selection of the letters of Richard Jebb.
Gilbert Tournoy is Professor of Classical, Medieval, and Neo-Latin and, since 1998, Director of the Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae at the Catholic
University of Leuven. He is editor of Humanistica Lovaniensia and past president of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (1997-2000). He is the author or editor of 15 books, including two essay collections in honor of his longtime colleague Jozef IJsewijn and the catalogues to several important exhibitions on humanism in the Low Countries, especially relating to Juan Luis Vives and Justus Lipsius.
Norman Vance is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. He has published widely on Victorian and Irish topics. His books include The Victorians and Ancient Rome (Oxford, 1997), Irish Literature, a Social History (2nd edn., Oxford, 1999), and Irish Literature since 1800 (London, 2002), and he is editing the nineteenth-century volume of the Oxford History of Classical
Reception in English Literature. He is a Fellow of the English Association and Chair of its Higher Education Committee.
Jan M. Ziolkowski is Harvard University’s Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin. His books include monographs, anthologies, editions, translations, and collected essays. Three are in press: Fairy Tales from before Fairy Tales: The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Nota Bene: Reading Classics and Writing Songs in the Early Middle Ages (Turnhout, Belgium), and, with Michael C. J. Putnam, The Virgilian Tradition to 1500 (New Haven). A National Merit Scholar in college, he held a Marshall in graduate school. Earlier a recipient of Guggenheim and ACLS fellowships, he was at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in 2005-6.
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