Curriculum Vitae • August 2011

Catherine C. Keane

Department of Classics

Washington University

Campus Box 1050

1 Brookings Dr.

St. Louis, MO 63130

(314) 664-6963 (home)

(314) 935-5198 (office)

ckeane@wustl.edu

Education:

Ph.D., Classical Studies, 1999. University of Pennsylvania. Doctoral dissertation: "Model Behavior: Generic Construction in Roman Satire," directed by Ralph Rosen.           

M.A., Classical Studies, 1996. University of Pennsylvania.

B.A., Classical Civilization, 1992. Wesleyan University.

Positions held:

2001-present: Washington University in St. Louis, Assistant Professor (2001-2007); Associate Professor (2007-).

2000-2001: Northwestern University, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow.

1999-2000: Reed College, Visiting Assistant Professor.

1995-1997: University of Pennsylvania, Latin Instructor, Teaching Assistant, Research Assistant.

Books:

A Roman Verse Satire Reader (Bolchazy-Carducci, 2010). Reviewed in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2011.03.76 (B. Walker).

Edited volumes:

Guest Editor for special satire issue of Classical and Modern Literature 22.2 (2002).

Articles and chapters:

"Life in the text: The corpus of Persius' Satires," chapter in A Companion to Persius and Juvenal, ed. S. Braund and J. Osgood (Blackwell, forthcoming 2012).

"Historian and Satirist: Tacitus and Juvenal," chapter in A Companion to Tacitus, ed. V. Pagán (Blackwell, forthcoming 2011).

"Re-reading Homer at Horace Epistle 1.2.1-31," Classical World 104.4 (2011): 427-450.

"Persona and Satiric Career in Juvenal," chapter in Classical Literary Careers and Their Reception, ed. Philip Hardie and Helen Moore (Cambridge; 2010).

"Philosophy into Satire: The Program of Juvenal's Fifth Book," American Journal of Philology 128.1 (2007): 27-57.

"Defining the Art of Blame: Classical Satire," chapter 2 of A Companion to Satire from the Biblical World to the Present, ed. Ruben Quintero (Blackwell, 2007): 31-52.

"Lucilius," entry on life and works for The Literary Encyclopedia (2006; online at www.litencyc.com).

"Theatre, Spectacle, and the Satirist in Juvenal," Phoenix 57 (2003): 257-275.

"Juvenal's Cave-Woman and the Programmatics of Satire," Classical Bulletin 78.1 (2002): 5-20.

"The Critical Contexts of Satiric Discourse," Classical and Modern Literature 22.2 (2002): 7-31.

"Satiric Intersections: Theory, Practice, and Literary History," Classical and Modern Literature 22.2 (2002): 1-5 (guest editor's introduction to special issue).

"Satiric Memories: Autobiography and the Construction of Genre," Classical Journal 97.3 (2002): 215-231.

Works in progress or under review:

Book, The Poetics of Anger in Juvenal's Satires

(With Ralph Rosen) "Greek and Roman satirical poetry," chapter for A Companion to Ancient Sexuality, ed. T. Hubbard (Blackwell)

Oral paper, "The Anger of Lucilius"

Oral paper, "Bringing Back the Dead"

Book reviews:

Karin Haß, Lucilius und der Beginn der Persönlichkeitsdichtung in Rom, Classical Review 59.1 (2009): 111-113.

Maria Plaza, The Function of Humour in Roman Verse Satire: Laughing and Lying (Oxford, 2006), Classical World 101.1 (2007): 111-112.

Catherine Schlegel, Satire and the Threat of Speech: Horace Satires Book 1 (Wisconsin, 2005), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.05.11.

Kirk Freudenburg, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire (Cambridge, 2005), Journal of Roman Studies 96 (2006): 265-267.

Susanna Morton Braund, ed. and tr., Juvenal and Persius, Loeb Classical Library (Harvard, 2004), Classical Review 56.1 (2006): 127-129.

Kirk Freudenburg. Satires of Rome: Threatening Poses from Lucilius to Juvenal (Cambridge, 2001), Vergilius 48 (2002): 169-175.

Alberto Cavarzere, Antonio Aloni, and Alessandro Barchiesi, eds. Iambic Ideas: Essays on a Poetic Tradition from Archaic Greece to the Late Roman Empire (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001), Bryn Mawr Classical Review
2002.07.35.

Sarah Spence, ed., Poets and Critics Read Vergil (Yale, 2001), and Richard Thomas, Virgil and the Augustan Reception (Cambridge, 2001), Classical and Modern Literature 21.2 (2001): 121-127.

William Dominik and Willian Werhle, Roman Verse Satire: Lucilius to Juvenal (Bolchazy-Carducci, 1999), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 00.04.23 and Classical Outlook 78.3 (2001): 138.

John Henderson, Writing Down Rome: Satire, Comedy, and Other Offences in Latin Poetry (Oxford, 1999), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 99.10.06.

Susanna Morton Braund, The Roman Satirists and Their Masks, Classical World Series (Bristol, 1996), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 97.2.20.

Oral papers:

"Attacking the dead: History, exemplarity, and genre in Tacitus and Juvenal," Washington University Classics Department Colloquium (November 2010).

"Nucibus Receptis: The Sensations of Persius' Satires," Synesthesia: Classics Beyond the Visual Paradigm conference, UCLA Center For Medieval and Renaissance Studies (May 2010).

"Monstrous Misogyny and the End of Anger: Juvenal's Sixth Satire," Washington University Classics Department Colloquium (October 2008).

"Irony, Indignation, and the Progress of Satire in Juvenal's Third Book," Washington University Classics Department Colloquium (November 2007); Cornell University Classics Department Colloquium (September 2008); Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Meeting, Tucson, AZ (April 2008).

"Tranquility and Domestic Satire in Juvenal's Fourth Book," University of Texas-Austin Classics Department Colloquium, (September 2006).

"Reading Extremes: Horace on the Homeric Poems (Epistle 1.2)," American Philological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal (January 2006); Ancient and Modern Narratives, 41^st Annual Comparative Literature Conference, California State University-Long Beach (March 2006).

"The Satirist's Teaching Career: Horace, Sermones 1 and 2," Tufts University Classics Department Colloquium (October 2005).

"Shaking Up Juvenal's Tranquility," Satire and Political Dissent in the Ancient World conference, University of Illinois-Urbana (April 2005).

"The Satiric Career as Artful Autobiography in Juvenal," Literary Careers (Passmore Edwards Symposium), Corpus Christi College, Oxford, UK (September 2004).

"Unraveling Philosophy: Allusion and Program in Juvenal's Fifth Book," American Philological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (January 2004); University of Missouri-Columbia Classical Studies Department Colloquium (November 2003).

"Making Satire in Juvenal 15," Yale University Classics Department Colloquium (February 2003).

"Making Satiric History: Horace and Persius Re-read Old Comedy," American Philological Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (January 2003).

"Juvenal's Satires and the Perversion of Theatre," University of Pennsylvania Classical Studies Department Colloquium (November 2002).

"The Poet Figure and the Myth of Ages in Hesiod and Ovid," Association of the Middle West and South Annual Meeting, Austin, TX (April 2002).

"Theorizing 'the Elusive Genre'," Satiric Traditions: Continuity and Contexts colloquium, Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities, Northwestern University (May 2001).

"Juvenal's Votive Tablet, or the Vanity of Human Wishes in Satire 12," Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Meeting, Provo, UT (April 2001).

"How Did the Romans Laugh?" Reed College Latin Forum, Portland, OR (November 1999).

"The Satirist as Dramatist: Juvenal's Theatrics of Satire," American Philological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C (December 1998).

"Model Behavior: Roman Satirists on Human Evolution," American Philological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL (December 1997).

"Scripts and Slips: Reflections of Women's Aischrologia in Aristophanes," Classical Association of Atlantic States Fall Meeting, Philadelphia, PA (October 1997).

"Satire’s Magical Model: The Bulla in Juvenal 5," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY (April 1997).

"Apologia Pro Suo Ventre: Hunger and the Image of the Poet at Horace Satire 1.10.60-61," Classical Association of Atlantic States Fall Meeting, Easton, PA (October 1996).

"Juvenal the Ventriloquist: Creating the Origins of Satire," University of Pennsylvania Classical Studies Graduate Colloquium (April 1996).

"A Journey to Thessaly: The Novelistic Opening of Apuelius' Golden Ass," University of Pennsylvania Classical Studies Graduate Colloquium (April 1995).

Awards:

Loeb Classical Library Foundation Research Grant, $25,740 (2004-2005).

Nomination for Harrington Fellowship from Department of Classics, University of Texas-Austin (for 2004-2005).

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Classics, Northwestern University (2000-2001).

Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania (1998-1999).

Benjamin Franklin Fellowship for graduate study, University of Pennsylvania (1994-1998).

Ingraham Prize for Greek, Wesleyan University (1992).

Service at small conferences/panels:

Invited respondent, planned panel on varieties of invective in the Roman Republic, Classical Association of the Midwest and South Meeting (Spring 2012).

Member of organizing committee and institutional representative, annual Heartland Graduate Workshop in Ancient Studies (also to serve as respondent at inaugural meeting in September 2011 at the University of Missouri-Columbia)

Organizer and presenter, "Satiric Traditions: Continuity and Contexts," interdisciplinary colloquium, Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities, Northwestern University (May 2001).

Panel moderator, "The Vergilian Century" conference, University of Pennsylvania (November 2000)

Co-organizer, panel on "Figuring Identity: Personae and Literary Agenda in Roman Satire," American Philological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. (December 1998).

Other professional service and activities:

Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies Managing Committee member (2009-2012)

Women's Classical Caucus Steering Committee elected member (2009-2012)

Referee for journal articles, essays, book proposals (Vergilius, American Journal of Philology, Helios, Transactions of the American Philological Association, Scripta Classica Israelica, Arethusa, Classical Philology, Brill, Blackwell Publishers) (2002-)

Memberships in professional organizations:

American Philological Association (1996-)

Women's Classical Caucus (1998-)

Classical Association of the Middle West and South (2000-)

Vergilian Society (2004-)

Teaching – courses:

Latin: First-year Latin; intermediate reading courses: Introduction to Latin Literature: Elementary Prose and Poetry; Survey of Latin Literature: The Republic (Terence and Cicero); The Empire (Livy and Vergil); seminars: Roman Satire, The Roman Novel, Horace on Poetry, Plautus, Ovid (Metamorphoses), Scandal and the City (Juvenal and Martial); independent studies in Ovid, Horace, Juvenal, Petronius, and Apuleius

Greek: intermediate course: New Testament Greek; intermediate reading courses:   Introduction to Greek Literature (Plato; Homer); seminar: Euripides

Classics: lecture/discussion courses: Roman Civilization, The Roman World, Greek and Roman Drama, Old Jokes: Laughter in the Greco-Roman World; seminars: Freshman Humanities (Greek, Roman, early Jewish and Christian material), The Ancient Novel, Text and Tradition: Classical to Renaissance Literature, The Tragic Muse

Teaching – thesis advising:

B.A. Honors Thesis Director for Annie Hoopes (2003-2004), Katherine Langdon (2009-2010), Aaron Mace (2011-2012), Pete Tontillo (2011-2012); Reader for Steven Kidd (2001-2002), Adam Smith (2002-2003), Deirdre O'Rourke (2005-2006; Drama), Chase Sackett (2009-2010), Natacha Lam (2009-2010), Beth Pfohl (2009-2010), Anastasia Niedzielski (2011-2012)

Senior Project Director for Corey Biller (2010), Kate Judge (2010-2011)

M.A. Thesis Director for Cameron Paterson (2005-2006), Joy Ryan (2006-2007; Drama), Mary Orwig (2007-2008), Heather Elomaa (2008-2009); reader for Jeremy Leftt (2002-2003), Tom Keeline (2008-2009), Hans Bork (2010-2011), Annie Truetzel (2010-2011), Jocelyn Rohrbach (2010-2011)

Ph.D. Dissertation Reader for Clerk Shaw (2007; Philosophy) and Emily Austin (2009; Philosophy); External Reader for Ted Gellar-Goad, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (2010-)

Teaching – examinations:

Latin Placement Test Author and Administrator (2002-)

M.A. Greek and Latin Reading List Exam Reader (2002-); Administrator and Reader (2006-)

M.A. Sight Exam Administrator and Reader (2009-)

Latin Proficiency Exam Administrator and Reader (for graduate students in other departments; 2009-)

Other teaching activities at Washington University:

Presenter, Honorary Scholars Seminar (January 2011)

Presenter, Pedagogy Workshops on Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Images in the Literature Classroom, and Sophocles' Theban Plays for the Interdisciplinary Project in Humanities (August 2003, August 2006, August 2009, August 2010)

Presenter on Latin Poetry Studies at Classics Graduate Proseminar (2001, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010)

Departmental service at Washington University:

Director of Graduate Studies for M.A. Program in Classics (2009-2012; currently 10 students)

Author/Editor of Classics Department M.A. flyers (2002-), thesis guide (2007-), and degree handbook and website text (2009-)

M.A. Advisor (12 students since 2006)

Arts & Sciences Graduate Council Classics Representative (2006-)

Classics Department Graduate Committee member (2001-)

Participant in recruitment of M.A. and B.A. students (2001-)

B.A. Major and Minor advisor (30 students since 2001)

University College Council Classics Representative and Coordinator (2005-2010) 

Search Committee member, searches for Assistant Professor of Classics (2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009)

Search Committee member, searches for Biggs Chair in Classics (2002, 2006, 2011)

Search Committee member, searches for Visiting Lecturers in Classics (2002, 2005, 2007, 2011)

Arts & Sciences and University service at Washington University:

Graduate Fellowship Selection Committee member, Center for the Humanities (2011)

Curriculum Committee elected member (2010-2013); nominated to chair Committee in 2011-2012 (declined)

Advisor for Performing Arts Department production of Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses; author of Program Note (2010)

Graduate Council Teaching and Professional Development Committee Humanities Representative (2008-2009)

Performing Arts M.A. Advisory Committee member (M.A. admissions and exam administration; 2006-2008)

Rhodes Scholarship Mock Interview Committee member (2002-2003); Endorsement Committee member (2003)

Search Committee member, searche for Assistant Professor in Rabbinic Literature and Culture (2002-2003)

Associate Faculty Advisor and referee for Theatron, Washington University graduate journal in Drama and Comparative Literature (2002-2003). Author of Editorial Introduction, Fall 2003 issue.

Presenter at Freshman Academic Orientation (August 2001)

Outreach and Prior Service: 

Speaker, St. Louis Mensa chapter (July 2010)

Graduate language exam administrator and reader, Department of Classics, Northwestern University (multiple exams; 2000-2001)

Search Committee member, search for Mellon Fellow, Department of Classics, Northwestern University (2000-2001)

B.A. thesis advisor and reader, Reed College (multiple theses; 1999-2000)