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David Petrain
Department of Classical Studies david.e.petrain@vanderbilt.edu
Vanderbilt University (615) 364-0172
329 Furman Hall
Nashville, TN 37235-1740
Areas of Specialization
Augustan and Imperial Latin Literature Narratology and Semiotics
Roman and Hellenistic Culture Historical Linguistics
Education
2006 Ph.D. in Classical Philology, Department of the Classics, Harvard University
Dissertation: Epic Manipulations: The Tabulae Iliacae in their Roman
Context
(Advisor: Richard Thomas Readers: Kathleen Coleman, Gloria Pinney)
1998 B.A. summa cum laude in Classics, Harvard University
Senior Thesis: Fuat and Related Forms in Early Latin Authors: A Semantic Analysis
Employment
2006 - Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, Vanderbilt University
2005 Assistant Director of the Classical Summer School, American Academy in Rome
2000 - 2004 Teaching Fellow in the Department of the Classics, Harvard University
Publications
"Moschus' Europa and the Narratology of Ecphrasis," Beyond the Canon: Hellenistica Groningana 7 (Groningen, 2006) 249-269
"Gems, Metapoetics, and Value: Greek and Roman Responses to a Hellenistic Discourse on Precious Stones," Transactions of the American Philological Association 135 (2005) 329-357
"Homer, Theocritus, and the Milan Posidippus," The Classical Journal 98 (2003) 359-388
"An Introduction to Posidippus," (2003) online at: http://chs.harvard.edu/chs/issue_1_introduction
"PRESBUS: A note on the new Posidippus (V.6-11)," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 140 (2002) 9-12
"Hylas and Silva: Etymological Wordplay in Propertius 1.20," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 100 (2000) 409-421
Papers
"Displaying the Tabulae Iliacae: Setting, Mechanism, and Meaning," Archaeological Institute of America, San Diego, January 2007
"Narrative Strategy and Epic Content in Early Imperial Stories of Troy," invited lectures, January 2006, The University of Texas at Austin and The Ohio State University
"Reconstructing Homer: The Tabulae Iliacae in their Roman Context," invited lecture, April 2005, The British School at Rome
"Moschus' Europa and the Narratology of Ecphrasis," Beyond the Canon (Seventh Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry), August 2004, Groningen
"Cui nomen ab usu: Transgressing the Limits of Etymologizing in Propertius 4.7," Classical Association Annual Conference, April 2004, Leeds University
"Ecphrastic Sequences and Itineraries: The Movement of Theocritus' Cup," Theocritus the Syracusan, June 2003, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington D.C.
"Homer in Space: Topography as Narrative Strategy in Roman Representations of the Trojan War," 2003 Narrative Conference, March 2003, UC Berkeley
"Tabula and Taxis: The Manipulation of Epic in the Tabulae Iliacae," Archaeological Institute of America, January 2003, New Orleans
"Poetic Play and Playful Poetics in the Technopaegnia," Trivial Pursuits: Games and Game Playing in the Classical World, February 2002, University of Madison-Wisconsin
"Theme and Variation in the Tabulae Iliacae," Picking up the Pieces: Conference on Ancient Fragments, November 2001, Brown University
"Cretan Lies and Poetic Truth in Homer and Callimachus," CorHaLi Conference XII, June 2001, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington D.C.
Conference
Co-organizer of CorHaLi Conference XII, "The Hellenistic Reception of Archaic Poetry: Callimachus and Theocritus," June 2001, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington D.C.
Teaching Experience
• Vanderbilt University
Augustan Elegy, 2007
Roman Civilization, 2007 (introductory course with sources in translation)
Roman Historiography (Sallust and Livy), 2006 (graduate seminar)
• American Academy in Rome, Classical Summer School
Introduction to the topography of ancient Rome and Latium, assistant director, 2005
• Harvard University
Beginning Latin and Greek, instructor, 2000-2002
Intensive Greek, teaching assistant, summer 2001
History of Roman Culture, teaching assistant, 2004 (undergraduate tutorial)
History of Latin Literature, teaching assistant, 2002
Sallust, instructor, 2003 (course in Harvard Extension School)
Livy, instructor, 2001 (undergraduate tutorial)
The Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization, teaching assistant, 2001 (course in translation)
Introduction to the Iliad, instructor, 2003 (course for second-year Greek students)
Theocritus, co-instructor, 2002 (undergraduate seminar)
Fellowships and Honors
Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2007 (Project title: "The Tabulae Iliacae and the Development of Visual Storytelling in the Early Roman Empire")
Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome, 2005-2006
Robert F. Goheen Prize in Classical Studies, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 2003
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Merit Fellowship, Harvard University, Fall 2003
7 Distinction in Teaching Awards, Harvard University (for the academic years 2000-2001 (x2), 2001-2002, 2002-2003 (x3), 2003-2004)
Nomination for the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize, Harvard University
Graduate Society Summer Award for Language Study and Research, Harvard University, summer 2000
DAAD fellowship for study at the Goethe Institute in Dresden, summer 1999
Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, 1998-1999
2 Bowdoin Prizes for translation into Latin, Harvard University, 1997, 1998
2 Bowdoin Prizes for translation into Attic Greek, Harvard University, 1997, 1998
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