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Classics Department 3C Dauer Hall P.O. Box 117435 Gainesville, FL 32611-7435 |
Office: 3D Dauer
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Phone: (352) 392-2075 ext. 266 Fax: (352) 846-0297 |
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PERSONAL INFORMATION:
Date of birth: May 28, 1940
Place of birth: Algoma, Wisconsin
EDUCATION:
B.A. Northwestern College, 1963
M.A. University of Wisconsin,
1964
Ph.D University of Wisconsin,
1968:
Dissertation: Studies in Petronius.
Advisor, Paul MacKendrick.
AWARDS & HONORS:
Knapp Fellowship, 1963-64 (Graduate
School award)
Knapp Traveling Grant, 1965-66
(Graduate School award)
University Fellowship, 1967-68
University of Virginia Faculty
Fellowship, Summer 1969
University of Virginia Faculty
Fellowship, Summer 1970
American Philosophical Society
Grant, 1970
University of Florida Humanities
Fellowship, Summer 1971
American Philosophical Society
Grant, 1971
American Philosophical Society
Grant, 1972
University of Florida, Arts and
Sciences Teacher of the Year (one of five) 1973
National Endowment for the Humanities
Fellowship, 1973-74
University of Florida Humanities
Fellowship, Summer 1974
American Council of Learned Societies,
Grant-in-Aid Summer Fellowship, 1974
Faculty Development Grant, University
of Florida, 1977-78
Rome Prize, American Academy,
1977-78
American Philosophical Society
Grant, 1977-78
1981 Ovatio of the Classical Association
of the Middle West and South
Faculty Development Grant, University
of Florida, 1984-85
American Philosophical Society
Grant, 1984-85
AREAS OF RESEARCH AND INTEREST:
Latin: Petronius, Apuleius, Historia
Apollonii
Greek: Chariton, Xenophon; ancient
novel.
Textual criticism.
TRAVEL & STUDY ABROAD:
1965-66: 12 month study program
in Rome and Athens
1970: 3 months study in Cambridge,
England
1971: 3 months study in Cambridge,
England
1972: 3 months study in Cambridge,
England
1974: 3 months study in Cambridge,
England
1975: 3 months study in Cambridge,
England
1976: 3 months study in Cambridge,
England
1977-78: 12 months study at the
American Academy in Rome
1980: 2 months study in Rome at
the American Academy in Rome
1983: 2 months study in Rome at
the American Academy in Rome
1984-85: 12 months study at the
American Academy in Rome
1990: 5 months study and teaching
in Florence, Italy
1993: 3 months study in Germany
and Italy
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES & OFFICES:
American Philological Association;
American Classical League: Vergilian Society; Classical Association of
the Middle West and South
(Secretary-Treasurer 1975-1981);
Société des Études Néroniennes (France); Vice
President, Society of Fellows, American Academy in Rome
1980-1983; Classical Association
of the Middle West and South, President, 1985-86.
EMPLOYMENT:
1968-1970, University of Virginia,
Assistant Professor of Classics
1970-1974, University of Florida,
Associate Professor of Classics
1974-1976, University of Florida,
Professor and Chairman of Classics and Humanities
1975-1984, University of Florida,
Principal Investigator, "Humanities Perspectives on the Professions"
1976-1993, University of Florida,
Professor and Chairman of Classics
1978-1984, University of Florida,
Director, Center for Studies in the Humanities
1986-1988, University of Florida,
Acting Chairman, Department of Philosophy
1992-1992, University of Colorado,
Visiting Professor
1975- 1998, University of Florida,
Professor of Classics
1998-
, University of Florida, Distinguished Professor of Classics
BIOGRAPHICAL LISTINGS:
Who's Who in America, Who's Who
in the South, Directory of American Scholars, Contemporary Authors.
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
My present major research project
is a commentary on the Satyrica of Petronius. I have finished about twenty
percent of the project. The reason
for the importance of a commentary
on this work is, even though it is a novel, it is regularly treated as
a document of social history.
In my several years at the University
of Virginia and at the University of Florida I have taught beginning and
advanced Greek and Latin; graduate
courses in Petronius, Apuleius,
Tacitus, Lucian, the Greek novelists, Martial, Juvenal, Sophocles, Philostratus;
large lecture courses in translation,
mythology, the ancient novel,
the Glory That was Greece, the Grandeur That was Rome; Masterpieces of
Western Civilization.
ADMINISTRATION:
From 1970 to 1974 I was Director
of Classics, and in 1975 became Chairman as Classics became a department
in the University. The staff currently
has nine members. From 1974 through
1976 I was also Chairman of the Humanities Department, a general education
department with twenty-six
members. From 1975-84 I served
as Director of the "Humanities Perspectives of the Professions," a program
funded by the National Endowment
for the Humanities, six private
foundations, and the University to integrate the teaching of humanities
into the professional and pre-professional
curricula of the Medical School,
Law School, College of Engineering, and College of Business Administration.
About seventy-five faculty worked in
the program, half from the humanities
and half from the professional schools.
PRINCIPAL LINVESTIGATOR/DIRECTOR OF INSTITUTIONAL GRANTS:
"Program Uniting the Perspectives,
Methods, and Substance of the Humanities with the Special Concerns of the
Professions."
Division of Sponsored Research:
$23,000. (1975)
"Florida's Sunshine Law: A Workable
Paradox?"
Florida Endowment for the Humanities:
$47,951. (1975)
"Values of Bureaucracy."
Florida Endowment for the Humanities:
$5,003. (1975)
"Humanities Perspectives on the
Professions."
National Endowment for the Humanities:
$1,075,000. (1975-1981)
Private Funds in Support of the
"Humanities Perspectives on the Professions."
a) Chastain Foundation
$35,000 (1975-78)
b) Mellon Foundation
$100,000 (1976)
c) Rockefeller foundation
$25,000 (1976)
d) Merrill Trust
$25,000 (1976)
e) Lilly Foundation
$150,000 (1977-80)
f) Macy Foundation
$135,000 (1979-81)
MAJOR UNIVERSITY ASSIGNMENTS:
Graduate Council (1974-77); Joint
Committee of Foreign Languages and Education (1972-present); University
Library committee (1975-77);
Board of Directors of the Division
of Sponsored Research (1974-76, continuing on various committees in the
Division); University Curriculum
Committee (1973-76); Faculty Development
Committee, College of Arts and Sciences (1979-present); President of the
Language and Literature
Club (1974-76); University Senate,
4 times; elected President of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
EIDTORIAL DUTIES:
For the Petronian Society I have
edited the Newsletter, a yearly publication on ancient prose fiction, since
1970.
(online version of the Petronian
Society Newsletter)
Editorial Committee of the University
of Florida Press, Humanities Monographs.
OFFICER IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
Secretary-Treasurer, Classical
Association of the Middle-West and South, 1975-1981.
Trustee of the American Academy
in Rome, 1984-1987; Trustee Emeritus, 1994-.
President, Classical Association
of the Middle West and South, 1985-86.
CONSULTING:
Panelist to the Research Division
of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Member of the National Board of
Consultants of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Member of Site Visit Teams for
the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Classics Jury, American Academy
in Rome.
Reader for University of California
Press, Princeton University Press, E.J. Brill, University of Toronto Press,
various journals.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Published Books:
Cornelius Nepos: Lives of Famous
Men. Translated from the Latin and with an introduction by Gareth Schmeling.
(Lawrence: CoronadoPress1971).
Chariton (New York: Twayne,
1974).
A Bibliography of Petronius
(Leiden: Brill, 1977). With Johanna Stuckey.
Xenophon of Ephesus (Boston:
G.K. Hall, 1980).
Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri
(Leipzig:
Teubner, 1989).
The Novel in the Ancient World.
Edited and with an Introduction and Bibliography by Gareth Schmeling. (Leiden:
Brill 1996).
A History of Roman Literature
by Michael von Albrecht; English Edition revised and edited by Gareth
Schmeling. Two Volumes (Leiden: Brill,
1997).
Qui Miscuit Utile Dulci. Festschrift
Essays for Paul MacKendrick, edited by Gareth Schmeling (Chicago: Bolchazy-Carducci,
1998).
Published Articles:
"Petronian Scholarship Since 1956,"
Classical
World 62 (1969) 157-164; 352-353. [Reprinted in TheClassical World
Bibliography of Roman
Drama and Poetry and Ancient
Fiction (New York: Garland, 1978) 201-209].
"Petronius: Satirist, Moralist,
Epicurean, Artist," Classical Bulletin 45 (1969) 49-50; 64.
"The Literary Use of Names in
Petronius' Satyricon," Rivista di Studi Classici 17 (1969) 5-10.
"An Exclusus Amator in a Poem
Attributed to Petronius," Giornale Italiano di Filologia 21 (1969)
325-327.
"Trimalchio's Menu and Wine List,"
Classical
Philology 65 (1970) 248-251.
"A Pythagorean Element of the
Subterranean Basilica at the Porta Maggiore," Latomus 28 (1969)
1071-1073.
"Vergil on Trial," Classical
Outlook 47 (1970) 109-110.
"A Note on Petronius 62.9," Rivista
di Cultura Classica e Medioevale 12 (1970) 38-39.
"The Satyricon: Forms in Search
of a Genre," Classical Bulletin 47 (1971) 49-53.
"Myth in Two Antigones," Dioniso
44
(1970) 8-11.
"The Exclusus Amator Motif in
Petronius," Fons Perennis (Torino: Baccola and Gili, 1971) pp. 333-357.
"T.S. Eliot and Petronius," Comparative
Literature Studies 12 (1975) 393-410. With David Rebmann.
"Humanities Perspectives on the
Professions," Liberal Education 63 (May, 1977) 212-219.
"Petronius: état de la
question," in Erotica Antiqua. International Conference on the Anceint
Novel, ed. B.P Reardon (Bangor: University College
of North Wales Press, 1977) 5-7.
"The Authority of the Author:
From Muse to Aesthetics," Materiali e Contributi per la Storia della
Narrativa Greco-Latina 3 (1981) 369-377.
[Atti del Convegno Internazionale:
Letterature Classiche e Narratologia. Selva di Fasano, Italia. 6-8
Ottobre 1980 (Perugia: Università di Perugia,
(1981)].
"The Law as Servant of the Humanities,"
Liberal
Education 70 (1984) 133-141. With Sidney Homan.
"Manners and Morality in the Historia
Apollonii Regis Tyri," Piccolo Mondo Antico, ed. P. Liviabella Furiani
e A.M. Scarcella (Perugia:
Università degli Studi
di Perugia, 1989) 197-215.
"End Games: Closure in the Satyricon,"
in The Ancient Novel: Classical Paradigms and Modern Perspectives,
ed. J. Tatum (Hanover:
Dartmouth College, 1990) 137.
"The Satyricon: the Sense of an
Ending," Rheinisches Museum 134 (1991) 352-377.
"Petronius 14.3: Shekels and Lupines,"
Mnemosyne
45
(1992) 531-536.
"Notes to the Text of the Historia
Apollonii Regis Tyri: Part 1," Latomus 53.1 (1994) 132-154; Part
2 in 53.2 (1994) 386-403.
"Confessor Gloriosus: a Role of
Encolpius in the Satyrica," Würzburger Jahrbücher für
die Altertumswissenschaft 20 (1994-95) 207-224.
"Quid attinet veritatem per interpretem
quaerere? Interpretes and the Satyricon of Petronius," Ramus 23.1-2
(1994) 144-168. This essay is
also included in Roman Literature
and Ideology: Ramus Essays for J.P. Sullivan, ed. A.J. Boyle (Bendigo,
Australia: Aureal Publications, 1995).
"Genre and the Satyrica: Menippean
Satire and the Novel," in Claudia Klodt, ed., Satura Lanx: Festschrift
für Werner Krenkel (Hildesheim:
Georg Olms Verlag, 1996) 105-117.
"The Satyrica of Petronius," in
ed. Gareth Schmeling, The Novel in the Ancient World (Leiden: Brill,
1996) 457-490.
"Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri,"
in ed. Gareth Schmeling, The Novel in the Ancient World (Leiden:
Brill, 1996) 517-551.
"Motivation, Probability and Interpretation
in the Ancient Novel," in C. Santini, ed., Ars Narrandi. Scritti di
Narrativa Antica in Memoria di Luigi
Pepe (Perugia: Università
di Perugia, 1997) 77-86.
"Aphrodite and the Satyrica" in
Qui Miscuit Utile Dulci. Festschrift Essays for Paul MacKendrick,
ed. Gareth Schmeling (Chicago:
Bolchazy-Carducci, 1998) 343-348.
"Apollonius of Tyre: Last of the
Troublesome Latin Novels," Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen
Welt II 34.4 (Berlin: Walter De Gruyter,
1998) 3270-3291.
"Petronius and the Satyrica,"
in ed. H. Hofmann, Latin Fiction (London: Routledge, 1998) 23-37.
"The History of Apollonius of
Tyre," in ed. H. Hofmann, Latin Fiction (London: Routledge, 1998)
141-152.
"Petronius," in Dictionary
of Literary Biography: Rome, ed. W. Briggs (New York: Gale Research,
1998) 214-221.
"The Spectrum of Narrative: Authority
of the Author," in Ancient Fiction and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative,
ed. Ronald Hock and Judith
Perkins (Atlanta: Scholars Press,
1998) 18-30.
"Urbs Aeterna: Rome, a Monument
of the Mind," in Rome and her Monuments: Essays on the City and Literature
of Rome, ed. Judith Hallett
and Sheila Dickison (Chicago:
Bolchazy-Carducci, 2000) 89-98.
"Aspects of Genre, Narrative and
History in the Ancient Novel," Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen
Welt II 35.3 (Berlin: Walter De Gruyter,
2001) 46 pages. To appear.
Published Book Reviews:
Harry Schnur, Petron Satyricon:
Ein römisher Schelmenroman (Stuttgart 1968). In Classical World 62
(1969) 361.
Robert Sweeney, Prolegomena to
an Edition of the Scholia to Statius (Leiden 1969). In Classical World
63 (1969) 21.
Hermann Froesch, Ovids Epistulae
ex Ponto I-III als Gedichtssammlung (Bonn 1968). In Classical Philology
65 (1970) 69-70.
Ben Perry, The Ancient Romances
(Berkeley 1967). In Rivista di Studi Classici 18 (1970) 161-162.
Alexander Scobie, Aspects of the
Ancient Romance and its Heritage (Meisenheim: Hain, 1969). In Classical
World 64 (1970) 92-93.
E.T. Sage, Petronius: The Satyricon
(New York 1969). In Rivista di Studi Classici 18 (1970) 290-291.
J.P. Sullivan, The Satyricon of
Petronius: A Literary Study (London 1968). In Rivista di Studi Classici
18 (1970) 291.
Heseltine, M., Warmington, E.H.,
Petronius. Seneca Apocolocyntosis (London 1969). In Rivista di Studi Classici
18 (1970) 292.
Paul Gillette, Satyricon: Memoirs
of a Lusty Roman (Los Angeles 1965). In Rivista di Studi Classici (1970)
457.
Thomas Cutt, Petronius: Cena Trimalchionis
(Detroit 1970). In American Classical Review 1 (1971) 77.
Phillip Corbett, Petronius (New
York 1970). In Modern Language Journal 55 (1971) 482-483.
A. Persi Flacci Saturarum Liber,
ed. Domenicus Bo (Turin 1969). In Classical Philology 67 (1972) 303-304.
Walsh, P.G., The Roman Novel (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1970). In Classical Journal 69 (1974) 182-184.
Meheust, J., Stace Achilléide
(Paris: Société d'Édition "Les Belles Lettres": 1971).
In American Classical Review 2 (1972) 188.
Vessey, D., Statius and the Thebald
(Cambridge, 1973). In the American Journal of Philology 96 (1975) 80-81.
Papanikolaou, A.D., Chariton-Studien.
Untersuchungen zur Sprache und Chronologie der griechischen Romane (Göttingen,
1973). Classical World
69 (1975) 136-137.
Poynton, J.B., trans., P. Papinius
Statius, Thebais I-III (Oxford, 1971). American Classical Review 3 (1973)
52.
Sherman, W., ed. and trans., Deeds
of Famous Men (Norman, Oklahoma, 1973). Rivista di Studi Classici 23 (1975)
286.
Gordon, Phyllis, ed. and trans.,
Two Renaissance Book Hunters: The Letters of Poggius Bracciolini to Nicolaus
De Nicolis (New York, 1974). In
Rivista di Studi Classici 23 (1975)
286-287.
Papanikolaou, A.D., Xenophontis
Ephesii Ephesiacorum Libri V (Leipzig: Teubner, 1973). In Classical World
69 (1975) 211-212.
Balme, M.G., ed., The Millionaire'
Dinner Party (Oxford, 1974). In Classical World 69 (1976) 414.
Williams, R.D., ed., P. Papini
Stati Thebaidos Liber Decimus. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1972). In American
Classical Review 3 (1973) 103.
Tatum, James, Apuleius and the
Golden Ass (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979). In Classical Outlook
57 (1980) 118.
Gerald Sandy, Heliodorus (Boston:
Twayne, 1982). In Classical Journal 78 (1983) 365-366.
Tomas Hägg, The Novel in
Antiquity (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1983). In American Journal of Philology
106 (1983) 530-531.
B.P. Reardon, The Form of Greek
Romance (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991). In Phoenix 47 (1993)
269-270.
C. Gill, T.P. Wiseman, eds., Lies
and Fiction in the Ancient World (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993).
In Classical Outlook 71 (1994)
142-144.
G.P. Goold, ed. & trans.,
Chariton: Callirhoe (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995). In Classical
Outlook 73 (1996) 140-141.
J.N. O'Sullivan, Xenophon of Ephesus.
His Compositional Technique and the Birth of the Novel (Berlin: Walter
de Gruyter, 1995). In American
Journal of Philology 117 (1996)
660-663.
E. Gowers, The Loaded Table (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1993). In Gnomon 68 (1996) 644-645.
K. Müller, ed., Petronius
Satyricon Reliquiae (Leipzig: Teubner 1995). In Gnomon 71 (1998) 473-475.
C. Panayotakis, Theatrum Arbitri
(Leiden: Brill 1995). In Latomus 56 (1997) 910-911.
P.G. Walsh, trans. and ed., The
Satyricon of Petronius (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996). In Latomus
57 (1998) 713-714.
Gian Biagio Conte, The Hidden
Author (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996) In Gnomon. 72 (2000)
503-506.
PAPERS & CONFERENCES:
1970 Classical Association of
Florida, October 15-16. Orlando. Paper: "Petronius in the Contemporary
Classroom."
1970 Classical Association of
the Middle-West and South, November 5-7. Miami Beach. Paper: "The Satyricon:
Forms in Search of a Genre."
1970 American Philological Association,
December 27-30. New York. Presiding chairman of a session on Petronius.
1971 American Philological Association,
December 27-30. Cincinnati. Presiding chairman of a session on Petronius.
1972 Classical Association of
the Middle-West and South, March 24-April 1. Durham. Paper: "Petronius
in 20th Century English Literature."
1972 Classical Association of
the Middle-West and South, November 2-4. Williamsburg. Paper: "The Efficient
Motif in Ancient Romance."
1972 American Philological Association,
December 27-30. Philadelphia. Presiding chairman of a session on Petronius.
1974 Classical Association of
the Middle-West and South, April 11-13. New Orleans. Paper: "Trials by
Ordeal in Ancient Prose Fiction."
1974 Société Internationale
d'Études Néroniennes, May 17-18. Milan, Italy. Paper: "Pornography
and Petronius: The Grotesque and Nero."
1974 Classical Association of
the Middle-West and South, October 31-November 2. Lexington. Paper: "Pornography
and Petronius: The
Grotesque and Nero."
1974 American Philological Association,
December 28-30. Chicago. Presiding chairman of a session on Petronius.
1975 Classical Association of
the Middle-West and South, April 3-5. Cleveland. Paper: "The Nature of
Pornography in the Satyricon."
1975 NEH Project Directors Meeting
and Presentations, October 16-18. University of Denver, Denver.
1976 International Conference
on the Ancient Novel, July 12-17. Bangor, Wales. Paper: "État de
la Question: Petronius."
1976 Classical Association of
the Middle-West and South, October 28-30. Austin. Paper: "Humanities Perspectives
on the Professions: A
Challenge for the 20th Century."
1976 NEH Project Directors Meeting
and Presentations, January 24-28. St. Petersburg.
1977 Annual Meeting of the Association
of American Colleges, February 10-12. New Orleans. Paper: "Ethical Dimensions
in Pre-professional
Education."
1978 Zagreb University. Zagreb,
Yugoslavia. May 16. "The Unreliable Narrator of the Satyricon."
1978 Zagreb University. Zagreb,
Yugoslavia. May 17. "Xenophon of Ephesus: Novel or Aretalogy?"
1979 University of Georgia. Athens,
Georgia. June 21. For the meeting of the American Classical League. "Graffiti
from Pompeii and Elsewhere:
the 1900th Anniversary of the
Destruction of Pompeii."
1979 NEH Site Visit, September
25-28. St. Louis University, St. Louis.
1979 NEH Consultant, Texas A &
I University, October 23-26. Kingsville.
1979 American Philological Association,
December 27-30. Boston. Presiding chairman of a session on Petronius.
1980 NEH Consultant, Bryant College,
Providence, Rhode Island. January 22-24.
1980 The Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Maryland. March 12. "The Influence of Petronius on English Literature."
1980 NEH Consultant, Texas A &
I University, April 23-25. Kingsville.
1980 NEH Consultant, Bryant College,
May 14-17. Providence, Rhode Island.
1980 Convegno Internazionale Letterature
Classiche e Narratologia, October 6-9. Selva di Fasano, Italy. "Authority
of the Author."
1980 NEH Consultant, Bryant College,
19-21 November. Providence, Rhode Island.
1980 NEH Consultant, East Tennessee
State University, 2-4 December. Johnson City, Tennessee.
1981 Classics Jury, American Academy
in Rome, 9-11 January and 22-23 January, New York City.
1981 NEH Consultant, Texas A &
I University, February 24-27. Kingsville.
1981 Consultant for Humanities
Program, University of Southern California, March 11-14. Los Angeles.
1981 NEH Consultant, East Tennessee
State University, March 17-19. Johnson City, Tennessee.
1981 Consultant for Humanities
Programs, University of North Carolina, 22-24 March. Chapel Hill.
1981 NEH Consultant, Bryant College,
11-13 May. Providence, Rhode Island.
1981 NEH Consultant, Lake City
Community College, 18 August. Lake City, Florida.
1982 Classics Jury, American Academy
in Rome, 11-13 January, New York City.
1982 NEH Consultant, Lake City
Community College, 1 and 5 February, Lake City, Florida.
1982 NEH Consultant, Lake City
Community College, 5 April and 8 June, Lake City, Florida.
1982 Consultant to East Tennessee
State University, 22-24 June, Johnson city, Tennessee.
1983 Lecture at the American Academy
in Rome, "Romani a Tavola," 20 July.
1983 Lecture at the Florida Foreign
Language Association Annual Conference, Jacksonville, "Romans at Table,"
14 October.
1984 Speaker at the 1984 Conference
on Humanities and Technology, 1-4 February, University of South Carolina,
Columbia.
1984 Lecture at the Intercollegiate
Center for Classical Studies (Stanford University), Rome, Italy, "Petronius
on the Bay of Napes", 11 October.
1985 Lecture at the American Academy
in Rome, "Petronius' Influence on 20th Century English Literature", 2 April.
1985 Lecture at the University
of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, "Petronius and T.S. Eliot," 30 April.
1985 NEH Program Reviewer. Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia. 20-23
November.
1986 Presidential Address at the
82nd annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle-West and
South, "Petronius' Paper Bridge."
Tampa, Florida, 18 April.
1987 Panelist for the American
Council of Learned Societies, Fellowship Committee. New York, 21-22 January.
1988 Lecture at the Classical
Association of the Middle-West and South - Southern Section, "T.S. Eliot,
the Classical Critic: Conversion of a
Believer." Gainesville, Florida,
10 November.
1989 Member of the Advisory Committee
for the International Conference on the Ancient Novel, sponsored by NEH
and IREX, at Dartmouth
College, 23-29 July 1989. Read
a paper entitled "The Satyricon: the Sense of an Ending."
1990 Lecture at the conference,
"Virgilio tra Poesia e Storia", "Critici Moderni contro Virgilio." Gubbio,
Italy, 5-6 November.
1990 Lecture at the University
of Florence, "Confessioni di Encolpio: assassino, bugiardo o narrator ludens?"
Florence, Italy, 10 December.
1993 Lecture at the University
of Würzburg, 20 October; Lecture at the University of Heidelberg,
26 October; Lecture at the University of Munich,
3 November; Lecture at the Università
degli Studi di Lecce, 9 November: "Confessor Gloriosus: a Role of Encolpius
in the Satyricon."
1996 Classics Department Program
Reviewer. Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 21-24 May 1996.
1996 Seminar at Duke University,
7 August 1996: "Aspects of Genre, Narrative, and History in the Ancient
Novel."
1996 Lecture at the Society of
Biblical Literature's annual meeting in New Orleans, 25 November 1996:
"Authority of the Author."
1997 J.P. Sullivan Memorial Lecture,
University of California - Santa Barbara, 21 April 1997: "Guardians of
the Text: Editors and Critics."
1997 Department of Classics, University
of California - Santa Barbara, 22 April 1997: "Aspects of Genre and Narrative
in Ancient Fiction."
1997 Special Panel on Petronius'
Satyrica at the annual meeting of the APA in Chicago. 28 December 1997.
1998 Classical Association of
the Middle West and South, Annual Meeting, Charlottesville, VA: "Myths
of Person and Place: the Search for a
Model for the Ancient Novel."
17 April.
1998 Lecture at the University
of Wisconsin, Madison, "Guardians of the Text: Editors and Critics." For
the University's Sesquicentennial
Anniversary. 16 October.
1998 American Academy of Religion,
Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL: "Ars Narrandi:
Ancient Fiction, Apocryphal
Acts." 21 November.
1999 Sarasota Institute of Lifetime
Learning, Sarasota, FL: "Rome: the World's First Superpower." 6 January.
