Victoria Emma Pagán
Associate Professor
115C Dauer Hall
352-392-2075 x 262
vepagan@ufl.edu
Mailing Address:
125 Dauer Hall
Department of Classics
University of Florida
Post Office Box 117435
Gainesville, FL 32611-7435
FAX: 352-846-0297
Curriculum Vitae
Education
- 1997. Ph.D. Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago
- 1990. M.A. Classical Studies, University of Michigan
- 1988. B.A. Latin,
magna cum
laude, Kent State University
Dissertation
- "Tacitus Plus: The Poetics of Disguise," directed by W.
Ralph Johnson.
Employment
- 2005- University of Florida, Gainesville, Associate Professor with tenure.
- 2005. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Associate Professor with tenure.
- 1998-05. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Assistant Professor tenure track.
- 1997-98. University of Florida, Gainesville,
Assistant Professor
tenure track.
Post Doctoral Grants and Awards
- 2008. Waldo
W. Neikirk Term Professor in the College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida.
- 2007. University of Florida Department of Classics, Spring semester leave.
- 2006. University of Florida Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Grant, $7000.
- 2005. University of Wisconsin Graduate School Research Grant, 2/9th salary, declined.
- 2004. American Association of University Women Research Grant, $6000.
- 2004. University of Wisconsin Graduate School Research Grant, 1/9th salary, declined.
- 2002-03. Woodrow Wilson Foundation Career Enhancement Fellowship, $30,000 + $1,500 research stipend.
- 2002. University of Wisconsin Institute for Research in the Humanities, Spring semester leave.
- 2001. University of Wisconsin Graduate School Research Service Grant, 1/9th salary.
- 2001. University of Wisconsin Graduate School
Research Grant,
2/9th salary.
- 2000. University of Wisconsin Graduate School
Research Grant,
2/9th salary.
- 1999. University of Wisconsin Graduate School
Research Grant,
2/9th salary.
- 1998-99. Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship for
Minorities,
$25,000 + $3,000 travel and relocation allowance; $2,000
cost-of-research allowance; $2,500 employing institution matching funds.
Publications
Books
- 2006. Rome and the Literature of Gardens. London: Duckworth Press. Pp. 160. ISBN 0715635069. £12.99.
Reviews:
2007. Richard Mawrey, Historic Gardens Review
18: 40.
2007. William Fitzgerald, Times Literary Supplement 9
November, p. 29.
2007. Prudence Jones, Classical Outlook 85.1: 50.
2008. Diana Spencer, New England Classical Journal 35.1:
71-4.
2008. John
Henderson, Scholia Reviews ns
17: 2.
forthcoming. John Dixon
Hunt, Ancient History Bulletin.
forthcoming. Leah Kronenberg, Hermathena.
forthcoming. Gillian McIntosh, Classical Bulletin.
- 2004. Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History. Austin: University of Texas Press. Pp. 208. ISBN 0-292-70561-1. $45.
Reviews and Notices:
2004. Phyllis Wachter,
“Annual Bibliography of Works about Life Writing,”
Biography 27.4: 762.
2005. Chronicle of Higher
Education, “Hot Type” February 11.
2005. Simone Bonim, History in Review, March
2.
2005. John Allen, On
Wisconsin, Summer, p. 18.
2005. R. I. Frank, Choice,
October.
2005. Holly Haynes, American Journal of Philology
126.4: 630-2.
2006. Debra Nousek, Bryn
Mawr Classical Review 2006.01.48.
2006. J. B. Rives, Classical Philology
101.2: 177-81.
2006. Christina S. Kraus, New England Classical Journal
33.2: 152-4.
2006. John Phillips, Southern Humanities Review
40.3: 290-3.
2006. Mary Jaeger, Hermathena 180: 133-5.
2007. Barbara Weiden Boyd, Clio 36.3: 421-7.
2007. Uwe Walter, sehepunkte 7.2 [15.02.2007]
http://www.sehepunkte.de/2007/02/7962.html
2007. Andrew Hadfield,
"History/Historiography," Year's
Work in Critical and
Cultural Theory 15: 217-39.
Articles
2008. “Toward a Model of Conspiracy Theory
for
Ancient Rome,” in "Dark Powers: Conspiracy and Conspiracy Theory in
History and Literature," Eva Horn, ed.
New German Critique
Volume 35 Number 103 (Spring): 27-49.
2007/08. “Teaching Torture in Seneca Controversiae 2.5,” Classical Journal 103.2: 165-82.
2006. “Shadows and Assassinations: Forms of Time in Tacitus and Appian,” Arethusa 39.2: 193-218.
2005. “Magno Itinere: Caesar in the Fifth Semester,” Classical Outlook 82: 133-7.
2005. “The Pannonian Revolt in the Annals of Tacitus,” Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History XII: 414-22.
2004. “Speaking Before Superiors: Orpheus in Vergil and Ovid,” in Free Speech in Classical Antiquity, I. Sluiter and R. Rosen, eds. Leiden: Brill: 369-89.
2002. “Actium and Teutoburg: Augustan Victory and Defeat in Vergil and Tacitus,” in Clio and the Poets: Augustan Poetry and the Traditions of Ancient Historiography, D. Levene and D. P. Nelis, eds. Leiden: Brill: 45-59.
2000. “The Mourning After: Statius Thebaid 12,” American Journal of Philology 121: 423-52.
2000. “Distant Voices of Freedom in the Annales of Tacitus,” Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History X: 358-69.
1999. “Beyond Teutoburg: Transgression and Transformation in Tacitus, Annales 1.61-62,” Classical Philology 94: 302-20.
1991. with L. KOENEN and W. LUPPE, “Explanations of
Callimachean aitia,” Zeitschrift
für Papyrologie und
Epigraphik 88: 157-64.
Reviews
in press. R. Rosen and I. Sluiter, City, Countryside, and the Spatial Organization of Value in Classical Antiquity (Leiden: 2006). Ancient History Bulletin.
2007. N. Shumate, Nation, Empire, Decline: Studies in
Rhetorical Continuity from the Romans to the Modern Era (London
2006). New England Classical
Journal 34.3:273-5.
2007. with A. WOLPERT. J. Roisman, The Rhetoric of Conspiracy in Ancient Athens (Berkeley 2006). Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.03.14.
2006. P. Bowe, Gardens of the Roman World (Los Angeles 2004). Classical Outlook 83.2: 89.
2005. H. Haynes, The History of Make Believe: Tacitus on Imperial Rome (Berkeley 2003). Hermathena 179: 224-6.
2004. E. Gunderson, Declamation, Paternity, and Roman Identity: Authority and the Rhetorical Self (Cambridge 2003). Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.02.29.
2004. C. Damon, Tacitus Histories I (Cambridge 2003). Classical Review 54: 111-112.
2002. D. Hurley, Suetonius Divus Claudius (Cambridge 2001). Journal of Roman Studies 92: 252-53.
2001. R. Ash, Ordering Anarchy: Armies and Leaders in
Tacitus’ Histories (Ann Arbor 1999) and E. O’Gorman, Irony and
Misreading in the Annals of Tacitus (Cambridge 2000). Journal of
Roman Studies 91: 252-53.
In Progress
Companion to Tacitus.
Oxford and Boston: Blackwell Publishing. Commissioned as
editor. Under contract (delivery 2010).
Conspiracy in the Roman Literary Imagination. Austin: University
of Texas Press. Under contract (delivery 2010).
A Sallust Reader: Selections from Bellum Catilinae, Bellum Jugurthinum, and Historiae. Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc. Under contract (delivery 2008).
Translation of selections of John of Antioch from the Excerpta de Insidiis of Constantine Porphyrogenitus.
Conferences and Invited Lectures (Last Three Years)
2008. “Conspiracy in the Satires of Juvenal,” Classical Association of Middle West and South (CAMWS), Tucson, April 18.
2008. “Velleius 2.30.6 and Tacitus Histories 4.81: Allusion and Intertext,” Velleius Paterculus: Making History, Leicester UK, April 1-3.
2008. “The Power of the Preface from Statius to Pliny,”
Classical Association (CA), Liverpool UK, March 27-30.
2008. "Conspiracy Theory in Terence's Hecyra," American
Philological Association (APA), Chicago, January 5.
2007. “The Afterlife of Little Sparta,” CA, Birmingham UK, April 14.
2007. “Velleius 2.30.6 and Tacitus Histories 4.81: Allusion and Intertext,” Florida State University, March 24.
2007. “Gardens of Redemption: St Augustine and J. M. Coetzee,” University of South Florida, March 22.
2007. “Classics and Civility in the 21st Century,” panel co-organizer with Susanna Braund, APA, San Diego, January 6.
2006. “The Garden in Augustine’s Confessions,” International Medieval Congress, Leeds, July 10-16.
2006. “Toward a Definition of Conspiracy Theory in Ancient Rome,” at a conference entitled: “Dark Powers. Conspiracies in History and Fiction,” at the Forschungsstelle Kulturtheorie und Theorie des politischen Imaginären, University of Konstanz, May 12-14. Featured in Süddeutsche Zeitung.
2006. “Transgression and Transformation in Horace Satire 1.8,” CAMWS, Gainesville, April 6.
2006. “Putting Your Best Foot Forward,” Graduate Student Committee Panel, CAMWS, Gainesville, April 6.
2006. “Latin Secondary Education: Costs and Benefits,” APA, Montreal, January 5-8.
2005. “Tortured Women in Seneca the Elder,” International Congress on Law and Mental Health, Paris, July 6.
2005. Round Table Discussion on Current Research,
University of Florida, January 21.
Service
University of Florida
2007- University
Constitution Committee
2006- Supervisor of Latin Teaching
Assistants
2005- Eta Sigma Phi Faculty Advisor
2005-08 Department Curriculum
Committee Chair
2006-08 College Faculty Travel Committee
2006-07 University Committee on Two and Four Year Scholars
2006-07 Department By-Laws Committee
2006 Undergraduate
Advisor
2006 College Humanities
Enhancement Grant Committee
Professional
American Philological Association
2006-2009 Minority Scholarships Committee
Classical Association of the Middle West and South
2005-2009 Executive Committee Member-at-Large
2005-2006 Local Planning Committee for the 102nd Annual Meeting in
Gainesville
2004-2005 Chair, Local Planning Committee for the 101st Annual Meeting
in Madison
2003-2005 Northern Plains Regional Vice President
1999-2002 Wisconsin State Vice President
American Classical League
2002 Local Planning
Committee Member and University Contact
Manuscript Referee
Presses University of Michigan, Oxford, Routledge,
University of Wisconsin
Journals American Journal of Philology
Classical Journal
Classical Philology
Clio: A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History
Transactions of the American Philological Association
Classical Antiquity
University of Florida Graduate Advising
PhD Chair
2008. BECKER GERTRUDE H “Form, Intent, and the Fragmentary
Roman Historians 240-63 B.C.E.” Ph.D. in Classical Studies
MA Chair
2008. DALY MEGAN MARIE “Unstable Authority in Tacitus Histories 1
and 2”
M.A. in Classical Studies
2008. LOHMAR JAMES MOSS “Tydeus: The Saetiger Sus of
Statius’
Thebaid” M.A. in Classical Studies
2007. JADOO HARDAI SORAYA “The Interaction of Biography
and
Ethnography in Tacitus’ Agricola” M.A. in Latin
2007. MIZE ADAM JASON M.L. (non-thesis)
2006. VALLESKEY KARL THOMAS “Rome and Early Christianity: Perception and Prejudice” M.A. in Classical Studies
2006. COTTERMAN BILLIE JAY “Speeches in the Letters of
Pliny” M.A. in Latin
MA Committee Member
2007. FIELDS BRENDA MARINA “Sallust’s Bellum Iugurthinum:
Reading Iugurtha as the Other” M.A. in Latin
2007. HOLIDAY GAIL ANN M.L. (non-thesis)
2006. ALWINE ANDREW T “Greeks and Barbarians in Fifth and Fourth Century Sicily” M.A. in Classical Studies
2006. SANGCO-JACKSON GENEROSA “Imaginary Identity:
Aeneas’ Search for a Home in Aeneid 3” M.A. in Classical Studies
2006. BURT KATHLEEN R “Beginnings, Middles, and Endings in
Horace’s Odes” M.A. in Latin
2006. SCHIEDLER DAVID R “Tasting Teacher: A Look at
Cannibalism in Petronius’ Satyricon 141” M.A. in Latin
Conspectus of Teaching
Latin, Undergraduate and Graduate
Cicero, Sallust, Livy, Tacitus, Vergil, Statius, Augustine Confessions, Pliny the Younger
Independent Studies, Undergraduate and Graduate
Appian, Latin
Ethnography, Seneca the Younger, Lucan
Greek, Undergraduate
Beginning Ancient Greek
Lecture Courses, Undergraduate
Medical Terminology; English Vocabulary from Latin and Greek;
Roman Civilization; Roman Agriculture
