LISA B. HUGHES
Lisa B. Hughes has a PhD in classics from the University of Iowa, and has taught classics at Hamilton College and Georgetown Univeristy. She enjoys teaching Comedy, Women in Antiquity, Mythology, and all Latin and Greek. Her scholarly interests include Augustan poetry, and the classical tradition in American literature. Recent publications and conference papers have been on Vergil, Plato, and Willa Cather. She is currently working on a book entitled Euripidean Vergil and the Smoke from a Distant Fire.
| OFFICE ARMSTRONG 240 |
OFFICE HOURS TUESDAY AND THURSDAY 1:30-3 and by appointment |
CURRICULUM VITAE
| SPECIAL INTERESTS | Augustan Poetry: Epic and Elegy |
| Women in Antiquity | |
| Comedy in Cultural Context | |
| Classical Tradition in American Literature | |
| EDUCATION | Ph. D.Classics, University of Iowa 1995 |
| BA English/Classics, The University of Kentucky 1984 |
| PUBLICATIONS | "Gender, Sexuality, and Writing in Plato and Cather", Classical
and Modern Literature 22/1 (2002) 49-60. |
| "Aeneas and Dido, an Homeric Homilia?", Latomus (2002) | |
| "Vergil's Creusa and Iliad 6", Mnemosyne (1997) | |
| "A Wilder Oresteia" submitted to Journal of Comparative Drama. | |
| "Ovid in the House of Yes", article in progress. | |
| The Smoke of a Distant Fire: Vergil's Trojan Women, book in progress | |
| PROFESSIONAL | "Euripidean Vergil" Paper presented to American Philological Association, Philadelphia, PA January 2002. NOMINATED BY WOMEN'S CLASSICAL CAUCUS "BEST PAPER OF CONFERENCE". |
| ACTIVITIES | "Vergil's Trojan Women and the Smoke of a Distant Fire" Paper presented to Classical Association of the Atlantic States, Baltimore, MD, October 2001. |
| "My Antonia: Plato's American Symposium" Paper presented to the Willa Cather Society, Mesa Verde, Colorado, October 1999. | |
| "Aeneas and Dido, an Homeric Homilia?" Paper presented to the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, Washington D.C. April 1999. | |
| "Medea in the Post-Apocalyptic Suburbs" Paper on Thornton Wilder presented to the Society for Comparative Drama, University of Florida, May 1998. | |
| "Vergil's Andromache" paper presented by invitation of the Leeds International Latin Seminar, Leeds, England, May 1996 | |
| "Aesthetic Approaches to Law and Politics" Panel Discussant, Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA March 1996 |
| "The Troades not Taken: Aeneid 2 and Iliad 6" Paper presented to Classical Associaion of the Atlantic States. Rutgers University, April 1995. | |
| "Toward a Basic Color Vocabulary of Latin", paper presented in the panel of the Classical Linguists Association at the American Philological Association annual meeting, San Francisco, CA December 1990. | |
| "Narrator and Audience within Apuleius' Metamorphoses", paper presented at the Second International Conference on the Ancient Novel, Dartmouth College, July 1989. | |
| "The Other Woman in Euripides' Medea" paper presented at Grinnell College in the Noun Forum on the Study of Gender 1989. |