BARBARA LAWATSCH-MELTON
Office:
222G Candler Library
Phone:
404.712.9464
E-Mail:
blawats@emory.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Salzburg, 1987. History and Latin.
Secondary Concentration: Classical Greek.
Dissertation: “Erziehung und Ästhetik: Zur Gründung und Gestaltung
amerikanischer Kunstmuseen zwischen 1900 und 1920.”
(Education and Aesthetics: On the Founding and Arrangement
of American Art Museums between 1900 and 1920).
Fulbright Scholar, Smith College, 1982-84. Diploma in American Studies.
Akademisches Gymnasium, Salzburg, Austria, 1987. Highest honors.
EMPLOYMENT AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Emory University, Department of Classics. Fall 2002-present: Elementary Latin I and II; Intermediate Latin/Prose; The Classical Tradition and the American Founding (Seminar);
Roman Satire (Seminar).
Emory University, Department of German Studies. Summer 2005 (Emory-in-Vienna Program): Elementary German I and II.
Georgia Perimeter College. Instructor, 2001-03
World Civilization from the Beginning to 1500 and from 1500 to the Present.
University of Minnesota, Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch. Lecturer, 1997-98 Contemporary Austria (Austrian History of the 20th Century).
St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Division of Arts and Letters. Adjunct Assistant Professor, 1987-94 Classical, Biblical, German, English, and American Literature; Elementary Latin I and II; Intermediate Latin; Latin Literature.
Guest Lecturer on Austrian History, Literature, and Art, Ithaca College, 1983-84
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Associate Editor, Austrian History Yearbook, 2000-2003.
Research Fellow, Commission for Modern Austrian History, and Administrative
Liaison with the Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota, 1994-99.
Reporter and Commentator for Austrian Public Radio (ORF), 1980.
PUBLICATIONS
Editor and Translator of Andrew White, S.J., Voyage to Maryland (1633).
Relatio Itineris in Marilandiam (first critical edition of Latin text, with scholarly
introduction, notes, vocabulary, English translation, and facsimile of the 17th-century manuscript.) Wauconda, ILL: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1995.
“The Debate and Its Terms,” lead contribution to e-seminar Classics in the Modern World – a Democratic Turn? An International Research Collaboration. October 2009.
“Loss and Gain in a Salzburg Convent: Tridentine Reform, Princely Absolutism, and the Nuns of Nonnberg (1620-1696),” in Enduring Loss in Early Modern Germany, edited by Lynne Tatlock (Brill, forthcoming)
Regular Columnist, Austrian Studies Newsletter (articles, interviews, annually
published reviews of the Salzburg Festival), 1996-present.
“Pendeln zwischen Ősterreich und den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika,” in Joachim Brügge und Ulrike Kammerhofer-Aggermann (eds.). Kulturstereotype und Unbekannte Kulturlandschaften – am Beispiel von Amerika und Europa. Salzburg, 2007.
“Die Seuffzende(n) Salzburger auf der Insel der Hoffnung: Die De Renne Library
und das frühe Schrifttum zur Salzburger Emigration.” Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Salzburger Landeskunde 118 (1998).
“Die Kunstbeschreibung als strukturierendes Stilmittel in den Panegyriken des Claudius Claudianus.” Grazer Beiträge 18 (1992).
Review of Paula Sutter Fichtner, From Dynasticism to Multinationalism. A
History of the Habsburg Empire, Austrian History Yearbook 32 (2001).
IN PROGRESS
A Comparative Study of Nuns and Monks in 17th Century Salzburg.
Book manuscript in progress.
“The Catonian Moment: 18th Century Classical Icons and the American ‘Millennial Generation’.”
“Precedents and Trends towards a “Democratic Turn” in the Classical Tradition in the United States.”
“Amand Pachlers Vita des heiligen Vitalis (1663) und die Wurzeln benediktinischer Geschichtsforschung im Umfeld der Salzburger Universität.”
Translator, Cotton Mather, Biblia Americana (Classical Greek and Neo-Latin passages), edited by Reiner Smolinski.
Franziska von Meichl: Musician, Prioress, and Author at Nonnberg Abbey.
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
“Classical Receptions, Political Cultures, and Notions of Democracy.” Panel proposal for Classics in the Modern World – a Democratic Turn? (international conference to be held in June 2010, Milton Keynes, UK); resulted in invitation to serve as lead discussant for e-seminar preceding the conference, October 2009 (see above).
“The Classical Tradition and Its Impact on the American Founding.” Workshop for Teachers, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, June 2008.
“Loss and Gain in a Salzburg Convent: The Impact of Tridentine Reform and Princely Absolutism on the Nuns of Nonnberg (1620-1682).” Duke University, March, 2008, at conference sponsored by Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär; also at Session of the European Studies Seminar, Emory University, December 2007.
“The Problem of Austrian Identity in the Interwar Period.” Department of History, Emory University, 2000.
“Sixty Years of Austrian Cultural Influence in the United States.” Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota, 1997.
“Austrian Culture and Society after the Wars with the Ottoman Empire.” Department of History, University of Sofia, 1996.
“Classical Rhetoric, Thomism and Aristotelian Thought in Andrew White’s Relatio Itineris in Marilandiam (1634).” International Society for the Classical Tradition, Boston University, 1995).
“A Seventeenth-Century View of the World in a Classical Idiom: Descriptions of the Lands and Native Peoples in Andrew White’s Relatio Itineris in Marilandiam. American Philological Association, Atlanta, 1994; Ohio Classical Conference, Youngstown, 1992.
“Die Praxis des wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens.” Institut für Geschichte, Universität Innsbruck, 1994.
“Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.” Early Music Festival, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 1992.
“Perceptions of the East in Claudian’s Art Descriptions.” Byzantine Studies Conference, Boston, 1991.
“I.F. Stone’s The Trial of Socrates.” Faculty Seminar, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 1988.
Interpreting Classical Texts: Plato’s Ion and Aristotle’s Poetics.” Faculty Seminar, St. Mary’s College of Maryland 1988.
SERVICE
Aided Maximilian Aue (Department of German Studies) in laying the groundwork for conference of MALCA (Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association), held in April, 2009, at Emory: Budgetary estimates, arrangements at hotel and conference center, call for papers and publicity. $ 25,000 subsidy obtained from Graduate School, Emory University.
Served as panel moderator during the conference of MALCA, Emory University, April 2009 (see above).
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Served on Honors Thesis Committees:
2009- 10 Ashley Hanson
2006-07 Matthew Walker
Served as advisor
Advisee: Dominique Forrest (2008-present)
HONORS
“Exploring Maryland’s Roots” (website supported by the U.S. Department of Education), recommends my edition of Voyage to Maryland/Relatio Itineris in Marilandiam.
Received permission to conduct archival research at Nonnberg Abbey, Salzburg, Austria (2006-2009).
Fulbright Scholar, 1982-84.