BARBARA LAWATSCH-MELTON

Office:
222G Candler Library

Phone:
404.712.9464

E-Mail:
blawats@emory.edu

AREAS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

The Classical Tradition
Neo-Latin
Latin Historiography and Anthropology
Late Medieval and Early Modern Spirituality

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. Graduated with highest honors

EMPLOYMENT AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Emory University, Department of Classics. Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall 2002-present: Elementary Latin I and II; Intermediate Latin/Prose; The Classical Tradition and the American Founding (developed for Spring 2008)

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

Private Instructor in German, Ithaca, New York and Guest Lecturer on Austrian
History, Literature, and Art, Ithaca College, 1983-84

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Regular Columnist, Austrian Studies Newsletter (articles, interviews, annually
published reviews of the Salzburg Festival), 1996-present

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
introduction, notes, vocabulary, English translation, and facsimile of the 17th-century manuscript. Wauconda, ILL: Bolchazy-Carducci
Publishers, 1995.

“Pendeln zwischen Österreich und den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika,” in Kulturstereotype imd Unbekannte Kulturlandschaften am Beispiel von Amerika und Europa, ed. Joachim Brügge and Ulrike Kammerhofer-Aggermann (Verlag Müller-Speiser, 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

The Joys and Sorrows of Frau Susanna: Spirituality, Monastic Discipline, and Celebration at Nonnberg Abbey (1620-1666). Book manuscript in progress.

The Impact of Tridentine Reform and Princely Absolutism on the Nuns of Nonnberg (1620-1682)” Article manuscript in progress.

Translator, Cotton Mather, Biblia Americana (Classical Greek and Neo-Latin passages), edited by Reiner Smolinski, forthcoming.

Amandus Pachler, Abbot of St. Peter in Salzburg (1657-1673). Article in progress

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

“Loss and Gain in a Salzburg Convent: The Impact of Tridentine Reform and Princely Absolutism on the Nuns of Nonnberg (1620-1682).” To be presented at Duke University, March, 2008, at conference sponsored by Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär; also at forthcoming session of the European Studies Seminar, Emory University, 2007-2008.

“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.

Honors

Fulbright Scholar, 1982-84

Maryland Public Television, "Exploring Maryland's Roots" (website supported by the Department of Education) uses and recommends my edition of Voyage to Maryland/Relatio Itineris in Marilandiam.