Christine Godfrey Perkell

Office:
221B Candler Library

Phone:
404.727.7938

E-Mail:
cperkel@emory.edu

Education:
Wellesley College, 1963-67. BA in French.
Harvard University, 1969-76. Ph.D.. in Classical Philology, 1977.

Recognitions and Honors:
Durant Scholar, Wellesley College Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa, RAAR.

Professional History:
Dartmouth College, Department of Classics:
Instructor 1975-77
Assistant Professor 1977-83
Associate Professor 1983-90
Emory University, Department of Classics:
Associate Professor 1990 - present
Stanford University: Visiting Associate Professor Spring 1992
Drew University: Visiting Associate Professor Spring 1996, Fall 1996, Fall 1998

Special Interests:
1. Epic Poetry
2. Greek and Latin Literature
3. Linguistics

Teaching:

A. Greek: all levels; Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Euripides, Homer, Plato,
Sophocles

B. Latin: all levels; Apuleius, Catullus, Cicero, Horace, Livy, Lucretius,
Ovid, Petronius, Seneca, Tacitus, Vergil

C. Classical Civilization:
Greek Literature from Homer to Plato; Greek Drama in Translation; Classical Epic Poetry; Classical Mythology; Hero and Anti-hero in Classical Epic; The Augustan Age: Ideology in Literature and Art (team-taught); Women in Classical Literature: Origins of the Western Attitude towards Women; The Ancient Novel and Its Influence; Vergil and Dante: Vergil in Dante.

D. Humanities: Humanities 1 & 2: the Classical Tradition (Homer, Virgil,
Biblical selections, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Mme de Lafayette, Fielding, Twain); Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (Hesiod, Theocritus, Vergil, Thoreau, Twain, Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edward Abbey)

E. Institutes (presenter and/or director)
"Women in Classical Literature" NEH Institute in the
Teaching of Classical Civilizations (The Ohio State University, Summer 1983)
"The Legacy of Fifth-Century Athens" Classical Association of
New England: Institute in the Classical Humanities (Summer 1983)
"Reading Vergil's Aeneid" NEH Institute for College Teachers
(Emory University, Summer 1994), Director
Vergil Project (University of Pennsylvania, Summers 1998-2000)

Major Grant:
$217,000: Director, NEH Summer Institute for College
Teachers: Reading Vergil's Aeneid in the Humanities Curriculum (Emory University 1994)

Fellowship:
Lucy Shoe Merritt Residency in Classics at American Academy in Rome, fall 2000.

Publications

A. Books:
The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989)

Reviewed: P. Davis, Scholia 1 (1992) 119-24); J. Farrell, AJP
113 (1992) 294-97; D. Fowler, G&R 37 (1990) 237-38; K. Galinsky, CW 84 (1991) 478; P.Hardie, JRS 81 (1991) 204-05; J. O'Hara, CJ 88 (1992) 77-80

Reading Vergil's Aeneid, ed. C. Perkell
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999; repr. 2002.)

Reviewed: A. Barchiesi, CJ 95 (2000) 285-87; D. Hooley, Vergilius
46 (2000) 167-72; J.S.C.Eidinow, CR 52.1 (2002) 60-61.

Commentary on Aeneid 3, under review at Focus Press

B. Book Chapters

“On Eclogue 1.79-83,” forthcoming in Oxford Readings in the Eclogues and Georgics, ed. K. Volk [repr. of TAPA 190, below].

C. Articles

“Irony in the Underworlds of Dante and Virgil: Readings of Francesca
da Rimini and Palinurus.” Materiali e Discussioni.52 (2004) 125-40.

“Vergil Reading His Readers: A Study of Eclogue 9”: in Vergilius
47 (2001) 64-88.

“The Golden Age and Its Contradictions in the Poetry of Vergil,”
Vergilius 48 (2002) 3-39.

"Pastoral Value in Vergil: Some Instances." In Poets and Critics
Read Vergil, ed. Sarah Spence (New Haven, CT 2001) 26-43.

"The Lament of Juturna: Pathos and Interpretation in the Aeneid."
TAPA 127 (1997) 257-86.

"The 'Dying Gallus' and the Design of Eclogue 10." CP 91 (1996) 128-40.

"Ambiguity and Irony: 'The Last Resort'?" Helios 21 (1994) 63-74.

"On the Birds in the Birds." Ramus 22 (1993) 1-18.

"Vergil's Eclogues: New Directions in Scholarship." Vergilius 36
(1990) 43-55.

"On Eclogue 1.79-83." TAPA 120 (1990) 171-81.

"Virgil's 'Theodicy' Reconsidered." In Vergil at 2000: Commemorative Essays on the Poet and his Influence, edd. J. D. Bernard and P.T. Alessi (New York 1986) 67-83.

"Women in Classical Literature." In Greek and Roman Civilization:
"Women in Classical Literature." In Greek and Roman Civilization:
Essays on the Teaching of Four Aspects of Classical Civilizations,
ed. Mark Morford (Columbus OH 1981) 11-33.

"Remarks on the Corycian Gardener in Virgil's Fourth Georgic."
TAPA 111 (1981) 167-77.

"On Creusa, Dido and the Quality of Victory in Virgil's Aeneid."
Women's Studies 8 (1981) 201-23 (reprinted in Reflections of Women in Antiquity, ed. H. P. Foley [London 1981] 355-77).
"A Reading of Vergil's Fourth Georgic." Phoenix 22 (1978) 211-21.

D. Reviews:

Susan Wiltshire, Public and Private in Vergil's Aeneid. Vergilius 36 (1990) 143-45.

Joseph Farrell, Vergil's Georgics and the Traditions of Ancient
Epic. CP 87 (1992) 269-74.

David West, Virgil: The Aeneid. A New Prose Translation. CW 70
(1993) 149.

R. Wilhelm and H. Jones, The Two Worlds of the Poet: New
Perspectives on Vergil. Vergilius 43 (1997) 144-55.

Mark Petrini, The Child and the Hero: Coming of Age in Catullus
and Vergil. AJP 120 (1990) 464-68.

Stratis Kyriakidis, Narrative Structure and Poetics in the Aeneid: The Frame of Book 6. BMCR 11/99.

Thomas K. Hubbard, The Pipes of Pan: Intertextuality and Literary Filiation in the Pastoral Tradition from Theocritus to Milton. CJ 95 (2000)282-85.

A.M. Keith, Engendering Rome: Women in Latin Epic. Phoenix,
() 164-66.

Papers Presented (since 1990)

"Irony and Intelligibility in the Tragedy of Dido"
Wesleyan University, 1990; also presented at Stanford University, 1991 and University of Georgia, Athens, 1991

"Eclogues": Panel on Vergilian Scholarship in the 1990s
American Philological Association, December 1990

"Considerations on Lament and Closure in the Iliad and the Aeneid"
Conference on Virgil and the Greeks: Influences and Counterinfluences, at the Florida State University, 1992; also presented at Stanford University, 1992

"Ambiguity and Irony: the Last Resort?" American Philological
Association, December 1992 (Co-chair with G. K. Galinsky of Seminar "Ambiguity in the Aeneid"); also presented at Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 1993

Response to Charles Segal, "'He Who Saw Everything': Journey, Death, and Knowledge in the Epic Tradition from Gilgamesh to Aeneas"
Conference on Virgil and the Greeks: Influences and Counterinfluences, at the Florida State University, 1992.

"The Lament of Juturna and the Oppositional Voice in the Aeneid"
APA Annual Meeting, December 1993; also at conference on Epics and the Contemporary World, University of Wisconsin, April 1994; CAMWS, April 1994

"Beyond Grief and Reason: A Response to Joseph Brodsky" Conference: Poets and Critics Read Vergil, University of Georgia, March 1995

"The 'Dying Gallus' and the Design of Eclogue 10" APA Annual
Meeting, December 1995

"Aeneid 1 Ekphrases and the Aeneid" APA Annual Meeting, December 1996

"The Lament of Juturna." Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University 1996

"Wings and Words: Poetry and Power in Aristophanes' Birds"
University of Georgia, Athens, 1996

"Lament and Closure in the Iliad and the Aeneid" Graduate seminar: University of Michigan, November 1997; The Ohio State University, December 1997

"Pathos and Interpretation in the Aeneid: the Lament of Juturna"
University of Michigan, November 1997; The Ohio State University, December 1997

"The Golden Age and its Contradictions in the Poetry of Vergil"
Brown University Conference on Ancient Utopias and Imaginary Places, March 1998; Princeton University, December 1999.

"Reading the Laments of Iliad 24" Mississippi University for Women, December 1998.

"Meaning and Ekphrases in Aeneid 1," Smith College, November 1999; Princeton University, December 1999; Wellesley College, March 2000; revised versions at the American Academy in Rome, November 2000 and Bryn Mawr College, November 2001.

“Gender and Ideology in the Aeneid”: UGA NEH Summer Institute, July 2002.

“The Songs of Demodocus and Homer’s Odyssey”: Illinois Wesleyan University, March 2002

“Is Vergil Sexist?” Illinois Wesleyan University, March 2002

“Feminist Criticism of Latin Literature,” CAAS Annual Meeting, Oct. 2004

“Purity and Closure in Aeneid 12”, invited lecture, Oxford University, April 2004. Presented also at PAMLA fall meeting, November 2005.

“Misreadings of Vergil in Dante’s Comedy,” invited paper at SYMPOSIUM CUMANUM “The Vergilian Tradition: Manuscripts, Texts, Reception. Cuma, Italy, June 2006.

Professional Service and Citizenship:

Co-Chair of Discussion of Perkell, “Introduction” to Reading Vergil’s Aeneid: An Interpretive Guide, Classical Association of New England Annual Meeting, October 2006.

Reader on NEH Scholars’ Panel: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars: Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies (July 2003)

CAMWS Program Committee 2003-06

Consultant, Research Council of Canada
American Philological Association: Editorial Board for Monographs, Member 1992-96; Chair 1996-97
Chair, panel on Vergil, Classical Association of the Middle
West and South, 1996

Vergilian Society: Editorial Board of Vergilius 1997- present
Chair of Scholarship Committee, Vergilian Society (2004-)
NEH: Evaluator of Vergil Project, U. of Pennsylvania 1998-2000

Reader for tenure or promotion reviews:
Dartmouth College, Mount Holyoke College, University of California Los Angeles, UC-Santa Cruz, Wesleyan
University

Referee for scholarly presses:
Book MSS: University of Chicago Press, Oxford University
Press, State University of New York Press, Yale University Press, Princeton University Press, University of Oklahoma Press.

Journal referee: American Journal of Philology, Classical
Antiquity, Classical Journal, Classical Philology, Classical World, Helios, Phoenix, Ramus, Transactions of the American Philological Association.