
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.
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