LOUISE PRATT

Office:
221B Candler Library

Phone:
404.727.7593

E-Mail:
lpratt@emory.edu

EMPLOYMENT AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Emory University
- Chair of Classics (2005-present)
- Associate Professor (1995-present)
- Interim Chair of Classics (1995-96)
- Assistant Professor (1989-1995)

Bowdoin College
- Visiting Assistant Professor (1988-89)

The University of Michigan
- Teaching Assistant (1983-86)

CLASSES TAUGHT:
Classical Civilization: Introduction to Classical Literature in Translation, Latin Literature in Translation, Greek Civilization, Roman Civilization, Greek Tragedy in Translation, Sex and Society in Antiquity, Classical Athens, Ancient Drama, Sex and Love in Greece and Rome, Early Greece: Real and Imagined, Homer and the Heroic Imagination

Greek: Elementary Greek I & II, Intermediate Greek (Plato, Herodotus, Homer), Advanced Greek (Euripides, The Myth of Prometheus, The Presocratic Philosophers, Dionysus in Drama, Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns, Plutarch’s Life of Antony)

Latin: Elementary Latin I & II, Intermediate Latin (Cicero, Apuleius, Catullus & Ovid), Advanced Latin (Vergil)

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS:
CTC Summer Curriculum Development Grant (2004)
Emory University Research Committee Grant (2004)
CAMWS Award for Excellence in College Teaching (2003)
Emory University Research Committee Grant (1994)
ACLS Recent Ph.D. Fellowship (1990-91)
Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, The Univ. of Mich. (1986-87)
Humanities Prize Fellowship, The Univ. of Mich. (1982-83)
Charles Lansing Fellowship, Williams College (1982)
Rice Prize in Greek, Williams College (1981, 1982)
Phi Beta Kappa, Williams College (1981)

PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Lying and Poetry from Homer to Pindar: Falsehood and Deception in Archaic Greek Poetics , The University of Michigan Press , 1993

Images of Childhood: Children and Child-rearing in Ancient Greek Literature (in progress)

Articles:
"Odyssey 19.535-50: On the Interpretation of Dreams and Signs in Homer," Classical Philology 89 (1994) 148-53

"The Seal of Theognis, Writing, and Oral Poetry," American Journal of Philology 116 (1995) 171-84

"Four Ptolemaic Papyri illustrating a dispute among tax farmers, P.Mich inv. 6953, 6960, 6952 & 6971," co-authored with T. Caulfield, A.Keith, K.O. Lord, in P.Mich. XVIII: A Festschrift for Ludwig Koenen, , edd. T. Gagos, A. Hanson, G. Most, P.J. Sijpesteijn (December, 1996)

“The Old Women of Greece and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter” TAPA 130 (2000) 41-65

“The Parental Ethos of the Iliad” Hesperia Supplement (accepted)

Book Reviews:
J. M. Foley, Immanent Art: From Structure to Meaning in Traditional Oral Epic Classical World 86 (1992) 174.

N. Denyer, Language, Thought and Falsehood in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Classical World 88 (1995) 494-95.

C.Segal, Singers, Heroes, and Gods in the Odyssey, Phoenix 50 (1996) 3-4

M. Finkelberg, The Birth of Literary Fiction in Ancient Greece, Classical World 93 (2000) 301-2.

F. Hartog, Memories of Odysseus, American Historical Review (2003) 557.

PAPERS PRESENTED:
"Ancient Party Etiquette" and "College Classics" Georgia Junior Classical League, Fall Forum, November 1990, 1991

response to Paul Woodruff, "The Unexamined Verse" Plato and the Greek Literary Tradition, Emory University, April 1992

"Penelope's Dream: Ancient vs. Modern Codes of Interpretation" Classical Association of the Midwest and South, Iowa City, April 1993

"The Seal of Theognis, Writing, and Oral Poetry," Voice into Text: Orality and Literacy in Ancient Greece, The University of Tasmania, July 1994

"An Introduction to Greek Culture through Olympia," Michael C. Carlos Museum, August 1995

“That was Then, This is Now: Penelope in the 1990s,” Creighton University, Omaha Nebraska, September 1996

“You Are like a child: child-similes and apostrophe in the Iliad,” CAMWS, Lexington KY, April 2003

“Homeric Children and Their Parents,” Coming of Age: Children and Childhood in the Ancient Mediterranean, Dartmouth College, November 2003

UNIVERSITY SERVICE:
Conference Organizer, National Junior Classical League convention at Emory, 1990-91
College: Leader, Emory Freshman Seminar 1992, 1994
Member, Educational Policy Committee, 2004-05, 2005-06
Member, Admissions and Scholarships Committee, 1995-96, 1996-97
Member, Emory College Language Center Executive Committee 2000-01, 01-02, 02-03
Member, Emory Scholars Committee 1992-93, 1993-94, 1994-95, 1997-98, 1998-99
Member, Committee on Study Abroad 1992-93, 1993-94
Member, Ad hoc conduct appeals boards 1992-93, 1997-98
Member, Committee on the Humanities Core Course 1994-95
Member, University Conduct Council 1994-95, 1995-96
Participant, Emory Fall Preview 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998
Classics:
Acting Chair 1995-96
Advisor to undergraduate majors 1989-present
Coordinator, New General Education requirements 1996
Eta Sigma Phi advisor, 2004-05
Honors Coordinator, 2004-05
Member, Search Committee 1989-90, 1992-93, 1998-99
Member, Future of the Department Committee 1992-93
Member, Committee on Review Procedures 1991-92
Representative at Majors Fairs and Freshman Orientation (many times)
Secretary 1991-92
Classical Studies: Member, Curriculum Committee 1996-97
Comparative Literature: Admissions Committee 2005-06
Associate Faculty 1994-present
Executive Committee 1997-98
Dissertation Committee for William Brown (Candler School of Theology: 1991)
for David da Silva (Candler School of Theology: 1995)
for Monica Kelley (French Department: 1998)
Honors Advisor for Brenda Wittman (Classics: 1994-95), Michelle Addorisio (Classical Studies: 1998-99), Eric Weilnau (Classics: 1998-99)
Honors Committees for Mike Deucher (Philosophy: 1990), Catherine Fine (Classics: 1992), Jennie Stearns (English: 1992), Emily White (English: 1995), Melissa Watt (Religion: 1997), Benjamin Spangler (English: 2003), Kathryn Maddux (Classical Studies: 2004), Jonathan Levy (Political Science: 2004)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Local Committee, Annual Meeting of APA, Atlanta 1994
Local Committee, Annual Meeting of CAMWS, Atlanta 1994
Membership in Professional Organizations:
American Classical League
American Philological Association
Classical Association of the Midwest and South
Georgia Classical Association
Women's Classical Caucus
Referee:American Journal of Philology
Classical Journal
Classical Philology
Classical World
Phoenix: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada
The University of Michigan Press
Transactions of the American Philological Association
Yale University Press