NIALL W. SLATER
Department of Classics
221F Candler Library
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322-2220
tel. (404) 727-0110
fax (404) 727-0223
email: nslater@emory.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Ancient Theatre Archaeology of the Theatre
Ancient Novel Gender Studies
EDUCATION
Princeton University Ph.D. 1981
(Charlotte E. Procter Fellow)
M.A. 1978
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
(James Rignall Wheeler Fellow) 1979-80
The College of Wooster B.A. 1976
(valedictorian, Phi Beta Kappa)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Emory University Dobbs Professor of Latin & Greek 2004-
professor 1991-2004
visiting professor 1990-91
University of Southern California associate professor 1987- 91
assistant professor 1982-87
Concordia College assistant professor 1981-82
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Director, Center for Language, Literature, and Culture, Emory University
– 1998-2002
Chairman, Department of Classics, Emory University – 1991-94
Conference Organizer, “Performance Criticism of Greek Comedy”
– Emory, April 1991
Faculty Master, Embassy Residential College / USC – 1989-90
Co-director, NEH Ancient Comedy Institute (with Jeffrey Henderson)
– Summer 1987 (USC)
HONORS
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Latin and Greek – 2004-
Emory Williams Award for Distinguished Teaching – Emory, 1999
FELLOWSHIPS
Senior Fellow, The Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University
– 2004-05
F. M. Bird Exchange Fellow, University of St. Andrews – Fall,
2001
Resident, Mershon Center, Ohio State University – Spring, 2001
Visiting Scholar, Institute for Collaborative Research and Public
Humanities, Ohio State University – Winter, 2001
Visiting Scholar, American Academy in Rome – June, 1999; November,
1997
Visiting Fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford – Hilary Term, 1997
Fellowship, Research Institute on “Books and the Imaginary”
– Dartmouth College, Winter, 1997 (declined)
Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge – 1994-95 (Life Member,
1995- )
Visiting Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, Australia – June
- August, 1994
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, University of Konstanz – 1988-89
Junior Fellow, The Center for Hellenic Studies – 1987-88
NEH Dartmouth Dante Institute – Summer 1986
ACLS Recent Ph.D. Fellowship – 1984-85
NEH Institute on Women in Classical Antiquity – Summer 1983
NEH Summer Research Stipend – 1982
GRANTS AND OTHER EXPERIENCE
Emory University Seed Fund Grant - Stoicism & its Reception, 2004-07
Emory University Teaching Fund Grant – The East-West Interface
in Asia Minor: From Xerxes to Rome, 2004-2006
Emory University Research Committee Grant – Spring 2003
Emory Institute for Comparative and International Studies Curriculum
Grant (with Prof. E. Varner) – Summer 2002
Emory University Teaching Fund Grant (with Prof. E. Varner) –
Roman Vision: Teaching Approaches to the Visual World of the Romans,
1999-2000
Arthur M. Blank/NEH Video Teaching Observation Award – Emory,
Spring 1999
Seminar Co-Director (with Prof. G. Vogt-Spira) – “Roms
Auseinandersetzung mit den Fremden,” Studienstiftung des Deutschen
Volks, Sudtirol, Sept. 1998
Emory University Internationalization Fund Grant (with Prof. R. B.
Branham) – The Ancient Novel and its Context: Faculty Exchange
Visits with Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1998-9
Emory University Research Committee Grant – Fall 1997
Massee-Martin/NEH Teaching Observation Grants – Emory, Spring
1996, Spring 1998, Spring 2000
Folger Institute grants (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC):
seminar – “Accessorizing the Renaissance ” (dir.
J. Loewenstein), 2006
workshop – “How Images Mean” (dir. B. M. Stafford),
March 1994
workshop – “Fictions of the Pose” (dir. Harry Berger),
November 1992
seminar – “Culture and Anarchy in Three Renaissance Cities:
Nuremberg, Venice, Amsterdam” (dir. A.T. Grafton), 1991
workshop – semiotics of drama (dir. Keir Elam), October 1989
Luce Faculty Seminar on “Nature” (dir. James Gustafson)
– Spring 1992
NEH Translation Grant – Fragments of Greek Comedy (dir. J. Rusten)
1991
ACE Workshop – “Chairing the Academic Department,”
June 1991
ACLS Travel Grant – “Tragedy, Comedy, and the Polis,”
University of Nottingham, July 1990
USC Faculty Research and Innovation Fund Grant – 1983-84
Wooster/Sydney Expedition to Pella, Jordan – excavation staff,
1980
American Academy in Rome – Summer 1979 (NY Classical Club grant)
Goethe Institute, Rothenburg o.d.T., Germany – Summer 1978 (DAAD
scholar)
American School of Classical Studies at Athens – Summer 1976
(??? scholar)
SERVICE
President, The Phi Beta Kappa Society 2003-06
Vice President, 2000-03
Senator 1994-2006
Executive Committee 1999-2006
Trustee, The Phi Beta Kappa Foundation 1997-2006; Chairman, 2000-03
Strategic Planning Committee 2002-03
Policy Committee 1998-2006
Committee on Associations 1994-2006 (Chairman, 1997-2000)
Committee on Publications 1997-2000
Ad Hoc Committee on the Phi Beta Kappa Website 1997
Committee on Chapter Bylaws 1994-97
Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship Committee of Phi Beta Kappa 1991-93
(Chairman, 1993)
Secretary, Western District of Phi Beta Kappa 1988-91
President, Classical Association of the Middle West and South 2002-03
CAMWS Nominating Committee 2003-2008 (Chairman, 2003-2004)
CAMWS Southern Section Nominating Committee 2004
CAMWS Steering Committee on Awards and Scholarships 1996-2000 (Chairman,
1997-2000)
Local Committee Chair, CAMWS 90th Annual Meeting 1994
American editor for Drama, a journal of ancient drama and its reception
(Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart) 1992-
Nominating Committee, American Philological Association 1997-2000
(Co-Chair, 1999-2000)
Managing Committee, American School of Classical Studies at Athens
1982-
Blegen Library Committee 2000-04 (Chairman, 2000-04)
Committee on Committees 1997-99
Admissions and Fellowships Committee 1992-96 (Chairman, 1995-96)
External D.Litt. Examiner, University of Otago, New Zealand, August
2002
External Ph.D. Examiner, University of Western Australia, June 2004;
University of Western Australia, February 2000; University of Ottawa,
Canada, May 1998
Advisory Committee, School of Classical Studies, American Academy
in Rome 1986-91
Chair, Latin section, Philological Association of the Pacific Coast
1991
Outside honors examiner, Knox College, October 1990
at Emory:
Executive Committee, Center for Humanistic Inquiry 2005-08
University Research Committee (Humanities) 2005-07
Emory College Language Center board, 2005-06
ICIS Bird Fellowship Committee 2002-2004
Center for Language, Literature, and Culture 1992-94, 1995-2002
Mellon Fellowship Search Committee 1997-98
President, Phi Beta Kappa Chapter (Gamma of Georgia) Spring 1998,
Fall 1996; Vice-President, 1995-96; Membership Committee 1992-94 (Chairman,
1994)
Ad Hoc Promotion Review Committee (Music Dept.) 1996-97
College Executive Committee 1995-96
Faculty Council (promotions and tenure) Spring 1994
Ad Hoc Promotion Review Committees (Theatre Dept.) 1992-94
Ad Hoc Promotion Review Committee (French Dept.) 1992-93
Chair, Near Eastern and Judaic Languages and Literatures Chair Search
Committee 1991-92
Chair, Mellon Fellowship Search Committee 1991-92
at USC:
Vice-President, Phi Beta Kappa Chapter (Epsilon of California) 1985-90
Honorary Degrees Committee 1986-87
Faculty advisor, Junkyard Dog (student literary magazine) 1986-87
Non-resident faculty fellow 1986-87
COURSES TAUGHT
Undergraduate:
Greek I & II, Homer, Herodotus, Aristophanes, Greek Novel, Greek
Tragedy; Latin I & II, Petronius, Vergil, Cicero, Ovid, Satire,
Latin Didactic Poetry, Roman Comedy, Roman Novel; (in translation)
Introduction to Classical Literature, Sex and Love in Greece and Rome,
Roman Vision, Comedy, Roman Civilization, Age of Nero, Ancient Drama,
Ancient Novel, Vergil and Dante
Graduate:
Sophocles; Roman Drama, Latin Literature Survey II; Proseminar (methods
and history of classical scholarship)
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Plautus in Performance: The Theatre of the Mind
Princeton University Press 1985 [designated by Choice as one of the
outstanding academic books of 1985]
2nd, revised edition, Harwood Academic Publishers 2000
Reading Petronius
The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990
Spectator Politics: Metatheatre and Performance in Aristophanes
University of Pennsylvania Press 2002
Articles:
“A Note on Plautus’ Bacchides 772,” Classical World
77 (1983) 20-21
“Play and Playwright References in Middle
and New Comedy,” Liverpool Classical Monthly 10 (1985) 103-105
“A Note on Plautus’ Trinummus 705-07,” Classical
World 79 (1985) 33-34
“Vanished Players: Two Classical Reliefs and Theatre History,”
Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 26 (1985) 333-344, pls. 1 &
2
“Satyricon 60.7: Which Augustus?” Liverpool Classical
Monthly 11 (1986) 43
“The Lenaean Theatre,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie
und Epigraphik 66 (1986) 255-264
“Transformations of Space in New Comedy,” in Themes in
Drama 9: Space (Cambridge University Press 1987), pp. 1-10
“The Dates of Plautus’ Curculio and Trinummus Reconsidered,”
American Journal of Philology 108 (1987) 264-269
“Satyricon 80.9: Petronius and Manuscript Illustrations,”
Classical Journal 82 (1987) 216-217
“Tragic Farce: Orton and Euripides,” Classical and Modern
Literature 7 (1987) 87-98
“Against Interpretation: Petronius and Art Criticism,”
Ramus 16 (1987) 165-176
“The Fictions of Patriarchy in Terence’s
Hecyra,” Classical World 81 (1988) 249-260
“Of Memory and Desire: Zelazny’s Platonism,” Classical
and Modern Literature 9 (1988) 65-71
“Problems in the Hypotheses to Aristophanes’ Peace,”
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 74 (1988) 43-57
“The Teichion of Ecclesiazusae 497,” Liverpool Classical
Monthly 13 (1988) 105
“The Date of Euripides’ Oineus,” Liverpool Classical
Monthly 13 (1988) 147-148
“Lekythoi in Aristophanes’ Ecclesiazusae,” Lexis
3 (1989) 43-51
“Aristophanes’ Apprenticeship
Again,” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 30 (1989) 67-82
“The Idea of the Actor,” in Nothing to Do with Dionysos?
Athenian Drama in its Social Context, ed. John J. Winkler and Froma
I. Zeitlin (Princeton University Press, 1990) pp. 385-395, pls.
“An Echo of Ars Poetica 5 in Petronius,”
Philologus 134 (1990) 159-160
“The Satyricon as Challenge to Interpretive Community,”
Laetaberis n.s. 8 (1990-91) 17-26
“Amphitruo, Bacchae, and Metatheatre,”
Lexis 5-6 (1990) 101-125; reprinted (with abridgements) as ch.
15 (pp. 189-202) of Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence,
ed. Erich Segal (Oxford 2001)
“Plautine Negotiations: the Poenulus
Prologue Unpacked,” Yale Classical Studies 29 (1992) 131-146
“Two Republican Poets on Drama: Terence and Accius,” Drama
1: Antike Dramentheorien und ihre Rezeption (1992) 85-103
“Space, Character, and Apate: Transformation and Transvaluation
in the Acharnians,” in Tragedy, Comedy and the Polis, ed. Alan
H. Sommerstein et al. (Levante Editore, Bari, 1993) pp. 397-415
“Improvisation in Plautus,” in Beiträge zur mündlichen
Kultur der Römer (ScriptOralia 47, series A, vol. 11), ed. Gregor
Vogt-Spira (GNV, Tübingen, 1993) pp. 113-124
“From Ancient Performance to New Historicism,” Drama 2:
Intertextualität in der griechisch-römischen Komödie
(1993) 1-13
“Theozotides on Adopted Sons (Lysias
fr. 6),” Scholia 2 (1993) 82-86
“Apuleius and the Visual Arts,” in From Hannibal to Saint
Augustine: Ancient Art of North Africa from the Musée du Louvre,
ed. Monique Seefried Brouillet (Atlanta 1993) pp. 96-99, figs. 1-3
review, “The Greek Project,” Electronic Antiquity 1.6
(1993)
“Calpurnius and the Anxiety of Vergilian
Influence: Eclogue I,” Syllecta Classica 5 (1994) 71-78
“From Harena to Cena: Trimalchio’s Capis (Sat. 52.1-3),”
Classical Quarterly 44 (1994) 549-551
“The Fabrication of Comic Illusion,”
Beyond Aristophanes: Transition and Diversity in Greek Comedy,
ed. Gregory Dobrov (APA, Atlanta, 1995) pp. 29-45
“Literacy and Old Comedy,” Voice
Into Text: Orality and Literacy in Ancient Greece, ed. Ian Worthington
(Brill, Leiden, 1996) pp. 99-112
“Nero’s Masks,” Classical
World 90 (1996) 33-40
“Bringing Up Father: Paideia and Ephebeia in the Wasps,”
Nottingham Classical Literature Studies 4 (1996) 27-52
“Vision, Perception, and Phantasia in the Roman Novel,”
Der antike Roman und seine mittelalterliche Rezeption, ed. M. Picone
and B. Zimmermann (Birkhäuser, Basel, 1997) pp. 89-105
“Waiting in the Wings: Aristophanes’
Ecclesiazusae,” Arion 5.1 (1997) 97-129
“Performing the City in Birds,” pp. 75-94 in The City
As Comedy, ed. Gregory Dobrov (University of North Carolina Press,
1997)
“Il vaso come ventriloquo: le iscrizioni-kalos e la cultura
della fama,” trans. F. De Martino, Kleos 2 (1997) 43-59
“Passion and Petrifaction: The Gaze in Apuleius,” Classical
Philology 93 (1998) 18-48, pls.
“Sat. 52.1-3: A Correction,” Petronian Society Newsletter
28 (1998) 13
“The Vase as Ventriloquist: Kalos-inscriptions and the Culture
of Fame,” Signs of Orality: The Oral Tradition and its Influence
in the Greek and Roman World, ed. E. Anne Mackay (Brill, Leiden, 1999)
pp. 143-161, pl. 16
“Making the Aristophanic Audience,” American Journal of
Philology 120 (1999) 351-368
“Humani nil a me alienum puto: The Ethics of Terentian Performance,”
Syllecta Classica 10 (1999) 1-21
Niall W. Slater and J. S. Jacobs, “Memorabilia: Americanizing
Classical and Catholic Pasts in A Canticle for Leibowitz,” Classical
and Modern Literature 19 (1999) 123-131
“Character Voices,” Classical and Medieval Literature
Criticism 34 (2000) 417-426 [= reprint of chapter VII of Reading Petronius]
“Dead Again: (En)gendering Praise in Euripides’ Alcestis,”
Helios 27 (2000) 105-121
“Religion and Identity in Pacuvius’s Chryses,” Identität
und Alterität in der frührömischen Tragödie, ed.
Gesine Manuwald (Ergon Verlag, Würzburg, 2000) pp. 315-323
“The Market in Sooth: Supernatural Discourse in Plautus,”
in Dramatische Wäldchen: Festschrift für Eckard Lefèvre
(Spoudasmata 80), ed. E. Stärk and G. Vogt-Spira (Olms, Hildesheim,
2000) pp. 345-361
“Appearance, Reality, and the Spectre of Incest in Epidicus,”
in Studien zu Plautus’ Epidicus (ScriptOralia 125, series A,
vol. 33), ed. Ulrike Auhagen (GNV, Tübingen, 2001) pp. 191-203
“The Horizons of Reading,” A Companion to the Prologue
to Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, ed. A. Laird and A. Kahane (Oxford
University Press, 2001) pp. 213-221
“Dancing the Alphabet: Performative Literacy on the Attic Stage,”
in Epea & Grammatea: Oral and Written Communication in Ancient
Greek, ed. Ian Worthington & John Miles Foley (Brill, Leiden,
2002) pp. 117-130
“Space and Displacement in Apuleius’s Golden Ass,”
Ancient Narrative Supplementum 1 (2002) 161-176
“Some Accian Women,” in Accius und seine Zeit, ed. S.
Faller and G. Manuwald, Identitäten und Alteritäten 13 (Ergon
Verlag, Würzburg, 2002) pp. 289-303
“Spectator and Spectacle in Apuleius,” The Ancient Novel
and Beyond, ed. S. Panayotakis, M. Zimmerman, and W. Keulen, Mnemosyne
Supplement 241 (Brill, 2003) pp. 85-100
“Looking for Proserpina: A. S. Byatt’s Notes on the Aeneid,”
Literary Imagination 5.2 (2003) 194-208
“Staging Literacy in Plautus,” in Oral Performance and
its Context, ed. C. J. Mackie (Brill, Leiden, 2004) pp. 163-177
“Slavery, Authority, and Loyalty: The Case of Syncerastus,”
in Studien zu Plautus’ Poenulus, ed. Thomas Baier (GNV, Tübingen,
2004) pp. 291-298
“Men are from Lemnos, Women are from Sicyon: Space and Gender
in the Cistellaria,” in Studien zu Plautus’ Cistellaria,
ed. R. Hartkamp and F. Hurka (GNV, Tübingen, 2004) pp. 267-279
“And There’s Another Country: Translation as Metaphor
in Heliodorus,” Metaphor and the Ancient Novel (Ancient Narrative
Supplementum 4 [2005]) 106-121
“Role-Playing in the Eunuch,” Terenz und die Tradition
des Stegreifstheater, ed. Lore Benz (GNV, Tübingen, forthcoming)
“Shaw’s Caesars,” in Julius Caesar in Western Culture,
ed. Maria Wyke (Blackwell, forthcoming)
“Nothing to Do with Satyrs? Alcestis and the Concept of Prosatyric
Drama,” pp. 83-101 in Satyr Drama: Tragedy at Play, ed. G.W.M.
Harrison (Classical Press of Wales, forthcoming)
“Neronian Oral Politics: The Case of Musonius Rufus,”
in The Politics of Orality, ed. Craig Cooper (Brill, Leiden, forthcoming)
“Priapus and the Shipwreck (Petronius, Satyricon 100-114),”
in Authors, Authority, and Interpreters in the Ancient Novel, ed.
E. Cueva and S. Byrne, (Ancient Narrative Supplementum, forthcoming)
REFEREE FOR:
American Journal of Philology
Antichthon
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies
Classical Antiquity
Classical Journal
Classical Philology
Classical World
Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies
Journal of Hellenic Studies
Phoenix
Scholia
Transactions of the American Philological Association
Australian Research Council
German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research & Development
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Humanities Center
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Baylor University Press
Harvard University Press
University of Oklahoma Press
University of Pennsylvania Press
MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Philological Association
Archaeological Institute of America
Cambridge Philological Society
Classical Association of the Middle West and South
Georgia Classical Association
New York Classical Club
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
Petronian Society
Women’s Classical Caucus