Laurel Fulkerson
Curriculum Vitae
The Florida State University
Department of Classics
205 Dodd Hall
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1510
[email protected]
(850) 644-4259
Fax: (850) 644-4073
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Latin Poetry; Emotions in Antiquity; Gender Studies.
EDUCATION:
Columbia College, New York, NY 1990-94: BA in Classics cum laude 1994.
College Year in Athens, Fall 1992.
Columbia University, New York, NY, 1994-2000.
PhD in Classics (2000); M. Phil. in Classical Philology (1999); MA in Latin, (1995).
Certificate in Feminist Scholarship (1997); Feminist Pedagogy Workshop (1996).
PUBLICATIONS (Competitively Refereed):
The Ovidian Heroine as Author: Reading, Writing, and Community in the Heroides (2005,
Cambridge University Press). Reviews: BMCR 2006.5.16; CR 57.1 (2007): 111-12; CJ
102.4 (2007): 391-4, NECJ 34.3 (2007): 270-2, JRS 97 (2007): 320-1; AJP 128 (2008):
286-89.
No Regrets: Remorse in Classical Antiquity (2013, Oxford University Press).
“A Plea for Correspondence: P.Col. Inv. 18a.” BASP 38 (2001): 35-8.
“Epic Ways of Killing a Woman: Gender and Transgression in Odyssey 22.465-72.” CJ 97
(2002): 335-50.
“(Un)sympathetic magic: A Study of Heroides 13” AJP 123 (2002): 61-87.
“Writing Yourself to Death: Strategies of (Mis)reading in Heroides 2” MD 48 (2002): 145-65.
“Chain(ed) Mail: Hypermestra and the Dual Readership of Heroides 14.” TAPA 133 (2003):
123-145.
“Omnia Vincit Amor: Why the Remedia Fail.” CQ 54 (2004): 211-23.
“Metameleia: Remorse and Repentance in 5th and 4th century Athenian Oratory.” Phoenix 58
(2004): 241-59.
“Apollo, Paenitentia, and Ovid’s Metamorphoses.” Mnemosyne 59.3 (2006): 388-402.
“Neoptolemus Grows Up? ‘Moral Development’ and the Interpretation of Sophocles’
Philoctetes.” PCPS 52 (2006): 49-61.
“Staging a Mutiny: Competitive Roleplaying on the Rhine (Tacitus, Annales 1.31-51)” Ramus
35.2 (2006 [2008]): 169-92.
“Patterns of Death in the Aeneid.” SCI 27 (2008): 17-33.
“Emotional Appeals in the Mytilenean Debate.” Syllecta Classica, 19 (2008): 115-54.
“Helen as Vixen, Helen as Victim: Remorse and the Opacity of Female Desire” in D. Munteanu,
ed. Gender and Emotion in Classical Antiquity (Duckworth 2011): 113-33.
“Sad Ovid, Angry Augustus.” Latomus Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History, ed. Carl
Deroux, vol, 16 (2012): 339-66.
“Plutarch on the Statesman: Stability, Change and Regret” ICS 37 (2012): 51-74.
“Cicero’s Palinode: Inconsistency in the Late Republic.” G&R 60 (2013): 246-61.
PUBLICATIONS (Invited):
“Ovid’s Heroides: Female Elegy?” in P.E. Knox, ed. Blackwell Companion to Ovid (2009): 78-89.
“Pastoral Appropriation and Assimilation in Ovid’s Apollo and Daphne Episode” in E. Karakasis,
ed. Post-Vergilian Roman Pastoral. De Gruyter Trends in Classics series (2012): 29-47.
“Servitium Amoris: the Interplay of Dominance, Gender, and Poetry.” in T. Thorsen, ed.
Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy (forthcoming 2013): 180-93.
“Lucretius and Sapphic Voluptas.” in S. Harrison and T. Thorsen, ed. Sappho’s Roman Reception
(forthcoming; 6000 words)
Review of James Reeson, Ovid, Heroides 11, 13, and 14: A Commentary. BMCR 2001.12.19.
Review of Philip Hardie, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Ovid. CO 80 (2003): 151-2.
Review of Julia T. Dyson, King of the Wood: The Sacrificial Victor in Vergil’s Aeneid. CJ 99
(2003): 81-3.
Review of Paul Allen Miller, ed., Latin Erotic Elegy: an Anthology and Reader. RSR 29 (2003):
296.
Review of Jean-Christophe Jolivet, Allusion et Fiction Épistolaire dans les Héroïdes: Recherches
sur l’Intertextualité Ovidienne. JRS 93 (2003): 383-4.
Review of Niklas Holzberg, Ovid: The Poet and his Work. RSR 30.2-3 (2004): 193.
Review of Raphael Lyne, Ovid’s Changing Worlds: English Metamorphoses 1567-1632. RSR
30.2-3 (2004): 193.
Review of Roy K. Gibson, Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3. RSR 30.4 (2004): 310.
Review of Rebecca Armstrong, Cretan Women: Pasiphae, Ariadne, and Phaedra in Latin
Poetry. CW 101.2 (2008): 256-7.
Review of P. J. Davis, Ovid and Augustus: A Political Reading of Ovid’s Erotic Poems. NECJ
34.3 (2007): 267-70.
Review of L. Piazzi, P. Ovidii Nasonis. Heroidum Epistula VII: Dido Aeneae. CR 58.2 (2008):
620-1.
Review of R. Caston, The Elegiac Passion: Jealousy in Roman Love Elegy. Mnemosyne
forthcoming.
INVITED LECTURES:
“Who is Euripides’ Medea?” Rickards High School, Tallahassee, FL, September 8, 2000.
“Omnia Vincit Amor: Why the Remedia Aren’t,” Georgetown University, Washington, DC
January 21, 2001; New York University, October 25, 2002; Union College, Schenectady,
NY, September 19, 2003.
“Greek Homosexuality as Initiatory Ritual?” Anthropology Department Brown Bag Luncheon
Series, FSU, October 14, 2002.
“Men in Tights: Transvestism and Gender in Antiquity,” LGBTSU lecture series, “Seven Days
of Opening Closets,” FSU, February 17, 2004.
“Catullus’ Political and Amatory Language,” Leon High School, Tallahassee, FL, February 21,
2006.
“Bringing up Neoptolemus: Sophocles’ Philoctetes and Greek Moral Development,” Davidson
College, Davidson, NC. March 9, 2006.
“Patterns of Death in the Aeneid,” Oxford Classical Society, Oxford, UK, May 26, 2006;
Institute of Classical Studies, London, UK, Feb. 4, 2008.
“Remorse in Classical Antiquity,” Exeter College, Oxford, UK, Nov. 20, 2007.
“Staging a Mutiny: Competitive Roleplaying on the Rhine,” Liverpool Classical Research
Seminar, Liverpool University, UK, Nov. 27, 2007; St. Anne’s Classical Society,
Oxford, UK, Jan. 24, 2008.
“Alcibiades Polutropos? Ascending the Ladder of Philosophy,” Oxford Philological Society,
Oxford UK, Feb. 8, 2008; Cambridge Literary Seminar, Cambridge UK, May 14, 2008;
FSU Faculty Colloquium Series, January 23, 2009.
“Catullus and Cicero on Love and Politics,” Rickards High School, Tallahassee, Florida, March
27, 2009.
“Roman Children and Modern Notions of Childhood,” Utah State University, Logan, UT, April
17, 2009 (Classics Day).
“Male and Female Parts: the Construction of Sex and Gender in Aristophanes’
Thesmophoriazousai,” Utah State University, Logan, UT, April 17, 2009 (Classics Day).
“Plutarch’s Inconstant Hero: Alcibiades and the People,” Somerville College, Oxford, UK,
April 24, 2009.
“Socrates Polutropos and the Figure of Alcibiades in Plato’s Symposium,” Durham
University, Durham UK, November 25, 2009.
“Catullus and Romantic Love,” Rickards High School, Tallahassee, Florida, April 9, 2010.
“Getting Angry with the Greeks,” FSU Arts and Sciences Leadership Council, April 9, 2010.
“How to Write A History of Emotion,” St. Anne’s Classical Society, Oxford, UK, May 27,
2010.
“Augustus the Villain,” Oxford University “Bad Guys” Seminar, Oxford, UK, June
16, 2010.
“Enslaved to Love: Gender, Politics, and Poetry,” I. F. Grose Memorial Lecture in Classical
Studies, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN, March 3, 2011.
“Emotions, Ancient and Modern,” Concordia College, Moorhead, MN, March 4, 2011.
“Servitium Amoris: Gender, Power and Authorial Voice in Roman Elegy,” Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, MD, November 3, 2011.
“How to Write a History of the Emotions,” Yale University, New Haven, CT, November 18,
2011.
“Remorse, Greek and Roman,” Florida State University Langford Conference, Tallahassee,
FL. February 24, 2012.
“Ovid: A Partial History in Six Books (Plus One),” University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
November 4, 2012.
“Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve,” FSU Friends of the Library, March 27, 2013.
REFEREED CONFERENCE PAPERS:
“Killing Her Softly: Ovid and Sappho,” “Ambiguous Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Ovid,”
Conference, University of Chicago, February 1997.
“Erotic Paraffin-alia: Ovid Waxes Poetic in Heroides 13,” APA Annual Meeting, Washington
D.C., December 27-30, 1998.
“Playing with Wax: Comic Paranoia in Heroides 13,” “Rethinking the Irrational: Madness in the
Ancient World” conference, Newnham College, Cambridge, England, March 22-4, 1999.
“Epic Ways of Killing a Woman: Gender and Transgression in the Odyssey,” APA Annual
Meeting, Dallas, TX, December 28, 1999.
“Clumsy Allusiveness: A Meaningful Trip in Catullus and Ovid,” CAMWS, Provo, UT, April
18, 2001.
“Omnia Vincit Amor: Why the Remedia Aren’t,” The Florida State University Langford Latin
Seminar, Nov. 10, 2001; CAMWS, Austin, TX, April 5, 2002.
“Cicero and Letter-Writing at Rome,” Florida Foreign Languages Conference, October 18,
2002.
“Divinity Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry: Apollo’s Remorse in the Metamorphoses,”
CAMWS, Lexington, KY, April 5, 2003.
“Divine Anger and its Aftermath in Ovid’s Metamorphoses,” Florida Foreign Languages
Conference, October 17, 2003.
“Metameleia in 5th and 4th Century Athenian Oratory,” CAMWS, St. Louis, MO, April 17, 2004.
“Hermione, Tragic Ethos, and Fifth-Century Morality,” CAMWS, Madison, WI, March 31,
2005.
“Ambiguity, Death and Regret in the Aeneid ,” CAMWS, Gainesville, FL, April 6, 2006; Israeli
Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies Annual Meeting, Tel Aviv, June 8, 2006.
“Helen of Troy and Literary Portrayals of Women’s Remorse,” Gender and the Emotions
Panel, Classical Association UK Annual Conference, Liverpool, March 28, 2008.
“Helen’s Remorse and the Opacity of Female Desire,” CAMWS-SS, Asheville, NC,
November 13, 2008.
“Ira Dei: the Politics of Anger in Ovid’s Exile Poetry,” CAMWS, Oklahoma City, OK, March
27, 2010.
“Interfering Cupid: Pastoral Appropriation in Ovid’s Apollo and Daphne,” CAMWS, Grand
Rapids, MI, April 7, 2011.
Response, APA Seminar “The Subject Objects: The Puella in Latin Love Elegy.”
Philadelphia, PA, January 6, 2012.
“Plutarch on the Statesman: Stability and Change in the Lives,” CAMWS, Baton Rouge, LA,
March 31, 2012 and Plutarch on Leadership Panel, Classical Association UK Annual
Conference, Exeter, April 14, 2012.
“Republican Politics and Cicero’s ‘Inconsistency’,” CAMWS-SS, Tallahassee, FL, November
1, 2012.
“Graduate Student Publication: an Editor’s Perspective.” CAMWS, Iowa City, IA, April 18,
2013.
GRANTS AND HONORS:
Columbia College: Caverly Prize for Senior Thesis, 1994; Earle Prize in Classics 1994; Romaine
Prize in Greek translation 1994; Tatlock Prize in Latin translation 1994.
Columbia University: President’s Fellowship, 1994-99.
Florida State University, CRC First Year Assistant Professor Grant, Summer 2001.
Florida State University Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2002-3.
Nominated for Florida State University Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2000-1, 2001-2, 20056, 2006-7, 2007-8, 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-2012, 2012-13 (ineligible in most of these
years).
Florida State University, COFRS Grant, Summer 2003, Summer 2009, Summer 2013.
NEH Summer Stipend for Remorse and Repentance in the Ancient World, Summer 2004.
ODDL Summer Technology Grant, 2005.
FSU Library Committee, Collections Development Grant, 2006.
University of Cincinnati, Margo Tytus Fellowship, Summer 2006.
Visiting Fellowship, Exeter College, Oxford University, 2007-8.
Keeley Visiting Fellowship, Wadham College, Oxford University, 2007-8 (declined).
FSU Developing Scholar Award, 2008-9.
APA Award for Excellence in Collegiate Teaching, 2009.
Plumer Visiting Fellowship, St. Anne’s College, Oxford University, Trinity Term 2010.
Florida State University Graduate Teaching Award, 2012-13.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Columbia University, Graduate Instructor
Greek: Elementary Greek, Fall 1997
Latin: Intermediate Latin, Summer 1999 (Cicero/Ovid); Intermediate Latin, Fall 1998
(Livy); Intensive Elementary Latin, Spring 1997 and Spring 1999
Classical Civilization: Women in Antiquity, Summer 1997; Mythology, Summer 1997
Drew University, Adjunct Professor
Latin: Advanced Latin Fall 1999, Spring 2000
Classical Civilization: Women in Antiquity, Fall 1999
The Florida State University, Assistant Professor, 2000-2006, Associate Professor 2006 –.
Graduate Latin – Fall 2000 (Vergil), Spring 2001 (Ovid), Spring 2002 (Plautus), Fall
2003 (Elegy), Fall 2004 (Lucretius), Spring 2005 (Cicero/Seneca), Spring 2006
(Vergil/Ovid), Fall 2006 (Latin Poetry Survey), Spring 2009 (Ovid’s Exile Poetry),
Spring 2010 (Latin Literature Survey), Fall 2010 (Latin Epistles), Spring 2012 (Tibullus),
Fall 2012 (Didactic Poetry), Spring 2013 (Ovid) Fall 2013 (Catullus), Spring 2014 (Latin
Literature Survey)
Intermediate/Advanced Latin – Fall 2002 (Livy), Spring 2003 (Cicero/Pliny), Spring
2007 (Vergil); Fall 2010 (Horace)
Elementary Latin – Fall 2000
Graduate Greek – Fall 2008 (Plato)
Intermediate/Advanced Greek – Fall 2011 (Herodotus and Lysias)
Classical Civilizations: Gender and Society in Ancient Greece (Spring and Fall 2001, Fall
2002, Fall 2003, Fall 2005, Fall 2008, Spring 2012, Fall 2013); Roman Family (Spring
2002, Spring 2003, Fall 2004, Spring 2007, Spring 2011, Spring 2013); Greek Tragedy
(Fall 2001, Spring 2005, Fall 2006); Greek and Roman Epic (Spring 2006); Perceptions
of Roman Slavery (Spring 2010, Fall 2011); Ancient Love Poetry (Spring 2011)
Humanities: Epistolary Novel, Fall 2005
Independent Studies (graduate and undergraduate): Catullus (Spring 2001), Cicero
(Spring 2003, Spring 2009), Horace (Summer 2002), Ovid (Fall 2002, Summer 2007),
Pliny (Spring 2003), Vergil (Spring 2007), Commentary-Writing Workshop (Spring
2009), Latin Prose (Fall 2010).
STUDENT COMMITTEES
Sara Watkins, Ph.D. dissertation supervisor (“Lucan ‘Transforms’ Ovid: Intertextual Studies in
the Bellum Civile and the Metamorphoses,” March 2012).
Shawn Youngblood, Ph.D. dissertation supervisor (current).
Tara Bonds, Humanities Ph.D. dissertation co-supervisor (current).
Mary Lou Vredenburg, Humanities Ph.D. dissertation committee (“A Hapless Theseus
Hunting a Listless Minotaur,” October 2004).
Virginia Osborn, Modern Languages Ph.D. dissertation committee (“Je Vis dans un Être
Double: A Theory of Doubling in Charlotte Delbo’s Texts,” February 2011).
Charles Poole, Theater Ph.D. dissertation committee (“Restless Dead in Greek Tragedy,”
March 2013).
Charles Blume, Ph.D. dissertation committee (current).
Reema Habib, Ph.D. dissertation committee (current).
Kyle Jazwa, Ph.D. dissertation committee (current)
Sarah Brandeberry, English Ph.D. dissertation committee (current).
Bartolo Natoli, Ph.D. dissertation committee, University of Texas at Austin (current).
Kathleen Clifford, MA thesis supervisor (“Lingering Words: A Study of Ancient Greek
Inscriptions on Attic Vases,” May 2007).
Jessica Ballantine, MA paper supervisor (May 2009).
Heather Paff, MA paper supervisor (“Tibullus 1.5: Cursing the Lena,” August 2009).
Magali Coetzee, MA paper supervisor (May 2011).
Ashley Bones, MA paper committee member (“Renovating Perceptions of the Roman House:
Apuleius’ Metamorphoses,” May 2007).
Kelly McAllister, MA paper committee member (“Women’s Rhetoric and Deliberation in the
Metamorphoses,” December 2009).
Katherine Norton, MA paper committee member (“Miles Fortis: Masculinity as Comedy in
Terence’s Eunuchus,” April 2010).
Ashlie Canipe, MA paper committee member (“Finding Medea in Euripides Peleiades,” August
2010).
Nick Julian, MA paper committee member (“Nisus, Euryalus and Spoils in the Aeneid: The
Night Episode in Context,” April 2011).
Roland Mullins, MA paper committee member (“Euripides and History: The Authenticity and
Dating of the Rhesos,” April 2011).
Sophie Crawford-Brown, MA paper committee member (“Marriage in Death: Depictions of the
Couple in Roman Funerary Monuments,” December 2011).
Daniel Culbert, MA paper committee member (“Antiquum Repetens Iterum Chaos: Ritual
Perversion in Lucan’s Bellum Civile,” April 2013).
Tommy Redmon, MA paper committee member (“Perceptions of Flamininus in Polybius, Livy
and Plutarch,” April 2013).
Jamie Feldman, MA paper committee member (“Knowledge as True δόξα with a λόγος,” July
2013).
Joey Vansuch, MA paper committee member (current).
Travis King, MA paper committee member (current).
Jessica Wolcott, undergraduate honors thesis supervisor (“Old Women in Ancient Greek
Society,” November 2001).
Virginia Gregoire, undergraduate honors thesis supervisor (“An Inquiry into Male
Homosexuality in Athens,” May 2004).
Meghan Steward, undergraduate honors thesis supervisor (“Pregnant with Power: Women and
Authority in the Early Church,” May 2004).
Scarlett Kingsley, undergraduate honors thesis supervisor (“Allusions of Grandeur: Fulvia the
Dux,” June 2007).
Melody Arendsee, undergraduate honors thesis committee member (“The Cretan Cycle,” April
2007).
James Dufoe, English undergraduate honors thesis committee member (“Henry James’ ShangriLa: Cosmopolitanism in Portrait of a Lady,” April 2010).
Michael Hoffman, undergraduate honors thesis committee member (“Sceleris est aliquis modus:
Metrical Patterning in Seneca’s Thyestes,” April 2011).
Bethany Chasteen, undergraduate honors thesis committee member (“Female Aristeiai and
Women in Masculine Roles in Epic Literature,” April 2013).
Chelsea Leach, undergraduate honors thesis committee member (“A Transcription and
Preliminary Analysis of the Latin Text of Book Six of Josephus’ Jewish War in St.
Gallen Latin MS 627,” April 2013).
Mark Potter, undergraduate honors thesis committee member (“The Maturity of Aeneas from an
Epicurean Viewpoint,” April 2013).
Alexandra Juras, undergraduate honors thesis committee member (current).
DEPARTMENTAL, COLLEGE, AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE:
Co-organizer, “Feminism and the Academy: Building Bridges to the World Outside,” an
international graduate student conference at Columbia University, October 24-5, 1997.
Co-organizer and founder of Annual Graduate Student Conference, “Multiplying Ethnicities:
Perspectives on Self and Other in the Greek and Roman Worlds,” Columbia University,
October 10, 1998.
Co-organizer of Second Annual Graduate Student Conference, “Passions and Perspectives:
Representing Emotions in Antiquity,” Columbia University, November 13, 1999.
Co-organizer, “Feminism and the Classics III,” University of Southern California, May 18-21,
2000.
Coordinator of Seventh Annual Langford Conference, 2001.
Vice Chair, Spring 2010, 2013-14.
Director of Graduate Admissions, FSU Department of Classics, 2001-2004.
Supervisor of Latin TAs, Florida State University, 2005-2008.
Director of Graduate Studies, 2008-2012.
Departmental Search Committees: 2002-3, 2005-6, 2011-12, 2012-13.
Classics Department Executive Committee: 2002-3, 2005-6, 2006-7, 2011-12.
Florida State University Teaching and Advising Awards Committee, 2005-2010; Chair 20082010.
Faculty Panel Chair, Student Rights and Responsibilities Committee, FSU, 2001-present.
Reviewer, COFRS (internal) grants: 2004, 2007, 2012.
Snuffmistress, Exeter College, 2008.
College of Arts & Sciences Innovation Development Committee, 2010-2012.
Ph.D Evaluation Committee (Roman), 2011, 2013
College of Arts & Sciences Structural Exploration Committee, Fall 2011.
Arts and Sciences Policy Committee, 2013-2016.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:
Graduate Student Liaison to the Women’s Classical Caucus, Dec. 1997-May 2000.
Outside consultant, “Han China and Ancient Rome” for “China and the World” high school
curriculum, 2001.
Co-organizer of Lambda Classical Caucus panel “Cross-Dressing in Antiquity” at APA Annual
Meeting, San Francisco, January 2004.
CAMWS State Vice-President for Florida, 2004-2008.
Co-organizer of APA Three-Year Colloquium on the emotions, 2004-2007.
CAMWS Southern Section, Member-at-Large, 2006-2008.
Organizer of Latin Poetry Commentary-Writing Colloquium at FSU, March 6, 2009.
Editor, Classical Journal, 2010- present.
CAMWS Executive Committee (ex officio), 2010- present.
Vergilian Society Membership Committee, 2012-present.
Co-organizer of panel, “Plutarch on Leadership,” at CA Annual Meeting, Exeter, April 2012.
Referee, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, American Journal of Philology,
ARCA, Classical Antiquity, Classical Bulletin, Classical Journal, Classical Outlook,
Classical Quarterly, Helios, Histos, Mnemosyne, Phoenix, Soundings, Syllecta Classica,
TAPA.
Member: APA, CAMWS, Women’s Classical Caucus, Vergilian Society, St. Anne’s College
Classics Society, ISRE (International Society of Research on Emotion).