Zara Martirosova Torlone
Associate Professor of Classics
Miami University of Ohio
Irvin Hall 105, Department of Classics
Oxford, Ohio 45056
(513) 529-1488 (office)
e-mail: [email protected]
Special Interests
Reception of Antiquity in Russian Literature
Translation Theory
Latin Poetry: Vergil and Roman Elegy
Textual Criticism
Latin Prose under Nero
Ancient and Modern Literary Theory
Education
Ph.D., Classics, Columbia University, 1999
American Academy in Rome, Summer, 1997
M.Phil., Classics, Columbia University, 1997
M.A., Classics, Columbia University, 1994
B.A., Classical Philology, magna cum laude, Moscow University, 1990
Ph.D. Dissertation
"Eclogue and Elegy: The Intergeneric and Intertextual Dialogue between Vergil's Eclogues
and Roman Love Elegy" (advisor: James E.G. Zetzel)
Awards and Grants
Howe Writing Center grant for developing writing in the First Year Seminar, Miami
University
Summer 2013 Faculty Research Appointment, Miami University
2012-2013 Loeb Classical Library Foundation Research Grant, Harvard University
2008-2009 Loeb Classical Library Foundation Research Grant, Harvard University
Summer 2008 Faculty Research Appointment, Miami University
2007
Faculty Research Appointment, Miami University
2001-2004 Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet
Studies, Miami University
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1997
New York Classical Club Scholarship for Study in Rome
1994-1996 Presidential Fellowship, Columbia University
1992-1993 Classics Scholarship, Columbia University
Publications
Books
1. Vergil in Russia: National Identity and Classical Reception. Oxford University Press.
(forthcoming, June 2014)
2. Roman Love Poetry (co-authored with Dr. Denise McCoskey, Miami University), IB
Tauris and Oxford University Press, forthcoming, December 2013).
3. Soul and Passion: Marina Tsvetaeva’s Classical Plays, with translation and
introduction (co-authored with Dr. Maria S. Fox) (Oxford, OH: Staroe Vino, 2011)
4. Russia and the Classics: Poetry’s Foreign Muse. Bloomsbury (Duckworth). London,
UK, 2009.
Chapters in Volumes:
“Writing Arenas: Roman Writers and Their Games” (in the peer-reviewed WileyBlackwell Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity,
forthcoming, October 2013). Wiley-Blackwell.
“Joseph Brodsky’s ‘Dido and Aeneas’: Gender, Genre, and Reception” (in the peerreviewed volume Emotion, Gender, and Literary Genre in Antiquity) Bloomsbury,
London, 2011: 241-260.
“The Tale of Two Cities: Ancient Rome and St. Petersburg of Osip Mandelshtam” (in
the peer-reviewed volume Preserving Petersburg: History, Tradition, Memory, and Loss)
Indiana University Press 2008: 88-114.
Edited Volumes:
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Classical Reception in Eastern Europe. Classical Receptions Journal: Oxford Journals.
forthcoming, November 2013.
Insiders and Outsiders in Russian Cinema (collection of essays, co-edited with Dr.
Stephen Norris of Miami University). Indiana University Press 2008.
Encyclopedia Entries:
The Virgil Encyclopedia, entries on Viacheslav Ivanov, Vasilii Petrov, Vladimir
Solov’ev, Joseph Brodsky. Wiley-Blackwell (forthcoming, 2013)
Articles
1. “The Missing Link: Classical Reception in the ‘Younger’ Europe,” Classical
Receptions Journal. November, 2013.
2. “Russian Tityrus: Joseph Brodsky in Arcadia, ” Classical Receptions Journal.
November, 2013.
3. “Vasilii Petrov and the First Russian Translation of the Aeneid,” Classical Receptions
Journal vol. 3 no. 2, (2011): pp 227- 247.
4. “Viacheslav Ivanov’s Vergils Historiosophie: Translation, Background, and
Commentary” (co-authored with Dr. John M. Jeep, Miami University). Toronto Slavic
Quarterly 27, 2009. Academic Electronic Journal of the University of Toronto.
http://www.utoronto.ca/tsq/27/jeep-torlone27.shtml
5. “The Joy of Exile: Ovid and Russian Poets” (Genre: A Thematic Journal for
Comparative Literature and Classics, the interdisciplinary journal of California State
University, Long Beach. January, 2009): 1-26.
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6. “The Olympic Victor List in Eusebius’ Chronika: Background, Text, and Translation,”
coauthored with Dr. Paul Christesen of Dartmouth College (Traditio: Studies in Ancient
and Medieval Thought, History, and Religion 61: 33-91, January 2007).
7. “Classical Myth in Three Poems of Joseph Brodsky” (Classical and Modern
Literature 23/1 2003: 95-114).
8. “Classical Philology in Russia: Past, Present, and Future” (Classical Bulletin, 78.2.
2003: 195-206).
9. "Ex omnibus in unum, nec hoc nec illud: Epic Frame and Generic Juxtaposition in
Petronius' Satyricon," coauthored with Dr. Paul Christesen (Materiali e Discussioni 49,
2003: 135-172).
10. "From Daphnis to Gallus: the Metamorphosis of a Pastoral Hero in the Eclogues"
(New England Classical Journal, 29.4, 2002: 204-221).
Reviews
Review of Bloomer, W. Martin. The School of Rome: Latin Studies and the origins of
Liberal education (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2012.03.19.)
Review of A Companion to Classical Receptions. Eds. Lorna Hardwick and Christopher
Stray. Blackwell Publishing, 2008. (The Classical Outlook 86.1: 42-43)
Review of Maria Carducci Bolchazy (ed.) Classical Considerations: Useful Wisdom from
Greece and Rome (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, August 10, 2006)
Review of Jacob E. Nyenhius, Myth and the Creative Process. Michael Ayrton and the
Myth of Daedalus, the Maze Maker (Classical Outlook, 83.3. 122-123, 2006).
Review of Charles Martindale, Latin Poetry and the Judgment of Taste. An essay on
Aesthetics (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 09-10-2005)
Review of M. Gumpert, Grafting Helen. The Abduction of the Classical Past (The
Classical Outlook, vol. 80, No. 3, 2003: 123-124)
Review of R.E. Meagher, The Meaning of Helen: In Search of an Ancient Icon (The
Classical Outlook, vol. 80, 2003, No. 2: 92-93)
In Progress
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Books:
Blackwell-Wiley Handbook on Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe
(editor, under contract).
Articles:
In Blackwell-Wiley Handbook on Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe
“Vergil in Russia: An Overview”
“Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe: An Introduction”
“Between East and West: Classical Reception in Armenia’
Conference Papers
“Vergil In Russia: National Identity and Classical Reception,’ Ohio State University,
invited lecturer.
“Russian Tityrus: Joseph Brodsky in Arcadia”, American Philological Association 2012,
Seattle, WA.
“Russian Translations of the Aeneid,” by invitation of UBC, workshop Vergil’s
Translators, Vancouver, September, 2012.
“Odysseus Ancient and Modern: Juxtaposition as a Pedagogical Tool”, American
Philological Association (APA, 2011) San Antonio, TX.
“Russian Meliboeus: Joseph Brodsky in Arcadia,” AAASS, Los Angeles, CA,
(November, 2010).
“Russian Reception of Vergil’s Aeneid: Civic Identity and the Classics” (Symposium
Cumanum, Cumae, Italy, 2009)
“Vergil goes North: Aeneas’ Journey in Russian Poetry” (APA, January 2009)
“Voicing Passions: Phaedra of Euripides and Marina Tsvetaeva” (AAASS, November
2008)
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“The Joy of Nostalgia: Reception of Ovid in Russian Poetry” (APA, January 2008)
“Living through the Soviet Empire” (Havighurst Colloquia, April 2007)
“Ovid and Osip Mandelshtam” (CAMWS, April 2007)
“Et in Arcadia Gallus: Eclogues and Elegy” (APA, January 2007)
“The Tale of Two Cities: Ancient Rome and St. Petersburg of Osip Mandelshtam:
Rewriting Ovid’s Exile” (AAASS, November 2006).
“Carmina Digna and the Art of Allusion: Theocritus, Vergil’s Ninth Eclogue and New
Gallus” (CAMWS, 2006)
“Elegiac Discourse in the Eclogues: The Meaning of Libertas in the First Eclogue” (APA
2005)
“Frater Adempte Mihi: Catullus 68 and 101” (American Classical League Institute, 2004)
“Reception of Antiquity: a View from Russia” (Miami University Lyceum Lecture
Series, 2003)
“The Tale of Two Cities: Ancient Rome and St. Petersburg of Osip Mandelshtam”
(Havighurst Colloquia, 2003)
"Petronius Satyricon as an Example of genus mixtum" (CATC, March, 2003)
"Can the aurea mediocritas be Found? Teaching Classics in Russia and America" (OCC
2003)
"Joseph Brodsky's Classical Antiquity" (Havighurst Colloquia, 2002)
“The Spectacle of Genre in Petronius’ Cena Trimalchionis” (CAMWS 2002)
"The Fragment of Gallus from Qasr Ibrîm and the Extent of its Influence on Roman Love
Poetry" (CAMWS 2001)
Teaching Experience
2000 – present, Miami University
1998 - 2000 Bard College, New York
1992 - 1998 Columbia University
1990 -1991 Yerevan State University, Armenia
Classes Taught
First Year Seminar. Nostalgia: Past, Present, Future
Advanced Latin: Roman Love Elegy
Elementary Latin
Elementary Greek
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Intermediate Latin: Vergil's Aeneid, Eclogues
Ovid's Amores, Ars Amatoria
Intermediate Greek: Lysias and Plato
Homer's Odyssey
Oedipus Rex (Independent Study)
Roman Elegy (in translation)
Helen of Troy in Literature from Homer to Goethe (undergraduate seminar)
Greek Civilization in its Mediterranean Context
Classical Mythology (thematic sequence course)
Classical Mythology (honors course)
Roman Civilization
Greek Paleography and Textual Criticism (Independent Study)
Classical Tradition in Russian Poetry
Arts and Empire in Classical World and Russia
Roman Novel: Petronius and Apuleius
Greek and Roman Lyric Poetry
Literature Humanities: Columbia University Core Curriculum
Symposia and Conferences Organized
April 1-3, 2004 "The Reel Russia: Cinema and Outsiders," eight speakers and their
respondents with lectures on Russian cinema and its depiction of the "other."
March 28-30, 2003 "St. Petersburg and Russian National Consciousness," eight speakers and
their respondents with lectures on St. Petersburg and Russian national identity.
March 18-22, 2002 "Reconfiguring the Humanities in the Post-Soviet World," six speakers
and their respondents with lectures on the state of the humanities in post-Soviet Russia.
Co-organizer and organizer of nine national undergraduate conferences for the Department of
Classics at Miami University.
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