DAVID J. WHITE
P.O. Box 1825
Waco, TX 76703-1825
Cell phone: 254-640-1454
Office phone: 254-710-1399
E-mail: [email protected]
EDUCATION:
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA (Gainesville, FL): Ph.D., Classical Studies, 2013
Dissertation: Columella Res Rustica 10: A Study and Commentary
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY (Kent, OH), School of Library and Information Science: M.L.I.S., 2000
Master’s Paper: Cataloging Codex Manuscripts in MARC Format
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (Philadelphia, PA): M.A., Classical Studies, 1987
UNIVERSITY OF AKRON (Akron, OH): B.A., Classics, Honors Program, summa cum laude, 1984
COURSES TAUGHT:
06/04-Present BAYLOR UNIVERSITY (Waco, TX). Department of Classics. Lecturer
Courses:
BIC 2330 (Social World I) – moderator of small group section
CLA 3380 (Classical Mythology)
CLA 3381 (Medical Terminology)
CLA 4V01 (Special Topics in Classics) – Ancient Egyptian language
GKB/GKC 1301 (Classical Greek, first semester)
GKB/GKC 1302 (Classical Greek, second semester)
GKC 1301/1302 (Summer Greek Institute)
GKB/GKC 2310 (Classical Greek, third semester)
LAT 1301 (Latin, first semester)
LAT 1302 (Latin, second semester)
LAT 2310 (Latin, third semester)
LAT 2320 (Latin, fourth semester)
LAT 4V01 (Special Topics in Latin Lit.) – Reading Rome!; Medieval Latin; Boethius;
Latin Prose Composition
LAT 4308 (Latin Language Seminar) – Latin prose composition and etymology
09/97-05/04
Courses:
THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON (Akron, OH).
Department of Classical Studies, Anthropology and Archaeology (formerly Classics Dept).
Associate Lecturer (formerly Continuing Lecturer); part time
Beginning Latin I & II (first-year Latin)
Intermediate Latin I & II (second-year Latin)
Beginning Greek I & II (first-year ancient Greek)
English Words from Latin and Greek Elements
The Literature of Greece (survey of ancient Greek literature in translation)
The Literature of Rome (survey of Latin literature, in translation)
The Archaeology of Greece
Mythology of Ancient Greece
Sports and Society in Ancient Greece and Rome
Introduction to the Ancient World (Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome)
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ADDITIONAL CLASSICAL STUDIES TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
01/09-05/09 Baylor University (Waco, TX): Informal seminar on Akkadian
09/91-09/93 St. Joseph’s University (Philadelphia, PA): Myth, Ancient Comedy (in translation),
special topics courses
09/92-12/92 Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ): Word Power (Greek & Latin roots of
English words)
01/88-05/88 Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA): Latin (1st year, 2nd semester), Greek Myth
09/87-05/89 The University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA): Arts in History, Art and Civilization
09/86-08/91 The University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA): Latin (1st and 2nd year),
Greek (1st yr)
OTHER TEACHING/PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Presented Honors Colloquia, Honors College, Baylor University, 2005-Present
Topics include: British World War I Poets; plays by Wilde, Shaw, Barrie; novels by Hilton,
Vidal; memoirs by Alice Kaplan, Rod Dreher; the constructed language Esperanto;
Gilbert & Sullivan operettas.
Latin Instructor, Upward Bound Math/Science Program (summer program), The University of
Akron, 1998-99
Gave bibliographic instruction lectures in Special Collections Department, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library,
University of Pennsylvania, for classes of Classics students from Rutgers University, 1991-94
Organized Graduate Student Conference in Classics at the University of Pennsylvania, Nov. 1989
Private tutor for students of Latin and ancient Greek, 1984-1997 (at various times)
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
August 2008 Awarded Baylor Faculty Development Grant for Conventiculum Bostoniense,
week-long spoken-Latin workshop at the University of Massachusetts in
Dartmouth, MA
Summer 2007 Fellow of the Baylor Summer Faculty Institute
Summer 2005 Awarded Baylor Faculty Development Grant for Aestiva Romae Latinitas
(see below under Academic Programs Overseas)
May 2005
Baylor New Faculty Retreat (Laity Lodge)
PROFESSIONAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE:
2009-Pres
Facilitator with University 1000 for incoming freshmen, Baylor University
2009-Pres
Served as usher for Commencement exercises, Baylor University
2008-Pres
Faculty advisor for Baylor Chapter of Eta Sigma Phi, Classics Honor Society
08/04-Pres
Library Liaison, Classics Department, Baylor University
Spr 05-Pres Conducted Honors Colloquia on various topics for Baylor University Honors College
2009-2010
Moderator for University 1000, Baylor University
Summer 2007 Baylor Greeter for incoming freshmen
08/04-05/07 Library Liaison, Honors College, Baylor University
07/04-04/07 Chair of Finance Committee, the Vergilian Society of America
08/04-Pres
Member of Amici Musici, Baylor faculty a capella singing ensemble
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ACADEMIC PROGRAMS OVERSEAS:
Director of Summer 2008 Baylor in Italy program
Intensive Intermediate Italian at the Centro di Lingua e Cultura Italiana Mediterraneo, Rome, Italy,
summer 2005
Aestiva Romae Latinitas, intensive Latin language and pedagogy program in Rome with Fr. Reginald
Foster, summer 2005
American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece, Summer Session, 1987
Vergilian Society of America, summer program at Cuma, Italy, 1984
PROFESSIONAL LIBRARIAN EXPERIENCE:
08/01-04/04 Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH. History Library. Asst. Cataloger
12/00-12/02 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH. Ingalls Library. Catalog record converter
01/93-02/96 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Special Collections Department.
Assistant Curator of Manuscripts
PUBLICATIONS:
“Iopas.” In The Virgil Encyclopedia, ed. R. Thomas and J. Ziolkowski. Wiley-Blackwell, 2014
Translations from Balzac and Michelet (French) in European Romanticism: A Reader, ed. Stephen
Prickett. Continuum, 2010
PAPERS PRESENTED:
“Hortorum quoque te cultus Silvine docebo: Generic Boundary Transgression in Columella 10.
Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS), 20 Apr. 2013, Iowa City, IA
Super cancrum coronam: The crown in Trimalchio’s Zodiac platter (Petr. 35. 1-5). CAMWS
Southern Section (CAMWS-SS), 2 Nov. 2012, Tallahassee, FL
Nobis memoranda: Columella’s Reimagining of the Georgics. CAMWS, 30 March 2012, Baton
Rouge, LA
Numeroso horto: A programmatic pun at Columella, Res Rustica 10. CAMWS, 9 April 2011, Grand
Rapids, MI
Who Mourns for Adonais?: Greeks, Romans, and the Legacy of Romanticism. CAMWS-SS, 29 Oct.
2010, Richmond, VA
Obscenae canes: Hecate’s Ominous Bitches at Georgics I. 470. CAMWS, 26 Mar. 2010,
Oklahoma City, OK
Thyesteis mensis: Cannibalism in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. CAMWS, 3 Apr. 2009, Minneapolis, MN
Iopas and Orpheus: Vergil’s Rejection of Cosmological Poetry. CAMWS, 1 Apr. 2006, Gainesville, FL
Chelasque sequentes: Augustus Occupying Libra’s Place in Georgics I.32-35. CAMWS, 1 Apr.
2005, Madison, WI
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PAPERS PRESENTED, cont.:
The Rules for Dialectic in Plato’s Gorgias. CAAS, 27 Sept. 1992, New York, NY
Christianity and the Greek Mythical Mindset. Christian Cosmology lecture series, Newman Center,
University of Pennsylvania, 30 Oct. 1991, Philadelphia, PA
The Song of Iopas: Vergil’s View of Cosmological Poetry. CAAS, 27 Apr. 1991, Washington, DC
Colloquial Language in Horace’s Sermones. CAAS, 27 Apr. 1990, Gettysburg, PA
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT:
Member of St. Louis Roman Catholic Church, Waco TX
Member of the St. Gregory Society and the Gregorian Schola (men’s chant choir)
Member of the Knights of Columbus: Council #13577 at St. Peter’s Catholic Center (Baylor),
and Fourth-Degree Knights of Columbus Assembly #1109, Waco, TX
REFERENCES:
Available on request