Riemer A. Faber
January 2016
Associate Professor
Department of Classical Studies, University of Waterloo
200 University Ave. West, Waterloo Ontario Canada N2L 3G1
++1+519+888-4567, extension 32817
[email protected]
Education:
Doctor of Philosophy, Classical Philology, University of Toronto (1992)
Dissertation: “Ekphrasis in Hellenistic Poetry”
Master of Arts, Classical Philology, University of Toronto (1985)
Bachelor of Arts, Classical Studies, s.c.l., McMaster University (1984)
Fellowships, Scholarships, Distinctions:
2015, 2009,
2005
2013
2013
1995, 1989
1989-90
1987-1989
1988-89
1985-88
1985-86
1984-85
University of Waterloo Distinguished Achievement Award
Scaliger Fellow, Special Collections, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden
Visiting Professor, Theologische Universiteit Kampen NL
/ Research Group ‘Classic Reformed Theology’
Fellow in Residence (Summer), Center for Hellenic Studies,
Harvard University
Crake Doctoral Fellow, Mt. Allison University
Fellow, Massey College, University of Toronto
University of Toronto Fellow
Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Doctoral Fellow
Netherlands Government Graduate Scholar (Leiden University)
Ontario Graduate Scholar
Professional Employment:
20001996-2000
1994-1996
1991-1994
Associate Professor, University of Waterloo
Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo
Assistant Professor, University of New Brunswick
Lecturer, University of Waterloo
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Professional Appointments and Positions:
Member, and Adjudicator, Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, Federation
of the Humanities and Social Sciences (2014- )
General Editor, Synopsis Purioris Theologiae (3 Vol. Edition) (2011- )
Associate General Editor, New Testament Scholarship, Collected Works of
Erasmus (2013-)
Director, Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies, University of Waterloo
(2010-2013; 2013-)
Chair, Ontario Graduate Scholarships Selection Committee Panel 4 (2011-13)
Member, Senate and Senate Executive, Redeemer College (2004-2010)
Chair, Department of Classical Studies, University of Waterloo (2001-3; 2006-9)
Executive Director, Board, Ontario Classical Association (2004-2006)
Chair, and Adjudicator, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of
Canada Doctoral Fellowship Selection Committee (2001-2003)
Areas of Research Interest:
Greek and Latin Philology
Renaissance, Reformation, and Neo-Latin
Greek and Latin Literary Criticism, Poetry
Book and Edited Volumes:
Latin edition, translation, critical commentary (H. van den Belt
volume editor), Synopsis Purioris Theologiae. Vol. 2. (in preparation)
Edition, translation, critical commentary, introduction of Erasmi
Annotationes ad Galatas, ad Ephesios. Collected Works of Erasmus
Vol. 58. 340 ms.pages. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. in
preparation)
Latin edition, English translation, critical commentary (R.T. te Velde volume
editor), Synopsis Purioris Theologiae. Vol. 1. pp. Leiden: Brill, 2014.
Editor (with S. Ager), Belonging and Isolation in the Hellenistic World.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013.
Editor, Unity in Diversity. Studies Presented to Prof. J. Faber. Winnipeg: Premier,
1989.
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Articles and Book-chapters:
Book Chapter: “Nonnus and the Poetry of Ekphrasis in the Dionysiaca,” 443459 (Ch.20) in D. Accorinti, ed., Brill’s Companion to Nonnus of
Panopolis. Leiden: Brill. (forthcoming February 2016)
“The Influence of the Catechism’s Spirituality on the Synopsis of Purer
Theology (1625),” 84-95 in A. Huijgen, ed., The Spirituality of the
Heidelberg Catechism. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015.
“The Hellenistic Origins of Memory as Trope for Literary Allusion in Latin
Poetry,” Philologus. (forthcoming)
“Allusions to Greek Novels in the Description of Electra’s Palace in Nonnus
Dionysiaca 3.131-179,” Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 156 (2013)
85-97.
Book Chapter (with S. Ager): “Introduction: Belonging and Isolation in the
Hellenistic World. Themes and Questions,” 3-16 in S. Ager, R. Faber
eds., Belonging and Isolation in the Hellenistic World. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 2013.
“Scholastic Continuities in the Reproduction of Classical Sources in the Synopsis
Purioris Theologiae”, Church History and Religious Culture 92.4 (2012)
561-579.
“The Synopsis Purioris Theologiae: Aspects of Composition, Content, and
Context,” Church History and Religious Culture 92.4 (2012) 499-501.
“The Ekphrasis in Naevius’ Bellum Punicum and Hellenistic Literary
Aesthetics,” Hermes Zeitschrift für klassische Philologie 140 (2012) 417427.
Book Chapter, “The Function of Ambrosiaster in Erasmus’ Annotations
on the Epistle to the Galatians,” Ch. 4, p. 70-85 in ‘The Unfolding of
Words’: Commentary in the Age of Erasmus, ed. J. Henderson. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 2012.
Book Chapter, “Desiderius Erasmus’ Representation of Paul as Paragon of
Learned Piety,” 43-60 in A Companion to Paul in the Reformation, ed.
W.R. Holder. Leiden: Brill, 2009.
“The Woven Garment as Literary Metaphor: the Peplos in Ciris 9-41,” 205-216 in
Roman Dress and the Fabric of Roman Culture, ed. J. Edmondson, A.
Keith. Phoenix Supplements. University of Toronto Press 2008.
“The Description of the Palace in Seneca, Thyestes 641-682, and the Literary
Unity of the Play,” Mnemosyne 71 (2007) 427-442.
“The Description of Crenaeus’ Shield in Thebaid IX.332-338 and the Theme of
Divine Deception,” Latomus (2006) 108-114.
“Humanitas as Discriminating Factor in the Educational Writings of Erasmus and
Luther,” Dutch Review of Church History 85 (2005) 25-37.
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“Poetics of Closure in Horace Odes 3.1,” in American Journal of Philology 126
(2005) 93-106.
“‘Evil Beasts, Lazy Gluttons’: A Neglected Theme in the Epistle to Titus,”
Westminster Theological Journal 67 (2005) 135-145.
“The Description of Staphylos’ Palace (Dionysiaca 18.69-86) and the Principle of
” Philologus 148 (2004) 245-254.
“The Adaptation of Apostrophe in Lucan’s Bellum Civile,” Studies in Roman
History and Latin Literature XII (2004) 334-343.
“The Influence of Erasmus’ Annotationes on Calvin’s Galatians Commentary,”
Dutch Review of Church History 84 (2004), 268-283.
“The Humanism of Melanchthon and of Calvin,” 11-28, Melanchthon und der
Calvinismus, ed. G. Frank. Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 2004, 11-28.
“The Literary Metaphor of the Chisel (tornus) in Eclogue 3.38, Hermes 128 (2000)
375-379.
“Vergil’s ‘Shield of Aeneas’ (Aeneid 8.617-731) and the Shield of Heracles,”
Mnemosyne 53 (2000) 49-57.
“Vestis ... variata” (Cat. 64.50-51) and the Language of Poetic Description,”
Mnemosyne 51 (1998) 210-215.
“Daedalus, Icarus, and the Fall of Perdix: Continuity and Allusion in
Metamorphoses 8.183-259,” Hermes 126 (1998) 80-89.
“Callimachus Hecale Fr. 42 and the Language of Poetic Ekphrasis,” in J. Bews et
al. edd., Celebratio. Thirtieth Anniversary Essays at Trent University. Trent
University, 1998, 51-60.
“Vergil, Eclogue 3.37, Theocritus 1, and Hellenistic Ekphrasis,” American
Journal of Philology 116 (1995) 411-417.
“The Juridical Nuance in the New Testament Use of ωί,”
Westminster Theological Journal 57 (1995) 299-309.
“Zeus en Hermes in Lystra” (in Dutch), Radix, April 1988, 1-12.
Book Reviews
E. MacPhail, Dancing around the Well: The Circulation of Commonplaces in
Renaissance Humanism. Renaissance Quarterly 68.4 (2015) 1352-1354.
B. Dufallo, The Captor's Image: Greek Culture in Roman Ecphrasis. Phoenix 68
(2014) 187-189.
W.J. Op’t Hof, Het Gereformeerd Piëtisme. Sixteenth Century Journal 41.3 (2010)
901-902.
J. Vree, J. Zwaan, Abraham Kuyper’s Commentatio (1860). The Young Kuyper
about Calvin, à Lasco, and the Church. Vol. 1 Introduction, Annotations,
Bibliography, and Indices. Sixteenth Century Journal 41.1 (2010) 181-183.
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P. Jackson, Verbis Pingendis. Contributions to the Study of Ritual Speech and
Mythopoeia. Mnemosyne 57 (2004) 294-296.
Compendious Book Review of P. Alpers, What is Pastoral?; J.B. Burton,
Theocritus’ Urban Mimes; R. Hunter, Theocritus and the Archaeology of
Greek Poetry. Phoenix 44 (2000) 352-357.
M.M. DeForest, Apollonius’ Argonautica. A Callimachean Epic. Mnemosyne 51
(1998) 238-239.
Papers Presented at Professional Meetings:
May 2015
March 2015
June 2013
June 2013
March 2012
November 2011
October 2011
October 2011
May 2011
“Intermediality in Latin Epic Ekphrases,” Classical Association
of Canada Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON. (R)
“The Ratio and the Annotations of Erasmus as Theory and
Practice of Biblical Interpretation.” Panel Session, Erasmus
on Interpretation: Contexts of the Ratio verae theologiae,
Renaissance Society of America, Berlin, Germany. (R)
“Presiders, Respondents, and Opponents in the Disputations
of the Synopsis,” Research Workshop, Scholastic Disputations
and the Synopsis Purioris Theologiae, Scaliger Institute,
Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands. (I)
“The Influence of the Catechism’s Spirituality on the
Synopsis of Purer Theology (1625),” Conference, The
Spirituality of the Heidelberg Catechism, Theologische
Universiteit Apeldoorn, Netherlands. (R)
“The Cultural Poetics of Ekphrasis: Interplay between Fine Art
and Literary Representation” , The Ancient (and Modern)
Relationship Between Art and Text Colloquium, University of
Waterloo. Waterloo ON. (I)
“Multiculturalism in the Mediterranean World of the
Hellenistic Era,” Canadian Institute for Mediterranean
Studies, University of Toronto. Toronto ON. (I)
“The Function of Classical Sources in the Scholastic
Discourse of the Synopsis,” Sixteenth Century Studies
Society Annual Conference, Fort Worth TX. (R)
Session Convener: “The Synopsis of Purer Theology
(1625) as Compendium of Reformed Doctrine,” Sixteenth
Century Studies Society Conference, Fort Worth, TX.
“On a Possible Ekphrasis in Naevius’ Bellum Punicum,”
Classical Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Halifax NS.
(R)
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December 2010
November 2010
May 2010
March 2009
January 2009
October 2008
August 2008
May 2008
May 2007
May 2007
April 2007
December 2006
October 2006
April 2006
“Rehabilitating Ennius from Augustan Distortion,” Panel
Session, “Hellenistic Aesthetics and Early Roman Poetry,”
WIHS research workshop, Opportunities for Interdisciplinarity
in Hellenistic Scholarship. Waterloo.
“Emulation in Latin Epic Descriptions: Some Lines of Enquiry,”
Langford Latin Seminar on Ekphrasis: Description in Antiquity.
Tallahassee, Fla.
“Identifying the Voice(s) in Hellenistic Pattern-Poems,” WIHS
Panel Session “Kreuzung der Stimmen: Multiple Voices in
Hellenistic and Roman Narratives.” CAC Annual Meeting,
Quebec City.
“Space, Time, and False Endings in Virgilian Ekphrasis,”
Conference on Trugschluss in der griechischen und römischen
Literatur und Kunst, Vienna Austria.
“The Rhetorical Construction of Space in the Ekphrases of
Nonnus’ Dionysiaca,” American Philological Association
Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.
“The Pastoral Locus Amoenus as Metaphor for Quality of
Life,” Atlantic Classical Association Annual Conference,
Sackville, NB.
Opening Address, Conference “Belonging and Isolation in the
Hellenistic World,” Waterloo.
“Picturing the Past: Intertexuality in the Description of
Hannibal’s Shield (Punica 2.406-450),” CAC Annual
Meeting, Montreal.
“The Function of Ambrosiaster in Erasmus’ Annotations
on Galatians,” Conference on Sixteenth-Century
Commentary, Saskatoon.
“The Ruler as Mars and Apollo in Calpurnius Siculus
Ecl. 7. 82-84,” CAC Annual Meeting, St. John’s.
“The Calvinist Liturgy of the Early Dutch Reformed
Churches,” Invited Lecture, Farel Reformed Institute,
Montreal.
“Erasmus and the Sixteenth Century Reception of Paul,”
Erasmus Centre for Early Modern Studies, Rotterdam NL.
“Mentem Pauli habere: the Representation of Paul in
Erasmus’ Annotations,” Sixteenth Century Society and
Conference, Salt Lake City.
“On a Possible Ekphrasis in Antimachus’ Thebaid,” Ontario
Classical Association, Guelph.
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October 2004
October 2004
October 2004
October 2003
May 2003
October 2001
May 2000
April 2000
July 1998
May 1998
February 1998
July 1997
June 1996
October 1995
June 1995
May 1995
November 1994
“Sarah, Hagar, and the Reformers: Allegory and the Sensus
Germanus”, session The Senses of Scripture in the 16th
Century, SCSC, Toronto.
“The Rebirth of Learning and the Reformation: Erasmus vs.
Luther on Education,” session Theological Training in the
16th Century, SCSC, Toronto.
“Clothing as Literary Metaphor in Epic Poetry: the Peplos in
Ciris 1-41,” Roman Dress and the Fabric of Roman Culture
Colloquium, York University, Toronto.
“Calvin’s Use of Erasmus’ Commentary on the Epistle to the
Galatians,” SCSC, Pittsburgh.
“The Literary Metaphor of Weaving in Latin Poetic
Ekphrases,” CAC Annual Meeting, Fredericton.
“The Humanism of Melanchthon and of Calvin,”
Internationaler Congress: Melanchthon und der Calvinismus.
Bretten, Germany.
“The Ekphrases in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca,” CAC Annual Meeting,
Winnipeg.
“The Meaning of the Palace Description in Seneca, Thyestes
641-664,” Panel Presentation to the Classical Association of
the American Mid-West and South Annual Meeting, Knoxville.
“‘A Splash Quite Unnoticed’?: W.H. Auden, Brueghel, and
Ovid on the Fall of Icarus,” International Society for the
Classical Tradition Conference, Tübingen.
“Ring Composition in Vergilian Ekphrases: the Palace of Picus
(Aen. 7.170-191),” CAC Annual Meeting, Ottawa.
“The Portrayal of Juno and Pallas Athena in Aeneid 1,”
Conference “The God in Art and Text”, University of Guelph
“The Adaptation of Apostrophe in Lucan’s Bellum Civile,”
International Society for the History of Rhetoric Biennial
Conference, Saskatoon.
“The Poet’s Voice in Horace Odes 3.1,” CAC Annual
Meeting, St. Catharine’s.
“Metamorphosis of a Myth: The Nachleben of Ovid's Icarus,”
ACA Annual Meeting, Wolfville
“Philo in the Reformed Tradition,” Conference on Antiquity
and the Reformed Tradition, Toronto.
“Lathes, Chisels and Polish: the Latin Poet as Wordsmith,”
CAC Annual Meeting, Montreal.
“Fact or Fiction? Ekphrasis in Hellenistic Historiography and
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October 1994
June 1994
May 1992
May 1991
February 1990
November 1989
October 1989
May 1989
October 1985
Poetry,” UNB History Colloquium. Fredericton.
“Catullus 64 and the Language of Hellenistic Ekphrasis,”ACA
Annual Meeting, Halifax.
“Subversive Ekphrasis and the Death of Crenaeus
(Theb.9.315-350),” CAC Annual Meeting, Calgary.
“Jason’s Cloak in the Context of the Argonautica,” CAC
Annual Meeting, Charlottetown.
“The Metal Motif in Poetic Ekphrasis,” CAC Annual
Meeting, Kingston.
“Ovid, Paul, and Barnabas,” Crake Doctoral Fellow Lecture,
Mt. Allison University, Sackville.
“Aphrodite’s Graces: Seduction in Moschus’ Europa,” in the
Faculty Seminar Series, University of Toronto.
“Story and Structure in Moschus’ Europa,” ACA Annual
Meeting, Mt. Allison University, Sackville.
“Est Locus Loci in Ovid’s Heroides,” CAC Annual Meeting,
Quebec City.
“Apostrophe in Lucan’s Poetry,” presented to the Collegium
Classicum of Leiden.
2. Lectures, Presentations, Seminars:
September 2014
April 2013
March 2013
October 2012
May 2012
January 2012
November 2009
April 2007
January 2007
“The Language(s) of the Synopsis,” Launch Event,
Synopsis Purioris Theologiae, Leiden University, NL.
“Reading the Old Testament in the Era of the
Reformation,” Lecture Series, “How did Jews and
Christians View the Old Testament?” Theologische
Universiteit Kampen NL
“The ‘Jerusalem from Above’: Calvin and the Exegetical
History of Galatians 4:21-31,” The International Lecture,
Theologische Universiteit Kampen
“Socrates: His Life and Thought” Extended Learning
Opportunities, Erin ON
“Cultural Poetics and Ekphrasis: Shield Portraits and ShieldDescription in Imperial Epic,” University of Washington.
“Multiculturalism in the Hellenistic Era” Third Age Learning,
Waterloo
Lecture on “The Origins of the Olympic Games,” St.
Clement’s Secondary School, Toronto
Convocation Address, Farel Reformed Institute, Montreal.
Seminar on “The Architecture of the Acropolis,” Kitchener
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November 2004
September 2004
October 2003
December 2001
March 2000
October 1998
October 1998
April 1998
March 1998
November 1997
March 1996
February 1995
December 1993
November 1993
January 1993
May 1989
May 1986
Public Library
Lecture on “Tragedy, Drama, Theatre,” and lunch session
with students, Waterloo Collegiate
Lecture on “The Olympian Gods,” Forest Heights Collegiate
Lecture on “The Ancient Olympics,” Learning Unlimited
(Oxford County), Woodstock.
Lecture at Rockway Mennonite Collegiate, “Differences
Between Plato and Aristotle”.
Lecture on “Greek Mythology”, at Learning Unlimited (Oxford
County), Woodstock.
Lecture at Kitchener Collegiate Institute, “Life and Teaching
of Socrates.”
Lecture at Kitchener Collegiate Institute, “Life and Teaching
of Socrates.”
Lecture at Meaford Secondary School, “The Life and Thought
of Socrates.”
Lecture at Kitchener Collegiate Institute, “Socrates”.
Presentation at Glen William Group Learning Centre, “A
Survey of Greek Vase Painting.”
“Lucan’s Attitude to Nero in the Civil War,” for the
Department of Languages and Literature, UNB - St. John
“After the Fire: The Reconstruction of an Ancient Text,” for
the UNB Arts Forum.
“The Portrayal of Apollo in Hellenistic Literature,” for Trent
University Classics Department.
“Gallus: Roman Poet and Statesman,” for the University of
Western Ontario Classical Studies Department.
“Ekphrasis in the Hecale of Callimachus?” for the Department
of Classics, University of Waterloo.
“The Unity of Moschus’ Europa,” for the Graduate Students'
Classical Conference, Kingston.
“Carmina 4.2: Horace’s Pindaric Ode,” for the Department of
Classics, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, the Netherlands.
External Fellowships and Grants:
2015
2015
Onassis Foundation University Seminar Program: Senior
Visiting Onassis Fellow, for Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic
Studies
Social Science and Humanities Research Council Connection
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2013
2011
2010
2008
1998-2001
1988-89
1985-88
1985-86
1984-85
Grant: Celebrity, Fame and Infamy in the Hellenistic World
Research Fellowship, Scaliger Institute, Special Collections,
University of Leiden
Aid to Scholarly Publication in the Humanities, Canadian
Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences: Belonging and
Isolation in the Hellenistic World (co-recipient with S. Ager)
Onassis Foundation University Seminar Program: Senior
Visiting Onassis Fellow, for Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic
Studies
Social Science and Humanities Research Council Aid to
Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada (with
S.Ager, C. Hardiman, C. Vester): “Belonging and Isolation in
the Hellenistic World”.
Social Science and Humanities Research Council 3-Year Grant:
Studies in Hellenistic Greek and Latin Augustan Literary
Descriptions of Works of Art.
University of Toronto Open Fellowship
Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Doctoral Fellowship
Netherlands Government Graduate Scholarship
Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Internal University Fellowships and Grants:
2013
2011
2010
2008-9
2006
2006
2006
2005
2000
UW SSHRC 4A Insight Grant: “Scholastic (Dis)Continuities in Early
Reformed Orthodoxy and the Synopsis of Purer Theology
Harding Endowment Grant: Editing the Synopsis Purioris
Theologiae
UW SSHRC Travel Grant: Paper Presentation to CAC conference
Quebec City
UW SSHRC 4A Grant: Erasmus’ Annotations and Renaissance
Biblical Scholarship
UW Program Initiative Fund Grant: Experiential Learning
Component in Classical Studies
Social Science and Humanities Research Council 4A Award:
Erasmus’ Annotations and Biblical Scholarship in the Renaissance
University Travel Grant – Presentation of Paper to Sixteenth
Century Studies Conference, Salt Lake City
University of Waterloo SSHRC Seed Grant - Corinthians Volume in
the Collected Works of Erasmus
University Travel Grant - Presentation of Paper to CAMWS
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1999-2000
1998-99
1998
1998
1997
1995
1995
1995
conference, Knoxville
Research Assistant Support Program Grant (University of
Waterloo): Examination of Linguistic Conventions of Latin Poetic
Ekphrases.
Research Assistant Support Program Grant (UW):
Investigation into Linguistic Conventions of Poetic Descriptions.
University Travel Grant - Presentation of Paper to ISCT
Conference, Tübingen
Research Assistant Support Program Grant: “An Investigation into
the Linguistic Conventions of Poetic Descriptions.”
University Travel Grant - Presentation of Paper to ISHR
Conference, Saskatoon
University Research Fund - Research at the Center for Hellenic
Studies, Washington DC
Academic Development Travel Grant - Conference on Antiquity
and the Reformed Tradition
University Research Fund - Computer hardware for Research at
Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC
Academic Administrative Service
1. External
2015
2015
2015
2015
2014
2014
2013
2013
2013
Ministry of Training, Universities and Colleges: Conductor of
Program Quality Assessment of proposed Bachelor of Arts
Program
Workshop Organizer and Convener, Celebrity, Fame and Infamy
in the Hellenistic World
Member, Awards to Scholarly Publications Program Committee
(ASPP), Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Referee, monograph proposal, University of Toronto Press.
Referee, monograph proposal, Oxford University Press (2)
Workshop (Co-)Organizer and Convener, Synopsis Purioris
Theologiae Launch Event, Scaliger Institute, Leiden
University
Workshop Organizer and Convener, Scholastic Disputations
and the Synopsis Purioris Theologiae, Scaliger Institute,
Universiteit Leiden
Session Chair, The Spirituality of the Heidelberg Catechism,
Theologische Universiteit Apeldoorn NL
External Examiner, Phd Dissertation, Herderlijke regel of
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2012
2011-13
2011
2010
2010
2009
2008
2006
2004
2003
1998
inburgeringscursus? Een bijdrage aan het onderzoek naar de
ethische richtlijnen in 1 Timoteüs & Titus (Myriam Klinker-De
Klerck) [= Pastoral Norm or Instruction into the Bourgeoisie?
An Investigation in the Ethical Guidelines in 1 Timothy and
Titus]
Referee, Phoenix (1), Collected Works of Erasmus (1)
Referee, American Journal of Philology (1), Latomus (1)
Chair, Adjucation Committee, Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Programme
Session Chair: “Roman Authors at Work and Play,” CAC
Conference
Assessor: Tenure Application,Classical Studies (Windsor
University)
Session Chair: “Iliad,” CAC Conference
Program Evaluator, Chair of Review Committee of Classics
Department, Laurentian University
Referee, Classical Philology (1), Phoenix (1), Mouseion (1)
External Referee for Collected Works of Erasmus
Adjudicator, Senior Latin Sight Translation Competition, Classical
Association of Canada
Referee, Phoenix; American Journal of Philology
Juror, Classical Association of Canada, Senior Essay Competition
2. Internal
20132015
2014
2014
2013
2013
2013
Director, Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies
Member, MA Language Assessment Committee
Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Department of
Classical Studies
Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee, St. Jerome’s
University College
Member, Departmental Committee on Program
Standardization
Member, Supervisory Committee, MA thesis, “Imperial
Transportation and Communication from the Third to the
Late Fourth Century: The Golden Age of the cursus
publicus” (Lukas Lemcke)
Supervisor, Undergraduate Thesis, “Ethos and Pathos in
Women’s Speeches in Lucan’s Bellum Civile” (Amanda Ross)
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2010-13
2004-13
2012
2012
2006-9
2009
2009
2009
2009
2008
2008
2008
2008
2008
2008
2006
2005
2005-6
2004-6
2004-6
2001-2003
2003
2000-2002
2000-2002
1999-2002
1996-2001
1998-2001
1996
1995
1994-95
High School Liaison Officer
Director, Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies
Library Liaison Officer, Classical Studies
Member, Classical Studies Department Chair Search Committee
Member, Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies Director
Search Committee
Chair of Department
Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, Classical Studies
Member, Graduate Steering Commitee, Classical Studies
Member, Decanal ‘Taskforce’ on Student Engagement
Member, UW Early Modern Studies Working Group, Newberry
Travel Grant Adjudication Committee
Chair, Department Advisory Committee on Appointments
English Department Chair Search Committee (Decanal
Appointment)
Drama/Speech Communication Chair Search Committee (VicePresident Appointment)
Chair, Department Tenure and Promotion Committee
Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, Classical Studies
Member, Graduate Steering Commitee, Classical Studies
Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies
Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies
Member, Departmental Tenure and Promotion Committee
Member, Departmental DACA
Member, Maynard Scholarship Committee, OCA
Chair of Department
Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Department of
Drama and Speech Communication
University SSHRCC Small Grants Committee
Undergraduate Advisor, Classical Studies
Dean’s Advisory Committee on Research (Arts Faculty)
Editor, Labyrinth
Library Liaison Officer, Classical Studies
Curriculum Committee, Arts Faculty Council (UNB)
Chair, Sub-Committee on Social Sciences / Humanities /
Languages Degree Option, Arts Faculty Council (UNB)
Retention Committee, Arts Faculty Council (UNB)
Level I Assessment Committee (Promotion and Tenure)
Distance Education Advisory Committee (UNB)
Level II Assessment (Tenure and Promotion) Committee
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Language Laboratory Advisory Committee
Teaching Experience (Last Four Years Only)
Winter 2015
Fall 2015
Winter 2014
Fall 2014
Fall 2013
Winter 2013
Fall 2012
Winter 2012
CLAS 201 (Ancient Greek Society) (334)
CLAS 486 (Republican Poetry and the Hellenistic East) (4)
CLAS 600 (Republican Poetry and the Hellenistic East) (2)
CLAS 100 (Introduction to Classical Studies (89)
GRK 332 (Intermediate Greek: Homer) (5)
(held with 490/600)
GRK 490 (Advanced Greek: Homer) 4
GRK 600 (Senior Studies in Greek: Homer) (5)
Greek 490 (Hellenistic Poetry) (3)
Greek 600 (Hellenistic Poetry) (2)
Latin 102 (Introduction to Latin II) (10)
Introduction to Classical Studies (CLAS 100) (89)
Introduction to Latin I (LAT 101) (18)
Roman Historical Epic (CLAS 632) (2)
Introduction to Latin (LAT 101) (32)
Thesis Supervision (CLAS 490B) (1)
Introduction to Latin 1 (LAT 101) (27)
Advanced Latin Grammar, Reading, and
Composition (LAT 351) (15)
Thesis Supervision (CLAS 490A) (1)
Introduction to Latin II (LAT 102) (18)
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