GITNER
Department of Classical Studies
Indiana University BH 559
1020 East Kirkwood Avenue
Bloomington, Indiana 47405
[email protected] 812-856-5933
ADAM GITNER
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Augustan literature, Greco-Latin bilingualism, non-literary Latin, ancient linguistic thought
EMPLOYMENT
2014–
Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, Indiana University
2012–14
APA/NEH Postdoctoral Fellow, Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Bavarian Academy of
Sciences
2013–14
Docent, Department of Comparative and Indo-European Linguistics, Ludwig-MaximiliansUniversität, Munich
2011–12
Instructor, Department of Classics, Saint Ann’s School, Brooklyn, NY
2010–11
Lecturer, Department of Classics, Princeton University
EDUCATION
2012
Ph. D., Princeton University, Department of Classics
Dissertation: Horace and the Greek Language: Aspects of Literary Bilingualism (Directed
by Professor Joshua Katz)
2009
M. A., Princeton University, Department of Classics
2005
B. A., Boston University, University Professors Program
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2009
Hyde Fellowship, Princeton University
2007–8
Cotsen Teaching Fellowship, Princeton University
2005
Senior Thesis Prize, University Professors Program, Boston University
2005
Mellville Latin Prize, Classics Department, Boston University
2002
Trustee Scholarship, Boston University
2002
Edmonds Essay Prize, Boston University
PUBLICATIONS
Articles
Forthcoming “Varro Aeolicus: Latin’s Affinity with Greek”: in Varro Varius: Papers on M. Terentius
Varro, ed. D. Butterfield, Cambridge Classical Journal Supplement.
“The Lexicography of Latin,” with David Goldstein: in International Handbook of Lexis
and Lexicography, ed. P. Hanks and G.-M. de Schryver, Springer Publishers.
TLL IX.1 Fasc. 2: nautea, nauticus, nauticarius; X.1 Fasc. 3: recrudesco, redintegratio,
redintegrator, redintegro; Fasc. 3: reefficio, refacio, reficio, reformido; Fasc. 4: regibilis,
†regifer, regificator, regifico, regificus, regigno, regimen, regimentum, regina, ?regnifico.
In Review “Nautea, notia: Plautus’s Nauseating Root,” Glotta.
In Progress Greek Words, Latin Style: Bilingual Interaction in Horace (book manuscript)
“Sardismos: A Rhetorical Term for Language Mixture”
GITNER
Reviews
2014
A. Garcea, Caesar’s De Analogia: Edition, Translation, and Commentary (Oxford
University Press, 2012), Gnomon 86, 2014, 15–19.
In Progress J. N. Adams, Social Variation and the Latin Language (Cambridge University Press,
2013), Gnomon.
G. O. Hutchinson, Greek to Latin: Frameworks and Contexts for Intertextuality (Oxford
University Press, 2013), Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
PRESENTATIONS
Invited Talks
2014
“Greek Voices in Horace’s Satires,” University of Indiana, Bloomington, January.
2014
“Creeping Roots: Varro on Latin across Space and Time,” Varro, De Lingua Latina, and
Intellectual Culture in the Late Republic (organizer-refereed seminar), APA Annual
Meeting, Chicago
2013
“Aus der Werkstatt der Horazischen Textkritik,” Lateinische Textkritik Übungsseminar
(Dániel Kiss), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, June
2012
“Horatius interpres: Varieties of Poetic Translation,” Program in Translation and
Intercultural Communication, Princeton University, May
2011
“Varro’s Aeolism?” Craven Literary Seminar on “The Works of Varro,” University of
Cambridge, July
2010
“An Introduction to Syntactical Grecisms,” Brown University, October
Conference Contributions
2013
“How the Other Half Lives: Greek Voices in Horace’s Satires,” III Encuentro Hispano
Colombiano de Estudios de la Antigüedad: Graecia capta: la visión romana de la cultura
griega,” Instituto de Estudios Clásicos Lucio Anneo Séneca, Madrid, October
2012
“Latin ≠ Greek: Idiomata in Theory and Practice,” Latin Lexicography: Theory, Practice,
and Influence from Republican Rome to Late Antiquity (organizer-refereed panel), APA
Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, January
2011
“Greek Voices in Horace,” Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers (plenary
panel), Boston, October
2011
“Horace’s chartae and the Substance of Poetry,” APA Annual Meeting, San Antonio
2009
“Imperfect Bilingualism in Horace Satires 1.7,” APA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia
2008
“A Synchronic Approach to Grecism,” Cultures in Contact in the Ancient World,
University of Pennsylvania
COURSES TAUGHT
Indiana University
2014
CLAS-C 102 Roman Culture
2014
CLAS-C 360 Roman Literature in Translation: Mocking, Blaming, Cursing
Princeton University
Primary Instructor
2011
Beginner’s Latin (Spring)
GITNER
2010
Senior Thesis Writers Workshop (Fall)
Intermediate Latin (Fall)
Turbo Latin (Summer)
Intermediate Latin (Spring)
2009
Rhetoric: Classical Theory, Modern Practice (Spring)
Secondary Instructor
2008
Origins and Nature of English Vocabulary (Spring)
Saint Ann’s School
2011–12
Beginner’s Latin, Intermediate Greek, Vergil’s Aeneid, Petronius and the Latin Novel
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
2013–14
M. A. Seminar in Italic Linguistics and Philology: “Vulgar” Latin in Social and Historical
Perspective (Winter Semester)
SERVICE
Indiana University
2014–15
Undergraduate Committee, Latin Ph.D. Literature Exam Committee, Lecture Coordinator
Other Service
2014–18
Stinnecke Prize Committee, Princeton University
2012
Judge for Greek and Latin Recitation Contest, New York Classical Club
2010–11
Co-convener of Neo-Latin reading group (“Latin Letters about Latin Letters”), Princeton
University
2008–9
Graduate Fellow at Butler College, Princeton
2008–11
Founder and organizer of the Classics Linguistics Table
2005–11
Committee Service: Undergraduate Committee, Graduate Student Advisory Council,
Library Committee, Prentice Library Representative
Referee for Transactions of the American Philosophical Association, The Cambridge Classical Journal
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
2009–11
Research Assistant to Heinrich von Staden (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
2009
Visiting Member of the Classics Centre, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
2008–9
Research Assistant to Brent Shaw, Michael Flower (Classics, Princeton University)
2008
Participant, Leiden Summer School in Indo-European Linguistics
2006
Participant, Greek Palaeography Summer School, Lincoln College, Oxford
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