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CURRICULUM VITAE
August 2014
John R. Clarke
3210 Harris Park Ave.
Austin, Texas 78705
(512) 474-2663
Department of Art and Art History
The University of Texas
Austin, Texas 78712-0337
e-mail: [email protected]
tel. (512) 232-2355 fax
(512) 471-5539
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Yale University, 1973. Dissertation: “Roman Black-and-White Figural Mosaics
from the first through the third centuries A.D.”
M.A. Yale University, Department of the History of Art, 1969. Thesis: “The Portrait
Iconography of Drusus the Younger and Germanicus.”
A.B. Georgetown University, magna cum laude, 1967.
TEACHING APPOINTMENTS
1980- The University of Texas at Austin, Assistant to Full Professor, History of Art;
Annie Laurie Howard Regents Professor of Fine Arts, 19911975-80 Yale University, Assistant Professor, History of Art and Classical Archaeology.
1974-75 The University of California, San Diego, Assistant Professor, Art History and
Visual Arts.
1973-74 The University of Michigan, Visiting Assistant Professor, History of Art and
Classics.
1972-73 Vassar College, Instructor, History of Art.
PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND GRANTS
National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant, 2009-2010.
Project title: “The Oplontis Project. Excavation, study, and digital publication of
Villa A at Torre Annunziata, Italy, 50 BCE-CE 79.” $355,000.
University Cooperative Society Subvention Grant for publication of Looking at Laughter:
Humor, Power, and Transgression in Roman Visual Culture, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007).
Vasari Award, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 2004, for Art in the Lives of Ordinary
Romans: Visual Representation and Non-Elite Viewers in Italy, 100 B.C.-A.D.
315 (Berkeley, University of California Press, 2003).
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 2002-2003
University Cooperative Society Subvention Grant for publication of Art in the Lives of
Ordinary Romans: Visual Representation and Non-Elite Viewers in Italy, 100
B.C.-A.D. 315 (Berkeley, University of California Press, 2003).
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Vasari Award, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1999, for Looking at Lovemaking:
Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250 (Berkeley, 1998)
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers, 1999
Dictionary of International Biography, 1998Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching, 1997
International Authors and Writers Who’s Who, 1997FAST-TEX and CASA Grants to develop CD-ROM on the Roman House, 1997-1998,
2000, 2001, 2002, 2007
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers, 1995
Resident, American Academy in Rome, 1995
Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, 1994Who’s Who in the Humanities, 1991Phi Kappa Phi, 1990
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1989
E. W. Doty Professorship, 1989-1990
American Philosophical Society Grant, 1987
Contemporary Authors, 1985Foxworth Centennial Fellowship, 1984-1985
Who’s Who in American Art, 1984University of Texas Faculty Research Assignments, 1984-1985; 1991-1992; 1998-1999,
2002-2003; 2007-2008
University of Texas Research Grants, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1990
University of Texas Summer Research Award, 1981
American Council of Learned Societies Grants-in-Aid, 1980 and 1983
Griswold Humanities Research Grants (Yale University), 1978 and 1980
University of California Faculty Research Grant, 1975
Fulbright-Hays Grant for Study in Italy, 1970-1971
Yale University Fellowships, 1968-1969, 1969-1970, 1971-1972
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1967-1968
Phi Beta Kappa, 1966
MEMBERSHIP AND OFFICES HELD IN LEARNED SOCIETIES
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Board of Advisors/Selection Committee
2013-2016
American Academy in Rome, Trustee, 2011-2013
American Council of Learned Societies, Board of Directors, 2000-2010; Vice Chair of
the Board, 2004-2010
College Art Association (member since 1972): President, 1998-2000; Vice President,
1996-98; Secretary, 1994-96; Chair, Art Historians’ Committee, 1991-1996;
Board of Directors, 1991-95; Chair, Committee on Electronic Information,
1991-93; Executive Committee, 1991-2000
Association Internationale pour la Peinture Murale Antique (member since 1980);
member of the Governing Committee, 1989-1998; 2007-2013
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Archaeological Institute of America (member since 1972): Review Committee for the
American Journal of Archaeology, 1995-2000; Publications Subvention
Committee, 2005-; Vice-President, Austin Chapter, 1987-89
Association Internationale pour l’Étude de la Mosaïque Antique (member since 1976).
PUBLICATIONS
Ancient Art and Architecture
Books
Looking at Laughter: Humor, Power, and Transgression in Roman Visual Culture, 100
B.C.-A.D. 250. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007; pp. xi + 325, 24
color plates, 119 b-w illustrations.
Roman Life:100 BC-AD 200. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2007, pp. 176, 144 color
illustrations; CD-ROM, “The House of the Vettii at Pompeii: An Interactive
Visit” bundled with book. Foreign editions: Roma Antiqua: Von Händlern,
Hebammen und anderen Helden. Darmstadt: Primus Verlag, 2009.
Roman Black-and-White Figural Mosaics. Revised and expanded for the Humanities
E-Book Series of the American Council of Learned Societies. Ann Arbor,
University of Michigan Press, 2006. Permanent URL:
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.90029.0001.001.
Art in the Lives of Ordinary Romans: Visual Representation and Non-elite Viewers in
Italy, 100 B.C.-A.D. 315. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2003, pp. xi +
383; 24 color plates, 185 black-and-white illustrations.
Roman Sex, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2003, pp. 168; 95 color
plates, 9 black-and-white illustrations. Foreign editions: Le sexe à Rome. Paris:
Lamartinière, 2003; Sexo en Roma. Madrid: Grupo Oceano, 2004; Ars Erotica:
Sexualität und ihre Bilder im antiken Rom. Darmstadt: Primus Verlag, 2009.
Looking at Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art--100 B.C.-A.D. 250.
Berkeley, University of California Press, 1998, pp. xxvii + 361; 107
black-and-white illustrations, 16 color plates.
The Houses of Roman Italy, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250: Ritual, Space, and Decoration. Berkeley,
University of California Press, 1991, pp. xxvii + 411; 227 black-and-white
illustrations, 24 color plates.
Roman Black-and-White Figural Mosaics. Monograph XXXV, Archaeological Institute
of America and the College Art Association, New York University Press, 1979,
pp. xxiv + 147; 97 black-and-white illustrations.
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Chapters
“Domus/Single Family House.” In A Companion to Roman Architecture, edited by Roger
B. Ulrich and Caroline K. Quenemoen, 242-262. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell,
2014.
“Sexuality and Visual Representation.” In A Companion to Greek and Roman
Sexualities,” edited by Thomas K. Hubbard, 509-533. Malden, MA:
Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
with Stefano De Caro and Adele Lagi. “Oplonti e le sue ville.” In Città vesuviane, in I
luoghi dell’arte, edited by Pietro Giovanni Guzzo and Gianluca Tagliamonte,
142-155. Rome: Treccani, 2013.
“Before Pornography: Sexual Representation in Ancient Roman Visual Culture.” In
Pornographic Art and the Aesthetics of Pornography, edited by Hans Maes,
141-161. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
“The Villa of Oplontis: A ‘Born Digital’ Project.” In Preserving Complex Digital
Objects. Edited by Janet Delve and David Anderson, 259-272. London: Facet
Publishing, 2014.
“Representations of Worship at Rome, Pompeii, Heraculaneum, and Ostia in the Imperial
Period. A Model of Production and Consumption.” In Contested Spaces: Houses
and Temples in Roman Antiquity and the New Testament, Wissenschaftliche
Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, edited by David L. Balch and Annette
Weissenrieder, 3-20. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2012.
“Constructing the Spaces of Epiphany in Ancient Greek and Roman Visual Culture.” In
Text, Image and Christians in a Graeco-Roman World: A Festschrift in Honor of
David Lee Balch. Princeton Theological Monograph Series 176, edited by Aliou
Cissé Niang and Carolyn Osiek, 257-279. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2011.
“Erotica: Visual Representation of Greek and Roman Sexual Culture.” In Sexuality in the
Classical World, edited by Mark Golden and Peter Toohey, 169-190. Chapter 9,
Vol. 1 of A Cultural History of Sexuality. Oxford: Berg Publishing, 2011.
“How did Painters Create Near-Exact Copies? Notes on Four Center Paintings from
Pompeii.” In New Perspectives on Etruria and Early Rome, edited by Sinclair
Bell and Helen Nagy, 134-148. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009.
“The Philological, the Folkloric, and the Site-Specific: Three Models for Decoding
Classical Visual Representation.” In Role Models in the Roman World: Identity
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and Assimilation, edited by Sinclair Bell and Inge Lyse Hansen. Memoirs of the
American Academy in Rome, Supplement 7, 301-316. Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press, 2008.
“Domestic Decoration: Mosaics and Stucco.” Chapter 21 of The World of Pompeii, edited
by John J. Dobbins and Pedar W. Foss, 323-335. New York-Abingdon:
Routledge, 2007.
“Three Uses of the Pygmy and the Aethiops at Pompeii: Decorating, ‘Othering,’ and
Warding off Demons.” In Nile into Tiber: Egypt in the Roman World.
Proceedings of the IIIrd International Conference of Isis Studies, Leiden
University, May 11-14, 2005, edited by Laurent Bricault, Miguel John Versluys,
and Paul G. P. Meyboom, 155-169. Leiden: Brill, 2007.
“High and Low: Mocking Philosophers in the Tavern of the Seven Sages, Ostia.” In The
Art of Soldiers, Citizens and Freedmen in the Roman World, British
Archaeological Reports International Series 1526, edited by Eve D’Ambra and
Guy Métraux, 47-57. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2006.
“Representations of the Cinaedus in Roman Art: Evidence of “Gay” Subculture?”
Journal of Homosexuality 39, 2-4 (2005), special issued entitled Greek Love
through the Ages: Same-Sex Desire and Love in the Greco-Roman World and in
the Classical Tradition of the West, 271-298. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press,
2005.
“Augustus and the Third Style: The Politics of Domestic Decoration.” In Cambridge
Companion to the Age of Augustus, edited by Karl Galinsky, Chapter 11, 264-278.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
“Look Who’s Laughing at Sex: Men and Women Viewers in the Apodyterium of the
Suburban Baths at Pompeii.” In The Roman Gaze, edited by David Fredrick,
Chapter 5, 149-181. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
“Roux-Barré e la costruzione culturale della sessualità.” Introduction to Il Museo Segreto,
edited by Laurentino García y García and Luciana Jacobelli, 4-7. Pompei: Marius
Edizioni, 2001.
“Hypersexual Black Men in Augustan Baths: Ideal Somatotypes and Apotropaic Magic.”
In Sexuality in Ancient Art, edited by Natalie B. Kampen, Chapter 12, 184-198.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
“The House of Jupiter and Ganymede at Ostia Antica: Private Residence Turned Gay
Hotel?” In Roman Art in The Private Sphere: New Perspectives on the
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Architecture and Decor of the Domus, Villa, and Insula, edited by Elaine K.
Gazda, Chapter 4, 89-104. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1991.
Articles
“Roman Visual Humor.” In Encylopedia of Humor Studies, edited by Salvatore Attardo.
vol. 2: 651-555. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2014.
“Fabric as Architecture in Ancient Rome.” In Center. Volume 19. Curtains, edited by
Michael Benedikt, 38-44. Austin: Center for American Architecture and Design.
2014.
“A Virtual Villa.” Apollo 179, no. 617 (February 2014): 48-53.
“Sketching and Scaling in the Second-Style Frescoes of Oplontis and Boscoreale.” In La
villa romaine de Boscoreale et ses fresques, edited by Alix Barbet and Annie
Verbanck-Piérard, 199-209. Paris: Éditions Errance, 2013.
with Lea Cline. “New Light on Mosaic Metrics: Research at Villa A, Torre Annunziata,
Italy (50 B.C.-A.D. 79.” In Acts of the XI International Colloquium on Ancient
Mosaics. Association Internationale pour l’Etude de la Mosaïque Antique (Bursa
2009), edited by Mustafa Sahin, 247-257. Istanbul : Zero Books, 2011.
“A Lost Mosaic from the Terme Marittime at Ostia,” Actos do Xo Colóquio Internacional.
Association International pour l’Etude de la Mosaïque Antique, Conimbriga 29
October-3 November 2005), edited by A. Correia, 479-483. Lisbon: Instituto dos Museus
e da Conservação, 2011.
with Michael L. Thomas. “Water Features, the Atrium, and the Coastal Setting of
Oplontis Villa A at Torre Annunziata.” Journal of Roman Archaeology 24 (2011),
370-381.
“Erotica.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by Michael
Gagarin, vol. 3: 108-110. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
“Model-book, Outline-book, Figure-book: New Observations on the Creation of
Near-Exact Copies in Romano-Campanian Painting.” In Atti del X Congresso
Internazionale dell’AIPMA (Associazione Internazionale per la Pittura Murale
Antica, Naples, 17-21 September 2007, Annali di Archeologia e Storia Antica, 18,
1, edited by Irene Bragantini, 203-214. Naples, Università degli Studi di Napoli
“L’Orientale:” 2010.
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“The Oplontis Project (2005-2008).” In Vesuviana: Archeologie a confronto. Atti del
Convegno Internazionale (Bologna, 14-16 gennaio 2008), edited by Antonella
Coralini, 427-430. Bologna: Ante Quem, 2010.
with Michael L. Thomas. “Evidence of Demolition and Remodeling at Villa A at
Oplontis (Villa of Poppaea) after A.D. 45.” Journal of Roman Archaeology 22
(2009): 355-364.
with Michael L. Thomas. “The Oplontis Project, 2005-2006: New Evidence for the
Building History and Decorative Programs at Villa A, Torre Annunziata.” In
Nuove ricerche archeologiche nell’area vesuviana (scavi 2003-2006). Atti del
Convegno Internazionale, Roma 1-3 febbraio 2007, edited by Maria Paola
Guidobaldi, 465-471. Rome: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, 2008.
“Rethinking Space, Light, and Pedagogy: The New Ancient Galleries at the Metropolitan
Museum.” American Journal of Archaeology 112 (January 2008): 173-177.
“A Compendium of Pygmy Imagery in the Casa del Medico at Pompeii: Content,
Context, and Viewers.” Circulación de temas y sistemas decorativos en la pintura
mural antigua. Actas del IX Congreso Internacional de la Association
Internationale pour la Peinture Murale Antique (Zaragoza-Calatayud 21-25
September 2004), edited by Carmen Guiral Pelegrín, 219-222. Calatayud:
Gobierno de Aragon, 2007.
with Michael L. Thomas. “The Oplontis Project 2005-6: Observations on the
Construction History of Villa A at Torre Annunziata.” Journal of Roman
Archaeology 20 (2007): 222-232.
“Forica Security: The Apotropaic Pygmy-Other in an Imperial Latrine at Ostia.” In
Studies in Honour of Asher Ovadiah, edited by Sonia Mucznik. Assaph: Studies in
Art History, vols. 10-11, 293-302. Tel Aviv, 2007.
with Michael Larvey. “A Black-and-White Figural Mosaic from the Suburban Baths at
Pompeii.” La mosaïque gréco-romaine IX. Actes du IXe colloque international
pour l’étude de la mosaïque antique et médiévale (Rome 5-10 November 2001),
edited by Hélène Morlier, 25-33. Rome: École française de Rome, 2005.
“Roman Houses and their Gardens: Framing Nature and Ritual.” The Antiquer 3, 4 (April
2004): 26-29.
“Finding Lost Antioch: Exhibition, Catalogue, Programs.” Art Bulletin 75, 1 (2003):
185-188.
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“Sex, Death, and Status: Nilotic Tomb Imagery as Index of Acculturation.” In Actes du
VIIe Colloque de l’Association Internationale pour la Peinture Murale Antique,
edited by Alix Barbet, 85-91. Paris, 2001.
“Form, Function, and Meaning of Symplegmata in Pompeian Mosaics: The Case for the
‘Domestication’ of Sex.” In Actes du VIIe Colloque Internationale pour l’Etude
de la Mosaïque Antique (Tunis 3-7 October 1994), edited by Mongi Ennaïfer,
721-725. Tunis: Institut National du Patrimoine, 1999.
“Look Who’s Laughing: Humor in Tavern Painting as Index of Class and Acculturation.”
Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 43/44 (1998/1999): 27-48.
“Living Figures within the Scaenae Frons: Figuring the Viewer in Liminal Space.” In
Atti del VI Convegno sulla Pittura Parietale Antica (Bologna, September 20-23
September, 1995), edited by Daniela Scagliarini, 43-45. Bologna: University
Press, 1997.
“Rome, Ancient.” In Encyclopedia of Interior Design, 2 vols., edited by Joanna Banham,
1079-1084. London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997.
“‘Just Like Us’: Cultural Constructions of Sexuality and Race in Roman Art.” The Art
Bulletin 78, 4 (December 1996): 599-603. Reprinted in Kymberly N. Pinder, ed.,
Race-ing Art History: Critical Readings in Race and Art History. New York,
2002.
“Landscape Paintings in the Villa of Oplontis.” Journal of Roman Archaeology 9 (1996):
81-107.
“The ‘View Through’ and the ‘View Out’ in the Ancient Roman House.” Texas Classics
in Action (Summer, 1996): 7-11.
“Neptune and His Quadriga: The Diffusion of a Motif in the Black-and-white Mosaics of
Italy.” In VI Colloquio Internacional sobre Mosaico Antiguo (Palencia and
Mérida, Spain, October 15-20, 1990), edited by Dimas Fernández-Galiano,
309-316. Guadalajara: C. M. Batalla, 1994.
“Mosaic Workshops at Pompeii and Ostia Antica.” In Fifth International Colloquium on
Ancient Mosaics (Bath, England, September 5-12, 1987), edited by Peter Johnson,
Roger Ling, and David J. Smith, 89-102. Ann Arbor, MI, Journal of Roman
Archaeology, Supplementary Series 9, 1994.
“The Warren Cup and the Contexts for Representations of Male-to-Male Lovemaking in
Augustan and Early Julio-Claudian Art.” The Art Bulletin 75, 2 (June 1993):
275-294.
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“New Light on the Iconography of Jupiter, Ganymede, and Leda in the House of Jupiter
and Ganymede at Ostia Antica.” In Der Akten des 4. Internationalen Kolloquiums
zur Römischen Wandmalerei, Kölner Jahrbuch für Vor- und Frühgeschichte 24
(1991), 171-175.
“Notes on the Coordination of Wall, Floor, and Ceiling Decoration in the Houses of
Roman Italy, 100 BCE-235 CE.” In IL 60. Essays Honoring Irving Lavin on his
Sixtieth Birthday, edited by Marilyn Aronberg Lavin, 1-29. New York: Italica
Press, 1990.
“The Non-Alignment of Functional Dividers in Mosaic and Wall Painting at Pompeii.”
Bulletin de l’Association Internationale pour l’Étude de la Mosaïque Antique 12
(1989): 313-321.
“Major Antiquities Center to Bring Ancient Art to Texas in 1990.” The Journal of Art 1,
6 (1989): 12.
“The Early Third Style at the Villa of Oplontis.” Römische Mitteilungen 94 (1987):
149-165.
“Relationships between Floor, Wall, and Ceiling Decoration at Rome and Ostia Antica:
Some Case Studies.” Bulletin de l’Association Internationale pour l’Étude de la
Mosaïque Antique 10 (1985): 93-103.
“The Origins of Black-and-White Figural Mosaics in the Region Destroyed by
Vesuvius.” In La regione sotterrata dal Vesuvio: Studi e prospettive. Atti del
convegno internazionale 11-15 November 1979, edited by Alfonso De Franciscis,
661-688. Naples: Università degli Studi di Napoli, 1982.
“Recent Pompeiana: Visual Documentation of the Region Buried by Vesuvius, both
Scientific and Popular.” Visual Resources 2, 1-3 (1982): 112-121.
“Style and Chronology in Black-and-White Mosaics: 20 B.C.-A.D. 250.” Bulletin de
l’Association Internationale pour l’Étude de la Mosaïque Antique 7 (1978):
256-257.
“Kinesthetic Address and the Influence of Architecture on Mosaic Composition in Three
Hadrianic Bath Complexes at Ostia Antica.” Architectura 5, 1 (1975): 1-17.
Book Reviews
Review of Lourdes Conde Feitosa, The Archaeology of Gender, Love and Sexuality in
Pompeii. BAR international series, S2533 (Oxford, 2013), in Bryn Mawr
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Classical Review (http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2014/2014-03-43.html, March
2014).
Review of Michael Squire, The Iliad in a Nutshell: Visualizing Epic on the Tabulae
Iliacae (Oxford, 2011), in Journal of Roman Studies 103 (November 2013):
313-314.
Review of Mantha Zarmakoupi, ed., The Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum:
Archaeology, Reception, and Digital Reconstruction. Sozomena: Studies in the
Recovery of Ancient Texts 1 (Berlin, 2010), in American Journal of Archaeology
(http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-book/1626, June 2013).
Review of Eugene Dwyer, Pompeii’s Living Statues: Ancient Roman Lives Stolen from
Death (Michigan, 2010), in American Journal of Archaeology
(http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-book/1057, January 2012).
Review of Ellen Swift, Style and Function in Roman Decoration (Farnham, 2009), in
American Journal of Archaeology
(http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-book/705, July 2010).
Review of Caroline Vout, Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome (Cambridge, 2007), in
Journal of Roman Archaeology 22 (2009): 625-629.
Review of Giulia Sissa, Sex and Sensuality in the Ancient World (New Haven and
London: Yale University Press, 2008), in Classical Review 59, 2 (2009), 368-370.
Review of Carole C. Mattusch, Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around
the Bay of Naples (exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2009), in
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009-05-18.html
May 2009).
Review of Jaś Elsner, Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text (Princeton,
2007), in Times Literary Supplement (April 4, 2008): 30.
Review of Matthew B. Roller, Dining Posture in Ancient Rome: Bodies, Values, and
Status (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006), in Classical Philology 103
(January 2008): 94-99.
Review of Roger Ling and Lesley Ling, The Insula of the Menander, vol. 2. The
Decorations (Oxford, 2005), in Journal of Roman Archaeology 17 (2007):
448-450.
Review of Dyfri Williams, The Warren Cup (London, 2005), in Journal of Roman
Archaeology 16, (2006), 509-510.
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Review of Donatella Mazzoleni and Umberto Pappalardo, Domus: Wall Painting in the
Roman House (Los Angeles, 2005), in Bryn Mawr Classical Review
(http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2005/2005-08-32.html August 2005).
Review of Penelope M. Allison and Frank B. Sear, Casa della Caccia antica (VII 4,48).
Häuser in Pompeji, edited by Volker Michael Strocka, vol. 11 (Munich, 2002), in
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2005/2005-02-17.html
February 2005).
Review of M. J. Versluys, Aegyptiaca Romana. Nilotic Scenes and Roman Views of
Egypt. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2002. Pp. viii + 509. In New England Classical
Journal 31, 3 (2004): 330-333.
Review of Roberto Cassanelli, Pier Luigi Ciapparelli, Enrico Colle, Massimiliano David,
Houses and Monuments of Pompeii: The Works of Fausto and Felice Niccolini
(Los Angeles, 2002), in Bryn Mawr Classical Review
(http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2003/2003-07-05.html July, 2003).
Review of John De Felice, Roman Hospitality: The Professional Women of Pompeii.
Marco Polo Monographs, 6 (Warren Center, PA, 2001), in Bryn Mawr Classical
Review (http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2002/2002-06-33.html June, 2002).
Review of Roger Ling, Ancient Mosaics (Princeton, 1998) and Katherine M.D.
Dunbabin, Mosaics of the Greek and Roman World (New York, 1999), in
Odyssey 4 (January/February 2001): 58, 61.
Review of Christine Kondoleon, ed., Antioch: The Lost City, exh. cat. (Princeton, 2000),
in Bryn Mawr Classical Review
(http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2001/2001-01-07.html January 2001).
Review of J.T. Smith, Roman Villas: A Study in Social Structure (New York, 1997), in
American Journal of Archaeology 104 (January 2000): 150-151.
Review of James C. Anderson, jr., Roman Architecture and Society (Baltimore, 1997), in
American Historical Review (October 1998): 1228-1229.
Review of Roger Ling, The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii, vol. 1 (Oxford, 1997), in
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 9.5 (1998): 441-444.
(http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/1998/98.1.20.html)
Review of Le pitture erotiche delle Terme Suburbane di Pompei (Rome, 1995), in Kleos
2 (1997): 265-270 [in Italian].
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Review of Jaś Elsner, Art and the Roman Viewer (Cambridge, 1995), in Journal of
Roman Archaeology 9 (1996): 375-380.
Review of Luciana Jacobelli, Le pitture erotiche delle Terme Suburbane di Pompei
(Rome, 1995), and three other monographs on Pompeii, in American Journal of
Archaeology 100 (April 1996): 431-432.
Review of Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum
(Princeton, 1994), in American Historical Review (December 1995): 1544-1545.
Review of Christine Kondoleon, Domestic and Divine: Roman Mosaics in the House of
Dionysos (Ithaca, 1995), in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 6, 7 (1995): 624-629.
(http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/1995/95.10.18.html)
Review of Vincent J. Bruno and Russell T. Scott, Cosa IV: The Houses (MAAR 38,
1993), in Echoes du Monde Classique (1995): 287-291.
Review of Diana E. E. Kleiner, Roman Sculpture (New Haven, 1992), in American
Historical Review 98 (February 1994): 208.
Review of Michael Donderer, Die Chronologie der römischen Mosaiken in Venetien und
Istrien bis zur Zeit der Antonine (Berlin, 1986) in American Journal of
Archaeology 92, 4 (1988): 620-621.
Review of The Carrey Drawings of the Parthenon Sculptures, eds. Bowie and Thimme,
in Visual Resources 1, 1 (1980): 74-78.
Review of Margaret A. Alexander and Mongi Ennaifer, Corpus des Mosaïques de
Tunisie, in The Art Bulletin 58, 1 (1976): 120-121.
Other Periods
“Liz Glynn, The 24 Hour Roman Reconstruction Project, Or, Building Rome In A Day.”
In ...might be good. October, 2009. Electronic publication
http://www.fluentcollab.org/
“Susan Hall and the Discourses of Landscape.” In Painting Point Reyes: Susan Hall
(Point Reyes Station, Calif.: Green Bridge Press, 2003).
“Margaret Fisher: American Modernist.” Woman’s Art Journal 24, 1 (2003): 11-16.
“Seeing Rainbows Among the Ruins: Peter Erskine’s ‘New Light on Rome.’”
20, 7 (September 2001): 22-29.
Sculpture
“Susan Hall: Finding Her Center.” Woman’s Art Journal 21, 1 (Summer 2000): 4-10.
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“Minimalism and Its Opposition.” In Images of Change: Catalogue of the Southwestern
Bell Corporate Collection, edited by Laura Martin, 152-157. New York, 1996.
“Between Matter and Spirit: Susan Hall’s New Paintings.” Exhibition catalogue. San
Francisco, 1996.
“Margo Sawyer at DiverseWorks.” Art in America 82, 9 (September 1994): 121.
“Michael Mogavero at Lyons-Matrix.” Art in America 82, 4 (April 1994): 131-132.
“Seeing the Light.” Art in America 81, 2 (February 1993): 94-97.
“Secrets of the Sun in the Markets of Trajan.” In Secrets of the Sun: Millennial
Meditations I, A Solar Artwork by Peter Erskine. Exhibition catalogue, Trajan’s
Markets, Rome, Italy (March 21-May 10, 1992), 16-23.
“Barbara Sandler.” Arts Magazine 63, 9 (1989): 92.
“An Author Collects: Michener Gift Enriches Modern Studies at Texas.” The Journal of
Art 1, 4 (1989): 76-79.
“Australian Paintings of the Sixties in the Mertz Collection.” In Perspectives on
Australia, edited by Dave Oliphant, 181-201. Austin, TX: Harry Ransom
Humanities Research Center, 1989.
Introductory essay, in Exploring the Sixties: Selected American Paintings from the
Michener Collection. Exhibition catalogue, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery,
Austin (June 10-July 31, 1988), 7-17.
“Image, Technique, and Spirituality in Susan Hall’s New Work.” Arts Magazine 62, 10
(1988): 60-62.
“Color, Space, and Conflict in Robert Yarber’s Paintings.” Arts Magazine 61, 1 (1986):
46-49.
“Circuses and Bread: Achille Bonito Oliva’s Nuove Trame dell’Arte at Genazzano.” Arts
Magazine 60, 2 (1985): 34-39.
“Up Against the Wall, Transavanguardia!” Arts Magazine 57, 4 (1982): 76-81.
“Pamela Keech: Neglect, Infidelity, and Poisoning.” Arts Magazine 57, 2 (1982): 76-77.
“The Decorative Revisited: ‘Five on Fabric’.” Arts Magazine 56, 9 (1982): 142-144.
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“Photographic Vision and Photographic Time: Nancy Nina’s Categorical Contradictions
and False Open Ends.” Arts Magazine 55, 9 (1981): 122-124.
“The Reality of Illusion: Eclipse of Realism?” Arts Magazine 54, 5 (1981): 156-160.
“An Italian Landscape by Thomas Cole.” Arts Magazine 54, 5 (1980): 116-120.
“Visual and Conceptual Structures in Susan Hall’s Paintings.” Arts Magazine 54, 1
(1979): 153-157.
“Charlotte Cain.” Arts Magazine 53, 10 (1979): 7.
“Life/Art/Life, Quentin Crisp and Eleanor Antin: Notes on Performance in the
Seventies.” Arts Magazine 53, 6 (1979): 131-135.
“Susan Hall’s New Work.” Arts Magazine 53, 3 (1978): 158-159.
“Peter Erskine.” Arts Magazine 50, 9 (1976): 8.
“Peter Saari’s New Paintings.” Arts Magazine 50, 6 (1976): 58-59.
“Expressionism in Film and Architecture: Hans Poelzig’s Sets for Paul Wegener’s The
Golem.” Art Journal 34, 2 (1974-1975): 115-123.
Prints and Drawings of the Danube School, edited by Charles Talbot and Alan Shestack.
Exhibition catalogue: Yale University Art Gallery, City Art Museum of St. Louis,
Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 9, 1969-March 24, 1970, 20-31; 67-72;
74-75. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969.
In Press
Book
Critical introduction and first English translation of Guido Kaschnitz von Weinberg, Die
mittelmeerischen Grundlagen der antiken Kunst (Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann,
1944). In Mittelmeerstudien, edited by Achim Lichtenberger. Bochum: University
of Bochum. Forthcoming.
Chapters
“Paintings and Mosaics of the Third Style.” In Villa A (“of Poppaea”) at Torre
Annunziata, Italy (50 B.C.-A.D. 79). Volume 2: The Decorations. Edited by John
R. Clarke and Nayla K. Muntasser. New York: The Humanities E-Book Series of
the American Council of Learned Societies. Forthcoming.
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“History of the Excavations, 1964-1984.” In Villa A (“of Poppaea”) at Torre
Annunziata, Italy (50 B.C.-A.D. 79). Volume 1: Ancient Landscape and Modern
Discovery. Edited by John R. Clarke and Nayla K. Muntasser. New York: The
Humanities E-Book Series of the American Council of Learned Societies.
Forthcoming.
“The Plan, Siting, and Visual Impact of Villa A (“of Poppaea”) at Oplontis (Torre Annunziata,
Italy): Results from the Oplontis Project.” In Roman Villas in the Mediterranean Basin,
edited by Guy P. R. Métraux and Annalisa Marzano. Forthcoming.
Articles
“The Three Contexts Provided by the Oplontis 3D Model: Real-Time Viewing, Database
Exploration, and Reconstruction.” In Proceedings of XII International Conference
of AIPMA: Context and Meaning. BABESCH Supplement. Edited by Stephan
T.A.M. Mols and Eric M. Moormann. Forthcoming.
with Simon Barker. “Evidence for Wooden Wall Revetment and Marble Decoration in Diaeta 78
at Villa A (“of Poppaea”) at Oplontis (Torre Annunziata, Italy).” In Atti del XII Colloquio
dell’AIEMA (Association Internationale pour l’Ètude de la Mosaïque Antique), Venice,
11-15 September 2012. Edited by Giordana Trovabene. Forthcoming.
“Pornography.” In Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ancient History: Social History, edited by
Sabine Huebner. Forthcoming
“Reconstructing the Missing Elements of the Second-Style Program at Oplontis, Villa
A.” In Die Akten des XI. Internationales Kolloquium AIPMA:Antike Malerei
zwischen Lokalstil und Zeitstil (Ephesos/Selçuk 13-17 September 2010), edited by
Norbert Zimmermann. Forthcoming.
“Pompeii.” In International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality, edited by Rosalie M.
Robertson. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. Forthcoming.
Reviews
Review of Caroline Vout, Sex on Show: Seeing the Erotic in Greece and Rome (London:
British Museum Press, 2012), in Journal of Roman Archaeology. Forthcoming.
RECENT PUBLIC LECTURES
Swedish Institute in Rome, 2014. “Laughter in Roman Visual Culture, 100 BC-AD 200:
Contexts and Theories.”
Vienna Technical University, Austin, 2014. “Archaeological Publication in the Digital
Age: Born-Digital Publication, 3D Navigation, Virtual Reconstruction, and
Linked Databases” (with Timothy Liddell)
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Arizona State University, 2013. “Ancient Roman Visual Humor in its Social and
Archaeological Contexts.”
College of Charleston, 2013. “Seeing Gods: Constructing Epiphany in Ancient Greece
and Rome.”
Athens, Greece, 2013. “The Three Contexts Provided by the Oplontis 3D Model:
Real-Time Viewing, Database Exploration, and Reconstruction.” XII
International Conference: Context and Meaning. International Association for the
Study of Ancient Mural Painting (AIPMA).
University of Texas at Austin, 2013. “Digital Research with the Oplontis 3D Model:
Real-Time Viewing, Database Exploration, and Reconstruction.”
Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, 2013. Trinity University, San Antonio, 2012. “The Gifts of
Aphrodite: Love and Sex in Roman Visual Culture.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013. “Luxury, Commerce, and Death in the Villas
Buried by Vesuvius at Oplontis.”
J. Paul Getty Museum and Villa, Malibu, 2013. “Leisure, Commerce, and Tragedy in the
Villas of Oplontis near Pompeii.”
AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Art) Austin, 2012. “Gaming and Archaeology: The
3D Navigable Model of the Roman Villa of Oplontis near Pompeii, 50 B.C.-A.D.
79.”
Trinity University, San Antonio, 2012. “When Aphrodite Became Venus: Love, Sex, and
Security in Roman Visual Culture.” Lennox Endowed Lecture Series.
Venice, 2012. With Simon Barker. “Evidence for Wooden Revetment on the Walls of
Diaeta 78 at Villa A ‘of Poppaea’ at Torre Annunziata.” XII International
Colloquium of the Association Internationale pour l’Ètude de la Mosaïque
Antique (AIEMA).
American Academy in Rome, 2012. “Roman Mosaics: Image, Space, and Viewer
Response.”
University of Texas at Austin, 2012. “Born Digital: New Discoveries and Documentation
Methods at Villa A (‘of Poppaea’) at Oplontis (Torre Annunziata, Italy)
Toledo Museum of Art, 2012. “Ancient and Modern Mysteries: Excavating the Villa ‘of
Poppaea’ at Oplontis (50 B.C.-A.D. 79.”
Torre Annunziata, Italy, 2011. “La storia della Villa ‘di Poppea’ a Torre Annunziata (50
a. Chr-779 d. Chr): Gli archivi, i frammenti, e le ricostruzioni virtuali.” Centro
Studi Storici “Nicolò D’Alagno.
Pompei, Italy, 2011. “La storia della Villa ‘di Poppea’ a Torre Annunziata (50 a. Chr-779
d. Chr): Gli archivi, i frammenti, e le ricostruzioni virtuali.” Amici di Pompei [the
scholarly organization of the Ministry of Culture at Pompeii].
Princeton University, 2011. “Ancient Mosaics: Patronage, Production, Perception, and
Reception.” Keynote address for Colloquium of the International Association for
the Study of Ancient Mosaics, North American Branch.
University of Cambridge, 2011. “The Box, its Decoration, and How to Read the Story.”
Cambridge Classics Triennial.
King’s College London, 2011. “Oplontis—a Born-digital Project.” Keynote address,
International Conference on the Preservation of Complex Objects (POCOS).
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American Academy in Rome, 2011. “The Story of the Villa ‘of Poppaea’ at Oplontis (50
B.C.-A.D. 79) and its Archives: Daybooks, Photographs, and Plaster Fragments,”
The Patricia LeBalme Friends of the Library Lecture.
University of Texas at Austin, 2011. “Excavations at Oplontis, 1964-1980” and “The
Oplontis Archives: Daybooks, Photographs, and Plaster Fragments,” International
Symposium, Approaches to Ancient Roman Luxury Villas: Oplontis and Beyond.
Rice University, 2010. "The Places of Humor in Roman Visual Culture: Contexts and
Theories."
Selçuk-Ephesos, Turkey, 2010. “Reconstructing the Missing Elements of the
Second-Style Program at Oplontis, Villa A.” Eleventh International Conference
on Ancient Mural Painting (AIPMA).
Musée de Mariemont, Belgium, 2010. “New Research at Villa A (‘of Poppaea’) at Torre
Annunziata (Oplontis): Restoring the Dimensions and Motifs of the Second-Style
Decorative Program.” International Symposium on the Villa at Boscoreale.
University of Oxford, 2010. “Oplontis Villa A (The Villa “of Poppaea” at Torre
Annunziata): Between Modern Perception and Ancient Reality.” Roman
Archaeology Conference (RAC Oxford).
University of Texas at Austin, 2010 (with Michael L. Thomas). “The Oplontis Project
2009: Excavation, Documentation, and Research at the ‘Villa of Poppaea’ at
Torre Annunziata, Italy.”
Bursa, Turkey, 2009. “New Light on Mosaic Metrics: Research at Villa A, Torre
Annunziata, Italy.” Eleventh International Colloquium on Ancient Mosaics
(AIEMA).
Helsinki Technical University, 2009. “Reconstructing the Villa ‘of Poppaea’ at Torre
Annunziata, Italy: Methodologies of the Oplontis Project.
Pompeii, Italy, 2009. Colloquia on Material Culture & Ancient Religion (COMCAR).
“Locating Religious Practice in Pompeii.” Two-day seminar with lecture and site
visit.
Reed College, Portland, Oregon, 2009. “Ancient Roman Visual Humor in Theory and
Practice: Interpretations Based on Social Interaction.”
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2009. “Visual Humor and Social Class at
Pompeii.” Symposium, Roman Art and Culture on the Bay of Naples.
Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, 2009. “Collaboration at Oplontis.”
Symposium, Learning from the Past, Partnering for the Future.
Archaeological Institute of America, Philadelphia, 2009: “Theater and the Second-Style
Paintings at Oplontis;” “The Oplontis Project 2007-2008: Evidence of
Demolition and Remodeling at Villa A (Villa of Poppaea) after 45 C.E.” (with
Michael L. Thomas).
Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem, 2008. “The Building History and Aesthetics of the
‘Villa of Poppaea’ at Torre Annunziata: Results from the Oplontis Project.”
International Conference, Roman Villas in the Mediterranean Basin: History,
Archeology, Art.
University of Texas at Austin, 2008. “In Pursuit of the Roman Viewer.”
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American University in Rome, 2008. “Using Interactive Media in Teaching Classical
Archaeology.”
American Academy in Rome, 2008. “Who? Patrons, Artists and Viewers in Ancient
Rome.”
British School at Rome, 2008. “Viewer-based Models for Reading Imperial Monuments.”
University of Colorado, Boulder, 2008. "Before Pornography: Pompeii and the Invention
of Modern Attitudes toward the Obscene;" "The Role of Laughter in Roman
Visual Culture."
Seattle Art Museum, 2008. “Models for Understanding Roman Representations of
Ritual.” Keynote address for the conference, Roman Art and Ritual, sponsored by
the Seattle Art Museum and the University of Washington.
Università di Bologna, 2008. Three presentations for the Vesuviana Conference,
organized by the Department of Archaeology: “The Oplontis Project: The 2007
Season” (poster); CD-ROM: The House of the Vettii at Pompeii: An Interactive
Visit (interactive presentation); Looking at Laughter: Humor, Power, and
Transgression in Roman Visual Culture, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250 (book presentation).
Naples, 2007. “Model-book, Outline-book, Figure-book: New Observations on the
Creation of Near-Exact Copies in Romano-Campanian Painting.” Tenth
International Conference on Ancient Mural Painting (AIPMA).
Dallas Museum of Art, 2007. “Reconstructing Life in Ancient Roman Villas: Study and
Excavation at the Villa of Oplontis near Pompeii.”
University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2007. “The Decorative Ensemble at Oplontis and
Stabiae: Patrons, Wall Paintings, and Gardens.”
State University of New York, New Paltz, 2007. “A Class-Based Model for the
Production and Reception of Visual Art in Ancient Rome.”
University of Oregon, Eugene, 2007. "Rules of Engagement: Roman Constructions of the
Erotic Body in Text and Visual Representation."
Helsinki Technical University, 2007. “Ritual, Space, and Decoration in the Houses of
Roman Italy.”
Rome, Italy, 2007. International Conference on New Research in the Area of Vesuvius
(Excavations 2003-2006). “The Oplontis Project, 2005-2006: New Observations
on Building History and Decorative Programs at Villa A, Torre Annunziata.”
University of Texas at Austin, 2006. “Double Takes: The Humor of Realism in Ancient
Roman Literature, Paintings, and Mosaics.”
University of Memphis, 2006. “Excavating Obscenity and the Invention of Modern
Pornography.”
Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, 2006. “Luxury Villa Gardens Buried by
Vesuvius.”
Montana State University, 2006. “Excavating ‘Obscenities’ and the Modern Invention of
Pornography: The ‘Secret Museum’ from Pompeii to Brooklyn.”
San Diego Museum of Art, 2006. “Views from Vesuvius: New Research and
Interpretations.”
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Williams College, 2006. “Servant, Client, Friend, or Vettius? Role-Playing to Explore
Roman Visual Culture in an Interactive CD-ROM on the House of the Vettii at
Pompeii.”
Conimbriga, Portugal, 2005. “A Lost Mosaic from the Terme Marittime at Ostia.” Tenth
International Colloquium on Ancient Mosaics (AIEMA).
University of Arkansas, 2005. “Visual Art, Social Class, and Sex in Ancient Rome, 27
B.C.-A.D. 79
Third International Conference of Isis Studies, Leiden, 2005. Nile into Tiber: Egypt in the
Roman World, 200 BC-AD 400. “Power over the Other or the Other’s Power:
Laughing at the “Pygmy” and the “Black.”
University of Leiden, 2005. Two lectures for a workshop on Roman material culture:
“Roman Art: Modern Scholarship and Ancient Viewers” and “Looking at
Laughter: Parody in Elite Visual Culture.”
Princeton University, 2005. “Aeneas the Ape: Visual Parody in Elite Houses at Pompeii,
40 B.C.-A.D. 45.”
Swarthmore College, 2005. “Power over the Other or the Other’s Power? Laughing at
the ‘Pygmy’ and the ‘Black.’”
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2005. The Silberberg Lecture Series.
“Omniscient Scholars vs. Ancient Romans Looking at Laughter: Class, Content,
and Context.”
TED (Technology, Entertainment, and Design) Conference, Monterey California, 2005.
“Intimacy.” http://www.ted.com/ted2005/program/flash_page.cfm
Case Western Reserve University, 2005. “The Apotropaic Other: Roman Representations
of the Black African and the Pygmy, 100 B.C.-A.D. 79.”
Archaeological Institute of America, Boston, 2005. “Skills the Classical Archaeologist
Needs to Find Employment in Art History Departments.”
Duke University, 2004. The Benensen Lectures. Three lectures on the subject of humor,
social class, and transgression in ancient Roman visual culture: 1) “Who’s
Laughing? Modern Scholarship, Ancient Viewers, and Class Conflict;” 2)
“Parody in Elite Visual Culture;” 3) “Power over the Other or the Other’s Power?
Laughing at the ‘Pygmy’ and the ‘Black.’”
Ninth International Colloquium on Ancient Mural Painting, Zaragoza, 2004.“A
Compendium of Pygmy Imagery in the Casa del Medico at Pompeii: Content,
Context, and Viewers.”
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, 2004. “Minding Your Manners: Banquet Behavior in
Images and Texts in Three Pompeian Dining Spaces.”
University of Iowa, 2004. “Visual Culture and the Roman Viewer: The House of the
Vettii at Pompeii.”
Explorers’ Club, New York, 2004. “Ancient Roman Sexual Representation and the
Modern Invention of Pornography.”
EDITING
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Co-editor, with Nayla K. Muntasser, Villa A (“of Poppaea”) at Torre Annunziata, Italy
(50 B.C.-A.D. 79). Four Volumes. Published by the Humanities E-Book Series of
the American Council of Learned Societies, New York.
RECENT ORGANIZATION OF SYMPOSIA AND SESSIONS
Finnish Institute in Rome, 2014. Session Chair: The Roman Courtesan: Archaeological
Reflections of a Literary Topos.
Archaeological Institute of America, 2012. Organizer and Respondent for session:
Beyond Iconography: Materials, Methods and Meaning in Ancient Painting
Studies.
University of Texas at Austin, International Symposium, 2011. Approaches to Ancient
Roman Luxury Villas: Oplontis and Beyond
College Art Association, 2008. Open Session on Greek and Roman Art
College Art Association, 2005. New Approaches to the Study of Domestic Architecture in
the Ancient Mediterranean. Co-chair with Nayla K. Muntasser
College Art Association, 2000. New York. Powerpoint presentation of the organization’s
Strategic Plan
College Art Association, 1999. Los Angeles. Town Meeting session on the organization’s
Planning Process
Seventh International Colloquium on Ancient Wall Painting, Vienne, France, 1998.
Translation of French and Italian papers for pre-acts of the colloquium.
College Art Association, San Antonio, 1995. Co-Chair for all Art History Sessions.
MULTIMEDIA
CD-ROM:
Roma Antiqua: Von Händlern, Hebammen und anderen Helden. Darmstadt: auditorium
maximum, 2010. Audiobook. Narrated by Kerstin Hoffmann and Michael
Hametner
The House of the Vettii at Pompeii: An Interactive Visit. CD-ROM to introduce the user
to the social structure of the Roman house and the connected meanings of its
cycles of mythological paintings. Beta version published March 2002; revised
version bundled with Roman Life: 100 B.C.-A.D. 200 (New York: Harry N.
Abrams, 2007).
Radio:
“Laughter Roman Style.” Late Night Live, 2008, ABC Radio National, Australia,
Interview with Phillip Adams.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/latenightlive/stories/2008/2348155.htm
Television:
Born Digital: New Discoveries and Documentation Methods at Villa A (‘of Poppaea’) at
Oplontis. 60 minute video, WGTE Public Media, Knowledgestream, aired April
2012.
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with Mary Beard, Presenter. Meet the Romans. Episode 2—Street Life. British
Broadcasting Company. Aired April 2012.
Cellar of Skeletons. The Discovery Channel. 60-minute documentary on Oplontis, 2011.
Unwrapping Pompeii. National Geographic. 60-minute documentary, 2010.
Roman Vice. The History Channel, 2005. On-screen interview
The True History of Alexander the Great. Greystone Video, 2004. Consultant
Pornography: The Secret History of Civilisation. 6 x 60 minute documentary for World
of Wonder production company, London. Planning, on-site study, filming (at
Pompeii, Italy) of part 1, November 1998-August 1999. Director, Kate Williams,
screened in the U.K., September 1999; U.S. 2002.
Webcasts:
“Vesuvius and the Villa: New Discoveries near Pompeii.” Toledo Museum of Art
Masters Series, April 12, 2012.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zm54GU-mho&feature=player_detailpage
“The Villa of Oplontis: a ‘Born Digital’ Project.” POCOS Symposium 1.02.
https://vimeo.com/album/1646346/video/26532398 = video: keynote address King's College
London 16 June 2011.
EXHIBITION
“Leisure and Luxury in the Age of Nero: The Villas of Oplontis.” In collaboration with
Elaine K. Gazda, for the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, The University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor. Sculpture, wall painting, coins, furniture, and jewelry from
Villa A (“of Poppaea) and Villa B (“of Lucius Crassius Tertius”) at Torre
Annunziata, Italy. Exhibition will include many objects never seen by the public,
and interactive 3D models. To open in 2016.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD WORK
Torre Annunziata: The Oplontis Project, 2005-. Director for the study and official
publication of the Villa A (“of Poppaea”) and Villa B (“of Lucius Crassius
Tertius”), covered by Vesuvius in A.D. 79. A collaboration between the
Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, The Oplontis Project, Department of Art
and Art History, University of Texas at Austin, and the King’s Visualisation Lab,
King’s College, London who have worked with the Oplontis Project to produce a
fully-navigable 3D model (www.oplontisproject.org). The first of the
four-volumes of the born-digital electronic publication, published by the
American Council of Learned Societies, New York, is to appear in January 2014.
Pompeii and Naples, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006. Photography and study for Looking at
Laughter.
Pompeii and Ostia Antica, 2002. Photography and study for Roman Sex; fieldwork on
graffiti for Looking at Laughter.
Pompeii, 2001. Cleaning, restoration, and digital reconstruction of black-and-white
mosaic from the Suburban Baths.
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Pompeii, Torre Annunziata, Herculaneum, Naples, and Ostia Antica Italy: 1995, 1996,
1997, 1998, 1999, 2000. Shooting of video tapes for class, “Art in the Everyday
Life of Ancient Romans. Study and photography for book, Art in the Lives of
Ordinary Romans.
Pompeii, Torre Annunziata, Naples, and Ostia Antica Italy: 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995,
1996. Study and photography of wall painting and objects in museums for book,
Looking at Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art, 100 B.C.-A.D.
250.
Ancient Corinth, Greece. Study of the ancient mosaics. 1991.
Pompeii, Herculaneum, Torre Annunziata, Ostia Antica, Italy: 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983,
1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990. Study, measurement, and extensive
photographic documentation of decorative ensembles of mosaic, wall painting,
and stucco preserved in seventeen Roman dwellings for book, The Houses of
Roman Italy, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250: Ritual, Space, and Decoration.
Pompeii, Herculaneum, Ostia Antica, Italy: 1971, 1972, 1973, 1976, 1978. Measurement,
drawing, and photography of mosaics for book, Roman Black-and-White
Figural Mosaics.
Bryn Mawr Excavations at Murlo, Italy. Kyle Phillips, Jr., Director. Etruscan pottery,
cleaning and restoration, 1974.
LANGUAGES
Reading: Latin, Greek, Sanskrit; speaking and reading: Italian, German, French, Spanish