Denise Eileen McCoskey
Department of Classics
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
(513) 529-1480
FAX (513) 529-1480
[email protected]
2327 Upland Pl, #2
Cincinnati, OH 452206
(513) 861-2009
EMPLOYMENT
2001-present Associate Professor, Department of Classics and Affiliate, Black World Studies,
Miami University
1995-2001
Assistant Professor, Department of Classics and Affiliate, Black World Studies,
Miami University
EDUCATION
1995
Ph. D., Department of Classical Studies, Duke University
dissertation: “Gender Differentiation and Narrative Construction in Propertius”
Professor Lawrence Richardson, jr, Director
1995
NEH Summer Institute: “The Image and Reality of Women in Ancient Near
Eastern Societies,” Brown University, June 14-July 18
1990
B.A. with Distinction in all Subjects, Cornell University
Summa cum Laude in Classics, Majors in Classics and Archaeology
Phi Beta Kappa
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2009
Winner of the American Philological Association’s Award for Excellence in
College Teaching
2004
Visiting Bye-Fellow, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, January-July
1999
Visiting Fellow, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, January-July
1997-98
Alumni Teaching Scholar, Miami University
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1996
Visiting Scholar, American Academy in Rome, June 4-June 30
1994-1995
Women’s Studies Graduate Scholar, Women’s Studies at Duke University,
1992
John J. Winkler Memorial Prize for the essay: “Is There a ‘Thesmophoria’ in This
Text? Women’s Spheres in Aristophanes’ Ecclesiazusae and Thesmophoriazusae ”
GRANTS
2007-2011
Part of a working group on the project “Educating Citizens: Civic Education,
Ethics, and Liberal Arts,” directed by Joy Connolly, New York University
(received funding from the Teagle Foundation)
WORK IN PROGRESS
with Zara Torlone, Latin Love Poetry (forthcoming from I. B Tauris/Oxford University Press)
“Ancient Roman Women in a Global Marketplace” (under review at Akademeia - Online
Academic Journal )
“Inflecting American Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Latin Schoolbooks”
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Race: Antiquity and its Legacy (I.B. Tauris/Oxford University Press, 2012)
with Emily Zakin, eds., Bound by the City: Greek Tragedy, Sexual Difference and the Formation of
the Polis (SUNY Press, 2009)
Articles
with Mary Jean Corbett, “Virginia Woolf, Richard Jebb, and Sophocles’ Antigone,” in A
Companion to Sophocles, ed. Kirk Ormand (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), 462-76.
with Emily Zakin, “Introduction,” in Bound by the City: Greek Tragedy, Sexual Difference and the
Formation of the Polis (SUNY Press, 2009), 1-14.
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“The Loss of Abandonment in Sophocles’ Electra” in Bound by the City: Greek Tragedy, Sexual
Difference and the Formation of the Polis (SUNY Press, 2009), 221-245.
“Naming the Fault in Question: Theorizing Racism among the Greeks and Romans”
International Journal of the Classical Tradition 13 (Fall 2006), 243-67.
“Gender at the Crossroads of Empire: Locating Women in Strabo’s Geography” in Strabo’s
Cultural Geography: The Making of a Kolossourgia, eds. Daniela Dueck, Hugh
Lindsay, and Sarah Pothecary (Cambridge University Press, 2005), 56-72.
“On Black Athena, Hippocratic Medicine, and Roman Imperial Edicts: Egyptians and the
Problem of Race in Antiquity,” in Race and Ethnicity—Across Time, Space and Discipline, ed.
Rodney D. Coates (Brill Press, 2004), 297-330.
“Diaspora in the Reading of Jewish History, Identity, and Difference” Diaspora 12.3 (2003),
387-418.
“By Any Other Name? Ethnicity and the Study of Ancient Identity” Classical Bulletin 79.1
(2003), 93-109.
“Race Before ‘Whiteness’: Studying Identity in Ptolemaic Egypt” Critical Sociology 28
(2002), 13-39.
“Murder by Letters: Interpretation, Identity and the Instability of Text in Norfolk’s
Lemprière’s Dictionary,” Classical and Modern Literature 20/2 (2000), 39-59.
“Reading Cynthia and Sexual Difference in the Poems of Propertius,” Ramus 28 (1999), 16-39.
“Answering the Multicultural Imperative: A Course on Race and Ethnicity in Classics,”
Classical World 92 (1999), 553-561.
“‘I, whom she detested so bitterly’: Slavery and the Violent Division of Women in Aeschylus’
Oresteia,” in Differential Equations: Women and Slaves in Greco-Roman Culture, edd.
Sheila Murnaghan and Sandra R. Joshel (Routledge 1998), 35-55.
“Black and Female: The Politics of Interpretation in Classical Texts,” SAPINA Bulletin, A
Bulletin of the Society for African Philosophy in North America 6.1 (January-June 1994),
1-12.
“On Reading ‘Black’ and ‘Female’ in Antique Texts,” SAPINA Newsletter, A Bulletin of the
Society for African Philosophy in North America 4. 1 (January-July 1992), 1-12.
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Book Reviews
Review of Jacqueline M. Carlon, Pliny’s Women in Sehepunkte Ausgabe 11 (2011), nr. 2.
Review of Roy K. Gibson, Excess and Restraint: Propertius, Horace, and Ovid’s Ars Amatoria in
Classical Journal 105.1 (2009), 76-78.
Review of Eve D’Ambra Roman Women and Caroline Vout, Power and Eroticism in Imperial
Rome in Scripta Classica Israelica 27 (2008), 147-149.
Review of Phiroze Vasunia, The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander
in Theatre Journal 55.1 (2003), 182-83.
“Education Under the Raj? Greek Paideia in Egypt” (a review of Gymnastics of the Mind) in
Classical and Modern Literature 23/1 (2003), 125-133.
PRESENTATIONS
“Ancient Roman Women in a ‘Global Marketplace’” presented at “Mediterranean and
Transalpine Connections”, Miami University, March 31, 2011.
“Inflecting Young America in Ancient Latin” presented at the interdisciplinary workshop
“Classical Education and American Slavery,” Miami University, September 24, 2010.
Panel Member for the workshop “Recruiting and Retaining Minorities and Women in Classics:
From Undergraduate to Tenured Faculty” at the 141st Annual Meeting of the American
Philological Association, January 6-9, 2010.
“Arms and the Woman: Encountering Amazons in Ancient Myth” invited lecture at Butler
University, March 18, 2009.
“Tarpeia’s Betrayal: Reading Sexual Difference in the Augustan City” presented at the 103rd
Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 11-14, 2007.
“Sex and the City: Tarpeia’s Betrayal and Augustan Rome” presented as the 2007 Virginia
Hummel Lecture, Virginia Tech, March 14, 2007.
“Mapping the Female Subject in the Early Roman Empire” invited speaker at The Ohio State
University graduate student colloquium “Cultures in Contact: Identity and Identifications in
the Ancient World,” April 15, 2006.
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“Gladiators, Slaves, and Tribunes: Reading Roman Law, Exclusion, and Agamben’s Homo
Sacer,” presented at the European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam 22-25
March, 2006
Respondent on panel “Author Meets Critics: Derek Gregory, “The Colonial Present:
Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq” at the European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam
22-25 March, 2006.
“Writing as a Woman? The Epistolary Voice and Ovid’s Exile,” presented to the Historical
and Cultural Geography Research Cluster Seminar, University of Cambridge, May 12, 2004.
“The Female Body as Imperial Border: Love in the Time of Augustus,” presented at the
European Social Science History Conference, March 24-27, 2004.
“Augustan Geographies: Mapping the Female Subject in the Early Roman Empire”
presented to the Literary Seminar of the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge,
February 18, 2004.
“Cynthia and the Geography of Empire in the Poems of Propertius” presented at Oberlin
College, September 22, 2003.
“Strabo’s Geography and the Impossibility of Amazons” presented at the University of
Cincinnati, May 5, 2003
“The Loss of Abandonment in Sophocles’ Electra” presented at the 99th Annual Meeting of the
Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 3-5, 2003.
“Sexual Difference & Imperial Space: Strabo’s Geography and the ‘Impossibility’ of Amazons”
presented at the conference “Globalization and Cultural Diversity,” Virginia Tech, September
20-21, 2002.
“Strabo’s Geography and the Impossibility of Amazons,” presented at the 55th Annual
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 19-20, 2002.
“Femininity and/as Spatial Dislocation: Ovid’s Heroides and Augustan Geography,” presented
at the 98th Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 46, 2002.
“Identity Theory & the Study of Ptolemaic Egypt, presented at the 133rd Annual Meeting of
the American Philological Association, Philadelphia, January 3-6, 2002.
“Strabo and the Amazon Homeland,” presented at the 11th International Conference of
Historical Geographers, August 12-18, 2001.
“Spatial Location and Gender Identity: Plotting Women in Strabo’s World,” presented at the
conference “Strabo the Geographer: An International Perspective,” University of Bar Ilan,
Israel, June 25-27, 2001.
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“Mudslinging and Other Subversive Acts in Strabo,” presented at the Joint Meeting of the
Classical Association of the Atlantic States, October 13-14, 2000.
“Geography as Imperial Science: Strabo and Augustan Rome,” presented at the 96th Annual
Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 4-8, 2000.
“Geography as Imperial Science: Strabo and Augustan Rome,” presented at the 131st Annual
Meeting of the American Philological Association, December 27-30, 1999.
“The Ethnicity/Race/Culture Conundrum: Unpacking Key Identity Terms in the Study of
the Ancient Mediterranean,” presented at the 130th Annual Meeting of the American
Philological Association, December 27-30, 1998.
with Mary McDonald, “Teaching Culture Through Primary Texts,” presented at the 10th
Annual Lilly Conference on College Teaching-West, March 6-8, 1998.
with Mary McDonald, “Teaching Culture Through Primary Texts,” presented at the
Presidents’ Day Teaching Effectiveness Retreat, Miami University, February 16, 1998.
“Reading Cynthia as Cleopatra in the Poems of Propertius,” presented at the 129th Annual
Meeting of the American Philological Association, December 27-30, 1997.
“Race Before ‘Whiteness’?: Lessons from the Ancient Mediterranean, ” presented at the 1997
Social Theory Commonwealth Conference “Race and Whiteness,” University of Kentucky,
November 13-14, 1997.
“Mapping Empire/Mapping Identity: Representing Self and Cynthia in the Poems of
Propertius,” presented to the Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati, May 27, 1997.
“On Having a Bad Hair Day: The Body as National Text in Propertius and Ovid,” presented
at the 50th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 17-19, 1997.
“Travel, Cartography, and Gender: Mapping Self and Cynthia in the Poems of Propertius,”
presented at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and
South, April 3-5, 1997.
“‘An Inclination for the Latin Tongue’: The Classical Education of Phillis Wheatley”
presented at the 128th Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association,
December 27-30, 1996.
“Myth, Metamorphosis and Madness: Teaching Lawrence Norfolk’s Lempriere’s
Dictionary,” presented at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Ohio Classical Conference,
October 17-19, 1996.
“Reading Cleopatra When Race Matters” invited participant on the panel “Not Out of
Africa” at Xavier University, September 20, 1996.
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“Reading Cleopatra When Race Matters,” for Women’s Studies, Miami University, April 30,
1996.
“Death and the Maiden: Foreignness, Difference and the Murder of Cassandra”
presented at the 49th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 18-20, 1996.
“The Unbearable Lightness of Being: ‘Levis’ Cynthia and the Poems of Propertius”
presented at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and
South, April 10-13, 1996.
“Is There a ‘Thesmophoria’ in this Text? Women’s Spheres in Aristophanes’ Ecclesiazusae and
Thesmophoriazusae,” presented to the Department of Classics, University of Kentucky, November
17, 1995.
“Key Words in African Studies: Origins,” presented at the 1994 Annual Meeting of the
African Studies Association, Toronto.
“‘On Not Knowing Greek:’ Feminism and the Project of Black Athena,” presented at the Xth
Congress of the International Federation of the Societies of Classical Studies (FIEC), 1994.
Respondent, “Ovide analysé: New Directions in Ovid Studies,” Duke University, March 2526, 1994.
“What Clytemnestra Knows: Deconstruction of the Male Mythic Tradition in Euripides’
Iphigeneia at Aulis,” presented at the 1993 Annual Meeting of the American Philological
Association, Washington, D.C.
“Black and Female: the Politics of Interpretation in Classical Texts,” presented at the 1993
Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Boston, MA.
Panel Participant: “Discovering Sappho’s Sisters: Evidence and Research Methods for the
Study of Women in Antiquity,” at the Fourth Annual Graduate Research Conference,
Women’s Studies at Duke University, November 6, 1993.
with Christopher Spelman, “Resisting Interpretation in Theocritus’ ‘Programmatic’ First Idyll,”
presented at “Stat magni nominis umbra: Art and Literature of the Hellenistic and Silver Ages,”
the Second Annual Classics Colloquium, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, March
27, 1993.
“On Reading ‘Black’ and ‘Female’ in Antique Texts,” presented at the 1991 Annual Meeting
of the African Studies Association, St. Louis, MO.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Department of Classics, Miami University, Fall 1995-present
Courses taught:
CLS 121: Classical Mythology (on both Miami’s Oxford and Hamilton campuses)
CLS 121.H: Classical Mythology (honors version)
CLS 210.P/CLS 310.P: From the Lair of the Cyclops to the Surface of the Moon:
Travel and Self-Definition in Antiquity
CLS 210.R: Race & Ethnicity in Antiquity
CLS 212: Greek & Roman Tragedy
CLS 235/335: Women in Antiquity
CLS 310.E: Conflict in Greco-Roman Egypt
CLS 310.J: Jews Among the Greeks & Romans
CLS 310.L: Ancient Rome & Modern Europe: The Roman Past in the Making of
Modern Europe (taught at Miami’s Luxembourg campus in summer 2008)
CLS 316: Greek & Roman Lyric Poetry
CLS 380A: Greeks and Romans Bearing Gifts? Colonial America and the Classical
Tradition
CLS 380.I/E: Identity and Cultural Difference in Greco-Roman Egypt
CLS 380.J: Women, Representation, and the State (co-taught)
CLS 402: The Age of Augustus
HON 300A: “Identity and Cultural Difference in Contemporary Britain” (at Selwyn
College, University of Cambridge)
IDS 151: (co-taught) Diversity Seminar
LAT 101 & LAT 102: Beginning Latin
LAT 201 & 202: Intermediate Latin
LAT 310.G: Ovid’s Heroides & the Epistolary Tradition in Latin Elegy
LAT 310.G: Ovid’s Metamorphoses
LAT 310.N: The Latin Novel/Petronius: Text and Context
LAT 310.T: Roman Comedy/Terence
LAT 310.P: Latin Love Poetry
LAT 410.F: Seneca
Instructor, Department of Classical Studies, Duke University, Fall 1993-Spring 1995
Courses taught:
Latin 1: Elementary Latin
Latin 2: Elementary Latin
Classical Studies 12: Roman Civilization
Classical Studies 104S: Women in the Ancient World
Program Assistant, Foreign Academics Program, Duke University, Summer 1993
Duke In Rome
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Research Assistant, Department of Classical Studies, Duke University, 1991-1992 & Summer
1993
Teaching Associate, Distinguished Professor Program, Duke University, Fall 1992
DPC 198: The Discovery of the Old World
Field Experience, Cornell Halai and East Lokris Project, Greece, Summer 1989 & 1992
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Member, of the Academic Program Review Committee
Chair, Internal Review Team for the Women’s Studies Program Review
Member, Internal Review Team for the French and Italian Program
Review
Mentor, STARS program
Co-author, Department Development Grant, Howe Center for Writing
Excellence
Mentor, Miami Access Initiative Program
Member, Altman Major Speakers Committee
Member, Jewish Studies Advisory Committee
Member, Black World Studies Advisory Committee
Member, UK Selection Committee for the Rhodes and Marshall
Scholarships
Member, Committee for the Review of Chairs & Program Directors
Member, Search Committee for the new Director of Black World
Studies
Member, Internal Review Team for the Philosophy Program Review,
Miami University
Member, John J. Winkler Memorial Prize Jury
Member, Black World Studies Advisory/Benchmarking Committee
Member, Committee on the Status of Women and Minority Groups,
American Philological Association
Member, Black World Studies Program Committee
Adviser, Eta Sigma Phi, Sigma Chapter
Co-Author, “Diversity Resource Book,” College of Arts & Science,
Miami University
Member, Linda Singer Memorial Lecture Committee
Member, Diversity Committee, College of Arts & Science
Chief Departmental Adviser, Department of Classics
Member, Women of Color Committee
Member, Diversity Enrollment Council, College of Arts & Science
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