Julia Mebane
[email protected]
12304 Semillon Blvd. | San Diego, Ca 92131 | 858-722-7418
EDUCATION
(2016)
Ph.D. University of Chicago (Chicago, IL): Classics
Dissertation: “The Body Politic and Roman Political Languages”
Committee: Michèle Lowrie (Chair), Clifford Ando, Shadi Bartsch
2014
M.A. University of Chicago (Chicago, IL): Classics
2011
B.A. Scripps College (Claremont, CA): Classical Languages and History, summa cum laude
AWARDS AND HONORS
2016-18
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship in the Humanities, University of Chicago (alternate)
2016-17
Mellon Foundation Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Chicago
2016
Ephron Course Design Award, Classics Department, University of Chicago
2016
Shorey Travel Award, Classics Department, University of Chicago
2015
Presidential Award for the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper at the Classical Association of
the Middle West and South Annual Meeting
2015
Graduate Student Association Travel Award, University of Chicago
2014
Edward L. Ryerson Fellowship in Archaeology, University of Chicago
2011
Phi Beta Kappa
PUBLICATIONS
In Print
2016
“Pompey’s Head and the Body Politic in Lucan’s De Bello Civili,” TAPA 146.1
In Preparation
(2017)
“The Ship-of-State: Political Language and the Second Triumvirate”
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2016
“A Head on the Body Politic? Figuring Authority in Livy’s First Pentad”
Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting
2015
“Fighting over Rome’s Corpus: Competing Metaphors of the Body Politic in the Catilinarian
Conspiracy”
Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Meeting
2014
“Pompey’s Head and the Body Politic in Lucan’s De Bello Civili”
American Philological Association Annual Meeting
WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS
(2017)
“The Ship-of-State in Civil War”
Ancient Societies Workshop, University of Chicago
2015
“The Body Politic in Late Republican Political Language”
Ancient Societies Workshop, University of Chicago
2013
“Pompey’s Head and the Body Politic in Lucan’s De Bello Civili”
Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop, University of Chicago
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Cornell College (Mt. Vernon, IA)
Instructorships
2016
Beginning Ancient Greek III
University of Chicago
Instructorships
(2017)
The Fall of the Roman Republic
2016
Intermediate Latin II
2015
Introduction to Attic Greek III
2014
Introduction to Latin III
Course Assistantships
2016
Intermediate Latin I
2015
Introduction to Attic Greek II
2014
Introduction to Attic Greek I
2014
Intermediate Attic Greek I
2014
Introduction to Latin II
2014
Roman Art and Archaeology
2013
Introduction to Latin I
Pedagogical Training
2015
Pedagogies of Writing Training Program
DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
2014-15
Departmental Researcher, University of Chicago Art History Department
2012-15
Graduate Student Representative, University of Chicago Classics Department
2012-13
Social Chair, University of Chicago Classics Department
LANGUAGES
Latin
Advanced reading proficiency
Greek
Advanced reading proficiency
German
Reading proficiency
French
Reading proficiency
Italian
Reading proficiency
REFERENCES
Professor Michèle Lowrie
University of Chicago
773-702-8516
[email protected]
Professor Clifford Ando
University of Chicago
773-834-6708
[email protected]
Professor Shadi Bartsch
University of Chicago
773-702-4847
[email protected]
Professor Helma Dik
University of Chicago
773-834-2170
[email protected]
Professor John Gruber-Miller
Cornell College
319-895-4326
[email protected]