Hérica N. Valladares
[email protected]
Department of Classics
212 Murphey Hall
Campus Box 3145
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3145
(919) 962-7191
Employment
• Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, UNC Chapel Hill
• Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Johns Hopkins University
Fall 2015 – present
Fall 2005 – Fall 2013
Special Interests
• Hellenistic and Roman art
• Campanian archaeology
• Image and text studies
• Gender theory
• Classical reception
Education
• Columbia University, Ph.D. Classical Studies
Dissertation: Imago Amoris: The Poetics of Desire in Roman Painting
Sponsors: Richard Brilliant and Natalie Kampen
Readers: Bettina Bergmann, Helene Foley, Gareth Williams
• Oberlin College, B.A. Greek Literature with honors
• Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, Rome, Italy
Feb. 2006
June 1995
Spring 1994
Book Projects
• Fashioning Empire: Roman Women and Their Objects (in preparation)
• On Tenderness: Painting and Poetry in the Early Roman Empire
(book manuscript; under contract with Cambridge University Press)
Academic Honors and Fellowships
• Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, CASVA/National Gallery of Art
• Max and Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation Grant for Pedagogy
• Women’s Classical Caucus Award for Best Oral Presentation
• NEH/Andrew Heiskell Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome
• Samuel H. Kress Fellowship, CASVA/National Gallery of Art
• Dissertation Fellowship, Dept. of Art History & Archaeology,
Columbia University
• Teaching Fellowship, Art Humanities, Columbia University
• President’s Fellowship, Dept. of Classics, Columbia University
• Phi Beta Kappa
Spring 2014
Jan. 2011
Jan. 2009
2008–2009
2003–2005
2002–2003
2001–2002
1996–2000
May 1995
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Publications
• “The Io in Correggio: Ovid and the Metamorphosis of a Renaissance Painter,” In The Afterlife of
Ovid (Supplement to the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 2015), 137-159
• “Pictorial Paratexts: Floating Figures in Roman Wall Painting,” The Roman Paratext: Frame, Texts,
Readers, ed. L. Jansen (Cambridge U. P., 2014), 176–205.
• “Elegy, Art and the Viewer,” A Companion to Roman Love Elegy, ed. B. Gold (Wiley-Blackwell,
2012), 318–338.
• “Fallax Imago: Ovid’s Narcissus and the Seduction of Mimesis in Roman Painting,” Word &
Image 27 (October–December 2011), 378–395.
• “Four Women from Stabiae: Eighteenth-Century Antiquarian Practice and the History of
Ancient Roman Painting,” Antiquity Recovered: The Legacy of Pompeii and Herculaneum, eds. V. Coates
and J. Seydl (Getty Publications, 2007), 73–93.
• “The Lover as a Model Viewer: Gendered Dynamics in Propertius 1.3,” Gendered Dynamics in
Latin Love Poetry, eds. E. Greene and R. Ancona (Johns Hopkins U. P., 2005), 206–242.
Online Exhibitions
• The Roman House at Hopkins, Spring 2013 (http://archaeologicalmuseum.jhu.edu/thecollection/object-stories/the-roman-house-at-hopkins)
• The Archaeology of Daily Life, Spring 2011 (http://archaeologicalmuseum.jhu.edu/objectstories/archaeology-of-daily-life)
• The Authority of Ruins, Spring 2010 (http://sites.google.com/site/theauthorityofruins)
Invited Papers
• “The Tenderness of Monsters: Polyphemus as a Lover in Roman Wall Painting,” Department of
Classics, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, November 12, 2014
• “A Monster in Love: Polyphemus and the Roman Aesthetic of Tenderness,” Distinguished Art
Historian Lecture, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA, March 3, 2014
• “Sympathy for the Monster: Polyphemus as a Lover in Roman Painting and Poetry,”
Department of Classics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, February 2, 2013
• “Fashioning Empire: Roman Women and Their Objects,” Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD,
June 26, 2012
• “A ternura dos monstros: o amante Polifemo na pintura romana,” Programa Interdisciplinar de
Linguística Aplicada, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 13,
2011
• “From Ashes to Monuments: Herculaneum and Pompeii in the Eighteenth Century,” Odyssey
Program, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, April 27, 2011
• “The Tenderness of Monsters: Polyphemus as a Lover in Roman Painting and Poetry,”
Department of Classics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, April 1, 2011
• “The Archaeology of Daily Life,” Johns Hopkins University Archaeological Museum, Baltimore,
MD, December 5, 2010
• “Ovid in Pompeii: Lessons from Narcissus,” Department of Classics, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA, April 15, 2010
• “Objects of Desire: Looking Through the Roman Woman’s Closet,” Art Department, Wellesley
College, Wellesley, MA, February 24, 2010
• “Toward an Aesthetics of Tenderness: Painting and Poetry in Augustan Rome,” Art
Department, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, February 23, 2010
• “Rus in Urbe: Visual Pleasures in Pompeian Townhouses,” Department of the History of Art,
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, November 17, 2009
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“What is in a Shoe? Narrative and Desire in Roman Art,” Department of Art History and
Archaeology, Columbia University, October 24, 2009
“Republican and Imperial Houses on the Palatine,” On-site Seminar, American Academy in
Rome, Rome, Italy, June 1, 2009
“On Tenderness: The Semantics of Love in Roman Painting and Poetry,” American Academy in
Rome, Rome, Italy, April 7, 2009
“Villa Pleasures in Pompeian Townhouses,” Public Symposium, “Roman Art and Culture on the
Bay of Naples,” National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 20–21, 2009
“The Roman Invention of Love: Wall Paintings from the Villa della Farnesina,” Archaeological
Institute of America, Baltimore, MD, September 14, 2007
“Women’s Pleasure in Roman Art,” Ancient Studies Colloquium, “Women’s Pleasure in
Ancient Literature and Art,” Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, April 14, 2007
“Narcissus and the Erotics of Mimesis,” Colloquium, “Current Work in Roman Studies,” Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, Feb. 23, 2007
“Poesia e pintura na Roma de Augusto,” Núcleo de História, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências
Sociais, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 23, 2006
“The Paintings from Villa Arianna: a History and Interpretations,” Public Symposium, “In
Stabiano,” San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, May 6, 2006
“Fallax Imago: Narcissus and the Seduction of Mimesis,” CASVA/National Gallery of Art,
Washington, DC, Feb. 28, 2005
Refereed Papers
• “Women’s Desire, Archaeology and Feminist Theory: the Case of the Sandal-Binder,” AIA/SCS
Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Jan. 6-9, 2016
• “Cosmos and Cosmetics: Reading Women’s Desire on a Flavian Bronze Mirror,” AIA/SCS
Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Jan. 8–11, 2015
• “Cosmetics and Imperium: Mapping the Mundus Muliebris,” International Conference, “The
Material Sides of Marriage—Female Goods and Women’s Economic Role in the Domestic
Sphere in Greek, Roman and Byzantine Times,” Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, Rome,
November 21–23, 2013
• “The Io in Correggio: Ovid and the Metamorphosis of a Renaissance Painter,” International
Conference, “The Afterlife of Ovid,” The Warburg Institute, London, March 7–8, 2013
• “Mundus Muliebris: Fantasy and Ideology in the Roman Woman’s Closet,” Feminist Art History
Conference, American University, Washington, DC, November 5–6, 2010
• “Women’s Pleasure in Roman Art: The State of the Question,” Feminism and Classics
Conference V, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, May 9, 2008
• “A arte de amar na Roma de Augusto,” Congresso da Associação Brasileira de Literatura Comparada,
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 3, 2006
• “Reflections on the Subject of Narcissus,” APA/AIA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Jan.
2–5, 2004
• “Myths of Love in the Vettii’s Dining-Rooms,” AHAR Graduate Student Symposium, Columbia
University, New York, NY, December 10, 2002
• “Mitos sobre o amor na Casa dos Vettii,” IX Simpósio de História Antiga, UFRGS, Porto
Alegre, Brazil, September 2–6, 2002
• “Breaking Gender Boundaries: Elegiac Pleasure and the Ambiguous Power of the Gaze in
Propertius 1.3,” APA/AIA Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, Jan. 3–6, 2001
• “A Florilegium of Ovidian Delights: Correggio’s Io and Danae,” Art History and Archaeology
Graduate Student Symposium, Columbia University, New York, NY, December 7, 2000
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“Mourning Woman: a Melancholy Viewing of an Attic Tombstone,” Graduate Conference,
“Passions and Perspectives: Representing Emotions in Antiquity,” Columbia University, New
York, November 13, 1999
“Mulher-Lamento: a dor de existir na arte grega,” International Conference, “As formas clínicas
da dor de existir: tristeza, depressão, melancholia,” Escola Brasileira de Psicanálise, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, June 29, 1997
Teaching Experience
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:
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Roman Painting (CLAR 476/ARTH 476)
Hellenistic Art and Archaeology (CLAR 268)
Architecture of Etruria and Rome (ART 465)
Life in Ancient Pompeii (CLAS 073H.001)
Fall 2015
Fall 2015
Spring 2016
Spring 2016
Johns Hopkins University:
In History of Art and Classics:
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Undergraduate lecture: The Uses of Myth in Greece and Rome
Undergraduate seminar: Pompeii: Life and Art in a Roman City
Undergraduate lecture: The World of Pompeii
Undergraduate seminar: The Authority of Ruins: Antiquarianism in Italy
Undergraduate seminar: Roman Landscapes in Context
Undergraduates seminar: The Archaeology of Daily Life
Graduate seminar: Roman Landscapes: Text and Image
Graduate seminar: Sexuality in Egyptian and Roman Art
Graduate seminar: The Art of Description: Ekphrasis in Greece & Rome
Graduate seminar: Roman Painting: A Survey
Graduate seminar: The Roman House: Image, Text & Archaeology
Graduate seminar: Curating the Roman House
Graduate seminar: Ovid, Maker of Images
Spring 2006
Spring 2008
Fall 2009
Spring 2010
Fall 2010
Spring 2011
Fall 2005
Fall 2006
Spring 2007
Spring 2008
Fall 2012
Spring 2013
Fall 2013
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Undergraduate lecture: Great Books: The Western Tradition
Advanced Latin: Ovid’s Heroides
Advanced Latin: Petronius’ Satyricon
Advanced Latin: Clodia, Cicero and Catullus
Advanced Latin: Latin Love Elegy
Advanced Latin: Seneca’s Heroines: Phaedra & Medea
Graduate seminar: Virgil’s Aeneid
Graduate seminar: Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Graduate seminar: Propertius
Graduate seminar: Ovid’s Heroides
Graduate seminar: Tibullus
Columbia University:
• The History and Archaeology of Sicily, on-site graduate seminar
• Greco-Roman Asia Minor, on-site graduate seminar
Fall 2006–7
Fall 2005/2013
Spring 2007
Spring 2011
Fall 2011
Fall 2012
Spring 2006
Fall 2007
Fall 2009
Fall 2010
Fall 2011
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Summer 2011
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Art Humanities: Masterpieces of Western Art
Roman Art and Architecture (Teaching assistant)
Women in Antiquity (Teaching assistant)
Classical Mythology (Teaching assistant)
Intermediate Greek, The Odyssey (Teaching assistant)
Elementary Latin
2001–2002
Spring 2000
Fall 1998
Fall 1997
Spring 1998
1999–2001
Service
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:
• Archaeology Committee
• Undergraduate Majors Committee
• Committee on Classics with Historical Emphasis
• Keeper of Departmental Library/University Library Representative
• EO/ADA Officer
• Faculty Advisor for Eta Sigma Phi
2015–2016
2015–2016
2015–2016
2015–2016
2015–2016
2015–2016
Johns Hopkins University:
• Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Classics
• Undergraduate Adviser for Archaeology Program, Dept. of Classics
• Participating Faculty, Interdepartmental Archaeology Major
• Advisory Board, Johns Hopkins University Archaeological Museum
• Faculty Advisory Committee, Program in Museums and Society
• Participating Faculty, Program in Museums and Society
• Affiliated Faculty, Singleton Center for the Study of Pre-Modern Europe
• Undergraduate Honors Thesis Adviser, Department of Classics
• Undergraduate Honors Thesis Adviser, Archaeology Program
• Graduate Examiner in Classical Art and Archaeology, Greek and Latin Literature
• Graduate Examiner in Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Rome
• Dissertation Defense Committee Member, Dept. of Near Eastern Studies
• Dissertation Defense Committee Member, Dept. of the History of Art
• Roman Art Search Committee Member, Depts. of Classics & History of Art
• Selection Committee Member, Andrew Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship
• Departmental Review, Organizational Committee Member (Classics)
• Chair of Undergraduate Program Review (Classics)
• Co-organizer, “Futures Seminar” (Classics)
• Co-organizer, colloquium, “Women’s Pleasure in Ancient Art & Literature”
• Co-organizer, colloquium, “Current Work in Roman Studies”
2005–2011
2011–2013
2008–2013
2009–2013
2012–2013
2006–2013
2008–2013
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2009–2013
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2006, 2011
2009–2010
2006–2007
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Columbia University:
• Co-organizer, 13th Annual Barnard Feminist Art History Conference,
“Gender Topographies”
• Steering Committee Chair, 3rd Annual Classics Graduate Conference,
“House and Home in the Greco-Roman World”
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Co-organizer of 2nd Annual Classics Graduate Conference,
“Passions and Perspectives: Representing Emotions in Antiquity”
Fall 2001
Spring 2001
Fall 1999
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Editorial Board
• Selected Papers on Ancient Art and Architecture (new annual series published by the Archaeological
Institute of America)
Community Outreach
• NPR interview, “When in Rome, Hairdo as the Romans Do,” Studio 360, April 12, 2013
(http://www.studio360.org/story/281591-when-in-rome-hairdo-as-the-ancient-romans-do/)
Peer Review
Referee for American Journal of Philology (2007, 2011), Classical Antiquity (2009), Arethusa (2010, x2),
Phoenix (2012), American Journal of Archaeology (2013)
Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University
• External Reviewer, Humanities Department
2011
Ramapo College of New Jersey, School of Contemporary Art:
• Faculty Promotion Committee Referee
2011
Languages
• French (fluent)
• German (reading)
• Ancient Greek (reading)
• Italian (fluent)
• Latin (reading)
• Portuguese (fluent)
• Spanish (fluent)
References
• Bettina Bergmann, Mount Holyoke College
• Betsy Bryan, Johns Hopkins University
• Elaine Gazda, University of Michigan
• Gareth Williams, Columbia University
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