Publications and Papers

Articles

  • “Tanning makeup in Plato and Xenophon,” in progress, for The Social and Cultural Significance of Color in the Ancient Global World: Interpreting the Spectrum, edited by Rachael Goldman (to be published 2016).
  • “Biology is destiny: the deficiencies of women in Aristotle’s biology and Politics,”  Arethusa (Jan. 2015).
  • Anterastai: Competition in Eros and Politics in Classical Athens,” Arethusa 38.1 (2005), pp. 33-47.
  • “The Titanic Origin of Humans: the Melian Nymphs and Zagreus,” GRBS 44 (2004), pp. 183-198.
  • “A Sexual Model of Catharsis,” Apeiron 31 (March 1998), pp. 35-57.

Conference Papers

  • “Greek sculpture and the Michelangelo myth of direct carving,” accepted for CAMWS Annual Meeting, 2015.
  • “Teaching graduate-Level Greek online,” SCS Annual Meeting (Greek pedagogy panel), 2015.
  • “Tragic katharsis: biology, politics, and aesthetics in Aristotle,” Ancient Philosophy Society Annual Meeting, 2014.
  • “The significance of skin color in Aristophanes (Ecclesiazousae, Thesmophoriazousae),” APA Annual Meeting (Color in Ancient Drama in Performance panel), 2014.
  • “Timelinr,” presentation on interactive timeline tool (with Shane Ryan), UF Interface Digital Humanities Seminar, 2013.
  • “The Cold-blooded Inferiority of Women in Aristotle,” APA Annual Meeting (Society for Ancient Medicine and Pharmacy panel), 2013.
  • “Encaustic Painting on Greek Stone Sculpture,” CAMWS Annual Meeting 2012.
  • Presentation on UF’s graduate distance learning programs in Classics, ACTFL Annual Convention and World Languages Expo, November 2008.
  • “Women’s Gymnastics in Xenophon,” read at Feminism and Classics V, May 2008.
  • “Color Prejudice Among 4th-century Greek Elites,” CAMWS Annual Meeting 2006.
  • “The Feminized Craftsman in Greek Thought,” APA Annual Meeting 2006.
  • “Socrates and Civil Disobedience,” University of Otago (NZ), February 2004.
  • “The Erotics of Rhetoric in Ancient Greece,” Evergreen State College, January 2003.
  • “Philosophic Initiation in Plato’s Symposium,” CAAS meeting, April 2001.
  • “Sight versus Hearing in Plato’s Phaedrus,” CAMWS-SS Meeting 2000.
  • “Aristotle on the Female Body and the Audience of Tragedy,” Towards a Semiotics of the Body conference, Northwestern University, May 2000.

Book Reviews

  • Between Ecstasy and Truth: Interpretations of Greek Poetics from Homer to Longinus, S. Halliwell, for New England Classical Journal, 2012.
  • Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome, M. Golden and P. Toohey (eds.), Ordia Prima 6 (2007) 214-216.
  • Socrates Against Athens: Philosophy on Trial, J. Colaiaco, BMCR 2002.09.35.
  • Lyric Quotation in Plato, M. Demos, BMCR 00.06.16.
  • Plato on Poetry, P. Murray, BMCR 97.4.3.