Patricia J. Johnson
Associate Chair
Associate Professor of Classical Studies
Office Hours (Fall 2009)
STH 403
W: 3-4PM
R: 11-1PM
Contact
745 Commonwealth Avenue
Room 403
Boston, MA 02215
617.353.4464 (p)
617.353.1610 (f)
pjjclass@bu.edu
Education
1990 Ph.D. University of Southern California (Classics)
1979 M.A. Cornell University (Classics)
1977 B.A. Cornell University (History)
Positions Held
Associate Professor, Boston University, 2006-present
Director of Graduate Studies, Boston University, 2004-2008
Assistant Professor, Boston University, 1996-2006
Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross, 1990-1996
Instructor, College of the Holy Cross, 1989-1990
Teaching Assistant, Univeristy of Southern California, 1987-1989
Teaching Assistant, Cornell University, 1979
Grants and Fellowships
Boston University Humanities Foundation Senior Fellow, 2006-2007
Boston University Humanities Foundation Junior Fellow, 1998-1999, 2003-2004
Holy Cross Committe on Research and Publications Award, 1992, 1994
Summer Faculty Fellowship, College of the Holy Cross, 1991
Dissertation Fellowship, University of Southern California, 1988-1989
All-University Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Southern Calfornia, 1985-1988
Continuing Humanities Fellowship, Cornell University, 1980-1981
Lane Cooper Fellowship, Cornell University, 1979-1980
First Year Graduate Fellowship, Cornell University, 1978-1979
Townsend Grant, Cornell University, 1978
Awards
Visting Scholar, American Academy in Rome, April 2004, June 2006
The Boston University Metcalf Cup and Prize for Excellence in Teaching, 2003
The College of Arts and Sciences Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2001
College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Recognition bonus, 2000
Distinguished Teaching Award, Boston University Honors Program, 2000
Phi Kappa Phi, University of Southern California, 1989
Major Publications
Ovid Before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses. University of Wisconsin Press, 2007.
"Ovid and Poetic Facundia" Latomus: Studies in Latin Literature
and Roman History VIII (Volume 239, 1997).
"Ovid’s Livia in Exile," Classical World 90.6 (1997).
"Woman’s Third Face: A Psycho/Social Reconsideration
of Sophocles’ Antigone" Arethusa 30.3 (1997).
"Ovid’s Typhoeus in Greece and Rome," New England
Classical Journal 24 (1996) 7-15.
"Constructions of Venus in Ovid’s Metamorphoses V,"Arethusa 29.1 (1996) 125-49.
"Ovid's Musomachia," Pacific Coast Philology 23.1-2 (1988),
30-38(co-author).
"The Middle Cypriote Pottery Found in Palestine,"Opus.
Athens XIV:6 (1982) 49-72.
