Patricia Larash
Assistant Professor of Classical Studies
MAT Coordinator

Professor Larash's Website

Office Hours (Fall 2009)
STH 433
T:10:30-11:30AM and 2-4PM or by appointment

Contact
745 Commonwealth Avenue
Room 402
Boston, MA 02215
617.358.1765 (p)
617.353.1610 (f)
plarash@bu.edu

Education
2004 Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (Classics)
1999 M.A. University of California, Berkeley (Greek)
1997 B.A. Harvard-Radcliffe College (Classics)

Positions
Assistant Professor, Boston University, 2004-Present
Graduate Student Instructor, University of California (Berkeley), 1999-2004

Awards
Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome, 2008-2009

Forthcoming
"Martial's Priapic Poetics: A Gendered and Sexualized Reading of the Preface to Book Two."

"Lector Amice: Negotiating the Role of the Reader in Ovid's Tristia."

Martial's Readers, Rome's Audiences.

Lectures
2007. "Who Owns an Epigram? Authorship Anxieties in Martial's Rome." Boston Area Roman Studies Conference, Boston University.

2007. "Who Owns an Epigram? Martial's Authorship Anxieties and Public Discourse on the Streets of Rome." Society of Fellows, Humanities Foundation, Boston University.

2006. "Who Owns an Epigram? Martial's Authorship Anxieties." University of Waterloo.

2006. "Martial's Priapic Poetics: A Gendered and Sexualized Reading of his Preface to Book 2", Tertulia working group, Boston University.

2005.  "Lector amice:  Negotiating the Role of the Reader in Ovid's Tristia,"  University of Liverpool.

2004.  "Martial and Spectacles:  Reading, Anonymity, and Power in Flavian Rome,"  Boston University.

2004.  "Martial's Lectrix Studiosa:  What Men Can Learn by Watching Women Read in Book Three of the Epigrams,"  Annual Meeting of the APA, San Francisco, CA.

2002.  "Talking Back and the Emergence of the General Reader in Martial,"  given at "Dialogues in Antiquity,"  Heller Conference, UC-Berkeley.

2001.  "Fame and Immortality in Martial,"  Annual Meeting of the APA, San Diego, CA.

1998.  "Painted Personae:  Female Cosmetics and Male Publication Anxieties in Latin Love Elegy,"  Annual Meeting of the APA, Washington, DC.

Book Reviews
2005. Review of Williams, Craig A.  Martial.  Epigrams Book 2.  Pp. xii + 303. Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2004.  Classical Philology 100.3.