Stephanie Nelson
Associate Professor of Classical Studies
Office Hours (Fall 2009)
STH 434
W: 9-11AM
R: 11-12PM
Contact
745 Commonwealth Avenue
Room 434
Boston, MA 02215
617.353.4445 (p)
617.353.1610 (f)
nelson@bu.edu
Education
1992 Ph.D University of Chicago (Committee on Social Thought)
1990 M.A. University of Chicago (Committee on Social Thought)
1983 B.A. St. John‘s College
Positions Held
Associate Professor, Boston University, 2008-present
Assistant Professor, Boston University, 1999-2007
Instructor, Boston University, 1995 - 1999
lnstructor, Saint Xavier University (Chicago) 1991 - 1995
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Valparaiso University, 1992 - 1994
Lecturer, University of Chicago,
1986 - 1995
In Progress
Aristophanes' Tragic Muse: Tragedy, Comedy, and the Polis in Classial
Athens. Under contract with University of Michigan Press.
Hesiod's Works and Days, translation with commentary, Focus Press. In press.
Publications
Review of Charles Platter, Aristophanes and the Carnival of Genres, Arion (forthcoming).
Review of Glenn Most, Hesiod, Loeb Classical Library, New England Classical Journal (forthcoming).
"The Poet's Revenge: Shelly's Translation of the Symposium", International Journal of the Classical Tradition. (Forthcoming) .
"On Farming and Classics" in Black Earth and Ivory Tower:
Working the Middle Ground, ed. Zachary Michael Jack, South Carolina
University Press. (Forthcoming).
"Hesiod" in The Blackwell Companion to Ancient Epic,
ed. John Miles Foley, 2005.
Review of Anthony Edwards, Hesiod's Ascra, New England Classical
Journal, Feb., 2005.
Review of Jenny Strauss Clay, Hesiod's Cosmos, Hermathena, 2005.
Review of Maria Marsilio, Farming and Poetry in Hesiod's Works
and Days, Journal of the Institute for the Classical Tradition,
Fall, 2003.
"Lawrence's Prose Odyssey: A "Prosaic" Approach
to Greatness" with Maren Cohn, in The Waking Dream of T. E.
Lawrence: Essays on His Life, Literature, and Legacy, ed. Charles
Stang (New York: Palgrave, 2002).
"Full Circle: The Inherent Tension in Ethics from Plato to
Plato" in Instilling Ethics, ed. Norma Thompson (Oxford: Rowman
and Littlefield, 2000).
God and the Land: The Metaphysics of Farming in Hesiod and Vergil (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
"The Justice of Zeus in Hesiod's Fable of the Hawk and the
Nightingale", The Classical Journal 92 (1997) 235-247.
"Justice and Farming in the Works and Days"in The Greeks
and Us: Essays in Honor of Arthur Adkins ed. Robert B. Louden and
Paul Scholimeier (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).
"The Drama of Hesiod's Farm" Classical Philology 91(1996)
45-53.
"Calypso's Choice: Immortality and Heroic Striving in the
Odyssey and Ulysses" in Literary Imagination, Ancient and Modern ed. Todd Breyfogle (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999).
Lectures (selected)
"Joyce's 'Cyclops' and Montage," 2006, Zurich James Joyce Foundation.
"Aeschylus and Homer," 2006, St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
"Ulysses and the Odyssey: Polyphemus," 2005, Zurich James Joyce Foundation.
"The Problem with Cleon: Aristophanes on Democracy," 2004, Association for Core Texts and Courses conference, Dallas.
"Aristophanes' Clouds and Tragedy," 2005, St. John's College, Annapolis.
"Telemachus and Stephen: The Case of the Displaced Son," 2004, Miami Joyce Conference.
"Shelley's Neoplatonic Plato: Translating the Symposium," 2003, American Philological Association conference, San Fransisco.
"Aristophanes and Thucydides on War and Democracy," 2003, Hampton-Sydney College.
"Inverting Epic: Vergil's Use of Homer," 2001, St. John's College, Santa Fe.
"Women and Men in Aristophanes and the Symposium," 2000, American Political Science Association, Chicago.
"Narration in Joyce's Ulysses," 1999, Basic Program Weekend, University of Chicago.
"Blood on the Ground: The Changing Role of the Furies in the Oresteia," 1997, NEH Seminar, Boston University.
"The Death of Turnus," 1996, NEH Seminar, Boston University.
"The Role of the Narrator in Dickens' Bleak House," 1995, First Friday Lectures, University of Chicago.
"Plato's Parable: Being and Becoming in Yeats' Among School Children," 1995, Basic Program Weekend, University of Chicago.
