Ann Vasaly
Associate Professor of Classical Studies
Office Hours (Spring 2009)
STH 416
T: 11:00-12:00PM
W: 12:00-1:00PM
Contact
745 Commonwealth Avenue
Room 416
Boston, MA 02215
617.358.4317 (p)
617.353.1610 (f)
vasaly@bu.edu
Education
1983 Ph.D. Indiana University (Classics)
1975 M.A. University of Minnesota (Greek Literature, Greek Bronze
Age Archaeology)
1972 B.A. University of Minnesota (Humanities)
Positions Held
- Associate Professor, Boston University, 1995-present.
- Rome Prize Jury of the American Academy in Rome, Ancient Studies, 2006-2008
- CAS Appointment/Promotion/Tenure Committee, Boston University, 2001-2002, 2007-2008
- Searh Committee for Director of the Classical Summer School, American Academy in Rome, 2006-2007
- Professor in Charge, School of Classical Studies, American Academy in Rome, 2006
- Chair, Boston University, Classical Studies, 2002-2005
- Chair, Latin Search Committee, Boston University, 1995-1996, 1997-1998, 2002-2004
- Director of the Classical Summer School, American Academy in Rome, 2001-2004
- Director of Graduate Studies, Boston University, Classical Studies, 2000-2002
- Ad Hoc Committee on the Classical Summer School of the American Academy in Rome, 2000-20001
- Classical Society of the American Academy in Rome, Nominating Committee, 2000
- Acting Chair, Boston University, Classical Studies, 1997-1998
- Chair, Humanities Curriculum Committee, Boston University, 1995-1996
Honors and Fellowships
Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship, 2005
Scholar/Resident, Rockefeller Center, Bellagio, Italy, 1997)
Prize Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Tübingen,
Germany, 1988
Junior Fellow, Boston University Humanities Foundation, 1986-87
Summer Research Grant, Boston University, 1984
Fulbright Fellowship, Italy, 1982-83
Rome Prize, Classics, American Academy in Rome, 1982-83
Graduate School Fellowship, Indiana University, 1980-81
Work in Progress
"Politics in the Verrines" (under review).
Livy's de republica: Ab urbe condita 1-5.
Cambridge Companion to Cicero (projected, 2010): "The Speeches and Cicero's Political Career."
Publications
"Characterization in Roman Historiography," Cambridge Companion to Roman Historiography, ed. A Feldherr. (Cambridge Univeristy Press), forthcoming 2008.
"Cicero's Early Speeches," Brill's Companion to Cicero,
ed. J.M. May (Leiden 2002) 71-111.
"The Structure of Livy's First Pentad and the Augustan Poetry
Book," in Clio and the Poets: Augustan Poetry and the Traditions
of Ancient Historiography, edd. D.S. Levene and D.P. Neils (Leiden
2002) 275-90.
"The Quality of Mercy in Cicero's Pro Murena," in Rome
and Her Monuments: Essays on the City and Literature of Rome in
Honor of K.A. Geffcken, edd. S. Dickinson and J.P. Hallett (Wauconda
IL 2000) 447-63.
"Livy's Quinctii and the Power of Persuasion," Classical
World 92.6 (1999) 513-30.
Representations: Images of the World in Ciceronian Oratory (University
of California Press: Berkeley 1993; paperback edition 1996).
"Ars Dispositionis: Cicero's Second Speech Against Rullus,"
Hermes 116 (1988) 409-27.
"Personality and Power: Livy's Depiction of the Appii Claudii
in the First Pentad," TAPA 117 (1987) 203-26.
"The Masks of Rhetoric: Cicero's Pro Roscio Amerino,"
Rhetorica 3 (Winter, 1985) 1-20.
"Transforming the Visible," Res 6 (1983) 65-71.
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