{"id":3680,"date":"2015-09-02T16:16:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T20:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=3680"},"modified":"2021-05-26T10:05:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T14:05:29","slug":"patricia-johnson","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/faculty-profiles\/patricia-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Patricia J. Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"\/classics\/files\/2018\/02\/PJJ-CV-2-2018.pdf\">Curriculum Vitae<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>My research and teaching interests have always resided at the intersection between texts, material culture and history. My BA and MA degrees were in history and classical archaeology (at Cornell), and my PhD in classics (at USC) focused on the poetry of the Augustan poet Ovid. I\u2019ve written on various subjects in the course of my career, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astromeditions.com\/books\/book\/?artno=A29\">Middle Cypriote pottery<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu\/journals\/arethusa\/v030\/30.3johnson.pdf\">Sophocles\u2019 <i>Antigone<\/i><\/a>, to Ovid\u2019s epic and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu\/stable\/4351991\">exile poetry<\/a> and explicit (or so I propose) ceiling paintings in the Cardinal\u2019s apartments in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villamedici.it\/en\/\">Villa M\u00e9dici<\/a> in Rome.<\/p>\n<p>My courses follow a similar trajectory: third- and fourth-year undergraduate and graduate-level seminars on Latin poetry (Ovid, Horace, Vergil, Catullus), as well as broader courses in English on Roman civilization, women in the ancient world, and the age of Augustus.<\/p>\n<p>My 2008 book, <a href=\"http:\/\/site.ebrary.com.ezproxy.bu.edu\/lib\/bostonuniv\/docDetail.action?docID=10280009\"><i>Ovid Before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses<\/i><\/a>, explores Ovid\u2019s artists in the <i>Metamorphoses<\/i>, and how their stories reflect his concerns about freedom of artistic expression in his own time. After a few years of service as the associate dean of humanities in CAS, I am now getting a project underway on the reception of the tapestry of Arachne in <i>Metamorphoses<\/i> 6 by early 16<sup>th<\/sup> century Italian artists. I am interested in figuring out how artists interpreted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iconos.it\/index.php?id=1791\">the Ovidian episode<\/a> by looking at their own artistic products alongside historical documentation from their era, when questions of artistic freedom and the line between \u201cdecent\u201d and \u201cobscene\u201d artistic representation were being raised just as in Ovid\u2019s time.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">Latin poetry, especially Catullus and Ovid; reception of Ovid, especially in Renaissance painting; women in Republican and Augustan Rome<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7388,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7388"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6818,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3680\/revisions\/6818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}