{"id":13822,"date":"2019-11-07T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/?post_type=profile&p=13822"},"modified":"2019-11-07T16:54:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T21:54:32","slug":"stephanie-nelson","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/profile\/stephanie-nelson\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephanie Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I received my BA from St. John\u2019s College in Annapolis, the only school in the country, I tell my students, where Ancient Greek is required. That may not be strictly accurate, but I\u2019m sure it\u2019s the only school where Ptolemy\u2019s Almagest<\/i> is required reading. I then received my MA and PhD from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, branding me forever as a \u201cGreat Books\u201d sort of person and destining me for the Core. My first book, God and the Land: the Metaphysics of Farming in Hesiod and Vergil<\/i> was published by Oxford University Press and my various articles range from a study of Hesiod\u2019s treatment of farming, to a look at T. E. Lawrence\u2019s translation of the Odyssey, <\/i>to pieces on Aristophanes, Joyce\u2019s Ulysses<\/i>, Shelley\u2019s translation of the Symposium,<\/i> and translation generally, in a piece on the role of translation in the 20th c. written for The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature<\/i>, vol. 5. <\/i>My most recent book is entitled Aristophanes\u2019 Tragic Muse<\/i>: tragedy, comedy, and the polis in Classical Athens<\/i>. What draws all these together, I suppose, is my interest in the way one author, culture, genre or translator appropriates another, transforming, distorting, and in a way repudiating the original, but also acknowledging a deep and even formative debt to it. So, I think, Virgil to Hesiod, Greek comedy to tragedy, and James Joyce to Homer. My recent work has been primarily on the relation of Ulysses<\/i> to the Odyssey<\/i>, which is, surprisingly, very little studied, perhaps due to an unfortunate comment of Ezra Pound\u2019s that the Odyssey<\/i> is merely \u201cscaffolding\u201d for Joyce. Pound was a great poet, but there were other things he was wrong about, and I think he\u2019s wrong about this too. If I ever get a sabbatical I hope to write a book about it.<\/p>\n

I now spell \u201cVirgil\u201d with an \u201ci\u201d.<\/p>\n

Research Interests<\/h3>\n

Greek and Roman epic, Hesiod, Greek comedy and tragedy, intertextuality, translation, and Classical reception, particularly Joyce<\/p>\n

Positions Held <\/span><\/h3>\n

Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University, 2013-2019
\nDirector, Core Curriculum, Boston University, 2013-2019
\nAssociate Professor, Boston University, 2008-present
\nChair of Classical Studies, Boston University, 2012-2013
\nAssociate Chair of Classical Studies, Boston University, 2010-2012
\nAssistant Professor, Boston University, 1999-2007
\nInstructor, Boston University, 1995 \u2013 1999
\nlnstructor, Saint Xavier University (Chicago) 1991 \u2013 1995
\nAdjunct Assistant Professor, Valparaiso University, 1992 \u2013 1994
\nLecturer, University of Chicago, 1986 \u2013 1995<\/p>\n

Works In Progress<\/h3>\n

Aristophanes\u2019 Tragic Muse: Tragedy, Comedy, and the Polis in Classial Athens.<\/em> Under contract with University of Michigan Press.<\/p>\n

Hesiod: Theogony and Works and Days.<\/em> Oxford Greek and Latin College Commentaries, gen. eds. Stephen Esposito, Mary Lefkowitz, Barbara Weiden Boyd. Under review with Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n

Publications<\/h3>\n

Hesiod\u2019s Works and Days<\/em>, translation with commentary, Focus Press, 2008.<\/p>\n

Review of Charles Platter, Aristophanes and the Carnival of Genres, Arion<\/em>, 3.15.3, 2008, 157-64.<\/p>\n

Review of Glenn Most, Hesiod<\/em>, Loeb Classical Library, New England Classical Journal<\/em>, 35.2, 2008.<\/p>\n

Review of Richard Hunter, The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Constructions and Reconstructions<\/em>, The Classical Outlook<\/em>, 85.2, 2008.<\/p>\n

\u201cShelley and Plato\u2019s Symposium<\/em>: The Poet\u2019s Revenge,\u201d International Journal of the Classical Tradition, <\/em>14.1\/2, 2007, 100-29.<\/p>\n

\u201cCinematographic Joyce:\u201d Joyce Workshop, 2006,\u201d James Joyce Literary Supplement<\/em>, 21.1, May, 2007.<\/p>\n

\u201cHesiod\u201d in The Blackwell Companion to Ancient Epic<\/em>, ed. John Miles Foley, 2005.<\/p>\n

Review of Anthony Edwards, Hesiod\u2019s Ascra<\/em>, New England Classical Journal<\/em>, Feb., 2005.<\/p>\n

Review of Jenny Strauss Clay, Hesiod\u2019s Cosmos<\/em>, Hermathena, 2005.<\/p>\n

Review of Maria Marsilio, Farming and Poetry in Hesiod\u2019s Works and Days<\/em>, Journal of the Institute for the Classical Tradition<\/em>, Fall, 2003.<\/p>\n

\u201cLawrence\u2019s Prose Odyssey: A \u201cProsaic\u201d Approach to Greatness\u201d with Maren Cohn, in The Waking Dream of T. E. Lawrence: Essays on His Life, Literature, and Legacy<\/em>, ed. Charles Stang (New York: Palgrave, 2002).<\/p>\n

\u201cFull Circle: The Inherent Tension in Ethics from Plato to Plato\u201d in Instilling Ethics<\/em>, ed. Norma Thompson (Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000).<\/p>\n

God and the Land: The Metaphysics of Farming in Hesiod and Vergil<\/em> (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Justice of Zeus in Hesiod\u2019s Fable of the Hawk and the Nightingale\u201d, The Classical Journal<\/em> 92 (1997) 235-247.<\/p>\n

\u201cJustice and Farming in the Works and Days\u201din The Greeks and Us: Essays in Honor of Arthur Adkins<\/em> ed. Robert B. Louden and Paul Scholimeier (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Drama of Hesiod\u2019s Farm\u201d Classical Philology<\/em> 91(1996) 45-53.<\/p>\n

\u201cCalypso\u2019s Choice: Immortality and Heroic Striving in the Odyssey and Ulysses\u201d in Literary Imagination, Ancient and Modern<\/em> ed. Todd Breyfogle (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999).<\/p>\n

Lectures (selected)<\/h3>\n

\u201cComedy, Tragedy, and the Polis in Aristophanes\u2019 Frogs<\/em>,\u201d May, 2013, New England Political Science Association, Portland, ME.<\/p>\n

\u201cEngland, Ireland, Rome and Greece in Joyce\u2019s \u201cAeolus\u201d. \u201d February, 2013, Miami James Joyce Birthday Conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cOdysseus and Leopold Bloom, Tellers of Tales,\u201d August, 2012 Zurich James Joyce Foundation.<\/p>\n

\u201cTranslation in the Twentieth Century,\u201d July, 2012, Conference on Classical Reception, Bristol, England.<\/p>\n

\u201cGendered Space in Dublin and Ithaca: Ulysses<\/em> and the Odyssey<\/em>,\u201d June, 2012, James Joyce International Symposium, Dublin.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou Can Never Go Home Again: Nostos<\/em> in the Odyssey<\/em> and Ulysses<\/em>,\u201d Nostos <\/em>conference, University of South Carolina, March 24-27, 2011.<\/p>\n

\u201cDublin Meets Ithaca,\u201d November 17, 2010, College of William and Mary.<\/p>\n

\u201cEat or Be Eaten: dogs and gods in Ulysses<\/em> and the Odyssey<\/em>,\u201d August, 2010, Zurich James Joyce Foundation.<\/p>\n

\u201cA Real \u2018Ulysses,\u201d June 2010, James Joyce International Symposium, Prague.<\/p>\n

\u201cLouis Dumont\u2019s Homo Hierarchichus<\/em>,\u201d April, 2010, Associationn for Core Texts and Courses, Yale.<\/p>\n

\u201cChild-Eating, Ancient and Modern,\u201d 2009, Jonathan Swift Conference, St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral, Dublin.<\/p>\n

La Ci Warum: Don Giovanni in Joyce\u2019s Ulysses\u201d, 2009, Zurich James Joyce Foundation.<\/p>\n

\u201cHesiod and the Gods,\u201d 2008, European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin.<\/p>\n

\u201cLeopold Bloom and his Night Errant,\u201d 2008, Zurich James Joyce Foundation.<\/p>\n

\u201cHesiod and the Place of Farming,\u201d 2007, European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin.<\/p>\n

\u201cJoyce\u2019s \u2018Wandering Rocks\u2019 and Montage,\u201d 2006, Zurich James Joyce Foundation.<\/p>\n

\u201cAeschylus and Homer,\u201d 2006, St. John\u2019s College, Santa Fe, New Mexico.<\/p>\n

\u201cUlysses<\/em> and the Odyssey<\/em>: Polyphemus,\u201d 2005, Zurich James Joyce Foundation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Problem with Cleon: Aristophanes on Democracy,\u201d 2004, Association for Core Texts and Courses conference, Dallas.<\/p>\n

\u201cAristophanes\u2019 Clouds<\/em> and Tragedy,\u201d 2005, St. John\u2019s College, Annapolis.<\/p>\n

\u201cTelemachus and Stephen: The Case of the Displaced Son,\u201d 2004, Miami Joyce Conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cShelley\u2019s Neoplatonic Plato: Translating the Symposium<\/em>,\u201d 2003, American Philological Association conference, San Fransisco.<\/p>\n

\u201cAristophanes and Thucydides on War and Democracy,\u201d 2003, Hampton-Sydney College.<\/p>\n

\u201cInverting Epic: Vergil\u2019s Use of Homer,\u201d 2001, St. John\u2019s College, Santa Fe.<\/p>\n

\u201cWomen and Men in Aristophanes and the Symposium<\/em>,\u201d 2000, American Political Science Association, Chicago.<\/p>\n

\u201cNarration in Joyce\u2019s Ulysses<\/em>,\u201d 1999, Basic Program Weekend, University of Chicago.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlood on the Ground: The Changing Role of the Furies in the Oresteia<\/em>,\u201d 1997, NEH Seminar, Boston University.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Death of Turnus,\u201d 1996, NEH Seminar, Boston University.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Role of the Narrator in Dickens\u2019 Bleak House<\/em>,\u201d 1995, First Friday Lectures, University of Chicago.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlato\u2019s Parable: Being and Becoming in Yeats\u2019 Among School Children,\u201d 1995, Basic Program Weekend, University of Chicago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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