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(l-r) Drs. Hanna Roisman, Kerill O'Neill and Joseph Roisman
participating in a conference at Be'er Sheva University, Israel.
All three members of the Classics Department faculty made the list of the six
best professors at Colby College [Choosing the Right College: The Whole Truth
about America's 100 Top Schools, by Jeffrey O. Nelson and Gregory Wolfe
(1998), 143].
Hanna Roisman (B.A. and M.A. Tel Aviv University; Ph.D. University of
Washington) devotes the bulk of her time to teaching and research in Greek
literature and language. She has served as the Chair for several years, and has
overseen the rapid growth of the Department in that time. She is currently
engaged in research on Homer's Iliad, and on Classics and Contemporary Film Aside from numerous
journal articles, she is the author of the following books: Loyalty in Early Greek Epic
and Tragedy, Hain 1984; The Odyssey Re-Formed, with F. M. Ahl, Cornell
University Press 1996; and Nothing is As It Seems: The Tragedy of the Implicit in
Euripides' Hippolytus, Rowman and Littlefield 1999; Euripides' Alcestis,
A Commentary for Students, The University of Oklahoma Press, 2003,
with C.E.A. Luschnig; and Sophocles: Philoctetes Duckworth, 2005.
Drs. Joseph Roisman, Hanna Roisman and
Kerill O'Neill participating in a conference in Argentina
Joseph Roisman( B.A. and M.A. Tel Aviv University; Ph.D. University of
Washington) is our resident Ancient Historian. He teaches a wide range of
courses covering Greek and Roman history and culture and ancient
military history.
He has published extensively in Greek history,
historiography, and literature, including the following books: The
General Demosthenes
and his Art of Military Surprise, Stuttgart 1993; Alexander the Great:
Ancient and Modern Perspectives, Lexington, Mass.1995; and (editor),
Brill's Companion to Alexander the Great, Leiden 2003. His most
recent book is The Rhetoric of Manhood: Masculinity according to the
Attic Orators, Berkeley 2005. He is currently engaged in a new
project focusing on sources for Greek history.
Kerill O'Neill (B.A. Trinity College, Dublin; Ph.D. Cornell
University) focuses primarily on Latin literature and language in his teaching
and research. He also teaches a cycle of mythology courses. His
scholarly work consists of publications and papers on Latin Love Elegy, Greek
Tragedy, and Intertextuality. His research interests focus on the
influence of erotic magic on Latin love elegy and on the interaction of modern
cinema with ancient culture. He is currently completing a book
provisionally entitled Songs of the Magic Muse: Erotic Spells and the
Discourse of Latin Love Elegy.
Planned Sabbatical Leaves:
Hanna Roisman 2008/9
Joseph Roisman 2008/9
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