Classical Studies
2011-12 General Catalog
Department of History
201 Humanities
(831) 459-2982
http://classicalstudies.ucsc.edu/
Faculty and Professional Interests
Karen Bassi, Professor of Literature
Greek and Latin literatures; gender; literary and cultural theory; pre- and early modern studies; historiography; visual and performance studies
John Bowin, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Ancient philosophy, especially ancient science and metaphysics, and contemporary analytic metaphysics
Maria Evangelatou, Assistant Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture
Medieval visual culture, with emphasis on Byzantium and its periphery; manuscript illumination, Marian cult and iconography; ancient Greek and Roman visual culture; Islamic visual culture; gender studies
Mary-Kay Gamel, Professor of Literature
Performance studies, ancient Mediterranean performance, Greek and Latin literatures, myth, reception of Greek and Roman texts and artifacts, film, feminist approaches to literature and performance
History of Israel, Hellenistic and Roman Palestine, and Christianity; Hebrew and Greek Bible; classical languages; Celtic cultures
Charles W. Hedrick Jr., Professor of History
Greek and Roman history
Jennifer K. Lynn, Lecturer
Later Roman Republic and Principate; Homeric epic; Hellenistic and Augustan poetry
John P. Lynch, Professor of Literature, Emeritus
Dean Mathiowetz, Associate Professor of Politics
Ancient political thought, philosophies of language and affect, early-modern and late-modern political economy
Gary B. Miles, Professor of History, Emeritus
Daniel L. Selden, Professor of Literature
Afroasiatic languages and literatures, Greek and Latin, Hellenistic culture, the classical tradition, history of criticism, literary theory
Program Faculty Advisers
Karen Bassi, Professor of Literature
Mary-Kay Gamel, Professor of Literature
Charles W. Hedrick Jr., Professor of History
Jennifer Lynn, Lecturer
Daniel L. Selden, Professor of Literature
Revised: 8/13/12
