VIRGINIA M. LEWIS Department of 329 Dodd Hall Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306-1510 412-855-4889 [email protected]

EMPLOYMENT 2014 - present Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Florida State University Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Courtesy Affiliation (2018-)

EDUCATION 2014 Ph.D. Classics, University of California, Berkeley

2007 M.A. Classical Languages, University of Georgia

2004-2005 Post-Baccalaureate Year in Classics, University of Pennsylvania

2004 B.A. Classical Studies with distinction, summa cum laude, University of Pennsylvania College Year in , Athens, , Spring 2003

BOOK MANUSCRIPTS Myth, Locality, and Identity in ’s Sicilian Odes, Oxford University Press (Greeks Overseas Series), 2019. Speech, Gender, and Status in the Plays of and , in progress.

ARTICLES “Gendered Speech in Sophocles’ Electra,” Phoenix 69.3-4 (2015) 217-241. “Place and Identity in Pindar’s Olympian 2,” Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies Research Bulletin 5.2 (2017). “Two Sides of the Same Coin: The Ideology of Gelon’s Innovative Syracusan Tetradrachm,” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 59.2 (2019) 179-201. “Cultic Connections in Pindar’s Nemean 1,” Classical Philology 114 (2019) 344-365. “From Resolving Stasis to Ruling Sicily: A Reading of 7.153-167 in an Epinician Context,” Mnemosyne 72 (2019) 717-735.

EDITED VOLUME Reid, H., Lewis, V., and Ćulumović, M., eds. Pindar in Sicily. Sioux City, IA: Parnassos Press, (forthcoming 2020).

V. Lewis 1 of 5 BOOK REVIEW K. Morgan, Pindar and the Construction of Syracusan Monarchy in the Fifth Century B.C. (Oxford 2015), Phoenix 70.3-4 (2016) 401-403.

CONFERENCE PAPERS (PEER REVIEWED) “A Contested Homeland? The Immigrant Victor's Homecoming in Pindar's Olympian 12,” presented at the Fifth Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Hellenic Heritage of Southern Italy, Siracusa, Italy, June 12-15, 2019. “Psaumis Between Camarina and Olympia in Pindar’s Olympian 5,” presented at the annual meeting of the Classical Association, Leicester University, England, April 6-9, 2018. “τέρας μὲν θαυμάσιον προσιδέσθαι: Representing Civic Identity in Pindar’s Pythian 1,” presented at the Third Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Hellenic Heritage of Southern Italy, Siracusa, Italy, May 25-28, 2017. “Place and Identity in Pindar’s Olympian 2,” Spring Fellows Symposium, Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C., April 27, 2017. “Pindar and Diodorus on Sicilian mixis,” presented at the annual meeting of the SCS, San Francisco, January 8, 2016. “Two Sides of the Same Coin: Arethusa, Demeter, and Syracusan Power,” presented at the First Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Hellenic Heritage of Southern Italy, Siracusa, Italy, May 22, 2015. “Cultic Connections in Pindar’s Nemean 1,” presented at the annual meeting of the CAMWS, Boulder, March 26, 2015. “From Resolving Stasis to Ruling Sicily: Herodotus on the Hereditary Priesthood of the Chthonic Goddesses,” presented at the annual meeting of the APA, Chicago, January 5, 2014. “Female Speech in Sophocles’ Electra,” presented at The Construction and Expression of Women’s Voices in Antiquity, University of California, Los Angeles, November 13, 2010.

KEYNOTE LECTURES “Myth and Place in Pindar’s Odes for Sicily,” presented at Pindar in Sicily, organized by Fonte Aretusa and the Exedra Mediterranean Center, Siracusa, Italy, October 13-19, 2019. “Fluid Identity: Rivers and the Formation of Identity in Pindar’s Odes for Akragas,” Third Annual Classics Undergraduate Conference at the University of Georgia, People and Places: Identity in the Classical World, March 24, 2018.

INVITED TALKS “‘Lady, you have spoken wisely, like a sensible man’: Gender, Speech, and Character in Greek Tragedy,” Gettysburg College, April 3, 2017. “Myth and Identity in Pindar’s Odes for Aitna,” presented at the Melpomene Chair Greek Studies Conference in honor of the retirement of Donald Mastronarde, UC Berkeley, December 8, 2015.

V. Lewis 2 of 5 AWARDS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS External Margo Tytus Summer Residency Fellowship, University of Cincinnati, Summer 2018 Fellowship, Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies, Spring 2017

Internal Excellence in Teaching Award, Phi Beta Kappa, Florida State, Spring 2019 Committee on Faculty Research Support Award, Florida State, Summer 2017 Provost’s Faculty Travel Grant, Florida State, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019 Arts and Sciences Faculty Travel Award, Florida State, Spring 2016 (declined), Spring 2017, Fall 2019 First Year Assistant Professor Award, Florida State, Summer 2015 Frank E. Ratliff Fellowship in Classical Antiquity, Berkeley, Fall 2013 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, Berkeley, 2012 Dean’s Fellowship, Berkeley, 2011-2012 Heller Travel Grant, Berkeley, Summer 2011 Graduate Division Research Grant, Berkeley, Summer 2011 Departmental Fellowship, Berkeley, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2012, Spring 2014 Sather Assistantship, Department of Classics, Berkeley 2008-2009 University Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Georgia, 2005-2007 Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, University of Pennsylvania, 2004 University Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, 2000-2004

CONFERENCES AND EVENTS ORGANIZED AT FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY “Greek Poetry and the West” – Spring 2017 Langford Conference, co-organizer with John Marincola Marathon Reading of ’s Odyssey, as part of “Classics Week” – March 6, 2019, co-organizer with Celia Campbell “Women at the Crossroads in the Ancient Greek World” – Fall 2019 Langford Conference, co- organizer with Katherine Harrington and Erika Weiberg “Tablet and Verse: Curses in Antiquity” – Spring 2020 Langford Conference, co-organizer with Celia Campbell

TEACHING AND SERVICE

TEACHING EXPERIENCE Florida State: Beginning Greek 1 (Fall 2015) Beginning Greek 2 (Spring 2016) Intermediate Greek: New Testament, ’s Apology, ’ Cyclops (Fall 2018) Intermediate Greek: Euripides’ Medea (Spring 2015) V. Lewis 3 of 5 Intermediate Greek: Homer and Herodotus (Spring 2019, Spring 2020) Advanced Greek: Homer’s Iliad (Fall 2017) Graduate Greek: Review of Syntax and Stylistics (Fall 2018) Graduate Seminar: Greek Lyric Poetry (Fall 2014) Graduate Seminar: Archaic and Classical Greek Sicily (Fall 2016) Graduate Seminar: Space and Place in Ancient Greek Poetry (Spring 2020) Introduction to Classical Mythology (Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016) The Animal in Ancient and Modern Thought (E-Series, ethics requirement) (Fall 2017 [honors section], Spring 2019, Fall 2019) Classics Senior Capstone Seminar: The Odyssey and its Afterlives (Fall 2019) Greek and Roman Epics in Translation (Fall 2014) Greek Tragedy in Translation (Fall 2015)

UC Berkeley: Intensive Greek Workshop: Director (Summer 2012), Sole Instructor, Part 2 (Summer 2009), Instructor, Part 1 (Summer 2008) Beginning Latin 1 (Fall 2007, Spring 2011, Spring 2013), Beginning Latin 2 (Spring 2008) Introduction to Greek Civilization, Teaching Assistant (Fall 2009)

DIRECTED STUDENT RESEARCH Undergraduate Honors Thesis Committees: Jacob Dvorak, (Classics Department) honors thesis reader (Spring 2020) Stephen Fodroczi, (College of Music) honors thesis reader (Spring 2020) Alexander Adams, (Political Science Department) honors thesis outside reader (“Waking up from the American Dream”) (Spring 2019) Thomas Woodward, (Religion Department) honors thesis outside reader (“Comedy in the Book of Tobit”) (Fall 2016) Aubrey Crum, (Classics Department) honors thesis reader (“Weeping Warriors: Tears of Grief in Homer”) (Spring 2015)

MA Paper Committee: Angela Tuminno, MA paper committee, second reader (“Female Religious Cults in the Male Imagination”) (Spring 2016)

PhD Major Professor: Kelly Powers (2019-present)

V. Lewis 4 of 5 SERVICE AT FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY To the Department Library Officer (September 2014-December 2016) Secretary to Faculty Meetings (2015-2016)

Departmental committees: Admissions (2019-2020) Archaeology (2015-present) Conferences & Colloquia (2015-2016) Curriculum (2014-2018) Diagnostic (Graduate Entrance) Exams (2018-2019) Doctoral & MA Language Exams (2014-2016, 2017-2020) Executive (2019-2020) History (2014-2016) Peer Evaluation (2015-2016, 2017-2018, 2019-2020) PhD Reviews – Greek (2014-2016, 2017-2020) Philology (2014-2020, Chair 2018-2020) Greek Poetry Search (2015-2016) Thompson Library (2014-2015, 2016-2017, 2018-2019, Chair Fall 2016) Placement (2016-2017, 2018-2020)

To the University Classics Department External Chair Search Committee (2018-2019) Faculty Senator (2019-present), alternate (2018-2019)

MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Classical Association of the Middle West and South Society for Classical Studies Women’s Classical Caucus

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