Mary Katherine Jaeger Department of Classics 961 East 21st Ave. University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon 97405 Eugene, OR 97403 (541) 343-4167 (541) 346-4068 [email protected]
Academic Positions: 2008-present Professor, Department of Classics, University of Oregon 1997-2008 Associate Professor, Department of Classics, University of Oregon 1991-1997 Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, University of Oregon 1993-1994 Mellon Faculty Fellow in the Humanities, Harvard University (on leave from the University of Oregon) 1990-1991 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, University of Oregon
Education: 1990 Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley 1984 M.A. University of California at Berkeley, Latin 1982 B.A. Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN, Classics, magna cum laude
Publications: I. Books:
2018. Lectiones Memorabiles, refereed volume for Bolchazy-Carducci. Introductions and Commentary for passages of Horace, Martial, Vergil, Sallust and Livy on the 2019-2020 IB exam; including a comprehensive vocabulary, metrical appendix, an index of rhetorical terms, maps and timelines. 50,000 words + vocab.
2011. A Livy Reader, a peer-reviewed volume for the Bolchazy-Carducci Latin Readers series, including an introduction, selection of texts, and commentary. Reviews: CJ 2013
2008. Archimedes and the Roman Imagination. University of Michigan Press. Reviews: TLS, April 3, 2009; AJP Spring, 2009; Choice, Volume 46, Vol. 7, March 2009; BMCR September 2008; Journal of Roman Studies, October, 2009; Aestimatio; Nuncius; London Review of Books, November, 2010. Reissued in paperback, October 2013.
1997/8. Livy's Written Rome. University of Michigan Press. Reviews: Gnomon 2/2001; BMCR September 1998 Reissued in paperback, February 2009.
II. Articles and Book Chapters (* = Peer reviewed):
2019 Forthcoming: Invited “Afterward” for Ennius, Poetry and History, eds. Cynthia Daman and Joe Farrell, Cambridge University Press. 7,000 words.
2018 * “Eros the Cheese Maker: A Food Studies Approach to Daphnis and Chloe.” in the proceedings of ICAN IV. Review: BMCR 2018.10.10
2017. “Archimedes in the Twenty-First Century Imagination,” in the proceedings of the 2013 World Archimedes Conference, Springer.
2015. * “Why is there no Cheese in Horace’s Satires?” American Journal of Philology. 136: 63-90.
2015. “Serere Rem Publicam: Agriculture and Authority in Roman Republican Myth,” in the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Greek Democracy and the Roman Republic, ed. Dean Hammer, pp.83-98.
2014. “Urban Landscape, Monuments, and the Building of Memory in Livy,” in the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Livy, ed. Bernard Mineo, pp.65-77.
2011. *“Blame the Boletus? Demystifying Mushrooms in Latin Literature,” Ramus 40.1 (2011) 15-32.
2010. “Once More to Syracuse: Livy’s Perspective on the Verrines,” pp.15-45, in Livy and Intertextuality. Papers of a Conference Held at the University of Texas at Austin, October 3, 2009. Wolfgang Polleichtner, ed. WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2010.
*Anderson, Susan, and Mary Jaeger, “Ovid and Ransmayr: a Postmodern Austrian Metamorphosis,” pp.250-256 in the MLA volume Approaches to Teaching Ovid’s Metamorphoses. (Invited chapter in a refereed volume; work done in 2006-2007).
2007. “Fog on the Mountain: Philip and Mt. Haemus in Livy, 40.21-22,” invited chapter for The Companion to Greek & Roman Historiography. J. Marincola, ed., Blackwell. Vol. 2.397-403.
2006. *“Livy, Hannibal’s Monument, and the Temple of Juno at Croton,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 136.2 (Fall 2006): 389-414.
2003. “Livy and the Siege of Syracuse.” In Eigler, Ulrich et al., Formen römischer Geschichtsschreibung von den Anfängen bis Livius (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft): 213- 234.
2002. *“Cicero and Archimedes’ Tomb.” Journal of Roman Studies 92: 49-61.
2002. *“Vergil and the Monuments.” Invited chapter in a refereed volume, W.S. Anderson and L.N. Quartarone, eds., Approaches to Teaching Vergil's Aeneid. MLA: 131- 137.
1999. “Guiding Metaphor and Narrative Point of View in Livy.” In Historiography as Genre, C. S. Kraus, ed. Brill: 169-95.
1995. “Reconstructing Rome: Augustus, Agrippa and the Odes,” Arethusa 28 n.2-3: 177-191.
1993. *“Custodia Fidelis Memoriae: Livy's Story of Manlius Capitolinus,” Latomus: Revue d'Études Latines 52.2: 350-363.
III. Reviews
2017. Ann Vasaly, Livy’s Political Philosophy: Power and Personality in the First Pentad. Cambridge University Press, for Journal of Roman Studies.
2016. Elizabeth Marie Young. Translation as Muse: Poetic Translation in Catullus’s Rome. University of Chicago Press 2015, for Comparative Literature.
2011. David Levene, Livy on the Hannibalic War, OUP 2010, for The Classical Review 62.1.
2009. Dennis Feeney, Caesar’s Calendar, University of California Press, 2007, for Journal of Roman Studies.
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus, K. Galinsky, ed. Cambridge 2005, for Ancient History Bulletin. (Sent in, May 2006).
2008. Livy Books VI-X a Commentary, volumes iii and iv. Stephen P. Oakley, ed. Oxford University Press, 2005, for Classical World Volume 101 n.4, pp.547-8.
Jennifer Rea, Legendary Rome: Myth, Monuments and Memory on the Palatine and Capitoline, Duckworth, 2007, for New England Classical Journal.
2006. Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History, V. Pagán; Austin, 2004, for Hermathena Volume 180 (Summer, 2006).
2004-5. J. H. C. Williams, Beyond the Rubicon: Romans and Gauls in Republican Italy. Classical Journal, 100 n.2 December-Jan. 2004-2005.
2002. J. Chaplin, Livy's Exemplary History. American Journal of Philology, 123.3.
2002. A. Feldherr, Spectacle and Society in Livy's History. Classical Philology, 95.2.
1997. D. Favro, The Urban Image of Augustan Rome. Bryn Mawr Classical Review,
1997. K. Galinsky, Augustan Culture: An Interpretive Approach. New England Classical Journal, February 1997.
III. Talks: Invited Talks/ Invited Conference Papers:
2019. “Livy’s Cato,” invited paper for conference on Roman Republican literature, Notre Dame, February 21.
2016. “The Other Side of the Coin: Spinning Roman Historical Myths,” invited paper for the Spark Grant lecture series, Gonzaga University, November 3.
2016. “Lame in One Foot: Livy’s Alternate History and the Case of T. Quinctius,” invited paper for the 22nd annual Boston Area Roman Studies Conference, Boston, MA, April 22; an earlier version was delivered at the Stanford West Coast Historiography Jam, April 2.
2013. “Archimedes in the 21st Century Imagination,” invited paper for the World Archimedes Conference, New York, May 31-June 1.
2010. “Eating Local in Ancient Rome: Food and Authority in Polybius and Livy,” invited paper delivered at U Penn, November 11, 2010.
2009. “Once More to Syracuse: Problems in Livian Intertextuality,” invited paper delivered at a conference titled “Livy and Intertextuality” at UT Austin, October 3, 2009.
[A version of this was delivered as an invited talk at UC Davis, on October 26, 2009 and at UCLA on February 16, 2010; also presented as a work-in-progress talk to UO Classics faculty and students Sept. 25, 2009]
2006. “Eureka! New Discoveries from an Old Story,” invited lecture delivered at Gustavus Adolphus College, May 13, 2006.
2005. “The Defense of Syracuse and the Absurdity of Mechanical Advantage: Plutarch’s “Life of Archimedes” and the Life of Marcellus,” delivered to the department of Classics at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, April 22, 2005.
2005/ 2004. “The Death of Archimedes: Anger, Greed, and Regret in Imperial Narrative,” A Haines-Morris Distinguished Visiting Lecture, delivered at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Sept. 10, 2004.
[Versions of this were delivered to the Wellington Classical Association, Wellington NZ, April 27, 2005, the Dunedin Classical Association at Otago University, May 16, 2005 and the Christchurch Classical Association at the University of Canterbury, May 18, 2005.]
2002. Interpreters, Inscriptions, and Intertexts in Livy's History,” invited lecture at the University of California at Berkeley, September 16, 2002.
2001. “Livy and the Fall of Syracuse,” invited lecture presented at the conference “Memory and Power: The Republican Annals as the Transcription of a Social Order,” Trier, Germany, July 6, 2001.
2000. “Disaster Survived: Livy and the Uses of Memory,” invited lecture at Gustavus Adolphus College, October 26, 2000.
1997. “Erroneous history in Livy's Labyrinth,” invited lecture, presented at a colloquium titled "The Latest on Livy," at Durham University, Durham, England, May 19, 1997.
1996. “Livy and the Uses of Memory,” keynote lecture for the Reed College High School Latin Day, November 17, 1996.
1995. “Ruins and the City: Authority and Monuments in Ancient Rome,” presented at a conference titled "The Persistence of Memory," Sponsored by the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies at Harvard University, October 20-21.
1994. “Enacting Metaphor: Horace and the Topography of Rome,” invited lecture, presented at Swarthmore College, February 3, 1994.
1992. “Reconstructing Rome: Augustus, Agrippa and the Odes,” presented at a conference titled “Horace: New Perspectives at the Bimillennium of his Death” State University of New York at Buffalo, November 13-14.
Conference Papers:
2018. “Moretum in the Classroom,” presented at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest, Tacoma, WA, March 10.
2016. “Catullus the Mathematician,” presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (formerly American Philological Association), San Francisco, CA January 6-9.
2013. “Addit oppida pastor: Cheese in Horace, Virgil and Varro,” presented at the annual meeting of the American Philological Association, Seattle, WA January 3-6.
2012. “Only a Yelping Ground? Rose Combellack and The Fortune Press,” presented at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest, Salem, OR, March 10.
2011. “Eat the Bunny: Food and Authority in Polybius,” presented at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA, March 12. [Also presented at UO as a work-in-progress for the “Food in the Field” RIG, October 19, 2011]
2010. “Blame the Boletus? Demystifying Mushrooms in Latin Literature,” Presented at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest. University of Washington, Seattle WA, March 13.
2009. “Curds, Whey and Culture: Cheese-making as Craft and Metaphor in the Ancient Greco- Roman World,” presented at the annual meeting of the Columbia History of Science Group (CHSG), Friday Harbor WA, March 6-8.
2008. “Eros the Cheese Maker: A Food Studies Approach to Daphnis and Chloe,” presented at the International Conference on the Ancient Novel (ICAN IV), Lisbon, Portugal, July 21.
2008. “Quis movit caseum meum? A Food Studies Approach to Classical (Latin) Literature,” presented at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest. University of Puget Sound, Tacoma WA, March 29. [Also discussed with faculty and grad- students at brown-bag lunch presentation at UCLA, February 16, 2010.]
2006. “Petrarch’s Archimedes,” presented at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest. Reed College, Portland OR, March 25.
2004. “Why TWO Spheres? Archimedes and Translation in Cicero's De Re Publica,” presented at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle, WA, April 3.
2000. “Archimedes and the Siege of Syracuse,” delivered at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest. Victoria, B.C., March 12.
1994. “Marcius the Historian,” presented at the annual meeting of the American Philological Association, Atlanta GA, December 29.
1993. “Walking About Rome/Talking About Rome: Topography and Commonplace in Horace, Satire I.9,” presented at the annual meeting of the American Philological Association, Washington D.C., December 28.
1993. “Urban Topography in Catullus, Horace, and Ovid,” presented at the spring meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, Princeton University, April 23-24.
1992. “Monuments and Personalities: the Case of the Scipios,” presented to the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, August 13.
1990. “Memory and Freedom: Livy's Story of Marcus Manlius Capitolinus,” presented to the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, San Jose State University, San Jose, California, November 10.
Honors and Awards: External: Mysterious Piece of Jetsam Prize (blue plastic Yogi Bear) awarded by the graduate students for the best paper at the meeting of the CHSG, March 6-8, 2009. Haines-Morris Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Sept. 10, 2004. Mellon Faculty Fellowship in the Humanities, Harvard University 1993-1994.
University of Oregon: Rippey Award with, Karen McPherson, for the Antiquitè Modernitè FIG for Fall, 2014 Faculty Excellence Award for 2013-2014 ($25,000 in research funds) Rippey Award with Fabienne Moore for French 150/Hum 101 FIG, Fall 2012, 2013. CAS program grant, with Lowell Bowditch, for conference, “Culture and Consumption in the Ancient World,” October 16, 2010. Rippey Award with, Karen McPherson, for the Antiquitè Modernitè FIG for Fall, 2007 Pathways Award, with John Nicols, for the Law, Science and Culture Pathway, F1999-S 2003 Rippey Award, with John Nicols, for coordinating Humanities 101 and Western Civilization, Fall 1998-Spring 2000 Summer Faculty Research Award, University of Oregon 1993 UC Berkeley: University of California Chancellor's Dissertation Fellowship, 1989-1990 Lulu J. Blumberg Fellowship, 1988-1989 Tel Dor Excavation Grant, Summer 1987 Heller Travel Grant, Summer 1987 Prytanean Society Travel Grant, Summer 1987 Lulu J. Blumberg Fellowship, Fall 1986
Courses Taught: (University of Oregon): Language Classes: Beginning Latin; Beginning Greek; Second Year Latin (Vergil's Aeneid; Petronius' Satyricon; Cicero and Catullus; Cicero; Caesar); Second Year Greek (Lysias’ Orations, Euripides' Medea; Plato’s Ion); Upper Division Reading Courses in Latin and Greek (also taught at graduate level to MA students): Latin Authors: Ovid, Sallust, Cicero, Livy, Tacitus, Catullus. Greek Authors: Demosthenes, Thucydides, Polybius, Plutarch, Herodotus, Longus, Xenophon. Latin Prose Composition.
Seminars (Graduate and Undergraduate): Horace's Odes; The Ancient City; Ancient Historiography; The Historiography of the Second Punic War.
Classical Literature in Translation: Ancient Epic; Survey of Classical Latin Literature; Greek and Roman Historiography; Roman Life and Culture; Ancient Greek and Roman Rhetoric and Oratory; Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome; Humanities 101; Food in the Ancient Greco-Roman World.
Special Studies: Humanities 399/245: Food in the Ancient Greco-Roman World; Humanities 199, The College Experience / College Connections; Career Center 407, Careers for Humanities Majors (with Kristi Lodge of the Career Center, who did all the work); CAS 110, College Scholars Humanities Colloquium
(Harvard University): Latin 102a: Latin Lyric: Catullus and Horace, Fall 1993.
(University of California at Berkeley, Department of Classics): Teaching Assistant for eight semesters and three summer sessions in Beginning and Intermediate Latin, Roman Civilization, and Ancient Epic (1983-1989).
Recent Theses: Graduate: Ph.D. (Member) Joseph Griffin (English, 2017) Ph.D. (Member) Marcus Hensel (English, 2012) Ph.D. (Member) Mathew Faust (Philosophy, 2010) Ph.D. (Member) Tara B. Montague (English, 2006)
M.A. (Member) Nia Jamshidi (Classics, 2018) M.A. (Chair) Jordon Mitchell (Classics/Interdisciplinary, 2015) M.A. (Chair) Desiree Landry (Classics, 2015) M.A. (Member) Amy Systema (Classics/Interdisciplinary, 2012) M.A. (Member) Ashley Flanegan (History, summer 2011) M.A. (Member) Jon Hultgref (History, 2011) M.A. (Chair) Desiree Gerner (Classics, 2010) M.A. (Chair) Josh Hainy (Classics, 2010) M.A. (Chair) Aaron Heinrich (Classics, 2009) M.A. (Chair) Benjamin Peterson (Classics, completed June, 2007) M.A. (Chair) Jenny Druckenmiller (Classics, completed November, 2007) M.A. (Member) Elizabeth Hancock (Folklore, completed August, 2008) M.A. (Member) Jeffrey Stevens (History, defended May 18, 2006)
Undergraduate: Jasmine Kim (chair) Classics /Honors College 2015 Garrett West (member) Classics /Honors College 2014 Amy Howard (chair) Classical Civilization, 2010 Larissa Carlson (member) Classics, 2009 Michael Mohr (member) Classics/ Honors College, fall, 2007 Matthew Lucas (member) Classics, 2007 Sarah Morris (chair) Classical Civilization, 2005 Laura Slocum (member) Humanities, 2006 Brita Ameel (member) Honors College 2003
Service: Department:
2016/7 Chair, 6th year PTR committee for Lowell Bowditch
2014/5 Promotion to Senior Instructor II Committee (chair) for Cristina Calhoon, 2015 Search Committee for Classical Archaeologist 2014-2015 Graduate Advisor, Classics
2013/4 Promotion and Tenure Committee (chair) for Chris Eckerman, Classics 2013-2014 Search Committee for Classical Archaeologist 2012-2013
Prev. Promotion (to Professor) Committee (chair) for Lowell Bowditch, Classics 2010-2011 Graduate Advisor, 1996-1997; 2007-2011 Promotion to Senior Instructor Committee (member) for Cristina Calhoon, 2008 Department Head, Classics, 2001-2004. Undergraduate Advisor, Fall 1991-Spring 1993; 1995-1996; 2000-2001; 2003-4 Department rep. to Yamada Language Center 1992-1993; Fall 1994-Spring 1997 Search committees (tenure-track, 2004-2005 (for Jose Gonzales); 2007-2008 (for Chris Eckerman); office manager Carol Kleinheksel, and numerous sabbatical replacement positions)
University:
2019- Department Head, Classics; Heads’ Council
2018/9 On leave. Food Studies Executive Committee
2017/8 Member, Search Committee, History Humanities Program Director (until September 17, 2018) PTRAC Food Studies Executive Committee Chair, PTR committee S. Shoemaker, Religious Studies
2016/7 Humanities Program Director PTRAC Food Studies Executive Committee Member, PTR committee (M. Unno), Religious Studies
2015/6 Advisory committee for Faculty Excellence Award Humanities Program Director Head, Humanities Consortium Member, P&T committee (D. Hollenberg), Religious Studies Member, 6th year PTR committee (D. Green), Religious Studies Food Studies Executive Committee, Graduate Grant Award Committee PTRAC
2014/5 Advisory committee for Faculty Excellence Award Advisory committee for UO presidential search Advisory committee for CAS associate dean search, Fall 2014 Humanities Program Director
2013/4 Humanities Program Director Six-year post-tenure review committee for Susan Anderson, German Dean’s Advisory Committee Food Studies Graduate Award Committee
2012/3 PTRAC, ad hoc member, Fall 2012-Winter 2013 Dean’s Advisory Committee Humanities Program Advisory Board
Prev. CWCS Grant Award Committee, 2011-2012 Head of College Scholars Program, 2010-2011 Advisory Board for Distinguished Scholarships, 2010-2011 Promotion (to Professor) Committee (member) for Daniel Falk, Religious Studies 2009-2010 Head of Professional Distinctions Program, 2009-2011 Dean’s Top Scholars Task Force, Spring 2009 Faculty Personnel Committee, 2008-2009 (one year appointment by Sen. Pres.) Faculty Senate 2008-2010 NTTF (Non-Tenure Teaching Faculty) Committee, 2008-2009 (resigned after one year to take on College Scholars) Humanities Program Executive Committee 2007-? Chair of Post-Tenure Review Committee for Prof. John Nicols, History, 2007 Dean’s Advisory Committee, 2006-2007 Scholastic Review Committee, Fall 2006-Summer 2008 Dean's Advisory Group (“Wise Heads”), 2002-2003 Dean's task force on Germanic Studies, Spring 2002 Humanities Center Advisory Board, Fall 2000-Spring 2003 Dean's Advisory Committee, Fall 2000-Winter 2001 Scholastic Review Committee, Fall 1998-Summer 2002 Religious Studies Search Committee (for S. Shoemaker), 1999-2000 University Library Committee, Fall 1998-Spring 2000 Humanities Center Research Grant Review Panel, Fall, 1997 Academic Standards Committee, Fall 1996-Spring 1997
Profession:
2019- Member, Board of Directors, Society for Classical Studies
2018/9 Member, Board of Directors, Society for Classical Studies Editorial Board, Classical Antiquity Manuscript Referee for De Gruyter
2017/8 Member, Board of Directors, Society for Classical Studies Editorial Board, Classical Antiquity Secretary-Treasurer, Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest (from 3/2014) Chaired session at CAPN annual meeting Outside evaluator, promotion, Harvard University Manuscript Referee, Classical Antiquity
2016/7 Editorial Board, Classical Antiquity Secretary-Treasurer, Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest (from 3/2014) Manuscript Referee, Latomus, TAPA, Classical Philology, AJP, University of Michigan Press, Classical Antiquity. Outside evaluator, tenure, Boston University.
2015/6 Juror, 2016-2017 Rome Prize Editorial Board, Classical Antiquity External Reader, PhD thesis, University of Sydney, Australia. Outside Evaluator, promotion, UMass, Amherst Secretary-Treasurer, Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest (from 3/2014) Manuscript referee: TAPA
2014/5 Editorial Board, Classical Antiquity. Secretary-Treasurer, Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest (from 3/2014) Chaired session at 2015 CAPN meeting. Outside Evaluator, promotion, University of Kansas Manuscript referee: Classical Journal.
2013/4 President, Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest 3/2012-3/2014
2012/3 President, Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest
2011/2 Panel moderator for “Roman Historiography” session at 2012 APA meeting Outside Evaluator (successful) tenure case, Dept. of Classics, Reed (Fall 2011) Editor for the Topography of Rome section of the “Tools for the Trade for the Study of Roman Literature” website (under the direction of Sander Goldberg at UCLA) Chair, Gildersleeve Prize Committee, 2011-2012 (Member 2009-2012)
Prev. Outside Evaluator, tenure. U Tenn, Knoxville (2008). President, Eugene Chapter of the Archeological Institute of America, 2008-2009. Co-President, Eugene Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America, 2007- 2008. Moderator for Willamette University’s Undergraduate Conference in Classics, May, 2006. Secretary-treasurer, Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest, 2002-2005. (current member of CAPN executive board); ran session at the 2006 meeting. Manuscript referee for Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Society, Classical World, Phoenix, Classical Antiquity, the American Philological Society monograph series, the University of Michigan Press, the University of Texas Press; American Journal of Philology. 2008: Classical Journal. 2009: University of Michigan Press; 2011, 2012, Classical Antiquity. 2013, Arethusa. 2014, Classical Journal. Outside Evaluator tenure, SUNY Buffalo, Fall 2003. Outside Evaluator, Program Review, Classics department at San Fr. State, April 2003. President of the Eugene chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America, 1994-1996. Co-organizer of panel “The Example and the Monumentum: New Light on Livian Historiography” for the 1994 APA meeting.
Outreach:
2017. SAIL program Classics Summer Camp, with Malcolm Wilson, Classics 2015. Participant in Foreign Language Day: session on Roman food. 2014. Participant in Foreign Language Day: session on Roman food. 2011. Introduced and moderated a panel on “Perspectives from Law and Literature” for the Food Justice conference, February 20-22. “Eating Local in Ancient Rome: The Story of Cincinnatus,” presented for the UO Department of Comparative Literature's NOMAD series. January 12. 2010. Co-organizer with Lowell Bowditch, “Culture and Consumption in the Ancient World,” conference at UO on October 16, 2010. “Eating Local in Ancient Rome,” Lecture for OLLI, presented August 11. 2009. Lecture on the Saturnalia for the Natural History Museum’s solstice festival, finally delivered December 18, 2009. (First scheduled for December 19, 2008; but snowed out. Ross West wrote up a version for the Oregon Quarterly.) Interview on Food class in the Fall, 2009 issue of Cascade.
2008-earlier. Regular participant in Foreign Language Day 1991-1993; 1995-1997; 2006-a well-attended session on Roman food, with home-cooked samples. Participant in International Day, South Eugene International High School, 6/3/2002. Performance of the Sappho selections for the CD accompanying The World of Literature eds., J. Earl, S. Shankman, L. Westling.