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Christopher B. Krebs Department of Classics Stanford University Curriculum vitae (March 2021) 1/11 Christopher B. Krebs Department of Classics Stanford University Associate Professor of Classics 450 Serra Mall, Building 110 and (by courtesy) in German Studies Stanford CA 94305-2145 [email protected] AREAS OF INTEREST (AND RELATED PROJECTS RESEARCH PROJECTS) Greek and Roman historiography (Caesar, Metaphors); Latin Lexicography (Thesaurus Linguae Latinae); Intellectual History and the Classical tradition (The Age of Caesar, Humanism from 1450 – 1550, the reception of Tacitus). EMPLOYMENT 2002-2003 Lecturer at University College, Oxford. 2003-2012 Teaching fellow, then Assistant and Associate Professor of Classics, Harvard. Since 2012 (13) Associate Professor of Classics (and, by courtesy, German Studies), Stanford. EDUCATION 1995-1996 Freie Universität Berlin: philosophy, political sciences, media sciences. 1997-2001 Kiel University: Zwischenprüfungen (“BA level”) in Philosophy / Latin / Greek. 2000 Kiel University, Staatsexamen (“Masters”) in Latin Philology and Philosophy (with distinction). 2002 University of Oxford, M.St. in Greek Language and Literature (with distinction). 2003 Kiel University, Ph.D. in Latin Philology. Thesis: Imago Germaniae: Zur Variabilität und Funktionalität eines Konstruktes bei Tacitus, E.S. Piccolomini, G. Campano, C. Celtis und H. Bebel (supervised by Proff. Heldmann and Haye). HONORS, AWARDS, NAMED LECTURES, KEYNOTES (for teaching awards see page 8) 2000-2003 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Fellowship. 2001-2002 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst: scholarship to study at Oxford. 2005 Chercheur invité at the École Normale Supérieure (in Paris, June – Aug.). 03/2007 Professeur invité at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris). 2007 Loeb Classical Library Foundation Award. 2008 American Philological Association Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Fellowship (Munich). 2012 Loeb Classical Library Foundation Award. 2013 Christian Gauss Book Award from the Phi Beta Kappa Society for A Most Dangerous Book. 2013 The Third Annual Benario Lecture in Roman Studies (Emory University). 2014 The Forty-third Skotheim Lecture in History (Whitman College). 2015 Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship. 2017 “In Bed with the Sun. Caesar’s Geographies in their Contexts,” (keynote lecture at The Archaeology of Caesar in Britain and Gaul, Oxford University). 2018 “Classics as Crime Fiction. A Conversation with Caesar, Labienus, and Polybius” (Prentice lecture, Princeton University). Curriculum vitae (March 2021) 2/11 2019 The American Journal of Philology best article prize for 2018 for “Taking the World’s Measure: Caesar’s geographies of Gallia and Britannia in their contexts and as evidence of his world map.” 2020 “Hannibal der Kannibale? Zu Wortspielen bei Caesar”, Keynote Address at the Digitale Caesar Workshop (JGU Mainz, CAU Kiel). PUBLICATIONS BOOKS (* are monographs) 1.* Negotiatio Germaniae. Tacitus’ Germania und Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Giannantonio Campano, Conrad Celtis und Heinrich Bebel. Hypomnemata 158, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2005, 284 pp.1 2.* A most dangerous Book. Tacitus’s Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich (New York: W. W. Norton, 2011), 304 pp with 14 illustrat. A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice (17 June 2011). Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year (2 Dec. 2011). Choice Outstanding title. Winner of Phi Beta Kappa’s 2012 Christian Gauss Book Award.2 2b* Het gevaarlijke boek. De Germania en de opkomst van het nazisme (Utrecht: Het Spectrum, 2011). 2c* El libro más peligroso. La Germania de Tácito. Del imperio romano al Tercer Reich (Barcelona: Crítica, 2011). 2d* Ein gefährliches Buch. Die «Germania» des Tacitus und die Erfindung der Deutschen (München: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2012). 2e* A Most Dangerous Book (Seoul: GoldenCompass, 2012). 2f* Un libro molto pericoloso (Ancona: Il Lavoro Editoriale, 2012). 2g* Chinese translation of A Most Dangerous Book (Beijing: Economic Science Press, 2016). 2h* Japanese translation of A Most Dangerous Book (forthcoming). 2i* Turkish translation of A Most Dangerous Book (Istanbul: Repar). 3. Grethlein, J. & C. B. Krebs (edd.): Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography: The ‘Plupast’ from Herodotus to Appian (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).3 1 Reviewed by: K. Christ (Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft 58 (2005) 198-200), C. Whitton (BMCR 2005.12.17), D.R. Kelley (The Classical Review 58 (2008) 164-166), U. Muhlack (Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur 136 (2007) 417-420), G.M. Müller (Gnomon 81 (2009) 133- 137), J-L. Charlet (Revue de Philologie, de Littérature et d’Histoire Anciennes (2012) 183-184). Noted in: Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte Literaturbericht 36 (2007), The year’s work in modern language studies 67 (2007) 592-3, Medioevo Latino 28 (2007) 700. 2 Reviewed in (selected): Wall Street Journal (11 June 2011, F. Mount), New York Times Book Review (12 June 2011, C. Murphy), Times (18 June 2011, P. Stothard), Times Higher Education (30 June 2011, R. Mellor), Washington Post (6 July, M. Dirda), London Review of Books (14 July 2011, A. Grafton), Literary Review (July 2011, T. Blanning), Slate (25 July 2011, A. Kirsch), The Sydney Morning Herald (20 Aug. 2011, A. Riemer), Commentary (Sep. 2011, F. Raphael), Classical Journal Online (Sep. 2011, H. Benario), Bryn Mawr Classical Review (O. Devillers), Il Venerdi di RePubblica (Dec. 2011, L. Coen e L. Sisti), Times Literary Supplement (22 Feb. 2012, C. Whitton), Classical Review (March 2012, S. Bartera), Instituto di Politica (April 2012, M. Lilli), The Historian (July 2012, L.M. Fratantuono), Neue Zürcher Zeitung (July 2012, J. Leister), German History (July 2012, Caspar Hirschi), Journal of Roman Studies (2013, R. Warren). Discussed in: Historiografías, (4: 2012: 110-115, A.D. Ansuategui). Curriculum vitae (March 2021) 3/11 3a. Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography (Paperback: 2016). 4. Grillo, L. & C. B. Krebs (edd.), The Cambridge Companion to the Writings of Julius Caesar (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018).4 A Choice Top 75 Community College Title. In Media Sciences: 1999* Friedrichsen, M. & C. B. Krebs, Medienpädagogik in Schleswig-Holstein: Status Quo, kritische Reflexion, Perspektiven (Kiel: Unabhängige Landesrundfunkanstalt). 1999 Friedrichsen, M., C. B. Krebs, M. Wysterski, Friesische und niederdeutsche Programmangebote im schleswig-holsteinischen Rundfunk: Bestandsaufnahme und konkrete Perspektiven (Kiel: Unabhängige Landesrundfunkanstalt). Current and future projects: 5.* Edition of and Commentary on Caesar, De bello Gallico VII (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming Spring 2022). 6.* The Mind of the Commander. Julius Caesar, Man of Letters (W.W. Norton [under contract]). ARTICLES (* are in peer-reviewed journals) 1.* “Das Problem der amicitia in der 18. Epistel des Horaz,” Hermes 130 (2002): 81-99. 2.* “Imaginary Geography in Caesar’s Bellum Gallicum,” American Journal of Philology 127.1 (2006): 111-36. 3.* “Leonides Laco quidem simile apud Thermopylas fecit: Cato and Herodotus,” Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 49 (2006): 93-103. 4.* “suffugium hiemis ... rigorem frigorum: Tacitus (Germ. 16.3) and Seneca (de ira 1.11.3),” Rheinisches Museum 150.4 (2007): 429-34. 5.* “hebescere virtus (Sall. Cat. 12.1): metaphorical ambiguity,” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 104 (2008): 231-6. 6.* “The imagery of the way in the proem to Sallust’s Bellum Catilinae (1-4),” American Journal of Philology 129.4 (2008): 581-94. 7.* “Catiline’s ravaged mind: vastus animus (Sall. Cat. 5.5),” Classical Quarterly 58.2 (2008): 682-6. 8.* “Magni viri: Alexander, Pompey, and Caesar in Catullus 11,” Philologus 152 (2008): 223-9. 9. “You say ‘putator’. The first word on the first day of a Latin lexicographer,” Times Literary Supplement, February 6, 2009: 14-5. 9a. Reprinted (with minor modifications) in: The Newsletter of the American Philological Association, Summer-Fall 2010, Volume 33, Numbers 3-4. 10.* “A seemingly artless conversation: Cicero’s de legibus 1.1-5,” Classical Philology 104.1 (2009): 90-107. 3 Reviewed in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review (D. Lateiner), Sehepunkte (June 2013, D. Tompkins), The Classical Journal (J.S. Ward), Talia Dixit (8: 2013, D.C. Centeno), Diegesis (2.2: 2013, K. John), Journal of Hellenic Studies (C. Pelling), Anabases (O. Devillers). Discussed in: Bollettino di Storiografia. Rivista annuale di storia (17:2013, 15-26, G. Girgenti). 4 Reviewed in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review (A. Littlestone-Luria), Choice (M. L. Johnson), Classical Review (C. Damon), ExemPlaria Classica (D. Pausch), Greece and Rome (C. Whitton), Journal of Roman Studies (K. Tempest). Curriculum vitae (March 2021) 4/11 11. “A dangerous book: the reception of Tacitus’ Germania,” in: Woodman, A. J. (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) 2009: 280- 99. 12. “Borealism: Caesar, Seneca, Tacitus, and the Roman discourse about the Germanic North,” in: Gruen, Erich S. (ed.), Cultural Identity and the Peoples of the Ancient Mediterranean (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute) 2010: 202-221. 13.* “… jhre alte Muttersprache … unvermengt und unverdorben: zur Rezeption der taciteischen Germania im 17. Jahrhundert,” Philologus 154 (2010): 119-39. 14. “The Continuing Message,” History Today (September 2011): 72. 15. “An Innocuous Yet Noxious Text: Tacitus’s Germania,” Historically Speaking 12 (2011): 2-4. 16. “Annum quiete et otio transiit: Tacitus (Agr. 6.3) and Sallust on liberty, tyranny, and human dignity,” in: Pagán, Victoria E. (ed.), A
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