CURRICULUM VITAE INGER NEELTJE IRENE KUIN
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Greek imperial literature; ancient religion; crisis recovery; ancient philosophy; epigraphy
EMPLOYMENT
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Senior Lecturer of Classics, June 2018—present
Groningen University, Groningen, Netherlands Post-Doctoral Researcher in Ancient History, June 2015—May 2018 OIKOS Anchoring Innovation Pilot Project: After the Crisis
EDUCATION
New York University, New York, NY PhD in Classics, May 2015 (conferred September 2015) Dissertation: ‘Playful Piety: Lucian and the Comic in Ancient Religious Experience’ Advisor: Raffaella Cribiore Committee: Joy Connolly, David Konstan, Christopher P. Jones, Richard Hunter Field exams: Greek Literature, Latin Literature, Roman History, Ancient Thought
Columbia University, New York, NY Post-Baccalaureate in Classics, May 2009
Amsterdam University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands M.A. cum laude in Philosophy, August 2007; thesis: ‘The Cage of Meritocracy’ M.A. in Journalism, January 2006; thesis: ‘Foucault’s Journalism of Ideas’ B.A. cum laude in Philosophy, January 2004; minor in Russian; thesis: 'Immigrant Housing Policies and Isaiah Berlin’s Positive and Negative Freedom’
Bonaventura College, Leiden, The Netherlands Gymnasium, cum laude, August 2001 (ranked among the top 5% of students) ______
PUBLICATIONS
Books, author (published): − Kuin, I.N.I. 2018. Leven met de goden: Religie in de oudheid (Living With the Gods: Religion in Antiquity), Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam.
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PUBLICATIONS (CONTINUED)
Books, author (in progress): − Kuin, I.N.I. Laughing With the Gods: Lucian and the Comic in Ancient Religious Experience. Completion anticipated for fall 2018.
Books, editor (published): − Dijkstra, T.M.; I.N.I. Kuin; M. Moser; D. Weidgenannt (eds.). 2017. Strategies of Remembering in Greece Under Rome (100 BC - 100 AD). Publications of the Netherlands Institute in Athens VI, Sidestone Press, Leiden.
Books, editor (in progress): − Klooster, J.J.H.; I.N.I. Kuin (eds.). After the Crisis. Remembrance, Re-anchoring, and Recovery in the Ancient World. Submission to Bloomsbury Press anticipated for summer 2018. − DiGiulio, S.; I.N.I. Kuin; J. Arthur-Montagne (eds.). Documentality. New Approaches to Written Documents in Imperial Life and Literature. Submission to Cambridge University Press anticipated for summer 2018.
Academic articles, peer review (published): − Kuin, I.N.I. 2018. ‘Sulla and the Creation of Roman Athens,’ Mnemosyne 71.4, 616— 639. − Kuin, I.N.I. 2017. ‘Rewriting Family History: Strabo and the Mithridatic Wars,’ Phoenix 71.1/2: 102—118. − Kuin, I.N.I. 2017. ‘Unseen and Unharmed: A Case Study in Understanding Opisthographic Epitaphs,’ Classical Quarterly 67.2, 573—582. − Kuin, I.N.I. 2011. ‘P. Oxy VI.950: Homer, Iliad 11.359-402,’ Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 48, 22—26.
Academic articles, peer review (forthcoming and in progress): − Kuin, I.N.I. Forthcoming. ‘Competition and Innovation in Aristotle, Politics 2,’ in C. Pieper; C. Damon (eds.), Eris vs. Aemulatio: Competition in Classical Antiquity. Brill, Leiden. − Kuin, I.N.I. Under review. ‘Patroclus Was a Parasite: Lucian’s Satirical Aitia,’ in J.J.H. Klooster; A.B. Wessels (eds.), Inventing Origins: The Function of Aetiology in Antiquity. Routledge, London. − Kuin, I.N.I. Under review. ‘Diogenes vs. Demonax: Laughter as Philosophy in Lucian,’ in P. Destrée; F. Trivigno (eds.), Laughter in Ancient Philosophy. Oxford University Press, Oxford. − Kuin, I.N.I. Under review. ‘Laughter in Lucian’s Utopia Of the Dead,’ in P. Destrée; J. Opsomer; G. Roskam (eds.), Ancient Utopias. De Gruyter, Berlin.
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PUBLICATIONS (CONTINUED)
Academic articles, peer review (forthcoming and in progress): − Kuin, I.N.I. Under review. ‘Sulla and the Philosophers: The cultural history of the sack of Athens,’ in A. Eckert; A. Thein (eds.), Sulla Felix: Politics, Public Image, and Reception. Classical Press of Wales, Swansea. − Kuin, I.N.I. Under review. ‘Een ondeugende Diogenes: seks en humor in de apocriefe Cynische brieven’ (‘A naughty Diogenes: Sex and humor in the apocryphal Cynic letters’), Lampas. − Kuin, I.N.I. Under review. ‘Deaf to the Gods: Atheism in Plutarch’s Peri deisidaimonias,’ in R. Hirsch-Leopold; F.L. Roig-Lanzillotta (eds.), Plutarch: The Religious Landscape. Brill’s Plutarch Studies. Brill, Leiden. − Kuin, I.N.I. Under review. ‘Loukianos atheos? Humor and religious doubt in Lucian of Samosata,’ in B. Edelmann-Singer; T. Nicklas; J. Spittler (eds.), Sceptic and Believer. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament I. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen. − Kuin, I.N.I. In progress. ‘Cities full of words: Illiteracy and epigraphy in the Roman Empire,’ in J. Arthur-Montagne; S. DiGiulio; I.N.I. Kuin (eds.), Documentality: New approaches to written documents in imperial life and literature. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Other academic articles (published): − Kuin, I.N.I. 2017. ‘Anchoring Political Change in Post-Sullan Athens,’ in T.M. Dijkstra; I.N.I. Kuin; M.M. Moser; D. Weidgenannt (eds.), Strategies of Remembering in Greece Under Rome (100 BC - 100 AD). Publications of the Netherlands Institute in Athens VI. Sidestone Press, Leiden, 157—167. − Dijkstra, T.M.; M.M. Moser; D. Weidgenannt. 2017. ‘Introduction,’ in T.M. Dijkstra; I.N.I. Kuin; M.M. Moser; D. Weidgenannt (eds.), Strategies of Remembering in Greece under Rome (100 BC - 100 AD). Publications of the Netherlands Institute in Athens VI. Sidestone Press, Leiden, 13—17. − Kuin, I.N.I.; M.M. Moser. 2017. ‘Strategies of Remembering in Greece under Rome: Some Conclusions,’ in T.M. Dijkstra; I.N.I. Kuin; M.M. Moser; D. Weidgenannt (eds.), Strategies of Remembering in Greece under Rome (100 BC - 100 AD). Publications of the Netherlands Institute in Athens VI. Sidestone Press, Leiden, 183—185. − Klooster, J.J.H.; I.N.I. Kuin, 2017. ‘Het (on)bereikbare verleden: Traditie, verankering en innovatie in de oudheid’ (‘The (un)reachable past: Tradition, anchoring and innovation in antiquity’), Groniek 214, 31—43. − Kuin, I.N.I. 2017. ‘Being a Barbarian: Lucian and Otherness in the Second Sophistic,’ Groniek 211, 131—143. − Kuin, I.N.I. 2014. ‘Ash Chest of Sextus Pompeius Lapeius,’ in M. Peachin (ed.), Greek and Latin Inscriptions at New York University, L’Erma di Bretschneider, Rome, 116— 117.
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PUBLICATIONS (CONTINUED)
Other academic articles (published): − Kuin, I.N.I. 2014. ‘Grave Monument of M. Octavius Diadumenus,’ in M. Peachin (ed.), Greek and Latin Inscriptions at New York University, L’Erma di Bretschneider, Rome, 86 —88. − Kuin. I.N.I. 2014. ‘Grave Monument of Mutia Chreste,’ in M. Peachin (ed.), Greek and Latin Inscriptions at New York University, L’Erma di Bretschneider, Rome, 84—85. − Kuin, I.N.I. 2014. ‘Grave Monument of Pudens,’ in M. Peachin (ed.), Greek and Latin Inscriptions at New York University, L’Erma di Bretschneider, Rome, 94—96.
Book reviews: − Kuin, I.N.I. 2018. Review of Rosie Wyles and Edith Hall (eds.), Women Classical Scholars. Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly (Oxford, 2016), History of Humanities 3.1, 214—217. − Kuin, I.N.I. 2017. Review of Alexander Free’s Geschichtsschreibung als Paideia: Lukians Schrift ‘Wie man Geschichte schreiben soll’ (Munich, 2015), H-Soz-Kult. − Kuin, I.N.I. 2015. Review of Laurent Pernot’s Epideictic Rhetoric: Questioning the Stakes of Ancient Praise (Austin, 2015), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2015.11.07. − Kuin, I.N.I. 2013. Review of Fabio Berdozzo’s Götter, Mythen, Philosophen: Lukian und die paganen Göttervorstellungen seiner Zeit (Berlin, 2011), Classical World 107, 132— 133.
Popular articles: − Kuin, I.N.I. 2018. ‘Naar 1 god. De opkomst van het monotheïsme’ (‘Towards 1 god. The rise of monotheism’), Historisch Nieuwsblad. − Kuin, I.N.I. 2018. ‘Het lot van Cassandra’s’ (‘The fate of Cassandras’), Geschiedenis Magazine. − Kuin, I.N.I. 2018. ‘(On)gelovig in de oudheid’ (‘(Un)believing in Antiquity’), Geschiedenis Magazine, March. − Kuin, I.N.I. 2017. ‘On Tour: Oudheid-onderzoekers, wat doen die eigenlijk de hele dag?’ (‘On Tour: Antiquity researchers, what do they do all day?’), klassieken.nu. − Kuin, I.N.I. 2017. ’21 ideeën voor een beter internet: no. 19’ (’21 ideas for a better internet: no. 19’), de Volkskrant Online. − Kuin, I.N.I. 2017. ‘Lachen, schelden en drinken voor de goden’ (‘Laughing, obscenities, and drinking for the gods’), Geschiedenis Magazine. − Kuin, I.N.I. 2016. ‘Er was altijd al een kosmos zonder god’ (‘There always was a cosmos without god’), NRC Handelsblad. − Kuin, I.N.I. 2015. ‘Homerus lezen is echt zo gek nog niet’ (‘Reading Homer is not such a bad idea after all’), Trouw. − Kuin, I.N.I. 2015. ‘Inside Jokes: Lucian, Tatian, and Mohammed Cartoons,’ Eidolon. − Kuin, I.N.I. 2015. ‘Maak liever grappen over je eigen groep’ (‘Better to make a joke about your own group’), nrc.next. !4 CURRICULUM VITAE INGER NEELTJE IRENE KUIN
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Dartmouth College: − Classical Mythology, Summer 2018, with Margaretha Hajos-Kramer
Groningen University: − Documentary Texts, Epigraphy and Papyrology, Spring 2018 − MA Tutorial, on cosmopolitanism and local identity in the Roman East, Spring 2018 − Greek History, Fall 2017 − History Thesis Writing Seminar, Spring 2017 − Ancient Historiography (= Intermediate/Advanced Greek and Latin), Spring 2017 − Documentary Texts, Epigraphy and Papyrology, Spring 2017 − History Thesis Writing Seminar, Fall 2016 − Documentary Texts, Epigraphy and Papyrology, Spring 2016 − MA Tutorial, on language and self-fashioning in the Second Sophistic, Spring 2016 − MA Seminar ‘Athens and Rome: Culture, trauma, and memory in Roman Greece,’ Fall 2015, with Onno van Nijf − Thesis Supervision: o Jorien Roks (MA), Roman Elite Society and Cultural Transfer: The Greek Influence on Roman Education in the Republic, Spring/Fall 2016 o Symen Hoekstra (BA), De spil in een aristocratisch netwerk. Een netwerk- analytische benadering van Tiberius Gracchus (on Tiberius Gracchus and network theory), Fall 2015
New York University, New York, NY: − Intermediate Latin: Vergil, Spring 2014 − Intermediate Latin: Cicero, Fall 2013 − The Power of Persuasion: Ancient and Modern Rhetoric, Summer 2013 − History of Rome: The Republic, Spring 2013, Teaching Assistant − Classical Mythology, Summer 2012 − History of Rome: The Empire, Spring 2012, Teaching Assistant − Core Curriculum: The Deliberating Citizen, Fall 2011, Preceptor − Everyday Life in Ancient Rome, Spring 2011, Teaching Assistant
Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan: − Intensive Latin I, Summer 2011 − Intensive Latin II, Summer 2011
Private Tutor: − Latin, Beginning through Intermediate, January 2009—May 2018 − Greek, Intermediate, Spring 2014 − Ancient History, Summer 2012—Spring 2015 − Homer Reading Group, Fall 2007—Spring 2008 !5 CURRICULUM VITAE INGER NEELTJE IRENE KUIN
TALKS
Conference presentations: − “Humor and Horror in Tragedy – A Comparison of Thyestes and Bacchae,” Nice University, March 2018 − “Causes of Doubt: Towards a Sociology of Ancient Disbelief,” CRASIS Annual Meeting, Groningen University, February 2018 − “Loukianos atheos? Humor and religious doubt in Lucian of Samosata,” Skepticism and Religion Conference, Regensburg University, October 2017 − “Deaf to the gods: Atheism in Plutarch,” European Plutarch Network Congress, Groningen University, September 2017 − “After Actium: Plutarch on Antony and ‘the young Caesar’,” OIKOS Impact of Empire Work in Progress Day, Nijmegen University, May 2017 − “Political Change in Post-Sullan Athens,” Strategies of Remembrance in Greece Under Rome Conference, Dutch Institute at Athens, October 2016 − “(Il)literacy and the inscriptiones Lucianae,” DocuMentality Conference, Stanford University, September 2016 − “Writing a crisis: The Meta-history of narrating political events,” Philosophy of Histor(iograph)y Conference, University College London, August 2016, with J. Klooster − “What do Sulla and the philosophers have in common?” Celtic Classics Conf., June 2016 − “Competition and Innovation in Aristotle, Politics 2,” Penn-Leiden Colloquium, Leiden University, June 2016 − “Laughter in Lucian’s Utopia Of the Dead,” Catholic University of Leuven, Utopias in Antiquity Conference, March 2016 − “Patroklos Was a Parasite: Lucian on Greeks and Their Myths,” CRASIS Annual Meeting, Groningen University, February 2016 − “Sulla and the Creation of Roman Athens,” SCS Annual Meeting, January 2016 − “What do Sulla and the philosophers have in common?” OIKOS Anchoring Innovation Conference, December 2015 − “Change and Innovation in Ancient Politics,” Re-Anchoring After the Crisis Workshop, University of Groningen, December 2015 − “Anchoring Change: Strabo and the Transformation of Pontus in the First Century BCE,” Urban Upheavals Conference, University of Chicago, November 2015 − “Patroklos Was a Parasite: Lucian on Trends in the Reception of Myth,” Venice International University Advanced Seminar in the Humanities, October 2014 − “Playful Piety: Ritual, Humor, and Myth in Lucian of Samosata,” AAH, May 2014 − “Show and Tell: Genre and Deixis in Lucian,” APA Annual Meeting, January 2014 − “Audience and Performance in Lucian’s Comic Dialogues,” Reconsidering Popular Comedy Conference, University of Glasgow, August 2013 − “Old Gods, New Questions: Lucian’s Use of Traditional Religious Myths,” Masterclass OIKOS The Use of the Past in Antiquity, KNIR (Royal Dutch Institute Rome), June 2012 − “Unseen and Unharmed: Hidden Performative Writing in Roman Epitaphs,” Double Stories Double Lives Conference, Yale University, April 2012 !6 CURRICULUM VITAE INGER NEELTJE IRENE KUIN
TALKS (CONTINUED)
Conference presentations: − “Unseen and Unharmed: Hidden Performative Writing in Roman Epitaphs,” APA Annual Meeting, January 2012 − “Love Letters to Homer: A Comparison of Ovid’s Heroides 1 and Lucian’s Verae Historiae 2.35,” Classical Association Atlantic States Annual Meeting, October 2011 − “The Teacher and His Master: Libanius and Thucydides,” Graduate Student Conference, City University of New York, May 2011 − “Unseen and Unharmed: Hidden Performative Writing in Roman Epitaphs,” Graduate Student Conference, Cornell University, March 2011 − “Religion and Therapy in Epicurus,” Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Annual Meeting, October 2010 − “Forgiveness and Punishment in Plutarch’s On the Delays of Divine Vengeance,” SAGP Annual Meeting, October 2010
Invited lectures: − “Leven met de goden: Religie in de oudheid” (“Living with the Gods: Religion in Antiquity”), three book talks, April 2018 − “Reflection through Laughter: The Gods in Lucian of Samosata,” College of the Holy Cross Job Talk, January 2018 − “Van twijfel tot ongeloof: religiekritiek in de oudheid” (“From doubt to disbelief: Questioning religion in Antiquity”), NKV (Dutch Classical Association) Lecture series, two appearances, academic year 2017—2018 − “After the Crisis: Re-Anchoring in Times of Political and Cultural Change,” OIKOS Anchoring Innovation Expert Meeting, October 2017 − “Making Headlines. Media Awareness for Researchers,” Graduate School for Humanities Groningen University, March 2017 − “Political Change in Post-Sullan Athens,” Goethe University Frankfurt, December 2016 − “Lachen met de goden: humor en antieke religie van Homerus tot Lucianus” (“Laughing With the Gods: Humor and Ancient Religion from Homer to Lucian”), NKV (Dutch Classical Association) Lecture series, seven appearances, academic year 2016—2017 − “Drink, lach en eer de goden!” (“Drink, Laugh, and Honor the gods!”), Bachur (Student Archeology Association) Lecture Series, Groningen University, June 2016 − “What is a crisis? The rhetoric of crisis and order,” CRASIS Ancient World Seminar, Groningen University, May 2016, with J. Klooster − “Lachen met de goden: Lucianus en de Romeinse religie” (“Laughing With the Gods: Lucian and Roman religion”), Amsterdam University, Friends of KNIR Day, April 2016 − “After the Crisis: Memory and Change in the Roman East (1st c. BCE—1st c. CE,” History Around Noon Meeting, Groningen University, March 2016 − “Playful Piety: Humor and Religion in Lucian,” Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Munich, October 2012
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ORGANIZED CONFERENCES
− “Ancient History Day,” Groningen University, February 2018 − “After the Crisis: Remembrance, Re-anchoring, and Recovery in the Ancient World,” Conference & Student Seminar, Groningen University, December 2016, with J. Klooster − “Strategies of Remembrance in Greece under Rome,” Dutch Institute at Athens, October 2016, with T. Dijkstra, M. Moser, D. Weidgenannt − “DocuMentality: New Approaches to Written Documents in Imperial Life and Literature,” Stanford University, September 2016, with J. Arthur-Montagne, S. DiGiulio − “Work in Progress Day,” OIKOS Impact of Empire, Groningen University, April 2016 − “Re-Anchoring After the Crisis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on War and Memory,” Groningen University, December 2015, with J. Klooster − “The Legitimation of Autocracy in the Ancient World,” New York University Abu Dhabi, November 2014, organized for Professors A. Monson and P. Mitsis − “Rome and the World Beyond Roman Frontiers,” Impact of Empire 11th International Workshop, New York University, June 2013, organized for Professor M. Peachin − “Ancient Aitia: Explaining Matter Between Belief and Knowledge,” Classics Graduate Student Conference, New York University, December 2011, with K. Kosova
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS (bold font indicates amount over $25,000)
− Zenobia Essay Prize for ‘Inside Jokes: Lucian, Tatian, and Mohammed Cartoons,’ 2016 − Groningen University Sustainable Society Meeting Grant, Winter 2016, with J. Klooster − Groningen University Alumni Fund Conference Grant, Winter 2016, with J. Klooster − France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies Collaborative Research Grant, Fall 2016, with G. Parker, P. Schneider, J. Arthur-Montagne, and S. DiGiulio − Mellon Dissertation Fellowship in the Humanities, New York University, 2014—2015 − NYU Classics Department Travel Grant, Fall 2014 − Betty Coates Award, Association of Ancient Historians, Spring 2014 − Antonina S. Ranieri International Scholars Fund Travel Grant, Spring 2014 − Advanced Seminar in the Humanities Fellow, VIU, 2013—2014 − NYU Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Student Travel Grant, Summer 2013 − Classical Association (UK) Graduate Student Travel Bursary, Summer 2013 − Jacobi-stipendium, Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Munich, Fall 2012 − OIKOS Travel Grant, Radboud University Nijmegen, Summer 2012 − NYU Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Student Travel Grant, Fall 2011 − Classical Club of the Atlantic States Program Grant, Fall 2011, with K. Kosova − New York Classical Club 2011 President’s Grant, Fall 2011, with K. Kosova − 5-year NYU Graduate School of Arts and Sciences MacCracken Award, 2009—2014 − Amsterdam University Study Abroad, New School for Social Research, Spring 2007
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