Curriculum Vitae of R. Alden Smith 5430 Lake Lindenwood Drive, Waco, Texas 76710 Birth Date: 4-15-59, Wilkes-Barre, PA Mobile Phone: (254) 749-3772 Office phone: (254) 710-1399 e-mail: [email protected] Office Fax: (254) 710-1367 SPECIALTY: Latin Poetry and the Augustan Age EDUCATION: University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D., 1990 Dissertation: Allusions of Grandeur: Studies in the Intertextuality of the Metamorphoses and the Aeneid (Joseph Farrell, Director) University of Vermont, M.A., 1983 Thesis: Water Imagery in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Philip Ambrose, Director) American School for Classical Studies, Athens, 1982 Dickinson College, B.A., magna cum laude, 1981 Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, Rome, 1979 PROFESSIONAL Baylor University: EXPERIENCE: Professor, 2006–pres.; Associate Professor, 1997–2006; Assistant Professor, 1994–97 Associate Dean, Honors College, 2004–pres. Chair (occasionally Interim Chair) of Classics, 1998–2008; 2010–12; 2015–pres. Director, University Scholars Program, 2000–2015 Associate Director, University Scholars Program, 2015–pres. Director or Co-Director, Baylor in Italy, 1994–2001; 2003–04; 2006, 2011–pres. Director, Honors Program, 2004–06 Classical Association of the Middle West and South: President, 2016–17 Vergilian Society: President, 2005–07; Interim President, 2004–05 Rutgers University: Henry Rutgers Research Fellow/Assistant Professor, 1990–94 Adjunct Instructor 1989–90; Visiting Part-time Lecturer, 1988–89 University of Pennsylvania: T.A./Instructor, 1984–89 University of Vermont: Teaching Fellow, 1981–83 PUBLICATIONS Areas of Scholarly Interest AND RESEARCH: Virgil and Ovid, Hellenistic and Roman Art, and the Cultural Presence of Rome through the Renaissance to Present Books and Edited Volumes Classics from Papyrus to the Internet: An Introduction to Transmission and Reception (University of Texas Press, 2017) co-authored with Jeffrey M. Hunt and Fabio Stok, with a foreword by Craig W. Kallendorf. Aeneid 5: Text, Translation and Commentary (Brill, Leiden, 2015) [Reviews: Damien Nelis, Vergilius 62 (2016) 162-64; N. Horsfall, Scripta Classica Israelica 35 (2017) 143-6; Sophia Papaioannou, Latomus 76 (2017) ] “F&S keep an open mind about most things and avoid dogmatism. … Readers are here treated to a wealth of information and comment that will surely figure prominently in the future work on Vergil’s epic.” Damien Nelis, Vergilius 62 (2016) “The commentary is extremely erudite” and “textual criticism is no less thorough…” “…a first class reference tool for Aeneid 5 one that combines informative discussions and erudite readings and is also written in a style that does not patronize or overwhelm…” Sophia Papaioannou, Latomus 76 (2017) Virgil (Blackwell Introductions, Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, 2011) German edition Vergil: Dichter der Römer tr. by Cornelius Artz (Zabern: Darmstadt 2012) [Reviews: L. Quartarone, BMCR 2011; L. Fratantuono, CR 2012; L. Panoussi, Vergilius 2011; C. Polt, CJ 2012; C. Kossaifi, REL 89 (2011); Klaus Fetkenheuer, Gymnasium 120 (2014)] “Packed with insightful readings, it serves ably as a compact, streamlined presentation of the tremendously complex and challenging poetry of a master poet.” L. Quartarone, BMCR “… a model of clarity, economy of expression and sober judgment of the scholarship of a vast field.” L. Fratantuono, Classical Review “… should become a standard starting point for students on initial and subsequent excursions into this complex poet… .” C. Polt, The Classical Journal “… damit aktualisiert Smith die Vergil-Literature um eine interessante, umsichtige Forschungsarbeit, die in gemeinsamer Lektüre mit einführenden Werken einen wichtigen Beitrag zur erschliessung des Klassikers leisten kann.” Klaus Fetkenheuer, Gymnasium 120 (2014) “L’ouvrage d’Alden Smith allie erudtion et concision, analyse minutieuse des détails et large synthèses thématiques ou stylistuqes, pour le plus grand plaisir du lecteur….” Christine Kossaifi, Revue des Études Latins 89 (2011) The Great Archimedes by Mario Geymonat, editor and translator (Baylor University Press, December 2010) “… the image of a scientist with a free spirit and a sharp, open mind, whose thought, in the pages of this volume, is rendered with all its strength.” Anna Toscano, Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2012) The Primacy of Vision in Virgil’s Aeneid (University of Texas Press, Austin, 2005) [Reviews: Jennifer Rea, Classical Outlook 84.3 (2007) 127; Anne Rogerson, Classical Review 57.2 (2007) 389- 91; Jas Elsner, Journal of Roman Studies 97.2 (2007) 315-17; Christopher Nappa, Vergilius 52 (2006) 162-65; D. Hill, Greece and Rome 54.1 (2007) 117; S.J. Harrison, BMCR 2006.08.17; W. Schöner, Grazer Beiträge 26 (2008); Joel Thomas, Latomus 67 (2009)] Poetic Allusion and Poetic Embrace in Ovid and Virgil (University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 1997) [Reviews: S.J. Harrison, CW 94.2 (2000); B. Gibson, CR 50 (2000); D. Nelis, JRS (1999); S. James, BMCR 99.3.14 (1999); M.C.J. Putnam, RSR 24 (1998); A.M. Keith, Vergilius (1998); Nadeau, BMCR 98.2 (1998); R.W. Cape, Jr., Choice 35.8 (1998)] Classics: A Discipline and Profession in Crisis? Technical editor, with Lowell Edmunds and Phyllis Culham, eds. (University Press of America, 1990) Articles, Book Chapters, etc. “Ekphrasis and Allusion: Cicero’s Path and Virgil’s Pathos,” Classical Journal 114 (forthcoming 2018) Ad Aen. 8.672: New (Actually Old) Evidence for the Singular spumabat”, forthcoming Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica (co-authored with Lee Fratantuono) “San Giuliano Archaeological Research Project: Investigating Long-term Change from Etruscan Urban Center to High Medieval Fortified Village in Lazio,” forthcoming in Temporis Signa 13 (2018) 1-20 (co-authored with Davide Zori, Colleen Zori, Lori Baker, and Veronica-Gaia Ikeshoji-Orlati) Classico Contemporaneo (2015) 71–83. “The Rhetoric of Education: Kenneth Winston Starr and Cicero” (co-authored with Daniel Hanchey and Hannah Adams) Cicero Special Issue, Classical Journal 110 (2014) 1–8: “Introduction” (co-authored with Daniel Hanchey) 10/17/2017 — 2 — Smith — Vita C'è che crede nei sogni, ed. Anna Lombardo (Sandro Teti, Roma, 2014): 25–32, “Il Grande Geymonat” Atene e Roma, n.s. 7 (2013) 45–64, “Nomen inest: A Declining Domicile and Caustic Acrostics in Ex Ponto 3.3” Oxford Readings in Ovid, ed. Peter Knox (Oxford, 2007) 217–37: “Fantasy, Myth, and Love Letters: Text and Tale in Ovid’s Heroides” [new issue of Arethusa 1994] Vergilius 53 (2007) 53–87: “In vino civitas: The Rehabilitation of Bacchus in Virgil’s Georgics” Vergilius 52 (2006) 45–54: “Books in Search of a Library: Ovid’s ‘Response’ to Augustan Libertas” Classical Journal 98 (2003) 433–36: “Dido as Vatic Diva: A New Voice for the Persona of the Lost Lover” Collection Latomus: Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History 254 (2000) 247–59: “Mors nobis tempus iners: Ovid, Ex Ponto 1.5 and the Dead Poets’ Society” Hermes 127 (1999) 257–62: “Pindar’s Olympian 14: A Literal and Literary Homecoming” Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Amsterdam 1998, ed. Roald F. Docter and Eric M. Moorman Allard Pierson Series XII (Amsterdam: Allard Pierson Museum, 1999) 384–86, pl. 34a-b: “Inside Looking Out: Representation of Vision in Two Pompeian Frescoes” Classical World 91 (1998): “Computing and the Classics: An Update: Introduction” (co- authored with John Thorburn) Classical World 88.4 (1995) 259–358: “Books for Teaching Classics in English 1995: Full Survey” Arethusa 27 (1994) 247–73: “Fantasy, Myth, and Love Letters: Text and Tale in Ovid’s Heroides” Gymnasium 101 (1994) 502–5: “Horace, Odes 1.6: Mutatis Mutandis, a Most Virgilian Recusatio” Museum Helveticum 51 (1994) 45–53: “Epic Recall and the Finale of Ovid’s Metamorphoses” Phoenix 47 (1993) 305–12: “A Lock and a Promise: Myth and Allusion in Aeneas’ Farewell to Dido in Aen. 6” Gymnasium 97 (1990) 458–60: “Ov. Met. 10.475: An Instance of ‘Meta-allusion’” American Journal of Philology 110 (1989) 405–12: “An Ellipse in the Thasian Decree about Delation (ML 83)?” (co-authored with A. J. Graham) In Progress Aeneid 8: Text, Translation and Commentary (under contract with Brill, Leiden); projected date of submission, fall of 2018 “Cultivated Conversation and Banter in the Polymetrics,” for Catullus: Models, Manuscript Tradition, Fortleben (Festschrift for Giuseppe Biondi). The Rhetoric of Art: Articulated Expression in Early Renaissance Painting, book project with Piergiacomo Petrioli (target submission date, fall 2020) Editorial Experience Cicero Special Issue, Classical Journal 110 (2014), co-edited with Daniel Hanchey Classical Journal Associate Editor (2012–15); member of editorial board (2010–15) Classical World 91 (1998): Co-editor, with John Thorburn, “Computing in the Classics: An Update,” a single issue compilation of articles based on a conference held at Baylor 10/17/2017 — 3 — Smith — Vita Classical World, Survey Editor, 1993–98 Reviews and Shorter Works Classical Journal 111 (2015): Review of Alessandro Barchiesi, Homeric Effects in Vergil’s Narrative. Tr. Ilaria Marchesi, with a new foreword by Philip Hardie and a new afterword by the author (Princeton, 2015) Classical Review (2014): A. M. Seider, Memory in Virgil’s Aeneid: Creating the Past (Cambridge, 2013) Bryn Mawr Classical Review (fall, 2013): Alessandra Romeo, Orfeo in Ovidio: la creazione di un nuovo epos (Rubbettino Editore, Soveria Mannelli, 2012) Classical Journal 108 (2012): Review of Karl Galinsky, Augustus: Introduction to the Life of an Emperor (Cambridge, 2012) Classical