Leah Kronenberg Title and Address: Contact Information: Associate Professor Tel: 848-932-9600 Department of Classics Fax: 732-932-9246 School of Arts and Sciences - Classics [email protected] 131 George Street New Brunswick , NJ 08901 Education Highest Earned Degree Ph.D., Classical Philology, Harvard University, November 2003 Dissertation Beyond Good and Evil: Redefining Morality from Socrates to Virgil, November 2003, Richard F. Thomas Other Earned Degrees A.M., Harvard University, Classical Philology, 2000 A.B., summa cum laude in Classics, Harvard University, 1997 Employment History Positions Held 2010-ongoing Associate Professor of Classics, Rutgers University 2004-2010 Assistant Professor of Classics, Rutgers University 2003-2004 Lecturer in Classics, Harvard University 1999-2002 Teaching Fellow in the Classics, Harvard University Titles or Assignments within Positions Held 2015-ongoing Curriculum Coordinator, Classics Department, Rutgers University 2012-2014 Undergraduate Director, Classics Department, Rutgers University 2009-2010 Graduate Director, Classics Department, Rutgers University 2005-2007 Undergraduate Director, Classics Department, Rutgers University Publications Books Allegories of Farming from Greece and Rome: Philosophical Satire in Xenophon, Varro, and Virgil. Cambridge University Press/UK, June 2009, 223 pages, by Leah Kronenberg. Articles in Refereed Journals "Aemilius Macer as Corinna's Parrot in Ovid Amores 2.6," Classical Philology Forthcoming. "Me, Myself, and I: Multiple (Literary) Personalities in Catullus 35," Classical World, 107.3 (2014) 367-381. http://muse.jhu.edu.proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu/journals/classical_world/v107/107.3.kronenberg.html "The Rise of Sabinus: Sexual Satire in Catalepton 10," Classical Journal 110.2 (2014) 191-212. “Mezentius the Epicurean,” Transactions of the American Philological Association, 135 (2005) 403-431. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/transactions_of_the_american_philological_association/v135/135.2kronenberg.pdf “The Poet’s Fiction: Virgil’s Praise of the Farmer, Philosopher, and Poet at the End of Georgics 2,” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology,100 (2000) 341-60. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3185224 Chapters in Books or Encyclopedia Entries “Varro the Roman Cynic: the Destruction of Religious Authority in the Antiquitates Rerum Divinarum” in J. Konig and G. Woolf (eds), Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture. 22 pp. Forthcoming, Cambridge University Press. 24 entries (10,500 words total) in R. Thomas and J. Ziolkowski (eds), The Virgil Encyclopedia. Wiley-Blackwell (2014, forthcoming) on the following topics: bees; deceptive speech; Democritus; Empedocles; Epicureanism; fire; labor; leisure; Libya, Libyans; Mezentius; nature-culture; optimism and pessimism; Philoctetes; plow; priests; primitivism; Pythagoreanism; Salmoneus; Scythia, Scythians; shepherds; suicide; Tarentum; Terentius Varro, M. (Reatinus); vines. Reviews Review of P. Thibodeau, Playing the Farmer: Representations of Rural Life in Vergil's Georgics. Journal of Roman Studies 102 (2012) 379-80. Review of V. Panoussi, Greek Tragedy in Vergil's Aeneid: Ritual, Empire, and Intertext. Comparative Literature 63 (2011) 331- 35. Review of V. Pagán, Rome and the Literature of Gardens. Hermathena 184 (2008) 122-25. Review of J. Dyson, King of the Wood: The Sacrificial Victor in Virgil's Aeneid, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2002.07.06. http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2002/2002-07-06.html Conference Presentations, Lectures Invited Lectures "Epicureanism in Virgil's Eclogues," Villanova University, Philadelphia, April 2015. "Varro the Roman Cynic: Menippean Satire in the Divine Antiquities," Columbia University, New York City, April 2014. "Lesbia's Sparrow and the Poetics of Dildos," Trinity University, San Antonio, March 2014. "Varro’s Divine Comedy: Menippean Satire in the Divine Antiquities," Workshop on Ancient Scientific, Technical and Medical Writing, Berlin, March 2013. “Roman Epicureanism,” Trinity University, San Antonio, January 2004 “Mezentius the Epicurean,” Boston University and Rutgers University January 2004 “Epicurean Opposition in the Aeneid,” Stanford University, January 2003 Conference Papers “The Light of Lucretius: A Metapoetic Acrostic (L-U-C-E) in De Rerum Natura 5.712-15,” Classical Association of the Middle, West, and South, Williamsburg, March 2016. "Virgil's Pastoral God: Daphnis as Lucretius," Symposium Cumanum, Cuma, Italy, June 2015. “Me, Myself, and I: Caecilius as an Alter Ego of Catullus in Poem 35,” American Philological Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, January 2013 “The Poetics of Varro’s Aviary,” American Philological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, January 2008 “Rustic Urbanitas: Catullan aesthetics in the Priapea,” Latin Day Colloquium, Rutgers University, April 2007 “Ethics in Phaedrus,” Latin Day Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, April 2006 “Virgil’s Mezentius: the Humanity of Impietas,” American Philological Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, January 2001 Organizing and Chairing Activities Chair of Georgics Panel, Symposium Cumanum, Cuma, Italy, June 2015 Co-organizer of Latin Day Colloquium on Martial Book 13 (The Apophoreta) at Rutgers University, April 2012 Co-organizer of Latin Day Colloquium on the Priapea at Rutgers University, April 2007 Co-organizer (and respondent/session chair) of Graduate Student Classics Conference at Harvard University, Art and Artifice in the Roman World, March 2002 Honors and Awards Fellowships Loeb Classical Library Foundation Grant, 2008-2009 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2007-2008 Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities for Dissertation Completion 2002-2003 Graduate Society Term Time Award for Dissertation Research, 2000-2001 Graduate Society Summer Fellowship, 1999 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship 1997-2001 Professional Awards and Honors The Board of Trustees Research Fellowships for Scholarly Excellence, Rutgers University, 2010 Presidential Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, Rutgers University, 2010 Derek Bok Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (for 5 courses), Harvard University, 1999-2002 Louis Curtis Prize for excellence in Latin, Harvard University, 1997 Latin Thesis Prize, Harvard University, 1997 Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for senior thesis on Virgil’s Aeneid, Harvard University, 1997 Phi Beta Kappa (Junior 24), Harvard University, 1996 National Merit Scholar, 1994 Teaching Activities Courses Taught Horace: Epodes and Odes, undergraduate and graduate, Rutgers University, Spring 2016 Obscenity in Ancient Greece and Rome, graduate, Rutgers University, Fall 2015 Augustan Rome, undergraduate, Rutgers University, Fall 2015 Latin Elegy, undergraduate, Rutgers University, Spring 2015 The Hero in Ancient Greece and Rome, undergraduate, Rutgers University, Spring 2015 Lucretius Seminar, Graduate, Rutgers University, Spring 2014 Augustan Rome, Undergraduate, Rutgers University, Fall 2013 Intermediate Latin Prose (Pro Caelio), Undergraduate, Rutgers University, Fall 2013 Catullus and Neoteric Poetry, Graduate, Rutgers University, Spring 2013 Latin Seminar (Eclogues), Undergraduate, Rutgers University, Fall 2012 Latin Poets in English, Undergraduate, Rutgers University, Fall 2012 The Hero in Ancient Greece and Rome, Undergraduate, Rutgers University, Spring 2012 Cicero's Philosophical Works, Undergraduate, Rutgers University, Spring 2012 Advanced Study of Vergil's Aeneid, Undergraduate, Rutgers University, Fall 2011 Augustan Rome, Undergraduate, Rutgers University, Fall 2011 Intermediate Latin Poetry, Undergraduate, Rutgers University, Spring 2010 Augustan Rome, Undergraduate, Rutgers University, Spring 2010 History of Latin Literature I, Graduate, Rutgers University, Fall 2009 Lucretius, Undergraduate, Rutgers University, Fall 2009 Augustan Rome, Undergraduate, Rutgers University, Spring 2007 Virgil's Aeneid, Graduate, Rutgers University, Spring 2007 The Hero in Ancient Greece and Rome, Undergraduate, Rutgers University, Fall 2006 Advanced Study of the Poetry of Ovid, Undergraduate, Rutgers University, Fall 2006 Latin Poets in English, Undergraduate, Rutgers University, Spring 2006 Cleopatra, Undergraduate, Rutgers University, Spring 2006 Intermediate Latin Prose, Undergraduate, Rutgers University, Fall 2005 Greek Drama in Translation, Undergraduate, Rutgers University, Fall 2005 Sallust, Undergraduate, Rutgers University, Spring 2005 Catullus, Graduate, Rutgers University, Spring 2005 Augustan Rome, Undergraduate, Rutgers University, Fall 2004 Roman Comedy, Undergraduate, Rutgers University, Fall 2004 Virgil: Aeneid, Harvard University, Spring 2004 Virgil: Eclogues and Georgics, Harvard University, Spring 2004 Catullus, Undergraduate, Harvard University, Fall 2003 Latin Prose Composition, Undergraduate, Harvard University, Fall 2003 Students Supervised Students Supervised for Independent Studies UG Dana Hayes, Classics, Rutgers University. Co-directed thesis on Ancient Rome in the Hunger Games. 2015. Meghan Kiernan, Classics, Rutgers University. Directed honors thesis on Philosophy in Virgil's Aeneid. 2014. Suzanne Innace, Classics, Rutgers University, Directed honors thesis on Andromache and Dido in the Aeneid. 2012 Nicholas Ehlert, Classics, Rutgers University. Directed honors thesis on Vergil and Horace. 2010 David Danbeck, Classics, Rutgers University. Directed Henry Rutgers thesis on Hesiod's Catalogue of Women. 2008 Megan Priestley, Classics, Rutgers University. Co-directed (with T. Corey Brennan) honors thesis. 2006 Grad Brian Hill, Classics, Rutgers University. Directed Special