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Curriculum Vitae
 
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AREAS OF SPECIAL INTEREST:

1. Classical Greek and Latin literature, especially epic and epistles
2. Latin and Greek literature of Late Antiquity
3. Classical Tradition

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EDUCATION:
   
2005

Ph.D. in Classical Philology
Brown University, Providence, RI.

Doctoral Thesis: "Carmina sola loquor: The Poetics of Claudian's Carmina Minora;" Advisor: Joseph Pucci
1997

B.A. with honors in Classics and high honors in College of Letters
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.

Honors thesis: "Roma Aeterna/Roma Christiana: the Transformation of Ideological Rome in Late Antiquity;" Advisor: Michael Roberts.

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
   
2005-2006 Visiting Assistant Professor, Classics Department, Haverford College
2004 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Classics, Wheaton College, Norton, MA.
   
2003-2004

Instructor, Department of Classics, Brown University.

   
2001-2003 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Classics, Wheaton College.
   
2000-2001 Teaching Assistant, Department of Classics, Brown University.
   
1996-1997

Teaching Apprentice, Department of Classics, Wesleyan University.
 

 

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PUBLICATIONS:
   
2005 “A Poet From Egypt?: A Reassessment of the Evidence for Claudian’s Eastern Origin” (under consideration)
 
  "Ara Introducing Speeches in Herodotus" (under consideration).
   
  "An Allusion to Ovid in Claudian's Carmina Minora 22.56", Classical Philology 100.3 (July 2005): 277–80.
   
2000

"A History of Rome: from Rome's Origins to Justinian and Beyond," a sixteen chapter template for customizable secondary education textbooks, Goosewing.com.

"Comparison of the 1920s and 1930s with the 1990s," Goosewing.com.
 
ENTRIES IN REFERENCE WORKS:
   
2006 “Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus”, “Dionysius Exiguus”, “St. Germanus”, “John Cassian”, and “St. Remigius” in Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Bjork, R., ed. (forthcoming, Oxford University Press).
   
  “Claudius Claudianus” in Biographical Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists, Keyser, P. and Georgia Irby-Massie, edd. (forthcoming, Routledge Press).
   
2003-2004 Translation and commentary: Claudian, Cyrus Panopolites, Exammon, Honorius, Manaim, Milestone, Milion, Modion, Oreion, Rufinus, Theodosius I, Theodosius II entries for Suda On-Line Project.
   
 

 

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REVIEWS:
 
2005 Ehlers, Widu-Wolfgang, et al. (edd.) Aetas Claudianea. Eine Tagung an der Freien Universitat Berlin vom 28. bis 30. Juni 2002 in Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR 2005.03.01)
   
2004

Powell, Barry B., Homer. Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World in Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR 2004.04.20).
 

 

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REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS: (Click title for abstract)
 
2006 “Literary Criticism in Claudian’s Carmina Minora,” 137th Annual American Philological Association Meeting, Montreal.
   
2005 "Vulgar Invective in the Epigrams of Ausonius and Claudian," 40th
International Conference on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo.
   
  "Epistolarity in Claudian's Carmina Minora," 136th Annual American
Philological Association Meeting, Boston.
   
2004 "Narrative Structure and Poetic Voice in Claudian's Epistles," 22nd Annual Graduate Student Conference on Medieval Studies, Brown University.
   
  "Elucidating Claudian in Alain de Lille's Anticlaudianus," Vagantes 2004 Conference, Cornell University.
   
2003 "Grappling with Antiquity's End: Nostalgia and Reality in Rutilius Namatianus's De Reditu Suo," 21st Annual Graduate Student Conference on Medieval Studies, University of Connecticut.
   
2001

"Deciphering the New Music and the Development of Greek Drama," Picking up the Pieces Conference, Brown University.
 

 

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COURSES TAUGHT:
   
Haverford College:
   
2005 LATIN 001: Introductory Latin
GREEK 101a: Intermediate Greek: Plato’s Socrates
   
Wheaton College:
   
2004 GREEK 101A: Introduction to Ancient Greek
   
  LATIN 215: The Crisis of the Roman Republic
   
  LATIN 381: Intensive Reading: Virgil's Eclogues
   
2003 GREEK 226: Attic Drama: Euripides and Aristophanes
   
  LATIN 101B: Introduction to the Latin Language II
   
  LATIN 228: Latin Lyric
   
2002 CLASSICS 258: Tales of Troy
   
  CLASSICS 358: Tales of Troy (Writing Intensive Section)
   
  LATIN 101B: Introduction to the Latin Language II
   
  LATIN 101A: Introduction to the Latin Language I (Two Sections)
   
  LATIN 221: The Origins of Rome and the Crucible of Empire
   
  LATIN 381: Intensive Reading: Ovid on Rome's Founding
   
2001 LATIN 101A: Introduction to the Latin Language I (Two Sections)
   
Brown University:
   
2004 CLASSICS 903: Classical Roots of Western Literature
   
2003 CLASSICS 903: Classical Roots of Western Literature
   
2001 CLASSICS 52: Greek Magic & Religion (TA)
   
2000 CLASSICS 232: Roman History I (TA)
   
  CLASSICS 76: Ancient Utopias and Imaginary Places (TA)
   
1996-1997 LATIN 101: Introductory Latin (TA)
   
 

CLASSICS 131: Roman History (Writing Tutor)
 

 

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CLASSICAL AUTHORS TAUGHT IN ORIGINAL:
 
  Aristophanes: Selections from Ecclesiazusae and Frogs
Catullus: Polymetrics
Caesar: Selections from Civil Wars
Cicero: In Catilinam I, Selected Letters
Euripides: Medea, Hippolytus
Horace: Odes, Epodes
Livy: Selections from Books 1, 21
Lucan: Selections from Bellum Civile 1
Nepos: Life of Hannibal (own edition)
Ovid: Selections from Fasti, Metamorphoses
Plato: Crito, Ion
Propertius:Elegies 1.21, 1.22
Velleius Paterculus: Selections from Historiae Romanae 2 (own edition)
Vergil: Eclogues, Aeneid
   
POST-CLASSICAL AUTHORS TAUGHT IN ORIGINAL:
   
 

Ambrose: Hymn III
Carmina Burana, Selections
Hildegard of Bingen: Selected Carmina
Prudentius: Selections from Peristephanon II
Requiem Mass
 

 

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PEDAGOGICAL DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING:
   
2003-2005 Sheridan and Language Learning Centers Graduate Certification Program in Language Technology, Brown University.
   
  Sheridan Center Individual Teaching Consultant, Brown University.
   
  Sheridan Center Graduate Student Liaison to the Department of Classics, Brown University.
   
2003-2004 Sheridan Center Teaching Certificate III: The Professional Development Seminar for Advanced Graduate Students, Brown University.
   
  Sheridan Center Teaching Certificate II: Classroom Tools, Brown University.
   
  Discussion Leader, New Teaching Assistant Orientation, Brown University.
   
2002-2003

Sheridan Center Teaching Certificate I: The Sheridan Teaching Seminar, Brown University.

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICE:
   
2005-Present Web Coordinator, Department of Classics, Haverford College
   
2003-Present Editor, Suda On-Line.
   
2004-2005 Coordinator, Mellon Graduate Workshop on "Approaches to the Ancient World: Methodologies & Disciplinary Perspectives," Brown University.
   
2003-2005 Symposiarch (Organizer), Department of Classics Graduate Student Symposium, Brown University.
   
2004 Organizing Committee Member and Web Designer, 22nd Annual New England Graduate Student Conference on Medieval Studies, Brown University.
   
  Web Designer, Department of Classics, Brown University.
   
2001-2002 Graduate Student Representative to the Faculty of the Department of Classics, Brown University.
   
2000-2001 Co-Chair, 19th Annual New England Graduate Student Conference on Medieval Studies, Brown University.
   
2001 Web Designer, Ancient Studies Program, Brown University.
   
1996-2000

Web Designer, Monarch: Wesleyan-Brown Monastic Archaeology Project.

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AWARDS AND HONORS:
   
2005 Alison Goddard Elliot Fellowship, Brown University.
   
2004-2005 Co-recipient of Mellon Grant to fund the Graduate Workshop on "Approaches to the Ancient World: Methodologies & Disciplinary Perspectives," Brown University.
   
2004 Professor R. Bruce Lindsay Graduate Fellowship, Brown University.
   
2003 Bruce E. Lindsay Graduate Fellowship, Brown University.
   
1999-2003 Graduate School Summer Award, Brown University.
   
1998-1999 Department of Classics Fellowship, Brown University.
   
1997 Ingraham Prize for excellence in Greek, Classical Studies Department,
Wesleyan University.
   
  Sherman Award for outstanding achievement in Classics, Classical Studies Department, Wesleyan University.
   
  Spinney Prize for best original essay on Roman Civilization, Classical Studies Department, Wesleyan University.
   
  Squire Award for independent research, Classical Studies Department,
Wesleyan University.
   
1996-1997 Student Fellow at the Wesleyan Center for the Humanities.
   
1996 Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society, fall inductee, Wesleyan University.
   
  High Honors, College of Letters Comprehensive Exams, Wesleyan University.
   
 

Squire Award for independent research, Classical Studies Department, Wesleyan University.

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK:
   
1997

Pompeii, Praedia Juliae Felicis, Christopher Parslow, Wesleyan University.

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REFERENCES:

Available on request.

 
 
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E-mail: bmulliga[at]haverford[dot]edu
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