CURRICULUM VITAE

N. Gregson G. Davis

Department of Classics 100 Washington Square East New York University New York, NY 10003 [email protected] Academic positions New York University: Professor of Classics Duke University: Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor in the Humanities (1994-2011); Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature Cornell University: Goldwin Smith Professor of Comparative Literature; Professor of Comparative Literature and Classics (1989-1994) Stanford University: Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature (1985-89); Associate Professor (1975-85); Assistant Professor (1969-75); Acting Assistant Professor (1967-9) Administrative positions Duke University: Dean of Humanities, 2004 - 2009 Duke University: Chair: Department of Classical Studies, 1999-2003 Cornell University: Chair: Department of Classics, 1993-4 Cornell University: Associate Dean (interim), College of Arts and Sciences, 1991-92 Cornell University: Chair: Department of Comparative Literature, 1990-91; 1992-3 (Spring Semester)

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Education Harvard College: AB in Classics (magna cum laude) 1960 University of California at Berkeley: PhD in Comparative Literature (Latin, Greek, French) 1969 (Dissertation: Spretor Deorum/Cultor Deorum: Studies in the Narrative Economy of Ovid's Metamorphoses)

Awards & Honors Duke University: Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor in the Humanities (1994-) Cornell University: Goldwin Smith Professor of Comparative Literature and Classics (1991-4) University of Michigan: King/Chavez/Parks Visiting Professor, March 8- 23, 1988 Internal Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center (1983-4) University Fellow, Stanford University (1975-7) Mellon Junior Faculty Leave Fellow, Stanford University (1973-4) Study Fellow: Committee on the Comparative Study of Africa and the Americas, Stanford University, 1971 Arthur D. Cory Traveling Fellow, Harvard University (1961-3) Latin Orator, Harvard Commencement Exercises, 1960 Bowdoin Prizewinner in Latin Translation, Harvard College (1956, 1957, 1958,1959) Publications Books (Monographs) Aimé Césaire. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997

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Polyhymnia: The Rhetoric of Horatian Lyric Discourse. University of California Press, Berkeley/Los Angeles/ Oxford, 1991 Non-Vicious Circle: Twenty Poems of Aimé Césaire. Stanford University Press, Stanford, Ca., 1984 The Death of Procris: "Amor" and the Hunt in Ovid's Metamorphoses (=Instrumentum Litterarum 2). Edizioni dell' Ateneo, Rome, Italy, 1983 Antigua Black: Portrait of an Island People. Scrimshaw Press, San Francisco, 1971 Thalea: the Interplay of Ideas in Vergil’s Bucolics. (Submitted for publication: 10/15/2010) Edited Volumes. A Companion to Horace. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, 2010. The Poetics of Derek Walcott: Intertextual perspectives (= South Atlantic Quarterly 96.2. 1997 Articles “Archilochus lyricus and Horatian melos.” In A Companion to Horace. Ed. Gregson Davis. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, 2010. “Negritude-as-Performance: the Interplay of Efficacious and Inefficacious Speech Acts in Cahier d’un retour au pays natal. In Research in African Literatures 41.1 (Spring 2010) 142154. Entries “Aimé Césaire” and “Derek Walcott” in Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought. Edd. Abiola Irele & Biodun Jeifo. (Oxford University Press, 2010). “Reframing the Homeric: images of the Odyssey in the art of Derek

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Walcott and Romare Bearden” in A Companion to Classical Receptions. Edd. Lorna Hardwick and Christopher Stray (Oxford University Press, 2007) 401-414. “Wine and the Symposium” in The Cambridge Companion to Horace, ed. Stephen Harrison (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007) 207-220. “’Homecomings without Home’”: representations of (post)colonial nostos (homecoming) in the lyric of Aimé Césaire and Derek Walcott” in Homer in the Twentieth Century: between World Literature and the Western Canon. Edd. Emily Greenwood & Barbara Graziosi. (Oxford University Press, 2007) "From Lyric to Elegy: the Inscription of the Elegiac Subject in Heroides 15 (Sappho to Phaon)" in Defining Genre and Gender in Latin Literature: Essays Presented to William S. Anderson on His Seventy-Fifth Birthday. Edd. William W. Batsone & Garth Tissol (= Lang Classical Studies Vol.15), 175-191. Peter Lang Publishing, New York, 2005. “Jane Austen's Mansfield Park: the Antigua Connection.” www.uwichill.edu.bb/bnccde/antigua/conference/papersd avishtml , 2004. "Consolation in the Bucolic mode: The Epicurean cadence of Vergil's First Eclogue” in Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans. Edd. David Armstrong, Jeffrey Fish, Patricia Johnston, & Marilyn Skinner. University of Texas Press. Austin, Texas, 2004, 63-74. "Ait phaselus: the caricature of stylistic inelegance in Catullus C.4. Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici " 48, 2002, 111-143. “Epilogue” in Modern Black Writers. Ed. Manitou Woodworks. Detroit: St. James Press. 2000. Reprinted from Aimé Césaire. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997, 178-184.

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"'Pastoral sites’: aspects of bucolic transformation in Derek Walcott's Omeros." Classical World 93.1. 1999, 43-49 "L'intertextualité comme stratégie dans un programme postcolonial: 'Ferrements' d'Aimé Césaire." Europe 832-3, aôut-septembre, 1998, 109 -118. " 'With no Homeric Shadow': The Disavowal of Epic in Derek Walcott's Omeros." South Atlantic Quarterly 96.2.1997, 321-333. "The figure of Anacreon in Horatian lyric." Hellas 7.2 (1996) 63-74 [Special issue in honor of Wesley Trimpi] "Cupid at the Ivory Gates: Ausonius as a reader of Vergil." Colby Quarterly 30.3. 1994 [= Studies in Roman Epic], 162-170 "Desire and the Hunt in Ovid's Metamorphoses" in The Burnett Lectures: A Quarter Century, ed. E.N.Genovese, San Diego, Ca., 1993, 142-170 "Ingenii cumba?: literary aporia and the rhetoric of Horace's O navis referent (C.1.14)." Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 132 (1989) 331-345 "Quis...digne scripserit?: The topos of alter Homerus in Horace C.1.6." Phoenix 41, 3 (1987) 292-295 "Carmina/Iambi: the literary-generic dimension of Horace's Integer vitae (C.1, 22).” Quaderni Urbinati di cultura classica n.s. 27. 3 (1987) 67-78 (= Why Horace: A Collection of Interpretations, ed. W.S. Anderson, Bolchazy-Carducci, Wauconda, Ill, 1999, 51-62). "Silence and Decorum: Encomiastic Convention and the Epilogue of Horace Carm. 3.2." Classical Antiquity 2.1 (= Studies in Classical Lyric : A Homage to Elroy Bundy) (1983) 9-26

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"The Disavowal of the Grand (Recusatio) in two poems by Wallace Stevens.” Pacific Coast Philology 17, 1-2 (1982) 92-102 "The Problem of Closure in a carmen perpetuum: Aspects of Thematic Recapitulation in Ovid Metamorphoses 15.” Grazer Beiträge 9, (1980) 123-132 "Ovid Metamorphoses 3. 442ff. and the Prologue to Menander's Misoumenos.” Phoenix 32 (1978) 339-342 "Towards a `Non-Vicious Circle': The Lyric of Aimé Césaire in English", Stanford French Review 1.1 (1977) 135-146 "The Persona of Licymnia: a Revaluation of Horace Carm. 2.12.” Philologus 1.119 (1975) 70-83 "Ad Sidera Notus: The Rhetoric of Lament and Consolation in Fortunatus' De Gelesuintha.” Agon 1.1(1967) 118-134\ Book Reviews (Selected) Horace's Narrative Odes by Michèle Lowrie (Oxford 1997), Classical review n.s. 49.1. 1999, 50-2. Derek Walcott's Poetry: American Mimicry by Rei Terada (Boston 1992), American Literature 69.1, 1997, 241. Epic of the Dispossessed: Derek Walcott's Omeros by Robert D. Hamner (Columbia 1997), South Central Review 15.2, 1998, 59-61 “On Césaire.” Review-essay on Aimé Césaire: le nègre inconsolé by Roger Toumson and Simonne Henry-Valmore (Paris/Fort-deFrance 1993)); Aimé Césaire: une traversée paradoxale du siècle by Raphael Confiant (Paris 1993); Cahier d’un retour au pays natal ed. Abiola Irele, Research in African Literatures 26.2, 1995, 173 - 184.

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Redeeming the Text: Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception by Charles Martindale (Cambridge 1993), New England Classical Newsletter and Journal 20.4, 1993, 86-7 From a Sabine Jar by L. Edmunds (Chapel Hill, 1992), Classical Journal 88.2 1993, 203-206. Metaformations by F. Ahl (Ithaca, 1985), Classical Philology 83.3, 1988, 260-262 The Art of the Aeneid by W.S. Anderson, Comparative Literature 24.1, 1972, 93-4 Translations “Do not have pity,” “Sun serpent,” “Day and Night,” by Aimé Césaire in The Norton Anthology: World Masterpieces. 7th Ed. Vol. 2, pp. 1718-1719 "Statue of Lafcadio Hearn" in Soleil éclaté: Melanges offerts à Aimé Césaire à l'occasion de son soixante-dixiéme anniversaire par une équipe internationale d'artistes et de chercheurs. Ed. Jacqueline Leiner, Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen, 1984 Essays (Selected) “Introduction” to The Eclogues of Vergil. Trans. Leonard Kisak. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2010 "Introduction" to Horace: Odes. Trans. James Michie. Modern Library, Random House, New York, 2002, xi -xvii “Ut pictura poesis: A Testament” in Agenda (Special Issue on Derek Walcott),Vol. 39, no’s 1-3, 2002-3, 198-9. “Beyond Disciplinary Hierarchies in Higher Education" in Bruce A. Kimball: The Condition of American Liberal Education:Pragmatism and a Changing Tradition.’ Ed.

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Robert Orill, College Entrance Examination Board, New York, 1995 "Between Cultures: toward a redefinition of Liberal Education" in African Studies and the Undergraduate Curriculum. Edd. P.Alden, D. Lloyd & A. Samatar, Lynne Reicher Publishers, Boulder, Colorado & London, 1994, 19-3 "Lyric worlds: Old and New under the sun," in Arts and Sciences Newsletter , Cornell University, 12.1, 1991. "'The mind at the end of the palm"': reflections on the Caribbean intellectual" in The Stanford Magazine, 46-5, 1982 Scholarly Conferences organized Symposium on “Caribbean Studies: Intercultural Perspectives.” Stanford University, May 26-28, 1977. Sponsors: National Endowment for the Humanities; Committee on International Relations at Stanford University. (Invited participants included: Sidney Mintz, Gordon Rohrlehr, John Swed, Karl Reisman, Gordon Lewis, Irving Rouse, St. Clair Drake, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Archie Singham) Current Research Book projects Daybook of a Homecoming. English translation,with Introduction, of Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal Lectureships; Invited Presentations (selected) “Come affrontare la sorte: il programma philosofico della prima Egloga (Bucoliche 1) di Vergilio.” University of Bologna, October 7, 2009.

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“Negritude as Performance: The Parade of Black Masks in Aimé Césaire’s “Journal of a Homecoming.” Florida International University. Graduate Colloquium Lecture.. March 13, 2009 "Antigua in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park: the historical and cultural context." Antigua and Barbuda Conference, Country Conference Series, University of the West Indies, School of Continuing Studies: Beyond Walls: Multi- Disciplinary Perspectives. Antigua, Nov. 13-15, 2003. "'Shades of Borrowed Ancestors': The Figure of Helen in Derek Walcott's Omeros." Department of Classics, Oberlin College, May 3, 2002. “Fractured Beeches: Dissonance and its Resolution in Vergil’s Bucolics.” The 15th Russell and Kathryn Rutledge Memorial Lecture in Classics University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, March 30, 2000. “Fractured Beeches: Loss and Consolation in Vergil’s Bucolics.” Department of Classics, Swarthmore College, February, 2000. "The Hero and The Other in Vergil's Aeneid." Second Judd D. Kimball Lecture in Classics. Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington. Fall, 1998. "Anacreonte in Orazio." Università di Padova, Dipartimento di Scienze dell Antichità . Spring,1996. "Venus/Venatio: Amore e la Caccia nelle Metamorphosi di Ovidio." Università di Venezia. Spring, 1996. "Scribentis Imago: the inscription of the female as elegiac composer in Ovid's Heroides 15 (Sappho to Phaon). Leeds University: Leeds International Latin Seminar.1994. Imago Scribentis : the inscription of the female writer in Ovid: Heroides15. Invitational Lecture, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University. Spring, 1994. "Genre, polyphony, self-definition: the figure of Anacreon in Horatian lyric"

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American Philological Association: 125th annual Meeting. Program Unit: Approaches to Horace, A Toast to another Two Thousand Years." "The `plain meaning' of the text? Classical philology, hermeneutics, and the study of literature." Conference on Comparative Literature and the Classics. State University of New York at Buffalo. 1991. "Between Cultures: Redrawing the Boundaries of a Liberal Education." Conference on African Studies and the Undergraduate Curriculum: New Directions for the 21st Century. St. Lawrence University. 1991. "The Disavowal of Iambic Invective in Horace's Odes." Columbia Seminar on Classical Civilization. Columbia University. 1990 "Horace on the Art of Living. Second Elroy L. Bundy Memorial Lecture Dominican College of San Rafael, San Rafael, California.1986 "The Death of Procris: The Grammar of the Hunt in the Erotic Narrative of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Conference on Classics and Structuralist/PostStructuralist Thought. "Princeton University. 1976. "Love and the Hunt in Ovid." Sixth Annual Gail A. Burnett Lecture in Classics. Department of Classical and Oriental Languages and Literatures, California State University, San Diego, California. 1973. Other Professional Service (Selected) Editorial Board, Journal of Comparative Literature, 1996-present Advisory Board, Stanford Humanities Center, 1993- 1998 Delegate to the Academic Assembly, The College Board, 1992-4 Foreign Language Advisory Committee, The College Board, 1992-5 Latin Advanced Placement Committee, Educational Testing Service, 1986-91 Editorial Board, Diacritics, 1991-3.

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Professional Affiliations American Philological Association Modern Languages Association Classical Association of the Midwest and South Classical Association of the Atlantic States Vergilian Society Caribbean Studies Association 8/6/2011