NEIL W. BERNSTEIN

 

 

 

 

Research interests: Roman literature; kinship in literature; reception of classical literature.

 

Courses taught: Greek and Latin language and literature, Greek and Roman civilization, classical mythology, ancient epic and drama, classical tradition, medical terminology.

 

Professional Experience

2008-2009       Fulbright Lecturer, National Taiwan University.

2004-present    Assistant Professor, Ohio University.

2001-2004       Visiting Assistant Professor, The College of Wooster.

1997-2001       Graduate Instructor and Visiting Assistant Professor, Duke University.

 

Education

2000                Duke University. Ph.D., Classical Studies.

1994                Amherst College. B.A. summa cum laude, Classics and English.

 

Awards and Honors

2008-2009       Fulbright Lectureship, National Taiwan University.

2008                Loeb Classical Library Foundation grant ($4400).

1996-2000       James B. Duke Fellowship, Duke University.

1994                Phi Beta Kappa, Amherst College.

 

Book

·        In the Image of the Ancestors: Narratives of Kinship in Flavian Epic. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0802098795.

 

Peer-reviewed publications

1.      “Bodies, substances, and kinship in Roman declamation: The sick twins and their parents in Pseudo-Quintilian Major Declamations 8.” Under review, Ramus.

2.      “Adoptees and Exposed Children in Roman Declamation: Commodification, Luxury, and the Threat of Violence.” Forthcoming (2010), Classical Philology.

3.      “The white doe of Capua (Silius Italicus, Punica 13.115-137).” Forthcoming (2009), Scholia: Studies in Classical Antiquity.

4.      “Each Man’s Father Served as His Teacher: Constructing Relatedness in Pliny’s Letters.” Classical Antiquity 27.2 (2008) 203-230.

5.      “Fashioning Crispinus through his Ancestors: Epic Models in Statius, Silvae 5.2.” Arethusa 40.2 (2007) 183-196.

6.      “Mourning the puer delicatus: Status Inconsistency and the Ethical Value of Fostering in Statius, Silvae 2.1.” American Journal of Philology 126.2 (2005) 257-280.

7.      “Auferte oculos: modes of spectatorship in Statius Thebaid 11.” Phoenix: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada 58.1-2 (2004) 62-85.

8.      “Revisiting Ovid’s Philomela: Silence, Revenge, and Representation in André Brink’s The Other Side of  Silence.” Classical and Modern Literature 24.2 (2004) 11-27.

9.      “Ancestors, status, and self-presentation in Statius’ Thebaid.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 133 (2003) 353-379.

10.  “The Text of Pervigilium Veneris 90: A Proposed Emendation.” Classical Quarterly 50.1 (2000) 327-329. Coauthored with Francis Newton.

 

Chapters in edited volumes

·        “Cui parens non erat maximus quisque et uetustissimus pro parente: paternal surrogates in imperial Roman literature.” In: Growing Up Fatherless in Antiquity, edd. Sabine Huebner and David M. Ratzan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). Ch. 13, pp. 241-256.

·        “The Dead and their Ghosts in the Bellum Civile: Lucan’s Visions of History.” In: Brill’s Companion to Lucan, ed. Paolo Asso. Under contract, Brill.

·        “Family and the State in the Punica.” In: Brill’s Companion to Silius Italicus, ed. Antonios Augoustakis. Under contract, Brill.

 

Book reviews

1.      Mal-Maeder, Daniëlle Van. La fiction des déclamations (Leiden, 2007). Forthcoming, Bryn Mawr Classical Review.

2.      Ripoll, François, and Jean Soubiran. Stace: Achilléide (Louvain, 2008). Forthcoming, Gnomon.

3.      Ganiban, Randall T. Statius and Virgil. The Thebaid and the Reinterpretation of the Aeneid (Cambridge, 2007). Forthcoming, Mnemosyne.

4.      McNelis, Charles. Statius’ Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War (Cambridge, 2007). Electronic Antiquity 11.2 (2008) 23-27.

5.      Cohen, Ada, and Jeremy B. Rutter (edd.), Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy (Princeton, 2007). Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008.08.23.

6.      Méthy, Nicole. Les lettres de Pline le Jeune. Une représentation de l’homme (Paris, 2007). Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008.1.12.

7.      Goyet, Florence. Penser sans concepts: fonction de l’épopée guerrière (Paris, 2006). Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.09.01.

8.      Heslin, P.J. The Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Genre in Statius’ Achilleid (Cambridge, 2005). American Journal of Philology 128.1 (2007) 142-145.

9.      Rühl, Meike. Literatur gewordener Augenblick. Die Silven des Statius im Kontext literarischer und sozialer Bedingungen (Berlin, 2006). Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.02.26.

10.  Nauta, R.R., H.-J. van Dam, and J.J.L. Smolenaars, Flavian Poetry (Leiden, 2006). Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.06.03.

11.  Ross, Charles Stanley. Publius Papinius Statius: The Thebaid: Seven against Thebes (Baltimore, 2004). Classical Outlook 82.4 (2005) 155.

12.  Aloni, Antonio, et al., edd. I Sette a Tebe: dal mito alla letteratura (Bologna, 2002). Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.12.05.

13.  Campbell, B.G. Performing and Processing the Aeneid (New York, 2001). Classical Review 52.2 (2002) 382.

 

Conference Presentations

1.      Chair of session “Philology, Literature, and Hermeneutics.” The Global History of Philology: History and Philology in Different Cultural and Literary Traditions. Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, October 2008.

2.      “Adoptees and Exposed Children in Roman Declamation: Commodification, Luxury, and the Threat of Violence.” Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS) Annual Meeting, April 2008.

3.      “Cui parens non erat maximus quisque et uetustissimus pro parente: Paternal surrogates in imperial Roman literature.” CAMWS, April 2007.

4.      “The white doe of Capua (Silius Italicus, Punica 13.115-137).” CAMWS, April 2006.

5.      “Each Man’s Father Served as His Teacher: Ancestral Emulation and Fictive Kinship in Pliny’s Letters.” American Philological Association (APA) Annual Meeting, January 2006.

6.      “Eyes Wide Shut: Virgil, Statius, and the Aestheticization of Martial Violence.” Association of Literary Scholars and Critics Annual Conference, November 2005.

7.      “Nature and Nurture in Statius’ Achilleid.” CAMWS, April 2005.

8.      “Rome’s Sword and Shield: Fabius, Marcellus, and the Poetics of Paternity in Silius’ Punica.” APA, January 2005.

9.      “Kinship and the Polity in Silius’ Punica: The conflict of Pacuvius and his son (Sil. 11.303-368).” CAMWS, April 2004.

10.  “Fashioning Crispinus through his Ancestors: Epic Models in Statius, Silvae 5.2.” New Directions in Statius’ Silvae: A Colloquium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Feb. 2004.

11.  “Mourning the puer delicatus: Heirship, Cultural Capital, and Elite Self-Definition in Statius, Silvae 2.1.” CAMWS, April 2003.

12.  “Revisiting Ovid’s Philomela: Silence, Revenge, and Metamorphosis in André Brink’s The Other Side of Silence,” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association 24th Annual Conference, February 2003.

13.  “The ghost of Laius in Statius’ Thebaid and the revision of ancestral pietas in Roman epic.” CAMWS, April 2002.

14.  “The prehistory of modern canon formation: Statius and Silius in the Renaissance commentary tradition before Scaliger.” 36th International Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2001.

15.  “Nil tamen his fingam, doctos imitando poetas: The Elegiac Models of Antonio Astesano, Charles d’Orléans’ Lyric Translator.” 35th International Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2000.

16.  “Stimulant Manes: The Honored Ghost as Narrative Motivator in Imperial Epic.” CAMWS, April 2000.

17.  “‘These fragments I have shored against my ruins:’ Textual Instability in the Reception of the Pervigilium Veneris.” APA, December 1998.

18.  “After Poggio and before Poliziano: The Reception of Statius in an Unattributed 15th-century commentary on Thebaid 1.1-415 (Duke Latin Manuscript 90).” Manuscripta: Twenty-Fourth Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, St. Louis University, October 1997.