Faculty
- Title
- Professor Emeritus
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- Literature Department
- Affiliations Jewish Studies, Classical Studies, Italian Studies
- Phone
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities 1 639
- Office Hours Monday 3:30-4:45 PM
- Mail Stop Humanities Academic Services
- Mailing Address
- Humanities 1, 639
- Santa Cruz California 95064
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Ancient World / Classics; Literature; Middle East Studies; Bilingualism, Multilingualism; Critical Theory; Cultural Studies; Globalization; Film; Mediterranean Studies; Jewish Studies and Judaism
- Courses Middle Egyptian, Film Theory and Analysis, Ancient Magic, Hellenistic Jewish Literature, Hebrew Bible and Early Rabbinica, Greco-Roman Fiction, The Politics of Opera, The Archeology of Power, Autobiography, Andy Warhol
Summary of Expertise
Classics
Egyptology
Hellenistic Literature
Mediterranean Studies
Poetics
Literary Theory
Philosophy
Opera
Film Studies
Reception Studies
Politics and Literature
Research Interests
Middle Egyptian Literature
Ptolemaic Literature
The Alexander Romance
Literatures of the Roman Empire
The Politics of Opera
Second Temple Judaism
Early Christianity
Tributary Empires
Indo-European Poetry
Zoroastrianism
Biography, Education and Training
Ph.D. Yale University (Comparative Literature)
B.A. Yale University (Art History; Italian Literature)
Honors, Awards and Grants
John Dizikes Teaching Award
President’s Fellowship, University of California
J. Paul Getty Center, Fellow
Classical Reception Studies Network, UK (grant)
Course Development Fellowship, Committee on Teaching
Postdoktorandenstipendium, Fachgruppe Literaturwissenschaft,Konstanz
Regents’ Junior Faculty Fellowship, University of California
National Endowment for the Humanities Travel Grant
American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship
Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities
Teaching Interests
East Mediterranean cultures of the ancient world, incuding Iran
Hellenistic-Jewish literature
Greek literature under Roman rule
Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, Qabbalah
Film and new digital media
History of literary criticism / literary theory
History of scholarship
Network / Systems theory
