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Mary R. McHugh
Hamilton College
198 College Hill Road
Classics Department
Clinton, NY 13323
(315) 853-5729
Clinton, NY 13323
mrmchugh@hamilton.edu
Research Interests
- Julio-Claudian literature, history, and art history; gender studies; Homeric poetry; Greek philosophy, especially Plato
Education
- Ph.D. Classics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2004
- M.A. Classics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1999
- M.A. Classics, Tufts University, 1997
- B.A. Ancient Greek and Philosophy, cum laude, Mt. Holyoke College, 1993
- Classical Summer School, American Academy in Rome, 2003
- Summer Session, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1995
Dissertation
- Title: Manipulating Memory: Remembering and Defaming Julio-Claudian Women
- Director: Carole E. Newlands
Fellowships and Awards
- 2003-04 Vilas Travel Fellowship for attendance at the 2004 APA Annual Meeting
- CAMWS Mary A. Grant Award for study at the American Academy in Rome, Spring 2003
- Award for Outstanding Service to the Classics Dept., UW-Madison, Spring 2003
- Nominated for campus-wide Innovation in Teaching Award, Fall 2002
- 2002-03 Vilas Travel Fellowship for study at the American Academy in Rome
- 2002-03 UW-Madison IN TIME grant for teaching Latin meter to intermediate Latin students
- Frances Mary Hazen Memorial Fellowship for Classical Studies, Summer 1995
- Jean Reniessen Toub Memorial Prize for excellence in Classics, Mt. Holyoke College, 1993
- Jean Reniessen Toub Memorial Fellowship for excellence in Classics, Mt. Holyoke College, 1992
Papers and Presentations
Latin Karaoke,
paper presented at CAAS Annual Meeting, October 8, 2005
ferox femina: Agrippina Maior in Tacitus' Annales,
paper presented at CAMWS Annual Meeting, March 31, 2005
Imag(in)ing Livia and Cleopatra in Augustan Rome,
paper presented at APA Annual Meeting, January 3, 2004
Roman Art and Architecture: From Etruscan Influence to the Arch of Titus,
lecture presented to Integrated Liberal Studies 203, UW-Madison, November 13, 2003
Using Technology Successfully in the Latin Classroom,
lecture presented to Classics 373: Latin Education Ancient and Modern, UW-Madison, October 24, 2003
A Web-based Approach to Teaching Latin Meter and Scansion to Intermediate Latin Students,
IN TIME project faculty showcase, UW-Madison, May 21, 2003
From Soup to Nuts: A Taste of Roman Food,
World Languages Day, April 16, 2002 and April 3, 2003
Historiography and Freedom of Speech: The Case of Cremutius Cordus,
The Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values II, University of Pennsylvania, June 1, 2002; publication by Brill Press in Free Speech in Classical Antiquity, edited by Ineke Sluiter and Ralph Rosen, 2004
Marriage and Mourning, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter,
lecture presented to Classics 320: Civilization of Ancient Greece, UW-Madison, November 18, 2000
The Country and the City: the Presence of Art in a Theocritean Pastoral Moment,
Pillinger Series Presentation, UW-Madison Classics Dept., February 17, 1999
Teaching Experience
Hamilton College - Clinton, NY
- Roman Civilization Instructor, Spring 2006
- Roman Historians (selections from Caesar's Bellum Gallicum, Livy's Ab urbe condita, Book 1, and Tacitus' Annales, Book 4) Instructor, Spring 2006
- Plautus' Menaechmi Instructor, Fall 2005
- Third Semester Greek (Athenaze), selections from Plato's Crito and Symposium Instructor, Fall 2005
- Classical Mythology Instructor, Fall 2005
Gustavus Adolphus College - Saint Peter, MN
- Second Semester Latin (Oxford Latin Course) Instructor, Spring 2005
- Great Books Instructor, Spring 2005
- A Taste of Roman Food (social history & cooking class) Instructor, January Term 2005
- Introductory Greek (Athenaze) Instructor, Fall 2004
- Introductory Latin (Oxford Latin Course) Instructor, Fall 2004
University of Wisconsin - Madison, WI
Classics
- Classical Mythology Teaching Assistant (including Honors section), Spring 2002
- Classical Mythology Teaching Assistant, Spring 1998 and Spring 2000
- Civilization of Ancient Greece (writing intensive course) Teaching Assistant, Fall 2000
Integrated Liberal Studies
- Western Civ., Literature and the Arts I Teaching Assistant, Fall 1998 and Fall 2003
Latin
- Fourth Semester Latin (Catullus, selections from Ovid's Amores and Metamorphoses, and Livy's Ab urbe condita, Book 1) Instructor, Spring 2003 and Spring 2004
- Third Semester Latin (Wheelock and Oxford Latin Course Reader) Instructor, Fall 2002
- Second Semester Latin (Oxford Latin Course) Instructor, Spring 1999 and Spring 2001
- First Semester Latin (Oxford Latin Course) Instructor, Fall 1997 and Fall 1999
Tufts University - Medford, MA
- Classical Archaeology Teaching Assistant, Spring 1997
- Greek Drama Teaching Assistant, Fall 1996
- Second Semester Latin (Wheelock) Teaching Assistant, Spring 1996
- First Semester Latin (Wheelock) Teaching Assistant, Fall 1995
Other Related Experience
- Outside Reader and Examiner for Senior Art History Honors Thesis (
Matron, Virgin, Fallen Woman: Female Sexuality as Commodity in Ancient Rome
) at Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Spring 2006
- Outside Reader for Senior Comparative Literature Honors Thesis (
Reinterpreting the Cratylus: Socrates' uncertainty about language
) at Hamilton College, Spring 2006
- Nominated as candidate for WCC Steering Committee, Fall 2005 and Fall 2006
- Service on CAMWS Membership Committee, June 2004 to present
- Project Assistant to Carole Newlands, Associate Editor of American Journal of Philology, Sept. 2002 to Aug. 2004
- Webmaster, Paralegal/Student Aide for UW-Madison Law School LR&W program, June 2002 to Aug. 2004
- Webmaster for UW-Madison Classics Dept., Aug. 2002 to Sept. 2003
- Latin 204 tutor for TRIO, federally funded program for minority and low-income students, Spring 2002
References
Available upon request