Ellen Greene

• Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley, Classics and Comparative Literature.
• B.A. Rutgers University, Comparative Literature.

• 2003-Professor, Department of Classics; Joseph Paxton Presidential Professor.
• 1997-2003 Associate Professor, Department of Classics, The University of Oklahoma.
• 1991-97 Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, The University of Oklahoma.           
• 1985-88 Instructor, Special Programs (inter-disciplinary humanities program), University of California at Berkeley.
• 1981-85 Instructor, Comparative Literature and Classics, University of California at Berkeley.

• Sappho and the Sapphic Tradition, Ancient to Modern. Blackwell, 2009.
• The Elegiac Hero: Gender and Genre in Propertius Book Two. Under contract with Ohio State University Press.
• Gendered Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry. Editor with Ronnie Ancona. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
• Women Poets in Greece and Rome: New Critical Essays. Editor. University of Oklahoma Press, 2005.
• The Erotics of Domination: Male Desire and the Mistress in Latin Love Poetry. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
• Reading Sappho: Contemporary Approaches. Editor.University of California Press, 1997.
• Re-Reading Sappho: Reception and Transmission. Editor. University of California Press, 1997. 

• “Sappho 58: Philosophical Reflections on Death and Aging.” In The New Sappho On Old Age. Center for Hellenic Studies/Harvard University Press (forthcoming).
• “Sex and Violence in Roman Elegy.” In Monica Gale and David Scourfield, eds., Texts and Violence in the Ancient World. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
• “Sappho’s 'Double Consciousness': Masculine and Feminine, Public and Private in the Poetry of Sappho.” In Jacob Blevins, ed. Dialogism and Lyric Self-Fashioning: Voices of a Genre. Susquehanna University Press, 2008.
• “Catullus and Sappho.” In Marilyn Skinner, ed., Catullus. Blackwell, 2007.
• “Catullus, Caesar, and Roman Masculine Identity.” Antichthon 40 (2006) 49-64.
• “Were the Roman Elegists Feminists?” In Paul Allen Miller and Charles Platter, eds., Classical Antiquity and Classical Studies: History in Dispute. St. James Press, 2005.
• "Gender and Genre in Propertius 2.8 and 2.9 ," Defining Gender and Genre in Latin Literature: Essays Presented to William S. Anderson on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday, edited by Garth Tissol and William Batston, pp. 211-38. Peter Lang, 2005.
• "Subjects, Objects, and Erotic Symmetry in the Poetry of Sappho," in Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World, edited by Nancy Rabinowitz and Lisa Auanger, 82-105. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002.
• "Gender Identity and the Elegiac Hero in Propertius 2.1," Arethusa 33 (2000) 241-61.
• "Playing With Tradition: Gender and Innovation in Anyte's Epigrams." Helios 27 (2000) 15-32.
• "Travesties of Love: Violence and Voyeurism in Ovid Amores 1.7," Classical World 92.5 (1999) 409-18.
• "Re-Figuring the Feminine Voice: Catullus Translating Sappho," Arethusa 32.1 (1999) 1-19.
• "Journey to the Remotest Meadow: A Reading of Catullus 11," Intertexts 1.2 (1997) 147-57.
• "Sappho, Foucault, and Women's Erotics," Arethusa 29 (1996) 1-14.    
• "Elegiac Woman: Fantasy, Materia, and Male Desire in Propertius 1.3 and 1.11," American Journal of Philology 116.2 (1995) 303-18.      
• "The Catullan Ego: Fragmentation and the Erotic Self," American Journal of Philology 116.1 (1995) 77-94.
• "Apostrophe and Women's Erotics in The Poetry of Sappho," Transactions of the American Philological Association 124 (1994) 41-56.
• "Sexual Politics in Ovid's Amores: 3.4, 3.8, and 3.12," Classical Philology 89.4 (1994) 344-51.

• “Sappho 58: Philosophical Reflections on Death and Aging.” American Philological Association, January 2007.
• “Discourses of Roman Manhood in the Elegies of Propertius,” American Philological Association, January 2005.
• “Sappho’s Masculine Voice.” Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Madison, WI, March 2005.
• “Propertius, Gender, and Roman Ideology.” International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Pamplona, Spain, August 2004.
• “Ideologies of Masculinity in Propertian Elegy.” Colloquium on Roman Imperial Ideology, Cumae Italy, Villa Vergiliana, May 2003.
• “Gender and Genre in Propertius 2.9,”  Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 2003.
• “Catullus and Caesar,” Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Southern Section, November 2002.
• “Propertius 2.7 and Augustan Ideology,” Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 2002.
• “Catullus, Caesar, and the Foundations of Roman Ideology.” Colloquium on Roman Imperial Ideology, Cumae Italy, Villa Vergiliana, May 2002.
• “Turning a Conference Paper into a Publishable Article ,” Classical Association of the Atlantic States, October, 2002.
• “Epic, Elegy, and Gender in Propertius 2.8 and 2.9,” Classical Association of the UK, University of Manchester, April 2001.
• “Subjects and Objects in Sappho 16,” American Philological Association, January 2001.
• “Gender and Genre in Propertius 2.8,” Classical Association of the Atlantic States, October 2000.
• “Gender and Genre in Propertius’ Second Book of Elegies,” Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 2000.
• "Fragmentation and Gender Identity in Propertius 2.1,"American Philological Association, December 1999."
• Gender and Innovation in Anyte's Epigrams." Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, November 1999.
• "Violence and Voyeurism in Ovid, Amores 1.3," Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 1999.
• "Women and Violence in Ovid's Amores," International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Haifa, Israel, Summer 1998.
• "Ovid, Amores 1.5," Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 1998.
• "An Overview of Sappho Scholarship," American Philological Association, December 1997.
• "Public and Private in Catullus 5," Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, November 1997. 
• "Sappho 31 and Catullus 51," Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 1997.
• "Gendered Domains: Catullus 11," American Philological Association, December 1996.
• "Re-Figuring the Feminine Voice: Catullus Translating Sappho," Society for the Study of European Ideas: European Identity at the Millennium, Utrecht, The Netherlands, August 1996.
• "Love's Thelxis: Sound and Seduction in Sappho, Fragment 94," American Philological Association, December 1995.
• "Sexual Politics in Ovid's Amores," Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 1995.
• "Domination and Deception as the Way of Love: Ovid's Amores 3.4 and 3.8," American Philological Association, December 1994.
• "Elegiac Woman: Materia and Male Desire in Propertius I.3," American Philological Association, December 1993.
• "Fantasy and Materia in Propertius' Imaginary Landscape," Classical Association of the Atlantic States, October 1993.
• "Duality Becomes Mutuality: Apostrophe and Feminine Eroticism in Sappho,  Fragment 94," Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, November 1992.

• “The New Sappho.” Dept. of Ancient and Modern Languages, Texas Tech University, April 2007.
• “Catullus and Sappho.” Dept. of Classics, University of Kansas, February 2006.
• “Masculine and Feminine in Greek and Latin Lyric.” Texas Tech University, April 2006.
• “Propertius and Roman Ideology.” Royal Holloway College, University of London, June 2003.
• “Feminine Desire in Sappho 16,” Kenyon College, Depts. of Classics and English, October, 2002.
• “Elegy and Augustan Ideology,” Plenary Speaker, Colloquium on Roman Imperial Ideology, Cumae, Italy, Villa Vergiliana,  May 2001.
• "Feminine Eroticism in Sappho's Fragments." Center for the Study of Anthropology and the Ancient World, University of Siena, Siena, Italy, May 2000.
•  "Violence and Voyeurism in Ovid's Amores." Department of Classics, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, May 2000.
• "Subjects, Objects, and Erotic Symmetry in Sappho's Poetry." Williams College, Dept. of Classics, January 1999.
• "Images of Women in Ancient Greece." University of Colorado at Boulder, Dept. of Philosophy, March 1998.
• "Women and Violence in Ovid's Amores," Texas A & M University, Dept. of Classical and Modern Languages, January 1995.
• "Sappho, Foucault, and Women's Erotics," Symposium, "Foucault's History of Sexuality: Revisions and Responses, Texas Tech University, April 1993.
• "Ovid's Personae in the Amores," Texas Tech University, Dept. of Classical and Modern Languages, July 1992.

• 2006 University of Oklahoma Faculty Enrichment Grant: $425.
• 2004 University of Oklahoma Faculty Enrichment Grant: $833.
• 2004 Oklahoma Humanities Council: $3,000, $500 from OHC and $2,500 matching funds from University of Oklahoma.
• 2003 University of Oklahoma Faculty Enrichment Grant: $1,000.
• 2002 University of Oklahoma Faculty Enrichment Grant: $720.
• 2002 University of Oklahoma NEH Internal Research Grant Award: $1,000.
• 2002 University of Oklahoma Research Council Grant: $3,300.
• 2001 University of Oklahoma Faculty Enrichment Grant: $815.
• 2001 University of Oklahoma Travel Grant from the Office of Research Administration and the College of Arts and Sciences: $1,200.
• 2000  University of Oklahoma,  President’s International Travel Fellowship: $1,000.
• 2000 University of Oklahoma Faculty Enrichment Grant: $850.
• 1999  University of Oklahoma Computer Grant: $2,700.
• 1999 University of Oklahoma Faculty Enrichment Grant: $800.
• 1998 University of Oklahoma Faculty Enrichment Grant: $1,000.
• 1997 "Images of Women in Ancient Greece." Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities Research Grant: $1,500.
• 1997 University of Oklahoma NEH Internal Research Grant Award: $1,000.
• 1997 University of Oklahoma Faculty Enrichment Grant: $1,000.
• 1997 University of Oklahoma Research Grant from Office of Research Administration: $1,400.  
• 1996 University of Oklahoma Travel Grant from Dean of Arts and Sciences and from Office of Research Administration: $1,225.
• 1996 University of Oklahoma Faculty Enrichment Grant: $800.
• 1994 "Gender, Power, and The Poetics of Desire: Studies in Latin Love Poetry." University of Oklahoma Junior Faculty Summer Research
• Fellowship, College of Arts and Sciences: $5,000.
• 1993 "The Role of Women in Latin Love Poetry." University of Oklahoma Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, Research Council: $5,000.
• 1993 University of Oklahoma Faculty Enrichment Grant: $350.00.
• 1992 "The Role of Women in Latin Love Poetry." Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities Research Grant: $1,500.

• Latin:
  • Intermediate Latin Poetry
  • Propertius
  • Latin Elegiac Poets   
  • Horace
  • Virgil
  • Catullus
• Greek:
  • Beginning Greek
  • Plato (Intermediate Greek)
  • Homer
• Culture:
  • Latin Literature in Translation
  • Women in Antiquity
  • Greek and Roman Epic
  • Greek Tragedy
  • Roman Women           
  • Ancient Greek Tragedy and Modern Adaptations
  • The Art and Literature of the Renaissance
  • Virgil, Dante, and Milton
  • Love in the Western World (Honors Colloquium, team-taught with Prof. of Philosophy)

• General Editor, Series in Classical Culture, University of Oklahoma Press.
• Program Committee, Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 2007-10.
• Tenure Referee, Dept. of Classics, University of Massachusetts, 2007.
• Referee, Ohio State University Press, 2006.
• Referee, University of Oklahoma Press, 2006.
• Referee, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
• Referee, Ohio State University Press, 2004.
• Referee, Classical Journal, 2004.
• Tenure Referee, Dept. of Classics, University of Kansas, 2004.
• Referee, University of Oklahoma Press, 2004.
• Referee, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
• Referee, Arethusa, 2003.
• Referee, American Journal of Philology, 2003.
• Referee, Classical Bulletin, 2003.
• Referee, University of Oklahoma Press, 2003.
• Referee, University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.
• Referee, Classical Philology, 2002.
• Tenure Referee, Dept. of English, University of Colorado at Denver, Fall 2002. 
• Referee, University of Oklahoma Press, 2002.
• Referee, Phoenix, 2001.
• Referee, American Journal of Philology, 2001.
• Referee, Classical Journal, 2001.
• Advisory Board, University of Oklahoma Press, Series in Classical Culture.
• Vice-President of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South for Oklahoma, 2001-03.
• Program Committee, Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 1999-2003.
• Executive Committee, Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, 1999-2002.
• Steering Committee, Women's Classical Caucus, American Philological Association, 1999-2002.
• Organizer, Women's Classical Caucus Panel, Gendered Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry, American Philological Association, 2001.
• Referee, Helios, August 2000.
• Referee, Intertexts, April 2000.
• Referee, Routledge, March 2000.
• Referee, Syllecta Classica, February 2000.
• Tenure Referee, Dept. of Foreign Languages, University of New Mexico, Summer 1998.
• Vice-President of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South for Oklahoma, 1995-98.
• Organizer, Women's Classical Caucus Panel on Sappho for American Philological Association Meeting, 1997.
• Referee, Transactions of the American Philological Association, December 1997.
• Referee, Helios, October 1997.
• Referee, Arethusa, March 1997.
• Referee, Transactions of the American Philological Association, March 1996.

Dissertation Committees:

• Leslie Downes, Music.
• Susan Fain, Music.
• Scott Stearman, Philosophy
• Vassiliki Papapostolou, Philosophy
• Elliot Welch, Philosophy
• Nuri Creager, Modern Languages

• Chair, Campus Tenure Committee, 2007-08.
• Committee A, Department of Classics, 2006-08.
• Curriculum Committee, Department of Classics, 1999-present.
• Faculty Senate, 2004-07.
• Committee A, Dept. of Classics, 2003-04.
• Committee A, Honors College, 2002-04.
• Campus Tenure Committee, 2003-06.         
• Chair, Campus Tenure Committee, 2001-02.
• Chair, Search Committee, Department of Classics, 2001-02.
• Executive Committee, Faculty Senate, 2001-02.
• Research Council, 2000-2001.
• Campus Tenure Committee, 1999-2002.
• Faculty Senate, 1999-2002.
• Committee on Committees, Faculty Senate, 1999-2006.
• Provost's Committee on Women's Issues, 1999-2001.
• Chair, Curriculum Committee, Department of Classics, 1999-2001.
• Convocation Planning Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, 1998-2000.
• Search Committee, Department of Classics, 1998-99.
• Search Committee for the Senior Vice-President and Provost, 1996.
• Member of President's Panel For Reinvigorating Undergraduate Education, 1994-96.
• Faculty Senate, 1994-97.
• Faculty Sponsor, O.U. Classics Society, 1992-95.
• Coordinator, Multi-disciplinary "works in progress" colloquium, 1992-93.

• American Philological Association
• Classical Association of the Middle West and South
• Classical Association of the United Kingdom
• Roman Society, Institute of Classical Studies, London
• Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association