Rachel Ahern Knudsen

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Stanford University, Classics, 2009.
  • Dissertation: "The Artificer of Discourse: Homeric Speech and the Origins of Rhetoric."
    
• M.St., Oxford University, Greek and Latin Languages and Literature, 2003.
• A.B., Harvard University, magna cum laude with Highest Honors in Classics, 2002.

EMPLOYMENT

• Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma Department of Classics and Letters, 2009-present.
• Instructor, Stanford University Department of Classics, 2004-2007. Courses taught:
  • Intensive Beginning Latin, Summer 2007.
  • Advanced Latin: Elegiac Poetry (Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid, others), Spring 2006.
  • Intermediate Latin: Petronius and Lucan, Winter 2006.
    
  • Intermediate Latin: Horace, Spring 2005.
    
  • Intermediate Greek: Athenian Oratory (Lysias, Plato), Autumn 2004.

PAPERS PRESENTED

• “Poetry and technê: The Homeric Origins of Rhetoric,” Stanford Humanities Center, December 2008.
• “Technitês Logôn: Revisiting Ancient Testimony on the Origins of Rhetoric,” Stanford Classics colloquium, February 2008.
• “Translating Dialect in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata,” Stanford Humanities Center Workshop “Translations and Transformations of Classical Texts,” November 2006.

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

• Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center, 2008-09.
• Stanford Classics Department Graduate Fellowships, 2003-08.
  Corey Fellowship (awarded for postgraduate study in Classics at Oxford), Harvard University, 2002-03.
• Norton Fellowship (awarded for study at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Summer Session), Harvard University, 2002.
• Hoopes Prize awarded to Senior Thesis, Harvard University, 2002.
• Smyth Prize awarded to Senior Thesis, Harvard University, 2002.
  
  

SERVICE

• Graduate Admissions Representative, Stanford Classics Department, 2007-08.
• Graduate Student Coordinator for the Stanford Humanities Center research workshop “Translations and Transformations of Classical Texts,” 2005-07.

TRANSLATION PROJECTS

• Co-translator of Aristophanes’ Acharnians for the Stanford Classics In Theater (SCIT) production of the play, 2009.

RESARCH INTERESTS

Greek and Roman Epic; Ancient Rhetoric; Archaic Greek Poetry; Ancient Literary Criticism; Translation.