Samuel J. Huskey

Joseph Paxton Presidential Professor

Dr. Huskey taking Ovid's Tristia on a guided tour of Rome.

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Education

• 2002 University of Iowa, Ph.D. (Classics) Dissertation: "Ovid’s Tristia I and III: An Intertextual Katabasis"
• 1994 University of Oklahoma, B.A. summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Professional Employment

• 2008-present: Associate Professor, Department of Classics and Letters, University of Oklahoma
• 2002–2008: Assistant Professor, Department of Classics and Letters, University of Oklahoma
• 1997-2002: Editorial Assistant, Syllecta Classica
• 1995-2002: Teaching Assistant, Department of Classics, University of Iowa

Publications

Current Projects

• Edition of previously unpublished 15th c. scholia on Lucan
• Edition and commentary on Ovid's Ibis
• Translation of Boccaccio's Latin poems

Refereed Articles

• “Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Tristia I, 1.”Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History 13 (2006): 335–357.
• “Ovid’s (Mis)Guided Tour of Rome: Some Purposeful Omissions in Tr. 3.1.” The Classical Journal 102 (2006): 17–39.
• “In Memory of Tibullus: Ovid’s Remembrance of Tib. 1.3 in Am. 3.9 and Tr. 3.3.” Arethusa 38.3 (2005): 367–386.
• “Strategies of Omission and Revelation in Ovid Her. 6, 12, and Tr. 3.9.” Philologus 148 (2004): 274–289.
• “Quaerenti plura legendum: Ovid on the necessity of reading in Tristia 1.1.21–22.” Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History 12 (2004): 234–249.
• “Ovid at the Fall of Troy in Tristia 1.3,” Vergilius 48 (2002): 88–104.
• “Turnus and Terminus in Aeneid XII,” Mnemosyne 52 (1999): 77–80.

Chapters in Books

• “Approaches to Teaching Ovid’s Tristia.” In Approaches to Teaching World Literature: Teaching Ovid and Ovidianism, Barbara Weiden Boyd and Cora Fox, eds. New York: Modern Language Association (forthcoming)

Book Reviews

• Ovid and Augustus: A Political Reading of Ovid’s Erotic Poems, P.J. Davis, Duckworth Publishers, 2006, for The Classical Journal (forthcoming)
• Komik in den Tristien Ovids, Martin Amann, (Schweizerische Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft 31), Schwabe Verlag, 2006, for Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR 2006.12.13)
  
• Roman Religion: A Sourcebook, Valerie M. Warrior, Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company, 2002, for Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR 2003.04.27).

Refereed Papers Presented

• Co-organizer (with Dr. Theresa Ramsby) of panel, “Concrete Text: Epigraphy, Elegy and Poetic Inscriptions.” To be presented at the 139th annual meeting of the American Philological Association (APA), Chicago, IL, January 3–6, 2008.
• “A New Manuscript of Lucan’s Bellum Civile.” 103rd Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS), Cincinnati, OH, April 11–14, 2007.
• “Roasting the Emperor: Augustus as Phalaris in Ovid’s Exile Poetry.” 102nd Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS), Gainesville, FL April 6–8, 2006.
• "Ulysses Who?: The Strategic Suppression of Names in Tristia 1.5." 101st Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Madison, WI, March 30-April 2, 2005.
• "A Funny Thing Happens On The Way Through Ovid's Forum (Tristia 3.1)." 100th Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, St. Louis, MO, April 15-17, 2004.
• "In Memory of Tibullus: A Double Allusion in Ovid’s Tristia 3.3." 99th Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Lexington, KY April 3-5, 2003.
• "Si licet exemplis in parvo grandibus uti: Ovid at the Fall of Troy in Tristia 1.3." 133^rd Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, Philadelphia, PA, January 3-6, 2002
• "The Argonautic Exile: Ovid and Jason in Tristia 1.10." 97^th Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Provo, UT, April 19-21, 2001
• "The Allusive Exile: Philomela and Palamedes in Ovid’s Tristia 1.1." 132 Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, San Diego, CA, January 3-6, 2001
• "Gubernator … immemor artis: Ovid as Palinurus in Tristia 1.11." 96^th Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Knoxville, TN, April 6-8, 2000
• "The Deeply Clinging Boundary Stone: An Element of Liminality in the De Rerum Natura." 131^st Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, Dallas, TX, December 27-30, 1999
• "Venus, Juno, and the Linear Structure of Ovid’s Amores 3." 95^th Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Cleveland, OH, April 15-17, 1999
• "Deus Inde Ego: Horace as Priapus in Sermones 1.8." 94^th Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Charlottesville, VA, April 16-18, 1998
• "Turnus and Terminus in Aeneid XII." 92^nd Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Nashville, TN, April 10-13, 1996

Teaching

• Classical Mythology (Summer 2003)
• Latin Literature in English Translation (Fall 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007)
  
• Greek Epic Poetry (May 2003, 2004)
• Religions of Rome* (Spring 2003, 2004, 2007)
• Classical Influences on Modern Literature (Winter 2004, May 2005, Summer 2005, May 2006)
• Intermediate Latin Prose (Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2006)
• Intermediate Latin Poetry (Spring 2007)
• Advanced Latin Prose (Fall 2002, Fall 2003, Spring 2008)
• Advanced Latin Poetry (Fall 2004, Fall 2006)
• Latin Prose Composition* (Spring 2006, Spring 2008)
• Historians: Tacitus (Fall 2006), Sallust (Fall 2007)
• Horace (Fall 2005)

* indicates a new course

Honors Theses Supervised

• Bethany Burklund, “An Inquiry into the Goals and Methods of Modern Latin Teaching / Investigatio in obiectiva et modos linguae Latinae docendae” (Spring 2007)
  
• Scott Wise, “Latin Textual Criticism and the New Lucan MS” (Spring 2007)
  
• Alex Ward, “An Analysis of the Prose Style of Julius Caesar’s Bellum Civile” (Spring 2007)
  
• Shane Morgan, “A Translation and Commentary on the Life of Elagabalus” (Spring 2006)
  
• Sharada Price, “Religion in Roman Britain” (Fall 2003)
  
• Mary Veith, “Jews and Judaism in Ancient Alexandria” (Spring 2003)

Service

National

• Executive Committee, Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 2002–present
• Webmaster, CAMWS (www.camws.org), 2002–present
• Committee for the Promotion of Latin, CAMWS, 2005–present
• American Philological Association Outreach Co-ordinator for Oklahoma, 2006–present

University of Oklahoma

• Webmaster, Department of Classics and Letters (www.ou.edu/cas/classics), 2002-present
• Chair, Curriculum Committee, Department of Classics and Letters, 2006–present
• Latin Teacher Education Committee, Department of Classics and Letters, 2006-present
• Departmental Academic Advisor, Fall 2007–present
• Advisor, Eta Sigma Phi Classics Honor Society, 2006–present
• Advisor, Classics and Letters Society, 2006–present
• Advisor, OU Academic Team, 2006–present
• OU Majors and Minors Fair, departmental representative, 2003–present
• College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Student Misconduct and Appeals Committee, 2006–present
• CAS Outstanding Senior Selection Committee, 2003, 2008
• President, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of Oklahoma chapter, 2005-2006
• Vice President, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of Oklahoma chapter, 2004-2005
• Members-in-Course Committee, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of Oklahoma, 2002–present
• Alpha Lambda Delta Scholarship Selection Committee, 2007

Public Lectures

• "Religions of Rome." Oklahoma City Museum of Art, June 24, 2008.
• “A Guided Tour of Hell.” OU Faculty Lecture Series, Walker Tower Residence Hall, April 24, 2007.
• “A Guided Tour of Hell.” St. Stephen’s United Methodist Church, Jamuary 21, 2007.
• “Reading Through The Lines.” OU Classics and Letters Society, April 18, 2007
• “A New Manuscript of Lucan.” OU Classics and Letters Society, October 12, 2006
• “Sacred Spaces.” Morning Star Center for Spiritual Living (Norman, OK), August 25, 2006
• “Navigating the Graduate School Process.” University of Oklahoma McNair Scholars Program, August 18, 2006
• “Graduate School in Classics.” University of Oklahoma Classics and Letters Society, March 30, 2006
• “Through a Lens: Sacred Architecture.” St. Stephen’s United Methodist Church (Norman, OK), April 17, 2005

Awards

• CAMWS Ovatio, April 18, 2008
• Outstanding Professors’ Academy 2007–2008
• 2003-2004 Outstanding Faculty Member, presented by the OU Panhellenic Association

Grants

• CAS Junior Faculty Summer Research Grant, 2006: $6000 for travel and study
• CAS Junior Faculty Summer Research Grant, 2004: $6000 for travel and study
• CAS Faculty Enrichment Grant, 2008 for travel to the 104th Annual Meeting of CAMWS in Tucson, AZ
• CAS Faculty Enrichment Grant, 2007: $1035 for travel to the 103rd Annual Meeting of CAMWS in Cincinnati, OH
• CAS Faculty Enrichment Grant, 2006, for travel to the 102nd Annual Meeting of the CAMWS in Gainesville, FL
• CAS Faculty Enrichment Grant, 2005, for travel to the 101st Annual Meeting of the CAMWS in Madison, WI
• CAS Faculty Enrichment Grant, 2004, for travel to the 100th Annual Meeting of the CAMWS in St. Louis, MO
• CAS Faculty Enrichment Grant, 2003, for travel to the 99th Annual Meeting of the CAMWS in Louisville, KY
• OU Research Council Small Grant, 2008: $770 for purchase of microfilm of manuscripts
• OU Research Council Small Grant, 2004: $400 for commissioning maps to be made for a forthcoming publication.
• OU Research Council Small Grant, 2003: $650 for access to three textual and bibliographical databases.
• CAS Instructional Computing Grant, 2004: $2224 for equipment and software
• CAS Instructional Computing Grant, 2003: $3545.00 for the purchase of a laptop and LCD projector for the Department of Classics and Letters

Professional Affiliations

• American Philological Association
• Classical Association of the Middle West and South
• The Classical Association (U.K.)
• Archaeological Institute of America