CRAIG WILLIAMS

Department of Classics

Brooklyn College, CUNY

2900 Bedford Avenue

Brooklyn, NY 11210

(718) 951-5191

EDUCATION

1992 Ph.D. in Classical Languages and Literatures, Yale University

Dissertation: Homosexuality and the Roman Man: A Study in the Cultural Construction of Sexuality, awarded the John Addison Porter Prize for an outstanding dissertation in the humanities

1990 M.A., M.Phil. in Classical Languages and Literatures, Yale University

1986 B.A. summa cum laude in Classical Languages and Literatures, Yale College

TEACHING POSITIONS

1992- City University of New York: Assistant (1992), Associate (1998) and Full (2004) Professor, Department of Classics, Brooklyn College. Since 1997 member of the Program in Classics, University Graduate Center. Tenured since September 1997.

2004 Freie Universität Berlin, Seminar für Klassische Philologie: Visiting Lecturer

1994 CUNY Graduate Center, Program in Classics: Visiting Lecturer

1993 CUNY Summer Greek and Latin Institute: Adjunct Assistant Professor

1988-1991 Yale Summer Language Institute: Instructor in Greek and Latin

1987-1991 Yale University, Department of Classics: Teaching Fellow and Part-Time Acting Instructor

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Martial: Epigrams, Book Two. Introduction, Text, Translation and Commentary. Oxford University Press 2004.

Roman Homosexuality: Ideologies of Masculinity in Classical Antiquity. Oxford University Press 1999. Designated an Outstanding Academic Title of 1999 by Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries.

Articles

“Perpetua’s Gender and Masculine Women in Latin Literature.” Forthcoming in J. Bremmer and M. Formisano, eds., Perpetua’s Passions. Pluridisciplinary Approaches to the Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis, Oxford University Press 2009.

“Friends of the Roman People. Some Remarks on the Language of amicitia.” Forthcoming in A. Coskun, ed., Freundschaft und Gefolgschaft in den auswärtigen Beziehungen der Römer, Peter Lang 2008.

“Rom in der Postmoderne. Darstellungen der Antike in zwei historischen Romanen.“ In Ernst Osterkamp, ed., Wissensästhetik. Wissen über die Antike in ästhetischer Vermittlung (De Gruyter 2008), pp. 325-344.

“Epigrammata longa e strategie metapoetiche in Marziale.” In Alfredo Morelli, ed., Epigramma longum. Da Marziale alla tarda antichità (Università degli Studi di Cassino 2008), pp. 217-233.

“Identified Quotations and Literary Models: The Example of Martial 2.41.” In Ruurd Nauta et al., eds., Flavian Poetry (Brill 2005), pp. 329-348.

“Ovid, Martial, and Poetic Immortality: Traces of Amores 1.15 in the Epigrams.” Arethusa 35 (2002): 417-433.

“Sit nequior omnibus libellis. Text, Poet, and Reader in the Epigrams of Martial.” Philologus 146 (2002): 150-171.

“Pudicitia and Pueri: Roman Concepts of Male Sexual Experience.” In Martin Duberman, ed., Queer Representations: Reading Lives, Reading Cultures (New York University Press, 1997), pp. 25-38.

“Greek Love at Rome.” Classical Quarterly 45 (1995): 517-539.

Reviews

Myles McDonnell, Roman Manliness: Virtus and the Roman Republic (Cambridge University Press 2006). Forthcoming in Journal of Roman Studies.

Christian Schöffel, ed., Martial Buch 8. Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung, Kommentar (Franz Steiner Verlag 2002). Classical Review 56 (2006): 125-127.

Antonella Borgo, Retorica e poetica nei proemi di Marziale (Loffredo Editore 2003). Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.9.22 (http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2005/2005-09-22.html).

Lindsay and Patricia Watson, eds., Martial: Select Epigrams (Cambridge University Press 2003). Classical Review 54 (2004): 407-410.

Martha Nussbaum and Juha Sihvola, eds., The Sleep of Reason: Erotic Experience and Sexual Ethics in Ancient Greece and Rome (University of Chicago Press 2002). American Journal of Philology 99 (2004): 86-89.

Thomas McGinn, Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome (Oxford University Press 1998). Classical World 95 (2002): 191-192.

Maria Wyke, ed., Parchments of Gender: Deciphering the Body in Antiquity (Oxford University Press 1998). The American Historical Review 105 (2000): 1360-1362.

John R. Clarke, Looking at Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art 100 B.C. – A.D. 250 (University of California Press 1998). GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 6 (2000): 347-350.

Judith P. Hallett and Marilyn Skinner, eds., Roman Sexualities (Princeton University Press 1997). Bryn Mawr Classical Review 98.10.16 (http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/1998/1998-10-16.html).

Susanna Morton Braund, ed., Juvenal: Satires Book 1 (Cambridge University Press 1996). Bryn Mawr Classical Review 97.7.9 (http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/1997/1997-07-09.html).

WORK IN PROGRESS

Reading Roman Friendship: Men, Women, Love, Death (monograph)

“When a Dolphin Loves a Boy. Greco-Roman and Native American Narratives of Animals and Humans.”

HONORS AND AWARDS

Leonard and Claire Tow Endowed Professorship, 2006-2008

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Research Fellowship at the Freie Universität and the Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, 1999-2000, 2001-2002, Spring 2004, Summer 2007

Ethyle Wolfe Institute for the Humanities at Brooklyn College, Research Fellowship, 2000-2001

Outstanding Academic Title for 1999, Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries

Favorite Teacher, Brooklyn College Excelsior (undergraduate publication), 1995-1996, 1997-1998

PSC-CUNY Research Award (1993-1994)

John Addison Porter Prize for an outstanding dissertation in the humanities, Yale University, 1992

Prize Teaching Fellowship for excellence in undergraduate teaching, Yale University, 1990-1991

Phi Beta Kappa (elected to the Yale Chapter, 1986)

PAPERS DELIVERED

“Men, Women and Friendship in Latin Inscriptions.” Boston Area Roman Studies Conference, Boston University, April 2008.

“When a Dolphin Loves a Boy. Greco-Roman and Native American Narratives of Animals and Humans.” University of New Mexico, February 2008.

“Tod und Freundschaft. Bemerkungen zu lateinischen Grabinschriften.“ Humboldt-Universität Berlin, November 2007

“The Language of Roman Friendship.” Conference “Zwischen Freundschaft und kultischer Verehrung. Formen und Wandel grenzüberschreitender Zugehörigkeit in der Antike.“ Universität Trier, October 2007

“Perpetua’s Gender and Masculine Women in Latin Literature.” Interdisciplinary Conference on “Perpetua’s Passions.” Humboldt-Universität Berlin, July 2007

“Rom im Buch. Darstellungen der Antike in zwei Romanen der Gegenwart.“ Annual Conference of the Special Research Group 644, ”Transformationen der Antike.” Humboldt-Universität Berlin, December 2006

“Epigrammata longa e strategie metapoetiche in Marziale.” Conference “Epigramma longum. Storia di una tipologia epigrammatica da Marziale alla tarda antichità.” Università di Cassino (Italy), May 2006

“When a Dolphin Loves a Boy: Ancient Narratives of Erotic Love between Animals and Humans.” Columbia University Seminar on Classical Civilization, March 2006

“Images of Women from Ancient Greece and Rome.” The Nightingale-Bamford School, New York, March 2006

“Amici in Latin Literature and Inscriptions. Some Thoughts on Roman Friendship.” Columbia University, April 2005

“Amoris vis. Roman Anecdotes on Animal Sexuality.“ Conference “Mensch und Tier in der Antike. Grenzziehung und Grenzüberschreitung.“ Universität Rostock, April 2005

“Amicitia. Überlegungen zur Problematik des römischen Freundschaftsbegriffs.“ Humboldt-Universität Berlin, May 2004; Universität Rostock, January 2005

“Just Friends? Some Thoughts on the Problem of amicitia.” Royal Holloway, University of London, May 2004; University of Reading, May 2004

“Identified Quotations and Literary Models in Martial’s Epigrams.” Groningen Colloquium on Flavian Poetry, August 2003

“Martial 2.41 and the Art of Allusion.” New York Classical Club, October 2002

“‘Andersliebende’ Menschen in der römischen Antike.” Universität Potsdam, May 2001

“Sit nequior omnibus libellis. Ein metapoetisches Motiv in den Epigrammen Martials.” Seminar für klassische Philologie, Freie Universität Berlin, July 2000

“Roman Categories of Gender Identity in Myth, Medicine, and Astrology.” Columbia University, April 1999

“Sexual Identities in Ancient Rome.” Keynote address at conference on “Acts, Identities, and Alterities in Pre- and Early Modern Europe,” University of California at Santa Cruz, February 1999

“Contra Naturam: Sexuality and the Rhetoric of Nature in Roman Literature.” Loeb Lecture, Department of the Classics, Harvard University, May 1998

“Age-Structured Paradigms for Sexual Relations among Males in Ancient Greece and Rome.” Seminar on Age-Structured Homosexuality in History and Culture, SAD-Schorer Stichting Amsterdam, July 1997

“The Roman Cinaedus: Questions of Identity and Subculture.” Columbia University Seminar on Classical Civilization, February 1997

“Meanings of Effeminacy in Roman Literature.” New York University, April 1996

“Brothers, Friends, and Lovers in Roman Literature.” Columbia University Seminar on Homosexualities, March 1994

“The Concept of Stuprum and the Social Regulation of Sexuality in Ancient Rome.” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, San Francisco, January 1994

“Pudicitia: Roman Concepts of Male Sexual Integrity.” CUNY Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, December 1993

“Sex, Gender, and the Roman Man.” Emory University, September 1993

“Sexuality and the Roman Man.” Fordham University, April 1993

“The Meaning of Exoletus: Male Prostitution in Ancient Rome.” CUNY Graduate Center Colloquium, November 1992

“Greek Love at Rome.” Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, Chicago, December 1991

COURSES TAUGHT

In Greek and Latin:

First- and second-year Latin

First- and second-year Greek

Intensive introductory Greek and Latin

Advanced undergraduate Latin courses

Graduate courses in Martial and Latin epigram; Petronius and Apuleius; Latin prose (survey with composition)

Undergraduate reading course (Lektüre) in German on “Martial und das lateinische Epigramm”

In translation:

Core Curriculum course on Classical Cultures

Classical Myth

Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome

Social Themes, Ancient and Modern

Greek and Latin Roots of English

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Brooklyn College:

Chair, Classics Department (2004-present)

Deputy Chair, Classics Department (2003)

Strategic Planning Undergraduate Majors/Minors Committee (Spring 2005)

Faculty Council Committee on the Core Curriculum (1998-1999)

Faculty Council Committee on Master Planning, Educational Policy, and Budget (1996-1998)

Humanities Subcommittee on Tenure (Spring 1998)

Provost's Committee for New Faculty Awards (1998)

Humanities Delegate-at-Large to Faculty Council (1997-1999, 2002-2003)

Phi Beta Kappa Admissions Committee (1994-1996, 1997-1998)

Member of Virtual Core Task Force (1997-1998)

Departmental Representative to Curricular Working Group (Spring 1996)

Policy Council Committee on Faculty-Student Relations (1993-1996)

Chair, Grade Appeals Committee, Department of Classics (1996-1998)

Appointments Committee, Department of Classics (1993-1994, 1997-1999, 2002- )

Curriculum Committee, Department of Classics (1996-1997, chair 1998-1999, chair 2002-2003)

Library Representative, Department of Classics (1994-1997)

Technology Representative to Academic Computing, Department of Classics (1994-1996)

Committee on Prizes and Awards, Department of Classics (1994-1995)

Collaborative Learning Seminar (June 1996)

Faculty Development Conference on “Enhancing Coordination: Block Programs for ESL Students” (June 1994)

Core Studies Faculty Development Seminar (June 1993, 1994, 1997)

Colloquium on “Teaching ESL in College” (May 1993)

CUNY:

Advisor, Ph.D. dissertation, Program in Classics, Graduate Center, CUNY, 2008-

Member of Ph.D. dissertation committees, graduate programs in Classics and History

Examination Committee, graduate program in Classics (chair 1997-1999, 2002-2005)

Member of Executive Committee, graduate program in Classics (1998-1999, 2002-2003)

Member of Classics Review Panel, PSC-CUNY Research Award Program (1994, 1998, 2002, 2003)

CUNY Faculty Development Seminar on “Balancing the Curriculum: Gender, Race, Ethnicity, Class” (1993-1994)

Other:

Member, American Philological Association (1991- )

Member, John J. Winkler Prize Committee, American Philological Association (2003)

Vice-President, New York Classical Club (1993-1997)

Associate Member, Columbia University Seminar on Classical Civilization (elected April 1994)

External member of Ph.D. dissertation committees: Department of Classics, New York University, 2000 and 2006; School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, University of Queensland (Australia), 2003.

Member, Scientific Board, Dicionário de Mulheres do Mundo Antigo (directed by Nuno Simões Rodrigues, University of Lisbon, and Luísa de Nazaré Ferreira, University of Coimbra)