Dr. Charles McNelis
Acting Department Chair for Fall 2009
Associate ProfessorOffice: 315 Healy Hall
ph: 202.687.8714
email: cam72@georgtown.edu
Fall 2009 Office Hours: Monday 2:00-4:00pm
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Education:B.A., Columbia University
M.A., University of Toronto
Ph.D., University of California, Los AngelesTeaching & Research Areas:
Latin Poetry, Hellenistic Poetry
Roman Social History
Latin PaleographyAbout Professor McNelis:
Professor McNelis primarily teaches courses in Greek and Roman literature, both in translation and in the original languages. He is particularly interested in the epic poetry of authors such as Homer and Vergil and their portrayals of human endeavor within political and religious contexts. The literature in translation courses take as a starting point the ways in which other ancient artists (e.g. Euripides, Ovid, Lucan, Apuleius) and/or literary genres (elegy, satire, drama) poignantly responded to and transformed these culturally powerful texts. Study of stylistic and thematic points of these texts in Greek and Latin affords an even deeper understanding of these works. These kinds of intellectual concerns are reflected in many of his publications, including his book entitled 'Statius' Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War' (Cambridge, 2007) and his ongoing commentary on Statius' Achilleid, a poem which takes as its subject Achilles, the greatest Greek hero.
Recent Publications:
Statius' Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War (Cambridge, 2007)
"Ut sculptura poesis: Statius, Martial and the Hercules Epitrapezios of Novius Vindex." American Journal of Philology (2008).
"Looking at the Forest? Statius' Silvae and Roman Studies."
Arethusa 40.2 (2007): 269-74."Ovidian Strategies in Imperial Roman Literature."
A Companion to Ovid. Ed. Peter Knox. : Blackwell, 2008.
