Randall L. B. McNeill

Department of Classics, Lawrence University

P. O. Box 599, Appleton, WI 54912-0599

Tel: (920) 832-6668

E-mail: randall.mcneill@lawrence.edu

Education:

Ph.D. in Classics, Yale University, May 1998

M.A. in Classics, Yale University, May 1994

A.B. summa cum laude in Classics (Latin), Harvard University, June 1992

Employment:

Associate Professor of Classics, Lawrence University, 2005-present

Assistant Professor of Classics, Lawrence University, 1999-2005

Lecturer, Yale University, 1998-1999

Acting Instructor/Teaching Fellow, Yale University, 1995-1998

Interests:

Latin literature and Roman culture; Late Republican and Augustan poetry; Greek and Roman history

Publications and Papers:

Book:

Horace: Image, Identity, and Audience. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

(Reviewed by A. D. Morrison (Univ. of Manchester), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.06.16; R. Nagel (Univ. of Alberta), Phoenix 57 (2003): 344-45; S. J. Harrison (Oxford Univ.), Journal of Roman Studies 94 (2004): 56-8; M. Lowrie (New York Univ.), Electronic Antiquity 8 (2004): 39-43; J. Y. Maleuvre, Les Études Classiques 77 (2004): 146-47; J. M. Neumann (Davidson Coll.), Classical Philology 99 (2004): 182-86; B. Stenuit (Jesuit Coll. of Brussels), Latomus 64 (2005): 813; H. P. Syndikus (Gymnasium Weilheim), Gnomon 77 (2005): 268-70)

Articles:

"Cum tacent, clamant: the Pragmatics of Silence in Catullus," article under consideration by Classical Philology.

"Urbanity and Provincial Identity in Catullus 12 and 39," article in preparation.

“Horace and Catullus,” in The Blackwell Companion to Catullus, ed. M. Skinner: 596-629. London: Blackwell, forthcoming.

“Notes on the Subject of the Ilissos Temple Frieze,” in Periklean Athens and Its Legacy: Problems and Perspectives, ed. J. Barringer and J. Hurwit: 287-312. Austin, Texas: The University of Texas Press, 2005.

“So How Was the Dinner? The Anxiety of Exclusion in Horace Satires 2.8,” in Essays in Honor of Gordon Williams, ed. E. Tylawsky and C. Weiss: 189-200. New Haven: Henry R. Schwab, 2001.

Papers:

“Silence and Male Relationships in the Poetry of Catullus,” presented at the Three-Year Colloquium Exploring Roman Manhood at the Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, January 2005.

“Silence and Friendship in Catullus,” presented at the Freie Universität Berlin, November 2003.

____, presented at the University of Chicago, November 2003.

“New in Town: Urbanity and Provincialism in Catullus 12 and 39,” Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 2003.

“Social Hierarchy in the Roman Dinner Party,” presented at Reed College, March 1999.

“The Polemics of Embarrassment: Uses of Personal Discomfiture in Catullus 10 and Horace Satires 1.9,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, December 1998.

“Horace and the Rings of Audience: Double Messages in the Satires,” presented at the University of Cincinnati, April 1998.

Courses Taught:

Latin and Greek Literature:

Horace and Catullus

Ovid: Amores and Ars Amatoria

Latin Popular Literature: Petronius and Apuleius

Roman Historians

Homer: Iliad

Greek Tragedy

Plato

Tutorials in Virgil, Aeneid; Ovid, Metamorphoses; Caesar, de bello Gallico; Plato, Apology and Crito; Aristophanes, Acharnians

Independent research projects on uses of myth in Ovid's exile poetry; representations of madness in Virgil's Aeneid

Latin and Greek Language:

Beginning Latin

Intermediate Latin

Beginning Greek

Intermediate Greek

Intensive Beginning Latin

History and Classical Civilization:

Survey of Roman History

Survey of Greek History

Periclean Athens

Augustan Rome

Classical Mythology

Origins of War

Slaves and Barbarians in Antiquity

Tutorials in the Athenian Empire; Augustan propaganda; tactics of Greek warfare; factional politics of Julius Caesar; imperial administration under Nero

Independent research project on Corinthian diplomacy in the 5th century B.C.

Awards and Honors:

Visiting Scholar, Department of Classics, the University of Chicago, 2003

Outstanding Young Teacher Award, Lawrence University, 2003

Robert M. Leylan Fellow in the Humanities, Yale University, 1997-1998

Jacob K. Javits Fellow, 1993-1997

Yale University Fellow, 1992-1993

A.B. summa cum laude, Harvard University, 1992

Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard University, 1992

Louis Curtis Prize in Latin Literature, Harvard University, 1992

John Harvard Scholar, Harvard University, 1989-1992

Service and Professional Activity:

Professional:

Member, American Philological Association, 1997-present

Member, Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 1999-present

Referee, Classical Philology, 2006

University:

Faculty Committee on University Governance, Lawrence University, 2004-06

University Committee on the Curriculum, Lawrence University, 2002-04

Junior Faculty Committee, Presidential Search, Lawrence University, 2004

Acting Chair, Dept. of Classics, Lawrence University, 2002

Search Committees in English and Art History, Lawrence Univ., 2001 and 2006

Chief Organizer, Lawrence University Classics Week, 2002-2005