PROGRAM NEWS (updated 4/2009)

Congratulations to Eduardo Ortiz! Eduardo has been accepted into the Ph.D. program in Classics at the University of Pennsylvania with a 5 year fellowship.

Richard Armstrong is enjoying his third year as a Fellow in the Honors College (where he is now Team Omega leader for The Human Situation), and he continues to work on the reception of classical culture and the history of psychoanalysis. He is a frequent guest on the NPR radio program, The Engines of Our Ingenuity (visit his to hear the episodes), and has several new and forthcoming publications, including 鈥淓ating Eumolpus: Fellini Satyricon and Dreaming Tradition鈥� (Tradition, Trauma, Translation: The Classic and the Modern, ed. J. Parker and T. Mathews), 鈥淢arooned Mandarins: Freud, Classical Education, and the Jews of Vienna鈥� (Classics and National Culture, ed. S. Stephens and P. Vasunia), 鈥淏eing Mr. Somebody: Freud and Classical Education鈥� (Freud鈥檚 Jewish World, ed. A. Richards), and 鈥淐lassical Translations of the Classics: The Dynamics of Literary Tradition in Retranslating Epic Poetry鈥� (Translation and the 鈥淐lassic,鈥� ed. A. Lianeri and V. Zajko).

Francesca D'Alessandro Behr's book Feeling History: Lucan, Stoicism, and the Poetics of Passion,

Casey Du茅 Hackney spent her summer completing work on her forthcoming book (co-authored with Mary Ebbott), entitled . She and Professor Ebbott received an NEH collaborative research grant for this project in 2007-2008. In May 2007 Professor Du茅 Hackney coordinated a team of scholars who went to Venice to capture high resolution images of the oldest complete manuscript of the Homeric Iliad, a tenth-century manuscript known as the Venetus A.These images have been published at: . A book about the Venetus A (edited by her) was in Spring of 2009.