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Nancy Worman
Associate Professor of Classics
Nancy Worman, Associate Professor of Classics, joined the faculty of Barnard in 1996. She has also taught at Rutgers and Yale. In addition to her teaching duties for Barnard's Department of Classics, Professor Worman is also affiliated with the Comparative Literature Program.
Professor Worman's research and teaching specialties include literary theory and the literature, drama and oratory of ancient Greece. Her latest book is Abusive Mouths in Classical Athens (2008). It examines the language of insult and appetite. She is now working on a new project that traces how metaphors centered on the body and its senses organize ideas about style in rhetorical treatises, literary critical discussions, and programmatic passages in poetry. She is also analyzing Virginia Woolf's reading of Sophocles' Electra as an instance of the modernist reception of ancient literature.
Professor Worman's research and scholarship have been supported by the Loeb Foundation, Harvard University, The Center for Hellenic Studies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. While at Princeton, she received an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship and a Stanley J. Seeger Fellowship.
Professor Worman's teaching at Barnard includes such courses as “Introduction to Comparative Literature,” “The Classical Tradition,” “Survey of Greek Literature,” “Ancient Literary Criticism,” “Homer and the Language of Ingestion,” “Latin Poetry,” and “The Language of Abuse.” She also teaches Greek and Latin language courses. She has received Barnard's Gladys Brooks Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Selected Publications:
Deixis and the Demarcation of Orestes' Dilemma in the Libation Bearers (in preparation).
Sense and Sensibility in Ancient Rhetoric (book-length project, in preparation).
"Bodies and Styles in Greek and Roman Oratory, " Boundaries Between Bodies: Animal, Human, Divine, T. Fögen, M. Lee, and C. Pasdernak eds. (forthcoming).
Mouthing Off in Ancient Athens(Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
"Fighting Words: Status, Stature, and Verbal Contest in Archaic Poetry," The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rhetoric, E. Gunderson ed. (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
"Staging 'Female' Appetites in Attic Comedy," Ancient Greek Drama, conference volume (forthcoming).
"Helen" and "Aristophanes' Lysistrata," entries, Encyclopedia of Women in World History, B. G. Smith ed. (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
"Insult and Oral Excess in the Disputes Between Aeschines and Demosthenes," American Journal of Philology Vol. 125, No.1 (2004): 1-25.
"Odysseus, Ingestive Rhetoric, and Euripides' Cyclops," Helios Vol. 29, No. 2 (2002): 101-25.
The Cast of Character: Style in Greek Literature (University of Texas Press, 2002).212.854.3001
nworman@barnard.edu
EDUCATION:
AB, Barnard College
MA, PhD, Princeton University
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Greek and Latin language and literature