Current Students :: Graduate Program

Susan A. CurrySusan A. Curry

Education

  • Indiana University, Modern German Culture, M.A. (Honors)  2007 (M.A. Project:  Büchner’s Zoo: Creaturely Life in Three Cages)
  • University of Kansas, Classics, M.A.  2001 (M.A. Thesis:  Building a Better Lemnos: Constructing the Landscape of Sophocles’ Philoctetes)
  • Grinnell College, German, B.A.  1998

Academic Interests

  • Animals in Antiquity
  • Apuleius
  • Roman Imperial Literature and Culture
  • Modern German Literature and Culture

Courses taught

Indiana University
General: Roman Literature in Translation (The Empire and After), Instructor
Medical Terms from Greek and Latin, Instructor
Classical Mythology, Assistant with discussion sections
Latin: Intensive Study of Literary Latin, Instructor
Second-Year Latin I & II, Instructor

University of Kansas
General: Greek and Roman Mythology, Assistant
Greek: Elementary Ancient Greek I & II, Assistant with discussion sections
Latin: Readings in Latin Literature (Catullus), Instructor
Elementary Latin I & II, Assistant with discussion sections

Awards and Honors

  • College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Year Research Fellowship, Indiana University, 2006-2007
  • Dean’s Fellowship, Indiana University, 2001-2005
  • College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Travel Grant, Indiana University, 2004
  • Austin Lashbrook Award, for overall contribution to Classics program, University of Kansas, 2001
  • Mildred Lord Greef Essay Award, University of Kansas, 2000
  • Sterling Walker Prize in Greek, University of Kansas, 1999
  • Tenney Frank Award for Foreign Study, toward participation in archaeological project, Amathus Gate Cemetery, Kourion, Cyprus, University of Kansas, 1999
  • Hewlett Grant, for travel to Lesotho (Southern Africa) and maintenance while teaching winter school, Grinnell College, 1997

Professional Classics Experience

  • Volunteer, Archaeological Project, Amathus Gate Cemetery, Kourion, Cyprus, Summer 1999

Papers presented

  • “From the Bellies of Beasts: Performance and the Co-Production of Identity in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses,” to be presented, CAMWS Annual Meeting, 2008
  • “Tangens Aeneas Tactus: The Role of Touch in Virgil’s Aeneid,” The Five Senses in the Enlightenment (and Beyond): A Workshop, Indiana University, 2005
  • “Who’s Afraid of Hagesichora?: Tensions Within Women’s Space in Alcman’s Partheneion,” Feminism and Classics IV: Gender and Diversity in Place, University of Arizona, 2004
  • “Appeasing the Scribes of the Gods: A Reading of Apuleius’ De Deo Socratis,” CAMWS Annual Meeting, 2004