Marie Valverde
Education
- BA English, University of New Mexico
- MA, Comparative Literature, Indiana University
Master’s Thesis: (Re)dressing Aphrodite: (Re)defining Woman’s Identity/Sexuality Through Eighteenth Century Translations of the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite
Academic Interests
- Greek tragedy and Athenian democracy
- Greek tragedy and comedy and their modern adaptations (postcolonial adaptations in particular)
- Greek and Roman mythology and their modern adaptations
- Performance theory
- Exile narratives
- Biographical theory and practice
- Changing constructions of sexuality
Courses taught
- 2006-2007, Associate Instructor, L100/L150: First-year Latin
Department of Classics, Indiana University
- 2005-2006, Associate Instructor, C151: Mythology & Popular Culture
Department of Comparative Literature, Indiana University
Texts used: Odyssey, Bhagavad-Gita, and Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings, The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break, Tell My Horse: Voodoo and the Life of Haiti and Jamaica, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
- 2003-2008, Associate Instructor, W131: English Composition
Department of English, Indiana University
Professional Classics Experience
- 2000, Cataloger
Agora—Archaeological Site, Athens, Greece
Papers presented
- April 16-20, 2008 (to be presented), Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS)
104th Annual Meeting at Tuscan, AZ
‘A Greek and not a Barbarian’: The Barbarian Woman and Civic Ideology in Greek Tragedy
- April 11-14, 2007, Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS)
103rd Annual Meeting at Cincinnati, OH
‘Fraternal Culture Shock’: Unchanging (Ex)changes of Identity in Plautus’ Menaechmi and Terence’s Adelphoe
- March 9-11, 2006, Annual Comparative Literature Conference at California State University, Long Beach “Ancient and Modern Narrative: Intersections, Interactions, and Interstices”
‘Black in the Face of White’: Redressing Classical Myths and Literature to Locate the ‘Authentic’ Black Self
- February 8-11, 2006, SW/TX Popular Culture & American Culture Associations:
“Classical Myths in Recent Film & Literature”
Re-Presenting Blackness: Re-Positioning The Modern Black Experience Through Re-Presentations Of Greek Tragedy And Myth
