窪蹋勛圖

Neil Bernstein

Neil Bernstein, portrait
Professor
Ellis 243, Athens Campus
Classics and Religious Studies
bernsten@ohio.edu
740-597-2107

窪蹋勛圖 faculty member since 2004

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Education

2000 Duke University. Ph.D., Classical Studies.

1994 Amherst College. B.A. summa cum laude, Classics and English.

Research Interests

  • Roman epic, drama, and rhetoric
  • Kinship in Roman literature
  • Digital analysis of classical literature
  • Reception of classical literature

Courses Taught

  • CARS 2110 Rome Under the Caesars
  • CARS 2300 Heroes in Classical Literature
  • CARS 2310 Classical Mythology
  • Greek
  • Latin

Awards and Honors

  • 2022-23 Presidential Research Scholar
  • 2019 Western Distinguished Scholar in Residence, , London, ON.
  • 2018 Outstanding Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Award in the Humanities, 窪蹋勛圖.
  • 2014 Distinguished Mentor award,
  • 2012-13 Charles J. Ping Teaching Fellow, 窪蹋勛圖
  • 2011-12 NEH Fellowship, Research Triangle Park, NC
  • 2011-12 Fellowship (sabbatical funding; declined)
  • 2011 Fellowship ($5,000)
  • 2008-9 , National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan ROC
  • 2008 Loeb Classical Library Foundation grant (publication subvention)
  • 1996-2000 James B. Duke Fellowship, Duke University
  • 1994 Phi Beta Kappa, Amherst College

Professional Experience

  • 2004-present Professor (2014-present); Associate (2010-14); Assistant (2004-10) Department of Classics and World Religions, , Athens, OH
  • 2019 , , London ON.
  • 2017 NEH Institute, , Kent State University, Kent OH
  • 2011-12 NEH Fellow, , Research Triangle Park, NC
  • 2008-9 Fulbright Lecturer, , Taipei, Taiwan
  • 2001-4 Visiting Assistant Prof., , , Wooster, OH

Research and Publications

Solo-authored Books

Poppaea Sabina: The Life and Afterlife of A Roman Empress. Under contract for series. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

The Complete Works of Claudian. Translated with an Introduction and Notes. London: Routledge, 2023. ISBN .

Silius Italicus, Punica 9. Edited with an Introduction, Translation, and Commentary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. ISBN .

Seneca: Hercules Furens. Bloomsbury Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. xv + 151 pp. ISBN .

  • Reviews: Gnomon 91.2 (2019) 171-174; Classical Review 68.1 (2018) 95-97; Classics Ireland 25 (2018) ; Exemplaria Classica 22 (2018) 303-309; Revue des tudes Anciennes (9/25/); New England Classical Journal 44.3 (2017) 190-193; Bryn Mawr Classical Review ; Classical Journal Online ; Classics for All .

Silius Italicus, Punica 2. Edited with an Introduction, Translation, and Commentary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. liv + 318 pp. ISBN .

  • Reviews: Mnemosyne 73 (2020) 164-176; Classical Review 68.2 (2018); Classical Journal Online ; Greece & Rome 65.1 (2018) 113-114; Times Literary Supplement ; Bollettino di Studi Latini 48 (2018) 321-326.

Ethics, Identity, and Community in Later Roman Declamation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. x + 229 pp. ISBN .

  • Reviews: Classical Philology 112.1 (2017) 108-111; Bollettino di Studi Latini 45 (2015) 607-609; Classical World 108.2 (2015) 306-307; Mnemosyne 68.3 (2015) 524-527; Sehepunkte 15.4 (2015); Classical Journal Online ; Greece & Rome 61.2 (2014) 281-282.

In the Image of the Ancestors: Narratives of Kinship in Flavian Epic. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. ix + 281 pp. ISBN .

  • Reviews: Phoenix 65.1-2 (2011) 183-185; Mnemosyne 64 (2011) 511-514; Classical Journal Online ; Hermathena 187 (2009) 124-128.

Co-authored Books and Journals

A Commentary on Seneca: Hercules Furens. Co-edited with Christopher Francese, Kyle Gervais, et al. , 2022.

Silius Italicus Punica: Romes War With Hannibal. Translated with Antony Augoustakis. London: Routledge, 2021. ISBN .

  • Reviews: Classical Review 72.1 (2022): ; Bryn Mawr Classical Review .

Digital Methods and Classical Studies. Co-edited with Neil Coffee. Digital Humanities Quarterly (2016).

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

The siege of Amida and epic tradition: Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 19.1-9. 72.6 (2019) 994-1012.

Nec tibi sufficiat transmissae gloria uitae: otium and ambition from Statius to Ennodius. Classical Journal 115.1 (2019) 63-85.

Light on the water in Silius Italicus' Punica and Claudian's De Raptu Proserpinae. Mnemosyne 69 (2016) 1050-1057.

. Co-authored with Neil Coffee. Digital Humanities Quarterly 10.2 (2016).

Romes Arms and Breast: Claudian Panegyricus Dictus Olybrio et Probino Consulibus 83- 90 and its Tradition. Classical Quarterly 66.1 (2016) .

. Co-authored with Kyle Gervais and Wei Lin. Digital Humanities Quarterly 9.3 (2015).

Torture her until she lies: Torture, Testimony, and Social Status in Roman Rhetorical Education. Greece & Rome 59.2 (2012) .

Adoptees and Exposed Children in Roman Declamation: Commodification, Luxury, and the Threat of Violence. Classical Philology 104.3 (2009) .

The white doe of Capua (Silius Italicus, Punica 13.115-137). Scholia: Studies in Classical Antiquity 18 (2009) 89-106.

Each Mans Father Served as His Teacher: Constructing Relatedness in Plinys Letters. Classical Antiquity 27.2 (2008)

Bodies, substances, and kinship in Roman declamation: The sick twins and their parents in Pseudo-Quintilian Major Declamations 8. Ramus: Critical Studies in Greek and Roman Literature 36.2 (2007) 118-142.

Fashioning Crispinus through his Ancestors: Epic Models in Statius, Silvae 5.2. Arethusa 40.2 (2007)

Mourning the puer delicatus: Status Inconsistency and the Ethical Value of Fostering in Statius, Silvae 2.1. American Journal of Philology 126.2 (2005)

Auferte oculos: modes of spectatorship in Statius Thebaid 11. Phoenix: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada 58.1-2 (2004) . Reprinted in: . Oxford Readings, ed. Antony Augoustakis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 234-261.

Revisiting Ovids Philomela: Silence, Revenge, and Representation in Andr矇 Brinks The Other Side of Silence. Classical and Modern Literature 24.2 (2004) 11-27.

Ancestors, status, and self-presentation in Statius Thebaid. Transactions of the American Philological Association 133 (2003)

The Text of Pervigilium Veneris 90: A Proposed Emendation. Classical Quarterly 50.1 (2000) Co-authored with Francis Newton.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

Literary Patronage and the Roman Imperial Court from Augustus to the Severan Dynasty. In: , ed. Benjamin Kelly and Angela Hug (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Chapter 18, pp. 438-460.

Angela Hug, Benjamin Kelly, and Neil Bernstein. Court Relationships. In: , ed. Benjamin Kelly and Angela Hug (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Chapter 3, pp. 79-131.

Claudians Silius. In: , ed. Antony Augoustakis and Marco Fucecchi (Leiden: Brill, 2022). Pp. 103-123.

Silius Punica and the traditions of Greek and Roman tragedy. In: . (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021). Pp. 25-42.

Qualitative and quantitative perspectives on the use of poetic tradition in Silius Italicus Punica. In: , ed. Neil Coffee et al. (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020). Pp. 377-392.

A Greater Love: Fides in Statius Silvae. In: , ed. Antony Augoustakis, Emma Buckley, and Claire Stocks (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019). Pp. 68-82.

Inuitas maculant cognato sanguine dextras: Civil war themes in Silius Saguntum episode. In: , ed. Lauren Ginsberg and Darcy Krasne (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019). Pp. 179-197.

Continuing the Aeneid in the First Century: Ovid's Little Aeneid, Lucans Bellum Civile, and Silius' Punica. In: Brills Companion to Prequels, Sequels, and Retellings of Classical Epic, ed. Robert Simms (Leiden: Brill, 2018). Chapter 13, pp. 248-266.

. In: Oxford Bibliographies in Classics, ed. Dee Clayman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Persona, Identity, and Self-Presentation in Roman Declamation. In: , ed. Andreas Gavrielatos (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017). Chapter 1, pp. 1-16.

Revisiting Ovidian Silius, along with Lucretian, Virgilian, and Lucanian Silius. In: , ed. Laurel Fulkerson and Tim Stover (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2016). Pp. 225-248.

"Mutua vulnera: dying together in Silius Saguntum. In: The Family in Flavian Epic, ed. Nikoletta Manioti. (Leiden: Brill, 2016). Pp. 228-247.

Epic Poetry: Historicizing the Flavian Epics. In: ed. Andrew Zissos (Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016). Pp. 395-411.

Auferte oculos: Modes of Spectatorship in Statius' Thebaid 11. In: . Oxford Readings in Classical Studies, ed. Antony Augoustakis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016). Pp. 234-261.

Omnibus patemus insidiis: elite vulnerability in Major Declamations 11. In: The Declamations Ascribed to Quintilian, ed. M.T. Dinter, C. Gu矇rin, and M. Martinho (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016). Pp. 255-267.

The Clash of Weapons and the Sight of War: Spectatorship and Identification in Roman Epic. In: Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Display of Armed Conflict, ed. A. Bakogianni and V. Hope (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015). Pp. 58-72.

Family and Kinship in the Works of Statius. In: , ed. W.J. Dominik, Kyle Gervais, and Carole E. Newlands (Leiden: Brill, 2015). Pp. 139-154.

Romanas ueluti saeuissima cum legiones Tisiphone regesque mouet: Valerius Flaccus Argonautica and the Flavian Era. In: , ed. M.A.J. Heerink and Gesine Manuwald (Leiden: Brill, 2014). Pp. 154-169.

Distat opus nostrum, sed fontibus exit ab isdem: Declamation and Flavian epic. In: ed. Gesine Manuwald and Astrid Voigt. (Berlin: Walter DeGruyter, 2013). pp. 139-156.

Ritual Murder and Suicide in Statius Thebaid. In: , ed. Antony Augoustakis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013). Chapter 13, pp. 233-248.

The Dead and their Ghosts in the Bellum Civile: Lucans Visions of History. In: Brills Companion to Lucan, ed. Paolo Asso (Leiden: Brill, 2011). Chapter 13, pp. 257-279.

Family and the State in the Punica. In: , ed. Antonios Augoustakis (Leiden: Brill, 2010). Chapter 16, pp. 377-397.

Cui parens non erat maximus quisque et uetustissimus pro parente: paternal surrogates in imperial Roman literature. In: , edd. Sabine Huebner and David M. Ratzan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). Chapter 13, pp. 241- 256.

Forthcoming Work

The Performing Arts and their audiences. Co-authored with Hallie Marshall. In: A Cultural History of Leisure in Antiquity, ed. Jerry Toner. Forthcoming, Bloomsbury.

Latin Sophists and Rhetors From the Age of Trajan to the Age of Constantine. In: The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature, ed. Gavin Kelly and Aaron Pelttari. Forthcoming, Cambridge University Press.

The Madness of Hercules From Euripides through the Renaissance. In: Hercules: a Hero for All Ages, ed. Eleftheria Ioannidou, Helen Slaney, and Emma Stafford. Under consideration, Brill.

Though the Great Song Return No More: Silver Latin Epic and Its Tradition. In: The Blackwell Companion to Latin Epic, 14-96 CE, ed. Lee Fratantuono. Under contract, Wiley-Blackwell.

Recent Service to the Profession

Classical Association of the Middle West and South First Book Award Committee (2015-2021; Chair, 2021-present).

Editorial board, Transactions of the American Philological Association (2016-2022).

College Board, Advanced Placement Latin Development Committee (2017-2020).

Recent Book Reviews (last 3 years)

Alison Sharrock and Alison Keith, edd., Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy. Toronto, 2020. Journal of Roman Studies 112 (2022) 267-268.

Andrew M. McClellan, Abused bodies in Roman epic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2020.09.47.

Antony Augoustakis and R. Joy Littlewood (eds), Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Journal of Roman Studies 110 (2020) 297-299.

Recent Conference Papers and Invited Lectures (last 3 years)

Reading Mob Violence and Treason with Pseudo-Quintilian and Lorenzo Patarol. Ohio State University; University of Genoa; Classical Association of Canada Conference, April-May 2022.

The Battle of Cannae in the Roman Poetic Imagination. University of British Columbia, November 2020.

In the shadow of the Master: reading the pseudo-Quintilianic corpus. Western University, London ON, October 2019; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, March 2019.

Thesis and Dissertation Participation

2021. Committee member: Kenneth Elliott, Rewards for Violence: praemia in Roman Declamation. Ph.D., Classics, University of Iowa.

2020. Committee member: Stephen Froedge, Monsters in Flavian Epic. Ph.D., Classics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

2018. External examiner: Michelle Sugar, Guilt in Vergils Aeneid and Lucans Bellum Civile. Ph.D., Classical Studies, University of Western Ontario, London ON.

2016. External examiner: Geoffrey G. Thompson, The Application of Citations in the Prose Corpus of Lucius Annaeus Seneca: A Digital Approach. Ph.D., Classics and Ancient History, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

2013. Committee member: James M. Lohmar, "The Anatomy of Roman Epic: A Study of Poetic Violence." Ph.D., Department of Classics, University of Florida.

2013. External examiner: Kyle J. Conrau-Lewis, The two voices of Statius: patronymics in the Thebaid. M.A., Classics and Archaeology, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Internal Grants

2015 窪蹋勛圖 College of Arts and Sciences grant ($7,500) to co-lead Faculty Learning Community Challenges in Teaching

2014 窪蹋勛圖 College of Arts and Sciences grant ($5,000) to co-lead faculty seminar Taking Risks in Teaching

2012-13 窪蹋勛圖 Research Council grant ($7,123) for project Developing Data Mining Strategies for Classical Latin Poetry