Univ.-Prof. i. R. Dr. Danuta Shanzer

 

Institut für Klassische Philologie, Mittel- und Neulatein / Department of Classical Philology, Medieval and Neolatin Studies
Universität Wien / University of Vienna
Universitätsring 1
1010 Wien

+43-1-4277-419 20
danuta.shanzer@univie.ac.at

Sprechstunde nach Vereinbarung / Office hours by appointment

CV und Publikationsliste als PDF / CV and list of publications as PDF

 

Danuta Shanzer, geboren 1956 in Manhattan, New York City, hat Altgriechisch und Latein am Bryn Mawr College (B.A. 1977) und Literae Humaniores am Corpus Christi College, Oxford University (D.Phil. 1981), studiert.  Als Lehrende wirkte sie an der University of Manchester (1980-81), an der University of California in Berkeley (1981-1990), an der Harvard University (1989), an der Cornell University (1989-2003) und an der University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (2003-2011). Schließlich erhielt sie einen Ruf an die Universität Wien, wo sie jetzt als ordentliche Universitäts-Professorin für lateinische Philologie der Spätantike und des Mittelalters tätig ist.  Danuta Shanzer hat zwei Bücher verfasst und vier Bücher herausgegeben. Sie hat viele verschiedene wissenschaftliche Herausgeberfunktionen inne wie auch die Redaktionsleitung der „Latin Series“ aus der Reihe „Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library“ (Harvard University Press). Sie ist ferner Mitglied des redaktionellen Beirats des CSEL an der Universität Salzburg. Danuta Shanzer erhielt Förderungen von der Marshall Aid Commission, der Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung und vom ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies). Sie ist ordentliches Mitglied und Oratorin der Medieval Academy of America und wirkliches Mitglied der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Ihre Forschungen richten sich auf Literaturgeschichte, lateinische Philologie und Sozial- wie Religionsgeschichte der Spätantike und des frühen Mittelalters.

 

 

Überblick | Overview

 

Curriculum Vitae | Academic CV

  • September 1961-June 1974:  The Brearley School, New York City
  • September 1974-May 1977:  Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
  • October 1977-October 1980:  Corpus Christi College, Oxford
  • A.B. Bryn Mawr College, June 1977 magna cum laude insignique nota in litteris Graecis (Double major in Greek and Latin with Honours in Greek)
  • D.Phil. Oxford University, March 1981 (Literae Humaniores) 

Learned and Professional Societies and Service

  • American Philological Association, Committee on Translations, 2011-13
  • American Association of University Professors, Membership Committee for the Local Chapter 2010-2011
  • American Association of University Professors (AAUP) (till 2012)
  • Eranos Vindobonensis, Vize-Präsidentin, 2012-2014 and 2018-20
  • Eranos Vindobonensis, Präsidentin, 2014-2016 and 2020-22
  • Medieval Academy of America: Elected Councilor 2009-2011; Fellows’ Nominating  Committee 2009-12; Executive Committee 2010-11
  • Orator for the Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America, 2015-2017
  • Medieval Latin Association of North America
  • Medieval Latin Studies Group (APA)
  • International Medieval Latin Committee (Austrian Representative 2013-)
  • Mommsen-Gesellschaft 2015-
  • Oxford Philological Society (1977-2013)
  • Platinum Latin (Founder and President)
  • Co-President, The Society for Late Antiquity (2003-2005)
  • Society for Classical Studies (formerly APA)
  • American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation “Humboldtian on  Campus” at UIUC 2008-2010
  • Verein zur Förderung der Christlichen Archäologie Österreichs, 2011-
  • Wiener Humanistiche Gesellschaft, 2012-
  • Obfrau der Wiener Humanistischen Gesellschaft 2015-
  • Internationale Thesaurus-Kommission (München) 2014
  • Publikationskommission der OeAW: 2017-2022
  • Stellvertretende Obfrau, Publikationskommission der OeAW: 2017-
  • Preisvergabe-Kommission der OeAW 2017-
  • Kuratoriumsmitglied, Gremium des Jubiläumsfonds der Stadt Wien für die  Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften: 2021-

Editorial Duties

  • North American Editor for Early Medieval Europe (publ. B. H. Blackwell) January 2000-2011
  • Corresponding Editor, Early Medieval Europe, 2011-
  • Editor, Illinois Classical Studies, January 2004-2011
  • Advisory Editorial Board, The Journal of Late Antiquity 2007 –
  • Advisory Editorial Board, The Journal of Medieval Latin 2012-
  • International Editorial Board, Wiener Studien 2007-   
  • Latin Editor for Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library Series (= Medieval Loebs, Harvard University Press:   www.hup.harvard.edu/collection.php: 2009-) (33 Latin volumes have appeared under my editorship)
  • Editorial Board, Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, Universität Salzburg, 2013-  

Publikationen | Publications

Books

  • A Philosophical and Literary Commentary on Martianus Capella’s De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii Liber 1 (Berkeley 1986)

  • Letters and Selected Prose of Avitus of Vienne (co-authored with Ian Wood, University of Leeds) (Liverpool 2002) A translation with extensive textual and historical commentary in the series “Translated Text for Historians (vol. 38)” 450 pp. ISBN 0-85323-588-0

 

Edited books

  • Culture and Society in Later Roman Gaul: Revisiting the Sources (Ashgate 2001), co-edited with R.W. Mathisen

  • Special Editor for Illinois Classical Studies Supplement 8: From Babel to Finnegans Wake: Collected Papers of Howard Jacobson (Urbana 2009).
  • Romans and Barbarians and the Transformation of the Roman World (Ashgate 2011), co-edited with R. W. Mathisen
  • The Battle of Vouillé 507 CE: Where France Began (De Gruyter 2012), co-edited with R.W. Mathisen

 

Articles in refereed journals

  1. “How long was Alan of Lille’s Anticlaudianus?,” Mittellateinisches 

    Jahrbuch 18 (1983) 233-37
  2. “The Anticlaudianus in the British Isles,” Studi Medievali 28 (1987) 905-1001 (with M. Gibson and N. Palmer)
  3. “Me quoque excellentior: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae 4.6.38,” Classical Quarterly 33 (1983) 277-83
  4. “Ennodius, Boethius, and the Date and Interpretation of Maximianus’s Elegia III,” Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica 111 (1983) 183-95
  5. ”The Late Antique Tradition of Varro’s ONOS LYRAS,” RhM 129 (1986) 272-85
  6. “Three Textual Problems in Martianus Capella,” Classical Philology 79 (1984) 142-45
  7. “The Death of Boethius and the Consolation of Philosophy,” Hermes 112 (1984) 352-66
  8. “Tatwine: an independent witness to the text of Martianus Capella’s De Grammatica ?” Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica 112 (1984) 292-313
  9. “Merely a Cynic Gesture?” Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica 113 (1985) 61-66
  10. “De Tagetis exaratione,” Hermes 115 (1987) 127-28
  11. “De Iovis exterminatione,” Hermes 114 (1986) 382-83
  12. “The Anonymous Carmen contra paganos and the Date and Identity of the Centonist Proba,” Revue des Études Augustiniennes 32 (1986) 232-48
  13. “The Date and Composition of Prudentius’s Contra Orationem Symmachi Libri,” Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica 117 (1989) 442-62
  14. “The Punishment of Bertrand de Born,” Yearbook of Italian Studies 8 (1989) 95-97
  15. “Parturition Through the Nostrils? Thirty-Three Textual Problems in Alain de Lille’s De Planctu Nature,” Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 26 (1991) 140-149
  16. “Allegory and Reality: Spes, Victoria and the Date of Prudentius’s Psychomachia,” Illinois Classical Studies 14.1-2 (1989) 347-63
  17. “Alan of Lille, Contemporary Annoyances, and Dante,”Classica et Mediaevalia 40 (1989) 251-269
  18. “Asino vectore virgo regia fugiens captivitatem: Apuleius and the Tradition of the Protoevangelium Jacobi,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 84 (1990) 221-29
  19. “Once again Tiberianus and the Pervigilium Veneris,” Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica 118 (1990) 306-18
  20. “‘Arcanum Varronis iter:’ Licentius’s Verse Epistle to Augustine,” Revue des Études Augustiniennes 37 (1991) 110-143
  21. “Latent Narrative Patterns, Allegorical Choices, and Literary Unity in Augustine’s Confessions,” Vigiliae Christianae 46 (1992) 40-56
  22. “Iuvenes Vestri Visiones Videbunt: Visions and the Literary Sources of Patrick’s Confessio,” Journal of Mediaeval Latin 3 (1993) 169-201
  23. “The Date and Identity of the Centonist Proba,” Recherches Augustiniennes 27 (1994) 74-96
  24. “Pears before Swine: Augustine, Confessions 2.4.9,” Revue des Études Augustiniennes 42 (1996): 45-55
  25. "Two Clocks and a Wedding: Theodoric’s Diplomatic Relations with the Burgundians,” Romanobarbarica 14 (1996-97) 225-258
  26. “The Date and Literary Context of Ausonius’s Mosella: Valentinian I’s Alemannic Campaigns and an Unnamed Office-Holder,” Historia 47.2 (1998) 204-33
  27. “Piscatum Opiparem . . . Praestinavi: Apuleius, Met. 1, 24-25,” Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica 124 (1996) 445-54
  28. “Dating the Baptism of Clovis: the Bishop of Vienne vs. the Bishop of Tours,” Early Medieval Europe 7.1 (1998) 29-57
  29. “Avulsa a latere meo:” Augustine’s Spare Rib — Augustine Confessions 6.15.25 Journal of Roman Studies 92 (2002) 157-176
  30. “So many Saints—so Little Time: the Libri Miraculorum of Gregory of Tours,” Journal of Medieval Latin 13 (2003) 19-60 (text of the O’Donnell Lecture)
  31. “Voces Mediolatinae: Teacher, Audience, Context, Matter,” ICS 30 (2006) 266-70
  32. “Bible, Exegesis, Literature, and Society,” JMLat 18 (2008) 130-57
  33. “Voices and Bodies: The Afterlife of the Unborn,” Numen 56 (2009) 326-65
  34. “Literature, History, Periodization, and the Pleasures of the Latin Literary History of Late Antiquity,” History Compass 7/3 (2009) 917-54
  35. “Who was Augustine’s Publicola?” Revue des Études Juives 171.1-2 (2012) 27-60.
  36. “Sex, Lies, and Ordeal-by-Oath: A Case Study of Augustine, Epp. 78 and 80, Reading Medieval Studies 40 (2014) 11-33. 
  37. “Augustine’s Anonyma I and Cornelius’ Concubines: How Philology and Literary Criticism Can Help in Understanding Augustine on Marital Fidelity,” Augustinian Studies 48.1 (2017) 201-225.
  38. “’Backwards in high heels:’ Detecting Epistolary Unfriendliness Across the Abyss of Time,” ZAC 22.1 (2018) 50-70.
  39. “Resurrections before the Resurrection in the Imaginaire of Late Antiquity,” The Biblical Annals 9.4 (2019) 493-520.

 

Book chapters

  1. “A new prologue for Alain de Lille’s De Planctu Nature?” in Arbor amoena comis: 25 Jahre Mittellateinisches Seminar in Bonn 1965-1990, ed. Ewald Könsgen (Stuttgart 1990) 163-174

  2. “The Date and Literary Context of Ausonius’s Mosella: Ausonius, Symmachus, and the Mosella,” in P. Knox & C. Foss, eds. The Discipline of the Art. Studies of Style and Tradition: in Latin Literature in Honor of Wendell Clausen, (Stuttgart: Teubner, 1997) 286-307

  3.  “History, Romance, Love, and Sex in Gregory of Tours’ Decem Libri Historiarum,” in The World of Gregory of Tours, ed. K. Mitchell & I.N. Wood (Brill 2002) 395-418
  4. “Bishops, Letters, Fast, Food, and Feast in Later Roman Gaul,” in R. W. Mathisen & D. R. Shanzer, eds. Culture and Society in Later Roman Gaul: Revisiting the Sources (Ashgate 2001) 217-36
  5. “Laughter and Humour in the Early Medieval Latin West,” in G. Halsall, ed. Humour, History and Politics in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Cambridge 2002) 25-47
  6. “Augustine’s Disciplines: Silent diutius Musae Varronis?” in K. Pollmann & M. Vessey, eds. Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (Oxford 2005) 69-112
  7.  “Epilogue” for Romane Memento: Vergil in the Fourth Century, ed. R. Rees (Duckworth 2004) 201-213
  8.  “Latin Literature, Christianity, and Obscenity in the Later Roman West,” in Medieval Obscenities, ed. N. MacDonald, (York 2006): 179-202
  9. “Intentions and Audiences: History, Hagiography, Martyrdom, and Confession in Victor of Vita’s Historia Persecutionis,” in Vandals, Romans and Berbers: New Perspectives on Late Antique Africa, ed. A. Merrills (Ashgate 2004): 271-290.
  10. “Gregory of Tours and Poetry: Prose into Verse and Verse into Prose,” in Aspects of the Language of Latin Prose, ed. J.N. Adams, Michael Lapidge, and Tobias Reinhardt, = Proceedings of the British Academy 129 (2005): 303-319
  11.  “Bede’s Style: A Neglected Historiographical Model for the Style of the Historia Ecclesiastica” in Source of Wisdom: Old English and Early Medieval Latin Studies in Honor of Thomas D. Hill, ed. Charles D. Wright, Frederick M. Biggs, and Thomas N. Hall. (University of Toronto Press 2007): 329-352
  12. “Editions and Editing in the Classroom: A Report from the Mines in America,” in Vom Nutzen des Edierens: Akten des internationalen Kongresses zum 150-jährigen Bestehen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, ed. B. Merta, A. Sommerlechner, & H. Weigl = Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Ergänzungsband 47 (2005): 355-368
  13.  “Marriage and Kinship Relations among the Burgundians,” forthcoming in The Burgundians, ed. Jean-François Reynaud & Ian Wood
  14. “The Cosmographia Attributed to Aethicus Ister as Philosophen- or Reiseroman,” in Insignis sophiae arcator. Essays in Honour of Michael Herren on his 65th Birthday, ed. C. Ruff, G. Wieland, and R. Arthur (Turnhout 2006) 57-86.
  15. “Hisperic Faminations,” in Through a Classical Eye: Transcultural and Transhistorical Visions in Medieval English, Italian, and Latin Literature in Honour of Winthrop Wetherbee, ed. A. S. Galloway & R. F. Yeager, (Toronto 2009) 44-68.
  16. “Representations and Reality in Early Medieval Literature,” Comment on Papers by Paul Dutton, Joaquín Martínez Pizarro, and Jan Ziolkowski, in The Long Morning of Medieval Europe: New Directions in Early Medieval Studies, ed. M. McCormick & J. R. Davis (Ashgate 2008) 209-215. 
  17.  “Interpreting the Consolation,” in The Cambridge Companion to Boethius, ed. John Marenbon (Cambridge 2009) 228-254
  18.  “Some Treatments of Sexual Scandal in (Primarily) Later Latin Epistolography,” in In Pursuit of Wissenschaft: FS for William M. Calder III zum 75 Geburtstag ed. S. Heilen, R. Kirstein, et al. (Hildesheim 2008) 393-414
  19. “Poetry and Exegesis: Two Variations on the Theme of Paradise,” in Lateinische Poesie der Spätantike, H. Harich-Schwarzbauer and P. Schierl, eds, Schweizerische Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft (Basel) 217-43.
  20. “Haec quibus uteris verba: the Bible and Boethius’ Christianity,” in The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity, ed. A. J. Cain and N. Lenski (Ashgate 2010) 57-78.
  21.  “Jerome, Tobit, Alms, and the Vita Aeterna,” in “Jerome of Stridon. Religion, Culture, Society and Literature in Late Antiquity, ed. A. J. Cain & J. Lössl (Ashgate 2009) 87-103.
  22.  “Augustine and the Latin Classics,” in The Blackwell Companion to Augustine, ed. M. Vessey (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell 2012) 161-174.
  23. “The Tale of Frodebert’s Tail,”in Colloquial and Literary Latin, ed. Eleanor Dickey and Anna Chahoud (Cambridge 2010) 376-405.
  24. “‘Incessu humilem, successu excelsam:’ Augustine, Sermo Humilis, and Scriptural ὕψος,” in C. S. Jaeger, ed. Magnificence and the Sublime in Medieval Aesthetics: Art, Architecture, Literature, Music (Palgrave MacMillan 2010) 51-77.
  25. “Argumenta leti and ludibria mortis: Ekphrasis, Art, Attributes, Identity, and Hagiography in Late Antique Poetry” in „Text und Bild: Beiträge einer Tagung Wien, April 2009”„Sitzungsberichte, phil.-hist. Klasse: Veröffentlichungen der Kommission  zur Herausgabe des Corpus der lateinischen Kirchenväter” (Wien 2010) 57-82.
  26. “Vouillé 507: Historiographical, Hagiographical, and Diplomatic Re- Considerations and Fortuna, “ in The Battle of Vouillé 507: Where France Began, ed. R.  W. Mathisen and D. R. Shanzer (De Gruyter 2012) 63-78
  27. ““Food and the Senses, and One Very Special Taste of Paradise, “ in The Cosmography of Paradise, ed. Alessandro Scafi (London: The Warburg Institute) forthcoming
  28.  “Incest and Late Antiquity: Décadence?” in M. Formisano & T. Fuhrer, eds. Décadence (Winter: Heidelberg) forthcoming
  29.  “One Dead Girl, Two Living Ladies, Quohelet, and the Judgment of Man: Eschatological Problems, Particular Judgment, and Jerome’s Commentary on Ecclesiastes” in Elisabeth Birnbaum and Ludger Schwienhorst-Schönberger, eds. Hieronymus als Exeget und Theologe. Interdisziplinäre Zugänge zum „Koheletkommentar” des Hieronymus, “Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium” forthcoming Peeters Leuven: 2014)
  30. “Beheading at Vercellae: What is Jerome, Ep. 1, and why does it matter?,” in Gernot Michael Müller, ed. Zwischen Alltagskommunikation und literarischer Identitätsbildung. Kulturgeschichtliche Aspekte lateinischer Epistolographie  in Spätantike und Frühmittelalter "Roma aeterna. Beiträge zu Spätantike und Frühmittelalter"  (Steiner-Verlag: Stuttgart) forthcoming
  31. “Hell, the Resurrection, and Last Things: Philology in Orientius’ Afterworld,” in Edition und Erforschung lateinischer patristischer Texte: 150 Jahre CSEL (De Gruyter 2014)
  32. With Daniela E. Mairhofer,  "Autoritative Texte: Überlieferung und Rezeption." In Kinder Abrahams. Die Bibel in Judentum, Christentum und Islam, edited by Armin Lange and Bernhard Palme, 61-67. Wien: Phoibos Verlag, 2014.
  33.  “Monotheists' Predication and Narrative: Challenges and Strategies in Late Antique (primarily Christian) Poetry,” in Nicola Hömke, Gian Franco Chiai, and Antonia Jenik, eds Bilder von dem Einen Gott. Die Rhetorik des Bildes in monotheistischen Gottesdarstellungen der römischen Spätantike = Philologus Supplementband, Verlag De Gruyter (forthcoming late 2014).
  34. „Auctor, Auctoritas and the Witness to Other Worlds,“ in E. D’ Angelo and J. Ziolkowski, eds. in Auctor et Auctoritas in Latinis Medii Aevi Litteris = Proceedings of the VIth Congress of the International Medieval Latin Committee (Benevento-Naples, November 9-13, 2010) (Firenze: SISMEL/Edizioni de Galuzzo 2014) 1019-1034.
  35. “Capturing Merovingian Courts: a Literary Perspective,” in Le Corti nel’ Alto Medioevo, Settimane di Studio, Fondazione C.I.S.A.M. 72 (Spoleto 2015): 667-699.
  36. “Evodius’ Strange Encounters with the Dead: Questions and Answers in Augustine, Epp. 158-159,” in Scrinium Augustini. The World of Augustine’s Letters, ed. P. Nehring, M. Stróżyński, and R. Toczko (Brepols 2017): 273-304
  37.  “The Twilight of the Ancient Gods” in Geneses: Comparative Study of the Historiographies of the Rise of Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism and Islam, ed. John Tolan (Routledge 2019): 35-63.
  38. "Grave Matters: Love, Death, Resurrection, and Reception in the De laudibus Domini." In Poetry, Bible and Theology from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages, edited by M. Cutino, 289-306. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020.
  39. “Burial with a Partner in Late Antique and Early Medieval Gaul: From Urban Legend to Inscriptions” ATEG VI (forthcoming in Revue Archéologique du Centre de la France).
  40. “Salome’s Dance: Heads and Bodies between Narrative and Intertextuality” in Choreonarratives, ed. L. Gianvittorio and K. Schlapbach (Brill 2021), 180-213
  41. “Food of Judgement: Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages” forthcoming in Early Christian Mystagogy and the Body, ($$) ed. P. van Geest and N. Vos 
  42. Bitter Waters in Late Antiquity: the Heptateuch Poet on Numbers (with an excursus on Claudius Marius Victorius’ Aleth. 3.632-668),” forthcoming in $$, ed. D. de Gianni and S. Freund

  

Reviews

  1. Review of C. Ratkowitsch, MAXIMIANUS AMAT: zu Datierung und Interpretation des Elegikers Maximian in Gnomon 60 (1988) 259-61
  2. Review of M. Roberts, Biblical Epic and Rhetorical Paraphrase in Late Antiquity (Liverpool 1985) in Romance Philology 44 (1991) 472-78
  3. Review of R. Herzog, ed., Restauration und Erneuerung: die lateinische Literatur von 284 bis 374 n. Chr. (München 1989) in JRS 82 (1992) 244-45
  4. Review of Robert McMahon, Augustine’s Prayerful Ascent: An Essay on the Literary Form of the Confessions. (Athens and London 1989) in Envoi 2.2 (1990) 411-18
  5. Review of Latin vulgaire-latin tardif. Actes du Ier Colloque international sur le latin vulgaire et tardif (Pécs, 2-5 septembre 1985). ed. József Herman (Tübingen 1987) Romance Philology 47 (1994) 324-32
  6. Review of M.Kah, “Die Welt der Römer mit der Seele suchend . . .” Die Religiosität des Prudentius im Spannungsfeld zwischen ‘pietas christiana’ und ‘pietas romana.’ Hereditas: Studien zur Alten Kirchengeschichte 3. (Bonn 1990) in Gnomon 64 (1992) 676-680
  7. Review of G. O’Daly, The Poetry of Boethius (London 1991) Medium Aevum 63 (1994) 307-7
  8. Review of Bernhard Pabst, Prosimetrum: Tradition und Wandel einer Literaturform zwischen Spätantike und Spätmittelalter (Köln Weimar Wien 1994), 2 vols. Speculum (1996) 749-52
  9. Review of P. Dronke, Verse with Prose: the Mixed Form from Petronius to Dante (Cambridge, M.A. 1994) in Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 32.2. (1997) 26-32
  10. Review of The Berlin Commentary on Martianus Capella’s De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii Book I, ed. Haijo Jan Westra, Mittellateinische Studien und Texte 20 (Leiden, New York, Köln 1994) in Speculum (1997) 238-40
  11. Review of George W. Shea, The Poems of Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus (Tempe 1997) = Medieval and Renaissance texts and Studies vol. 172 in Classical Review 49.2 (1999) 404-406
  12. Review of S. MacCormack, The Shadows of Poetry: Vergil in the Mind of Augustine (Berkeley 1998) The Catholic Historical Review (1999) 439-41
  13.  Review of C. Rohr, Der Theoderich-Panegyricus des Ennodius (Hannover 1995) Speculum 76 (2001) 446-49
  14. Review of A. Arweiler, Die Imitation antiker und spätantiker Literatur in der Dichtung ‘De spiritalis historiae gestis’ des Alcimus Avitus (Berlin 1999) in Classical Review 51.2 (2001) 264-65
  15. Review of Dennis E. Trout, Paulinus of Nola: Life, Letters, and Poems (Berkeley 1999) in The Catholic Historical Review 87 (2001) 481-83
  16. Review of P. Godman, The Silent Masters: Latin Literature and Its Censors in the High Middle Ages (Princeton 2000) in English Historical Review 116 (2001) 1218-19
  17. Review of A.-L. Rey, Centons Homériques (Paris 1998) = SC 437 in Speculum 77.4 (2002) 1382-84
  18. Review of S. A. H. Kennell, Magnus Felix Ennodius: A Gentleman of the Church (Ann Arbor 2000) in Classical Review 53.2 (2003): 391-94
  19. Review of R. Newhauser, The Early History of Greed: The Sin of Avarice in Early Medieval Thought and Literature (Cambridge 2000) in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology Oct. (2004): 532-35
  20. Review of P. Fouracre, ed. The New Cambridge Medieval History ca. 500-700 (Cambridge 2005) Speculum 83.2 (2008) 435-38.
  21. Review of Philip Burton, Language in the Confessions of Augustine (Oxford 2007) AJP 129.3 (2008): 442-46
  22. Review of Valerie Allen, On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages, The New Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave MacMillan 2007) Reviews in History (March 2009): www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/shanzerd.html
  23.  Review of J.N. Adams, The Regional Diversification of Latin 200 BC-AD 600 (Cambridge 2007) Journal of Late Antiquity 3.1 (2010) 176-82
  24. Review of Lucio Cristante and Luciano Lenaz (ed., comm., trans.), Martiani Capellae De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii. Vol. 1, Libri I/II. Hildesheim: Weidmann 2011 in BMCR 2013.05.48
  25. Review of I. Moreira, Heaven’s Purge:  Purgatory in Late Antiquity.: Oxford University Press, 2010 in History of Religions 53.4 (2014) 401-405.
  26. Review of H. Köhler, C. Sollius Apollinaris Sidonius, Die Briefe (Hiersemann 2014) in Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum 20.1 (2016) 203-209.
  27. Review of Klaus Rosen, Augustinus: Genie und Heiliger. Eine historische Biographie (WBG: 2015) in Gnomon 91.4 (2019) 380-81.
  28. Review of Raphael Schwitter, Umbrosa lux. Obscuritas in der lateinischen Epistolographie der Spätantike, Hermes Einzelschriften. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2015 in Deutsches Archiv 74.2 (2018) 782-783
  29. Review of Robin Lane Fox, Augustine: Conversions to Confessions. First US edition. ed: Basic Books, 2015 in Church History:  Studies in Christianity and Culture 86.2 (2017) 474-77.
  30. Review of Bjornlie, M.S. Cassiodorus' Variae: A Complete and Annotated Translation EME 2021.

 

Review articles

  1. Review article on Stahl, Johnson & Burge, Martianus Capella and the Seven Liberal Arts vols. 1 & 2 in Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur 104 (1982) 110-17
  2.  “Felix Capella: Minus Sensus Quam Nominis Pecudalis,” (A review article on Martianus Capella ed. J.A. Willis [Teubner, Leipzig 1983]) CP 81 (1986) 62-81
  3. “Rhetoric and Art, Art and Ceremony, Martyrs and History, Martyrs and Myth: Some Interdisciplinary Explorations of Late Antiquity” Review Article on S. G. MacCormack, Art and Ceremony in Late Antiquity (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London 1990); M. Malamud, A Poetics of Transformation: Prudentius and Classical Mythology (Ithaca and London 1989); A.-M. Palmer, Prudentius on the Martyrs (Oxford1989); M. Roberts, The Jeweled Style: Poetry and Poetics in Late Antiquity (Ithaca and London 1989) in Envoi 2.2 (1990) 231-68
  4.  “A New Edition of Sedulius Scottus’s Carmina,” a review article on Sedulii Scotti Carmina, ed. I. Meyers, Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 117 (Turnholt: Brepols 1991) in Medium Aevum 63 (1994) 104-117
  5. Review Article on Lucio Cristante, Martiani Capellae De nuptiis philologiae et Mercurii Liber IX, Medioevo e Umanesimo 64, (Antenore, Padova 1987) in Gnomon 68 (1996) 13-28
  6. “Text, Image, and Translations: The Marriage of Philology and Botticelli?” Review Article on Gabriella Moretti, I Primi volgarizzamenti italiani delle Nozze di Mercurio e Filologia (Trento 1995) International Journal of the Classical Tradition 5.1 (1998) 79-88
  7. Review Article on M. Heinzelmann, Gregory of Tours: History and Society in the Sixth C. translated by C. Carroll (Cambridge 2001) Medieval Prosopography 23 (2002/04): 247-266
  8. Review Article on Lucio Cristante and Luciano Lenaz (ed., comm., trans.), Martiani Capellae De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii. Vol. 1, Libri I/II. Hildesheim: Weidmann 2011 in Wiener Studien 126 (2013): 281-308.

Contributions to works of reference

  1. Late Antique Literary Biographies for Who Was Who in the RomanWorld (Oxford 1980)
  2.  “Nemesianus” and “Rutilius Namatianus” for The Dictionary of the Middle Ages (Scribner’s)
  3.  “Martianus Capella” Oxford Classical Dictionary (Oxford 1996)
  4.  “Martianus Capella” in A Guide to the Late Antique World, ed. G. W. Bowersock, P. Brown, & O. Grabar (Cambridge, M.A. 1999)
  5. “Licentius” in the Augustinus-Lexikon 3.7/8 (Basel 2011) 985-87
  6.  “Augustine” for the Literary Encyclopedia (2013 in press)

Teaching

Undergraduate Courses in Greek and Latin:

Catullus

Caesar, De Bello gallico

Greek for beginners

Lactantius, De Mortibus Persecutorum

Latin for beginners

Latin 2 (Cicero, In Cat. 1 or Pro Murena)

Intensive Beginning Latin

Latin in Review

Juvenal and Satire

Lucretius

Mediaeval Latin (Survey of different texts)

Mediaeval Latin (Alain de Lille, De Planctu Nature)

Plato, Apology and Euthyphro

Plato, Symposium

Petronius, Satyrica, Seneca, Apocolocyntosis, and Apuleius, Metamorphoses

New Testament Greek (Acts and Synoptic Gospels) (200-level)

New Testament Greek and Early Christian Literature (300-level)

Ovid, Metamorphoses

Roman Satire:  Ennius-Juvenal (Harvard, Spring 1989)

Sallust

Sight Translation (multiple texts)

Tacitus, Opera Minora

Vergil

 

Undergraduate Lecture Courses in Translation:

Hellenistic Greek and Roman Republican Literature

Roman Literature and Civilisation 753 B.C. -200 A.D.

Roman Literature in Translation:  Plautus-Augustine

“Voyages to Strange Worlds:” Initiation to the Classical Tradition (Homer to Margaret Atwood:  Space Voyages and Utopias and Dystopias)

“Confession and Conversion” Freshman Writing Seminar

“Goths, Vandals, Franks, and Romans”

“Pagans and Christians in the Later Roman Empire”

“The World of Late Antiquity”

“Society and the Supernatural in Late Antiquity”

 

Graduate Classes and Seminars in Greek and Latin:

Advanced Latin Prose Composition 1 (Ciceronian Oratorical Style)

Advanced Latin Prose Composition 2 (Different Styles:  Cato to Apuleius)

Ammianus Marcellinus

Apuleius, Metamorphoses

Apuleius’s Apologia and Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae

Augustine, Confessions

Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae

Cicero, De Natura Deorum and Republic

Classics Proseminar (Greek and Latin Paleography and Textual Criticism)

Insular Latin Literature of the Early Middle Ages (Vindolanda to Geoffrey of Monmouth)

Latin Hagiography:  Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Latin Literature of the Early Middle Ages:  Hilary of Poitiers to Fortunatus

Latin Literature of the Later Roman Empire:  Hymnography, Personal Poetry, and Epistolography

Latin Proseminar (Latin Palaeography and Textual Criticism)

Latin Paleography

Mediaeval Studies Proseminar (team-taught, I covered Latin palaeography)

Pagan and Christian Poetry of Late Antiquity (at Harvard in Spring 1989)

Prudentius

Research Methodologies in Classics (Greek and Latin):  a Practicum

Roman Republican Literature:  A Graduate Survey

Roman Satire

Roman Epistolography

The School of Chartres and Philosophical Poetry of the 12th C.

Vergil, Aeneid 6

Vulgar Latin (Romance Philology 201) (Linguistic history of VL through primary sources)

Wives, Virgins, Martyrs, Widows:  Christian Women of the Later Roman Empire

 

Late Antique and Medieval Latin Hagiography

 

Independent Reading Courses for Graduates

Apuleius

Augustinus, Confessions

Ausonius’s Mosella

Claudius Claudianus

Gregory of Tours, Decem libri historiarum

Jerome’s Epistles

Mediaeval Latin Texts

Prudentius

 

Teaching in German: The University of Vienna (organized by level and type)

Seminars (Continuous Assessment)

Lateinische Hymnen (Prudentius) (Seminar)

Gregor von Tours (Seminar)

Seminar aus Römischer Geschichte: - Panegyrici Latini - Herrscherlob und Herrschaftsideologie in der Spätantike (co-taught with Fritz Mitthof)

Apuleius Apologia (Seminar)

Forschungsseminar für LatinistInnen (Seminar)

DoktorandInnenSeminar, “Me and My Dissertation: Tough Love”

Alcestis Barcinonensis (Seminar)

Lateinische Epistolographie des frühen Mittelalters

Augustine’s Confessions (English)

Firmicus Maternus: De errore profanarum religionum

Spätantike und mittelalterliche Hagiographie (DoktorandInnen Seminar)

Avianus und die antike Fabel

"Studieren wir mal was Anderes!" Off-Piste in der Spätantike und im Frühmittelalter

Aus der monastischen Kultur der Spätantike und des Mittelalters

Privatissimum (jedes Semester)

 

Übungen (Continuous Assessment)

Einführung in die Literaturtheorie (Übung für MastersstudentInnen)

Übung zu Spezialgebieten/Forschungskolloquium

 

Proseminare (Continuous Assessment)

Boethius: Einführung in das wissenschaftliche Arbeiten (Proseminar)

Einführung in das wissenschaftliche Arbeiten (Latein) (Proseminar)

Seneca, Apocolocyntosis: Einführung in das wissenschaftliche Arbeiten (Proseminar)

Gregor von Tours, De Virtutibus S. Iuliani (Proseminar)

 

Lektüre (Continuous Assessment)

Grundlagen des Übersetzens (Philosophische Schriften Ciceros: Lektüre)

Livius (Lektüre III)

Aeneis 3 (Lateinische Lektüre II)

Mittellateinische Lektüre: Agobard von Lyons

Gedichte Genießen (Lektuere III)

“Strange Encounters:” wie geht man mit einem unbekannten Text um? (Lateinische Lektüre II)

“Interessant(er)es aus dem Kühlschrank:” christliche Epitaphien aus der Antike und früherem Mittelalter (Lateinische Lektüre II)

“Als Mönch leben” (Lateinische Lektüre II)

 

Pflichtlektüre Spätlatein

Spätlateinische Texte als Grundlagen der romanischen Sprachen (Vorlesung-Lektüre)

Spätlateinische Texte (Lektüre) (every year)

 

Vorlesungen (Lectures)

Lateinische Epistolographie (Vorlesung Teilgebiet)

Lateinische Epistolographie (Konversatorium)

Augustinus (Vorlesung: Teilgebiet)

Kultur, Literatur und Gesellschaft der Spätantike (Vorlesung) (every two years)

Horaz und Juvenal (Vorlesung: Teilgebiet)

Lateinische Hagiographie (Vorlesung: Teilgebiet)

Überblick über die lateinische Literatur der Spätantike und des frühen Mittelalters (Vorlesung) (every two years)

Die römische Kunstprosa (Teilgebiet der römischen Literatur: Prosa)

Lateinische säkulare Dichtung der Spätantike (Vorlesung)

Teilgebiet der römischen Literatur (Prosa) - Die römische Kunstprosa (Vorlesung)

Jungfrauen, MärtyrerInnen, Ehefrauen, Witwen: die Frau in der christlichen Literatur der lateinischen Spätantike

“So many kinds of awful men:” an informal and anecdotal introduction to character-types, personal pathology, and its remedies in Latin Literature (English)

Begegnungen mit der Bibel (Vorlesung: Teilgebiet Dichtung)

Augustinus Confessiones (Vorlesung: Teilgebiet Prosa)

"Who, when where?" (Vorlesung: Teilgebiet Prosa)

 

Teaching Practicum (Supervision of Graduate Student Teachers)

Classics 300

Classics 302

Classics 545

 

Intensive Language Teaching

Intensive Summer workshop in Medieval Latin (3 weeks) at Cornell from 1990-2003

Supervision

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Supervision

S. Altman, “The Hunt of Diana in the Middle Ages” (Harvard 1990)

B. Petruska, “Hunky Dory: Huns as Vilified Barbarians and Glorified Hungarians” (Cornell, Classics, 1998)

L. Schwartzman, “ Orbis vitrorum fractorum: The Creation of Space in the Satyricon of Petronius “ (Cornell, Classics, 2004)

 

Doctoral Dissertations Directed

S. Beall, “Civilis Eruditio: Style and Content in the Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius” (Berkeley 1988) (Classics Dept.) (Now at Marquette University)

G. Hays, “Fulgentius, the Mythographer” (Cornell 1996) (Classics Dept.) (Now at the University of Virginia)

A. Cain, “Jerome’s Epistolary Corpus: Structure, Transmission and Propagandistic Function” (Cornell 2003) (Medieval Studies Program) (Now at the University of Colorado, Boulder)

Amy Oh, “A Commentary on Jerome’s Contra Vigilantium” (UIUC Classics, 2013) (Now at the University of Southern Florida)

Daniel Abosso, A Translation and Commentary on Claudius Marius Victor's Alethia 3.1-326 (UIUC Classics 2015) (Now at the GSLIS at the University of Illinois)

Pt. Maurus Mount, O.S.B., “A Literary and Religious-Historical Commentary on Book Six of the Vita Sancti Martini by Paulinus of Périgueux” (Wien, Klassische Philologie 2015) (Now at the Monastery of Saint Vincent’s Archabbey, Latrobe, PA)

 

Masters Dissertations Directed

F. Curta, “Apparatus Funerum: Torture and Torture Instruments in Prudentius’ Peristephanon” (Cornell 1999) (Medieval Studies Program)

A. Zielinski-Kinney, “Voluntary Episcopal Exile in Merovingian Gaul,” (UIUC 2006) (Classics)

 

Doctoral Dissertations: External Reader/Examiner or Committee Member

†M. Mansfield, “Public Penance in Northern France in the Thirteenth Century,” (Berkeley 1988) (History Dept.) Chair: Bisson

Nancy Bisaha, “Humanist Reactions to the Expansion of the Ottoman Empire: Views from 15th C. Italy” (Cornell 1997) (History Dept.) Chair: Najemy

Amy Phelan, History “A Study of the First Trailbaston Proceedings in England, 1304-1307” (Cornell 1997) (History Dept.) Chair: Hyams

Eve MacDonald, “Representations of Women in Sidonius Apollinaris and Gregory of Tours: Coniuges et Familiae” (Université d’Ottawa 2000) (Dept. of Classics and Religious Studies) Chair: Burgess

Daniel Wallace Turkeltaub, “The Gods’ Radiance Manifest: An Examination of the Narrative Pattern Underlying the Homeric Divine Epiphany Scenes” (Cornell 2003) (Classics Dept.) Chair: Pucci

Johanna Kramer, “From Sacred Earth to Celestial Spheres: Materiality, Symbolism, and Sacred Space in Old and Middle English Literature,” (Cornell 2005) (Medieval Studies Program) Chair: Hill

Daniel Markovic, “The Rhetoric of Explanation in Lucretius’ De rerum natura,” (UIUC 2006) (Classics) Chair: Jacobson (Now at the University of Cincinnati)

Karen Lurkhur, Redefining Gender Through the Arena of the Male Body: The Reception of Thomas's Tristran in the Old French Le Chevalier de la charette and the Old Icelandic Saga af Tristram ok Ísodd" (UIUC 2007) (Comparative Literature): Co-Chairs: Fresco and Kalinke Ashleigh Imus, “Mind Reading in Dante’s Commedia,” (Cornell 2009) (Medieval Studies): Chair: Marilyn Migiel

Andrea Livini, “Étude de la circulation de la Cena Cypriani durant le Moyen-Âge (avec édition de textes), » (Doctorat européen: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales: Groupe d’Anthropologie historique de l’Occident Médiéval : Paris 2011) Directrice : Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu

Paola Franchi, „La battaglia interiore. Prova di commento alla Psychomachia di Prudenzio“ D. Phil. Klassische Philologie, Wien 2013 (Betreuer: Moretti und Smolak)

Francesco Lubian, “TITULI HISTORIARUM A TEMA BIBLICO DELLA TARDA ANTICHITÀ LATINA: AMBROSII DISTICHA, MIRACVLA CHRISTI, PRVDENTII DITTOCHAEON, RVSTICI HELPIDII TRISTICHA : Introduzione, testo criticamente riveduto, traduzione e comment (Macerata and Wien 2014)

Salvatore Liccardo, „‚Antike Namen und neue Völker‘–Die Benutzung, die Verbreitung und die vielfältigen Bedeutungen der Ethnonyme im Europa des frühen Mittelalters“ (Chair: Pohl)

 

Current Ph.D. Committee Member at UIUC for:

Michael Brinks, History, "A Community of Preachers: The North Italian Bishops and their Church, 395-450" (Chair: Mathisen)

Kent Navalesi, History, “Venantius Fortunatus and the Literary Promotion of Saints’ Cults in Sixth-Century Gaul.”(Chair: Mathisen)

 

Ph.D. Supervisor at the University of Vienna:

Angela Zielinski Kinney, “The Personification of Divine Rumor and Its Reception in Late Antique Prose”

 

Magister and Diplomarbeiten at the University of Vienna:

Anne Artner (Topic TBA)

Julia Froeschl, working on Celsus, De Medicina, Book 7 and Ancient Surgery (Diplomarbeit)

Michaela Westermaier working on the Cult of Saint Florian (Diplomarbeit)

Matthias Wagner, working on Augustine’s De cura pro mortuis gerenda (Diplomarbeit)