Faculty
Degrees: B.A., Queens College (City University of New York): History M.A., M.Phil., PhD., Yale University: Classics
Research Interests:
Religions of the Roman Empire; Roman provincial identities; the art, archaeology, and epigraphy of Roman Dacia; discourses on conquest, power, and identity in the Roman world, as reflected in literary, epigraphic, and visual media.
Teaching interests:
Latin Language and Literature; Roman History and Historiography; Greco-Roman and Near-Eastern Mythology; Classical Tragedy; Greek and Roman Epic Poetry; Women and Gender in the Greco-Roman World.
James Townshend
Title/s: Assistant Professor
Office #: Crown Center 575
Email: jtownshend@luc.edu
External Webpage: https://www.jamestownshend.org
Degrees
L.L.B. (public law), B.A., M.A., University of Auckland
A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Interests
Roman literature of the Late Republic and Early Empire, Ancient Greek & Roman Law, Ancient Aesthetics
Selected Publications
Publications:
- "Mulier Testabilis: Women as Witnesses in Roman Law." In Female Agency in the Ancient Mediterranean, edited by Karolina Frank, Greg Gilles, Christine Plastow, and Lewis Webb. Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 2024.
- "'Shut Up! You Can't Even Read Latin!' Ancient Greek and Roman Material in Natsume Sõseki's I Am a Cat." International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12138-023-00648-8
- "O Ego Non Felix: Inachia, Lesbia, and Horace's Epodes." AJP 141.4, 2020:499-536.
- "Lex Claudia (218 BC)" and "Lex Villia Annalis 180 BCE". In The Oxford Classical Dictionary, digital ed. Ed. Sander M. Goldberg. New York: Oxford University Press, March 2017.
- "Stop me if you've heard this one: Faux Alexandrian Footnotes in Vergil." Vergilius (2015) 61: 77-96.
- "William Shakespeare" In The Virgil Encyclopedia, R. Thomas and J. Ziolkowski (eds.) Malden MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
- Review of G. B. Cobbold (trans.) Vergil's Aeneid: Hero — War — Humanity. Prudentia (2007) 39.2: 127-129.
Recent Papers:
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“Mulier Testabilis: Women as Witnesses in Roman Law.” University of Miami Roman Law Conference: “The Legacy of Roman Law.”(Coral Gables, FL: 23–24 January 2020).
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“‘Keep Quiet! You Can't Even Read Latin!’ The Satirical Purpose of Western Classics in Natsume Sōseki’s I Am a Cat.” 151st Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting. (Washington, DC: 4 January 2020).
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“Camilla and Virgil’s Aesthetics of the Grotesque.” Meeting of the Antiquities Interdisciplinary Research Group, University of Miami. (Coral Gables, FL: 3 December 2019).
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“‘Fighting evil by moonlight; quoting Virgil by daylight’: an unexpected reference to Virgil in Sailor Moon.” Drawing on the Past: the Pre-modern World in Comics. (London: 11 September 2018).