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Raffaella Cribiore - CV & Publications

Raffaella Cribiore

17 Sutton Place
10022
New York, N.Y.
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E-Mail: rc141@columbia.edu

EDUCATION:

Columbia University: Ph.D. in Classics February 10, 1993;
M. Phil. February 1990

Università Cattolica (Milano, Italy): 1972, Laurea, magna cum laude in Classics

EMPLOYMENT AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Columbia University:
Associate Curator of Papyri, Rare Book and Manuscripts Library 1994-
Adjunct Professor of Classics, 2005-
Adjunct Associate Professor, 1999-2004
Research Associate, NEH-funded APIS Papyrology Project (October 2001-; October 1996-1999)
International Seminar for Papyrology, Columbia University June-July 2006
Instructor in Classics, 1996-1997
Teaching Assistant, 1986-1990

10 years of teaching Latin and History in Italian high schools, approximately 1975-85

FELLOWSHIPS and POSITIONS

Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Fall 2004

Member of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Papyrologists (2005-; 1995-1998)

Member of the Visiting Committee to the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, the New School for Social Research (1994-1996)

Polychronis Fellowship. 1989-1990.

President's Fellowship. 1986-1989.

AWARDS

Charles Goodwin Award of Merit 2004 to Gymnastics of the Mind, January 8, 2005

BOOKS:

Writing, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt (Atlanta 1996)

Gymnastics of the Mind: Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt (Princeton 2001)

The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch(Princeton) forthcoming 2007

Roger Bagnall and Raffaella Cribiore, Women’s Letters from Ancient Egypt 300 BC-AD 800 (Ann Arbor) 2006

ARTICLES:

"A Personal Letter," BASP 27 (1990) 21-27

"The Happy Farmer: A Student's Composition from Roman Egypt," GRBS 33 (1992) 247-63

"A Table of Squares," BASP 30 (1993) 23-25

"A Homeric Exercise from the Byzantine Schoolroom," CdE 68 (1993)145-54

"P.Vars. 7: Not a School Exercise," BASP 30 (1993) 83-86

"A Homeric Writing Exercise and Reading Homer in School," Tyche 9 (1994) 1-8

"A Hymn to the Nile," ZPE 106 (1995) 97-106

"A School Tablet from the Hearst Museum," ZPE 107 (1995) 263-70

"Two Personal Letters," P.Col. X (Atlanta 1996) 130-38

"Request to the Athenian;">bibliofælakew with Report of Proceedings," P.Col. X (Atlanta 1996) 164-72

"Gli esercizi scolastici dell'Egitto greco-romano: Cultura letteraria e cultura popolare nella scuola," La letteratura di consumo nel mondo greco-latino, O. Pecere and A. Stramaglia eds. (Cassino 1996) 505-25

"A Fragment of Basilius of Caesarea," in Akten des 21.Internationalen Papyrologenkongr. Archiv, Beiheft 3 (1997) 187-93

"Literary School Exercises," ZPE 116 (1997) 53-60

"A Stele from Terenouthis," BASP 34 (1997) 5-10

"A School Tablet: A List of Names and Numbers," BASP 35 (1998) 145-51

"Greek and Coptic Education in Late Antique Egypt," in Ägypten und Nubien in spätantiker und christlicher Zeit: Akten des 6. Internationalen Koptologenkongresses, ed. S. Emmel et al. (Wiesbaden 1999) 2: 279-86

"Windows on a Woman's World: Some Letters from Roman Egypt," in Making Silence Speak: Women's Voices in Greek Literature & Society, A. Lardinois and L. McClure eds. (Princeton 2001) 223-39

"School Papyri and the Textual Tradition of Homer," XXII Cong.Int.Pap. (Florence 2001) 279-86

"The Grammarian's Choice: The Popularity of Euripides' Phoenissae in Hellenistic and Roman Education" in Yun Lee Too, ed., Education in Greek and Roman Antiquity (Leiden 2001) 241-59

"Schreibübungen," Der Neue Pauly, Band 11 (2001) 231-32

"The Women in the Apollonios' Archive and their Use of Literacy," in Le rôle et le statut de la femme en Égypte Hellénistique, Romaine et Byzantine (Leuven 2002) 149-66

“Libanius' Letters of Evaluation," Actes de la 16 Table ronde XX Congrès International des Études Byzantines (Paris 2003) 11-20.

“Harpokration, Fronto, and Paean Chanters in an account (Col. inv. 500r)” P.Horak 15 (Gedenkschrift Ulrike Horak, Vienna 2004)

"Le grammairien et la poésie: Les Phéniciennes d' Euripide," in J.-M. Pailler and P. Payen, Que reste-t-il de l’éducation classique? (Tolouse 2004) 219-25

“A Coptic Letter from two Women,” R.S. Bagnall, R. Cribiore, T. Renner, Studi di egittologia e di papirologia 2 (2005) 33-35.

“A Ptolemaic School Ostracon,” Fayyum Studies 2 (2006) 91-93

“Latin Literacy in Egypt,” KODAI Journal of Ancient History, forthcoming

“P.Col.Inv. 179c: The Letter of a Teacher to an Old Student,” Proceedings xxiv Congress of Papyrology, forthcoming

"The Schools of Oxhyrhynchus," in Oxyrhynchus: A City & its Texts (Oxford) forthcoming

“Higher Education in Late Antique Egypt,” May 1, 2004 Dumbarton Oaks Symposium on Egypt in the Byzantine World, forthcoming

“The Value of a Good Education: Libanius and Public Authority.” In Rousseau 2006, forthcoming.

“Higher Education in Early Byzantine Egypt: Rhetoric, Latin, and the Law.” In Bagnall 2006, forthcoming.

“Spaces for Teaching in Late Antiquity.” In The Auditoria at Kom el-Dikka, Journal of Juristic Papyrology, Supplement, forthcoming.

“The School of Alexandria and the Rivalry between Rhetoric and Philosophy.” In Late Antique Alexandria, forthcoming.

BOOK REVIEWS

T. Morgan, Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman World (Cambridge 1998), in BMCR 99.5.22, word count 2,531.

Johannes Kramer, Glossaria bilinguia altera (München 2001), in BMCR 2002.5.8, word count 2,380.

Scott Bradbury, Selected Letters of Libanius, from the Age of Constantius and Julian (Liverpool 2004), in BMCR 2004.7.21, word count 2092.

LECTURES:

"A Student Composition from Greek Egypt," December 28 1991, Chicago Meeting of the American Philological Association.

"A Homeric Exercise from the Byzantine Schoolroom," November 5 1993, Princeton Byzantine Studies Conference.

"Women Teachers in Roman Egypt," December 28 1993, Washington Meeting of the American Philological Association.

"Gli esercizi scolastici dell'Egitto greco-romano: Modi di trasmissione della cultura letteraria nella scuola," September 17 1994, Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Università di Cassino, Italy.

"Learning how to Write in Byzantine Schools," October 23 1994, XXth Byzantine Studies Conference.

"Learning how to Write in Antiquity," December 29 1994, Atlanta meeting of the American Philological Association.

"A Fragment of Basilius of Caesarea," August 17 1995, Berlin, XXI International Congress of Papyrology.

"Greek and Coptic Education in Byzantine Egypt," November 11 1995, XXI Byzantine Studies Conference.

"Letter Writing in Education," June 7 1996, Seminar on Education in Antiquity, Oxford, Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents.

"Greek and Coptic Education in Late Antiquity," July 23 1996, Münster, VI. Internationaler Koptologenkongress.

"Letter writing in the Schools," December 29 1996, New York meeting of The American Philological Association.

"Schools and Schoolbooks," July 14 1997, Oxford, Summer School of Papyrology.

"The Women in the Apollonios' Archive and their Use of Literacy," November 29 1997, Bruxelles, Colloquium.

Le rôle et le statut de la femme en Égypte Hellénistique, Romaine et Byzantine,
"Schoolwork in Graeco-Roman Egypt," Yale University, New Haven, May 22 1998.

"The Schools of Oxhyrhynchus," July 18 1998, Oxford, Symposium, Oxyrhynchus: A City & its Texts.

"School Papyri and the Textual Tradition of Homer," August 28 1998, Florence, XXII Congresso Internazionale di Papirologia.

"Le grammairien et la poésie: Les Phéniciennes d' Euripide," November 19, 1999, Toulouse, Colloque International, Relire le "Marrou": L'Histoire de l' Éducation dans l'Antiquité après un demi siècle.

"The Teaching of Rhetoric in the Greco-Roman World," December 30 1999, Dallas APA meeting.

"Women and Writing," Alexandria of Egypt, January 8 2001, Société D'Archéologie d'Alexandrie.

"The Coptic School Exercises in the Collection of Columbia University," Vienna, July 25 2001, 23. Internationaler Kongress für Papyrologie.

"Libanius' Letters of Evaluation," Paris, August 24 2001, XX Congrès International des Études Byzantines 
"Writing and Sending Letters in Antiquity," January 5 2002, Philadelphia meeting of the APA.

“The Purpose and Characteristics of Libanius’s Letters Concerning Education,” January 5, 2003, New Orleans meeting of the APA.

“Women and the Written Word,” February 8, 2003, New York Winter Conference NY Classical Club.

“Qualifications and Competence: The Evidence of Libanius and the Rhetors, Kalamazoo May 9, 2003, 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies.

“Women’s letters from Hellenistic and Roman Egypt,” July 22, 2003, Yale University.

“The Teacher as a Recruiter: Libanius and his School,” January 3 2004, San Francisco meeting of APA.

“Latin Literacy in Egypt,” Tokyo April 17, 2004 University of Tokyo, Symposium on the Mediterranean World.

“Higher Education in Late Antique Egypt,” May 1, 2004 Dumbarton Oaks Symposium on Egypt in the Byzantine World, 450-700.

“P.Col.Inv. 179c: The Letter of a Teacher to an Old Student,” August 3 2004 Helsinki, XXIV International Congress of Papyrology.

“The Curriculum in a School of Rhetoric,” October 4, 2004, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

“Lucian, Libanius, and the Short Road to Rhetoric,” October 15, 2004, Princeton University.

“Libanius: After Rhetoric,” December 1, 2004, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

“Lucian, Libanius, and the Short Road to Rhetoric,” February 22, 2005, University of Cincinnati.

“Libanius, Himerius, Beirut: Spaces for Teaching,” Alexandria March 17, 2005 The Auditoria of Kom El-Dikka, International Colloquium.

“The School of Alexandria in Late Antiquity,” April 18, 2005, R. Sorabji The Alexandrian Excavation, London Institute of Classical Studies.

“The School of Libanius: Prose and Poetry,” April 19, 2005, C. Roueché The Late Antique and Byzantine Classroom, London, Institute of Classical Studies.

Interview by ABC Radio National Australia public network on Gymnastics of the Mind, May 15, 2005.

“Lucian, Libanius, and the Short Road to Rhetoric,” September 23, 2005, CUNY.

“Lucian, Libanius, and the Short Road to Rhetoric,” October 4 2005, Columbia University.

“Lucian, Libanius, and the Short Road to Rhetoric,” October 28, 2005, Georgetown University.

“Lucian, Libanius, and the Short Road to Rhetoric,” September 22, Yale University.

“The teaching of Poetry in Schools of Rhetoric: Libanius in Antioch,” January 26, 2006, Columbia University, University Seminars in Classical Civilization.

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