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Curriculum Vitae
October 2006
Nancy Worman
Associate Professor, Barnard College
Department of Classics
Program in Comparative Literature
(212) 854-3001
nw51@columbia.edu
EducationPrinceton University, 1988-94, MA 1991, Ph.D. Classics 1994
Barnard College, 1983-87, BA Ancient Studies 1987
Professional Experience2005 (July)-present: Barnard College, Associate Professor
1996-2005 (June): Barnard College, Assistant Professor
1995-96: Yale University, Instructor 1994-95: Rutgers University, Instructor
Publications
Books
Mouthing Off in Ancient Athens. Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).
The Cast of Character: Style in Greek Literature. University of Texas Press (2002).
Articles
"Insult and Oral Excess in the Disputes Between Aeschines and Demosthenes." American Journal of Philology 125.1 (2004): 1-25.
"Odysseus, Ingestive Rhetoric, and Euripides' Cyclops." Helios (2002) 29.2:101-25.
"The Herkos Achaiôn Transformed: Character Type and Spatial Meaning in the Ajax." Classical Philology 96 (2001): 230-54.
"This Voice Which Is Not One: Helen's Verbal Guises in Homeric Epic." In Making Silence Speak: Women's Voices in Greek Literature and Society, ed. A. Lardinois and L. McClure. Princeton University Press, 2001. 19-37.
"Infection in the Sentence: The Discourse of Disease in Sophocles' Philoctetes." Arethusa 33.1 (2000): 1-36.
"The Ties that Bind: Transformations of Costume and Connection in Euripides' Heracles." Ramus 28.2 (1999): 89-107.
"Odysseus Panourgos: The Liar's Style in Oratory and Tragedy." Helios 26.1 (1999): 35-68.
"The Body as Argument: Helen in Four Greek Texts." Classical Antiquity 16.1 (April, 1997): 151-203.
Reviews
Rosanna Omitowoju, Rape and the Politics of Consent in Classical Athens. American Journal of Philology 124.4 (2003): 617-20.
Victoria Wohl, Intimate Commerce: Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy. Classical Philology 94.4 (1999): 466-72.
David Wiles, Tragedy in Athens: Performance Space and Theatrical Meaning. Classical World 93.1 (1999): 111-13.
Pauline Schmitt Pantel, ed. History of Women, vol. 1. From Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints, and David Cohen, Law, Sexuality, and Society. Classical Journal 89.4 (1994): 422-28.
In preparation"Deixis and the Demarcation of Orestes' Dilemma in the Libation Bearers."
"Fighting Words: Status, Stature, and Verbal Contest in Archaic Poetry." In The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rhetoric, ed. E. Gunderson. Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).
"Helen" and "Aristophanes' Lysistrata." Entries in the Encyclopedia of Women in World History, ed. Bonnie G. Smith. Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
Sense and Sensibility in Ancient Rhetoric (book-length project).
James Diggle, Theophrastus' Characters (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Classical World (review).
Selected presentations"On Not Knowing Sophocles' Electra: Virginia Woolf and Primitivism." Conference on "Sophoclean Drama and Its Continuing Influence," UC Davis, May 19, 2006.
"The Demographics of Style in Greek Rhetoric." Conference on "Boundaries Between Bodies," Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC, April 28, 2006.
"Twist and Shout: Speaker's Styles in Aristophanes." University of Toronto, January 25, 2006.
"Going with the Flow in Greek Rhetoric." Yale University, November 18, 2005.
"Staging 'Female' Appetites in Attic Comedy." New York University, February 2, 2005.
"Thinking with Drinking in Greek Rhetorical Theory." APA 2005, Boston.
"'Female' Appetites in Attic Comedy." Conference on Greek Drama, Elefsina, Greece, October 3, 2004.
"Vulgar Voices and Corrupt Hearers in Aristotle's Rhetoric." APA 2004, San Francisco.
"Open Mouths and Abusive Talk in Aristophanes." The Flesh Made Text International Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 18, 2003.
"Fancy Fare and Crude Talk in the Platonic Dialogues." University of California, Santa Cruz, April 2, 2003.
"Open Mouths and Other Apertures in Aristophanes." Seminar, Center for Research on Women, Barnard College, November 7, 2002.
"Theophrastus on the Intemperate Mouth." Graduate Colloquium, Columbia University, September 24, 2002; APA 2003, New Orleans.
"Satyric Hypallage and the Edible Body in Euripides' Cyclops." 2002 Corhali Conference, Princeton, NJ, June 7-9.
"Embodying Language and the Rhetor's Mouth in Fourth-Century Athenian Oratory." UC Davis, May 4, 2001.
"The Orator's Mouth: Character Assassination and Oral Imagery in Aeschines and Demosthenes." CUNY Graduate Center, March 30, 2001.
"Oral Incontinence and the Sophistic Type in Two Fourth-Century Disputes." APA 2001, San Diego.
"Deixis, Metonymy, and Visual Character in Greek Tragedy." Deixis and Performance Conference, Delphi, Greece, June 29, 2000.
"The Net Fenced High: Entrapping the Savage Character in the Oresteia and Later Tragedies." Emory University, Atlanta, April 13, 2000.
"Heroic Isolation and the Ties that Bind in Ajax and Heracles." University of Georgia, Athens, November 8, 1999.
"One Man's Meat: The Glutton's Style and Euripides' Cyclops." University of California-Berkeley, April 5, 1999.
"Madness and Community in the Ajax and Heracles." Bryn Mawr Classics Colloquim, November 6, 1998.
"Character Type and Spatial Demarcation in the Ajax." Rutgers University Graduate Seminar Series, April 23, 1998.
"Odysseus Panourgos: The Liar's Style in Tragedy and Oratory." Columbia University Seminars, October 16, 1997.
"The Discourse of Disease in Sophocles' Philoctetes." Ohio State University, January, 1996.
"The Cosmetics of Desire: Helen as Rhetor in the Troades." 1995 Corhali Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, May 16-18.
"The Stylistics of Seduction in Gorgias' Encomium of Helen." Reed College, January 19, 1995.
"The Ethics of Style in Sophocles' Philoctetes." 1994 APA, Atlanta.
"Odyssean Stylistics: The Eye of the Beholder." 1994 Corhali Conference, Cornell University , May 9-11.
"Speaking of Helen Speaking: The Persuasive Figure in Euripides' Troades and Helen." CAAS Spring 1992.
Fellowships and Awards2006: Summer Research Grant, Barnard College.
2002: Fellowship, The Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC (spring 2003).
2002: Summer Research Grant, Barnard College.
2001: Gladys Brooks award for excellence in teaching, Barnard College.
1999-2000: Special Assistant Professor Leave Grant, Barnard College.
1999: Summer Research Grant, Barnard College.
1993-94: National Endowment for the Humanities Dissertation Fellowship.
1989: Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Summer Study (Paleography Seminar), Princeton University.
1990: Stanley J. Seeger Fellowship for Summer Study (American School of Classical Studies Summer Session, Athens), Princeton University.
Teaching Experience
Barnard College:
GRE 3309: Greek Oratory, Spring 2006
GRE 4105: Survey of Greek Literature, Fall 2005
GRE 4010: Greek Lyric Poetry, Spring 2005
GRE 3997: Iphigeneia in Aulis (reading course for the Greek play)
GRE/LAT 3996: The Major Seminar: Images of Eating and Drinking, Fall 2004
GRE 4010: Aristophanes, Spring 2004
Directed reading: Thucydides, Spring 2004
GRE 8500: Greek Rhetoric (graduate seminar), Fall 2003
CPLS 3120: Poetics of the Mouth, Fall 2002, Spring 2005
GRE 1201: Plato and poetry (selections), Fall 2002, 2004
Directed reading: Greek (selections)
Directed research: Homer and Derek Walcott's Omeros
Directed research: Hesiod and Milton's Paradise Lost
GRE 4010: Homer and the Language of Ingestion, Spring 2002
BC 1605: First-Year Seminar: Figures of Resistance, Spring 2002
Directed reading: Character types in Aristophanes (selections)
GRE/LAT 3396: The Major Seminar: Character in Greek and Latin Literature, Fall 2001
Directed reading: Medea (translation and performance)
LAT 1101: Introductory Latin, Spring 2001
CPLS 3001: Introduction to Comparative Literature, Fall 2000, 2003, 2005
GRE 3310: Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns, Fall 2000
(On leave 1999-2000)
CPLS 3950: Junior Colloquium in Literary Theory, Spring 1999
LAT 3130: Latin Poetry and the Language of Abuse, Spring 1999
GRE 8257: The Monstrous in Greek Tragedy (graduate seminar), Fall 1998
GRE/LAT 3996: The Major Seminar: Depictions of Monstrosity, Fall 1998
Directed reading: Euripides Heracles, Fall 1998
GRE 4150: The Greek Language, Spring 1998
GRE 1202: Homer Odyssey (selections), Spring 1998
Directed research: Female figures in the Odyssey, Spring 1998
Directed reading: Euripides Bacchae, Fall 1997
Directed research: Syntax and semantics of Sapphic verse, Fall 1997
CLL W4300: The Classical Tradition, Spring 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, Fall 2001, Spring 2004
GRE V3310: Greek Lyric Poetry, Spring 1997
LAT V3310: Plautus, Barnard College, Spring 1997
Directed reading: Lyric poetry (shared with Gareth Williams), Spring 1997
BC 1149: First-Year Seminar: Children of Medusa, Fall 1996, 1997
LAT V3012: Latin Lyric Poetry (Horace and Catullus), Fall 1996, 1997
Directed reading: Homer (selections), Fall 1997
Yale University:
GRE 301b: Homer (Odyssey), Spring 1996
GRE IIIb: Grammar and Reading (Plato), Spring 1996
Senior thesis direction: comparative myth, Spring 1996
Senior thesis direction: women in Athenian drama, Spring 1996
GRE 403/703a: Comparative Grammar of Greek, Fall 1995
ClsCiv 325a: Greek Mythology, Fall 1995
Rutgers University:
CLA 490.208: Euripides Medea (selections), Summer 1995
CLA 490.203: Golden Age Prose (Plato, selections), Summer 1995
CLA 580.493: Directed reading: Vergil Aeneid and Eclogues (selections), Spring 1995
CLA 490.101-2: Elementary Greek, Fall, 1994-Spring 1995
CLA 580.101-2: Elementary Latin, Fall 1994-Spring 1995
Princeton (as a Teaching Assistant):
CLA 212: Classical Myth, Spring 1993
CLA 221: Democracy Ancient and Modern, Spring 1992
LIT 121: Homer and the Tragic Vision, Fall 1992
Service and AdministrationActing Chair, Classics, Barnard College, 2000-2001, 2005.
Chair, Program in Comparative Literature, 2005-06.
Comparative Literature Committee, Barnard College, 1996-present.
Education Committee, Columbia University, 2005-2007.
Faculty Governance and Procedures, Barnard College, 2002-2005.
Honor Board, Barnard College, 2002-2004.
Institutional Review Board, Barnard College, 2001-2003.
Phi Beta Kappa, President, Barnard College chapter, 2003-2005.
Tenure Process Review Committee, Barnard College, 2002-2004.
University Senate (Columbia), Barnard College Representative, 2005-2007.
Other Professional DutiesDirector of the first-year Greek program, Yale University, Spring, 1996.
Director of the Rutgers University Summer Classics Institute, 1994-1995.
Referee for American Journal of Philology, Arethusa, Classical Antiquity, Transactions of the American Philological Association, Princeton University Press, University of Michigan Press, Ohio State University Press.
Outside reader for the Master's degree at University of Western Australia.
ReferencesHelene Foley, Olin Professor of Greek, Barnard College, Columbia University
Simon Goldhill, Professor in Greek Literature and Culture, King's College, University of Cambridge
Seth Schein, Professor of Comparative Literature and Classics, University of California, Davis
Froma Zeitlin, Charles Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature, Princeton University
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