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Molly Pasco-Pranger

140 Pearl St. Middletown, CT 06457 (860) 344-8671 (home) (860) 685-2082 (work) mpranger@wesleyan.edu

Wesleyan University Department of Classical Studies Middletown, CT 06459-0146 fax: (860) 685-2089

Research and Teaching Interests:

Latin literature, Latin pedagogy, Roman religion, Roman social history, Hellenistic poetry, Women and gender in Greece and Rome.

Teaching Positions:

Assistant Professor, Department of Classical Studies, Wesleyan University, 2002-present.
Assistant Professor, Classics Department, The University of Puget Sound, 1998-2002.

Education:

Dissertation:

Conditor anni: Ovid’s Fasti and the poetics of the Julio-Claudian calendar;
K. Sara Myers and David S. Potter, chairs.

Publications:

Founding the Year: Ovid’s Fasti and the Roman Calendar (forthcoming, Brill).

"A Varronian vatic Numa?: Ovid's Fasti and Plutarch's Life of Numa," in Clio and the Poets: Augustan Poetry and the Traditions of Ancient Historiography, edd. D. Levene and D. P. Nelis (Leiden: Brill, 2002).

"Added Days: Calendrical poetics and the Julio-Claudian holidays," 251-75 in Ovid's Fasti: Historical Readings at its Bimillenium, ed. G. Herbert-Brown (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).

"Vates operosus: vatic poetics and antiquarianism in Ovid's Fasti," Classical World 93 (2000): 275-91.

Book Reviews:

Stephen J. Green, Ovid’s Fasti 1: A Commentary, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.05.51.

Stephen M. Wheeler, Narrative Dynamics in Ovid's Metamorphoses, Classical Review 52.1, March 2002: 65-66.

Elena Merli, Arma canant alii: Materia epica e narrazione elegiaca nei fasti di Ovidio, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2001.04.08.

Conference Papers:

“Roma futura: Lucan’s Alexandria and Roman Decadence,” Invisible Cities: an exploration of the role of other cities in the Roman imaginary, Stanford University, February 11-12, 2005.

“Myths of Decadence and the Problem of Progress,” Temporalities: mythological and historical time in Greek and Latin literature, UCLA Department of Classics, April 16-17, 2004.

“Vitium senectutis; Aging, Masculinity, and Morality,” Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, San Francisco, January 2004.

"Projections: Teaching and the Romans in Film," Dolliver Symposium on Ancients and Moderns, University of Puget Sound, April 2000.

"Causa recens melior est: Multiple aetiologies and "historical" layers in Ovid’s Fasti,"Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, Dallas, December 1999.

"A Varronian vatic Numa?: Ovid’s Fasti and Plutarch’s Life of Numa," Augustan Poetry and the Traditions of Ancient Historiography, University of Durham, England, September 1999.

"In praesentia feminarum: Audience, performance and prostitution in the Roman Floralia," Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, Washington, D.C., December 1998.

"Cacus among the Greeks: Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the myth of Hercules in Italy," Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Midwest and South, April 1998.

"Casta sed non et credita: slips of syntax in a grammar of sexual status," Ambiguous Bodies: Sex, Gender and Ovid, University of Chicago, February 1997.

"Vates operosus: the antiquarian pose of Ovid’s Fasti," Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, New York, December 1996.

Invited Lectures:

“Cato censorius, Cato priscus, Cato senis: the Elder Cato and Roman Rhetorics of Decadence,” Oberlin College, to be given October 3, 2005.

“Old men?: Aging and Masculine Identity in Ancient Rome,” Drew University, November 20, 2003.

Selected Community Talks:

“Aging, Masculinity and Morality in Roman Thought,” Humanities Luncheon series, Wesleyan University, November 14, 2003.

"Reading the Roman Calendar," March 9, 2002, Washington and British Columbia Junior Classical League Conference.

"Why do we care?: Ancient Homosexuality and Modern Politics." March 25, 1999, University of Puget Sound. Campus-wide talk at invitation of student group, Understanding Sexuality.

Teaching:

First-Year Latin (Wheelock; Latin for Reading)
Intermediate Latin (Cicero and Catullus; Ovid’s Metamorphoses [scheduled Spring 2006])
Advanced Latin (Ovid; Livy; Vergil; Elegy)
Intermediate Greek (Plato’s Apology)
Advanced Greek (Theocritus [scheduled Spring 2006])
Greek and Roman Epic: Genre and Meaning
The Greco-Roman World
Greek and Roman Religions
Living Like a Roman: Latin Literature and Daily Life
Reading Roman Decadence (both as a freshman writing seminar and as an upper-level seminar)
Women and Gender in Greece and Rome
The Humanistic Perspective (University of Puget Sound freshman honors program; one-semester, Homer’s Odyssey to Joyce’s Ulysses)
Great Books (University of Michigan freshman honors program; year-long, Bible to Bocaccio)

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