Christopher Nappa
 Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies
University of Minnesota
305 Folwell Hall
9 Pleasant St. SE
Minneapolis, Minn. 55455

cnappa@umn.edu
(612) 624-6339
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~cnappa


Areas of Interest:
Latin literature (especially poetry) and Roman culture

Employment:

University of Minnesota
 2005-
1999-2005
 Associate Professor of Classics
Assistant Professor of Classics
Smith College
 1998-99
 Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics
University of Tennessee
 1996-98
 Instructor of Classics
                    
Education:
University of Virginia
 1996
 Ph. D. in Classics
American School of Classical Studies, Athens
 1995-96
 Regular member
---Thomas Day Seymour Fellowship in Literature and History
University of Virginia
 1992
 M. A. in Classics
University of Texas at Austin
1990
 B. A. in Greek & Latin
---highest honors, Phi Beta Kappa, special honors in Latin


Current and Future Projects:
I am currently working on a study of Juvenal's satires as well as articles on Catullus, Vergil, Propertius, and Ovid. 

Publications:
Books:
    Aspects of Catullus’ Social Fiction.   Studien zur klassischen Philologie 125.  Frankfurt am Main.  2001.
               Reviews:  B. Arkins, Scholia Reviews ns 11 (2002) 26 ; B. Sundberg, Svenska Dagbladet 10/02/2002 ;
               D. Wray, Journal of Roman Studies 92 (2002) 234; H. P. Syndikus, Klio 85.2 (2003) 511-12.
    Reading after Actium:  Vergil’s Georgics, Octavian, and Rome. Ann Arbor. 2005.
                Reviews: J. Rea, Classical Outlook 83.2 (2006) 90; J. Osgood, BMCR 26.05.26.
        
Articles:
    “Agamemnon 717-36:  The Parable of the Lion Cub.”  Mnemosyne 47 (1994) 82-87.
    “Praetextati mores:  Juvenal’s Second Satire.”  Hermes 126 (1998) 90-108.
    “Place Settings:  Convivium, Contrast, and Persona in Catullus 12 and 13.”
            American Journal of Philology 119 (1998) 385-97.
    “The Goat, the Gout, and the Girl:  Catullus 69, 71, and 77.”  Mnemosyne 52 (1999) 266-76.
    “Catullus, c. 59:  Rufa among the Graves.”  Classical Philology 94.3 (1999) 329-35.
    “Cold-blooded Virgil:  Bilingual Wordplay at Georgics 2.483-9.”  Classical Quarterly 52.2 (2002) 617-20.
    “Experiens laborum:  Ovid Reads the Georgics.”  Vergilius 48 (2002) 71-87.
    “Fire and Human Error in Vergil’s Second Georgic.”  American Journal of Philology 124.1 (2003) 39-56.
    “Num te leaena:  Catullus Poem 60.”  Phoenix 57 (2003) 57-66.
    “Callimachus' Aetia and Aeneas' Sicily.” Classical Quarterly 54.2 (2004) 640-46.
    
Reviews:
     D. R. Slavitt, Virgil (New Haven 1991).
            The Classical Journal 88.3 (1993) 292-95.  With Stephen C. Smith.
    W. Fitzgerald, Catullan Provocations (Berkeley 1995).
            The Classical Journal 92.3 (1997) 199-200.
    M. Petrini, The Child and the Hero:  Coming of Age in Catullus and Vergil (Ann Arbor 1997).
            Bryn Mawr Classical Review 97.11.2 (1998).
    S. Hinds, Allusion and Intertext:  The Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry (Cambridge 1998).
            Bryn Mawr Classical Review 98.9.8 (1998).
    H. P. Obermayer, Martial und der Diskurs über männliche “Homosexualität” (Tübingen 1998).
           Classical Review 49.2 (1999) 570-71.
    R. Cramer, Vergils Weltsicht:  Optimismus und Pessimismus in Vergils Georgica (Berlin 1998).
           Classical Review 50.1 (2000) 45-46.
    A. Hurley, Catullus. (London 2004).
            Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005-01-05.

Other:
    Articles on Catullus, Clodius, Juvenal, Marc Antony, and Propertius in the Encyclopedia of the Ancient World  (Salem Press, November 2001).

Talks and Lectures:
“The Lion in the House.”
    University of Virginia (3-3-92).  Charlottesville.
“Elegiac Nonsense:  Propertius 1.16 and the Elegiac Lover.”
    Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Southern Section (10-31-92).  Richmond.
“Variae species atque ora ferarum:  Proteus in the Georgics.”
    Classical Association of the Middle West and South (4-15-93).  Iowa City.
“Offending Rufus:  Invective, Exclusion, & the Definition of Poetic Values in Catullus 69, 71, & 77.”
    Classical Association of the Atlantic States (10-22-93).  Annapolis.
“Sallust, Plato, and the Young Men Who Followed Catiline.”
    Classical Association of the Middle West and South (4-9-94).  Atlanta.
“Cenabis bene:  Catullus 12 and 13 and the Creation of a Persona.”
    Classical Association of the Middle West and South (4-20-95).  Omaha.
“The Rival:  Ethical Distinctions in Catullan Poetry.”
    Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Southern Section (10-25-96).  Savannah.
“The Substance of Song:  Physical Symbolism and Catullus’ Conception of Poetry.”
    Classical Association of the Middle West and South (4-3-97).  Boulder.
“Anxiety and the Audience:  Catullus 16 and the Kiss Poems.”
    Classical Association of the Middle West and South (4-18-98).  Charlottesville.
“Egnatius’ Smile:  Reading Catullus’ Salax taberna.”
    American Philological Association (12-28-98).  Washington.
“Otium et neglegentia:  Poetry and Society in Catullus 10.”
    University of Minnesota (2-4-99).  Minneapolis.
    University of Missouri (1-25-99).  Columbia.
“Fire and Human Error in the Second Georgic.”
    American Philological Association (12-28-99).  Dallas.
“Pastoral as Prologue:  The Invocation in the Proem of the Georgics.”
    Classical Association of the Middle West and South (4-7-00).  Knoxville.
“The Problems with Paradise:  Vergil against the Golden Age.”
    University of Minnesota (2-27-01).  Minneapolis.
“Deucalion’s Children:  Divine Justice and Human Culpability in Vergil’s Georgics.”
    Classical Association of the Middle West and South (4-20-01).  Provo.
“Experiens laborum:  Ovid Reads the Georgics.”
    American Philological Association (1-5-02).  Philadelphia.
“Wild and Cultivated Nature in Georgics 1.”
    Classical Association of the Middle West and South (4-6-02). Austin.
“Ritual and Culpability in Vergil’s Noric Plague.”
    Classical Association of the Middle West and South (4-4-03).  Lexington.
“Along the Curving Shore: monstrum and hospitium in Aeneid 3.”
    Classical Association of the Middle West and South (4-17-04).  St. Louis.
“Purchasing Manhood: Status and Virility in Juvenal’s Ninth Satire.”
    Classical Association of the Middle West and South (to be delivered 4-1-05) Madison.
“Holding on to Hylas: Propertius 1.20 on Elite Roman Homosocial and Homoerotic Relationships”
     American Philological Association (1-2006). Montreal.
“The Body Was Never Found: Loss of Identity in Two Poems of Juvenal.”
    Classical Association of the Middle West and South (4-6-2006) Gainesville.
“Catullus and the Personal Empire.”
    Macalaster College (4-24-06). Saint Paul.
“Optimus olim: The Reception of Vergil in Roman Satire.”
    Symposium Cumanum( 6-24-06) Cuma, Italy.



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