Christopher Nappa
Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies
University of Minnesota
245 Nicholson Hall
216 Pillsbury Dr. 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:

2005-
 Associate Professor of Classics University of Minnesota
1999-2005 Assistant Professor of Classics
 University of Minnesota
1998-99
 Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Smith College
1996-98
 Instructor of Classics University of Tennessee
Education:

1996
 Ph. D. in Classics University of Virginia
1995-96
 Regular member American School of Classical Studies, Athens
1992
 M. A. in Classics University of Virginia
1990
 B. A. in Greek & Latin University of Texas at Austin

              
Current and Future Projects:
I am currently completing a book on Juvenal and a number of articles on Vergil and Catullus.

Publications:
Books:
    Aspects of Catullus’ Social Fiction.   Studien zur klassischen Philologie 125.  Frankfurt am Main 2001.             
    Reading after Actium:  Vergil’s Georgics, Octavian, and Rome. Ann Arbor 2005.
               
Articles and Chapters in Books:
    “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.”  Forthcoming in Phoenix 57 (2003) 57-66.
    “Callimachus’ Aetia and Aeneas’ Sicily.” Classical Quarterly 54.2 (2004) 640-46.
    “Unmarried Dido: Aeneid 4.550-51.” Hermes 135.3 (2007) 301-13.
    “Elegy on the Threshold: Generic Self-Consciousness and the Reader in Propertius 1.16.” Classical World 101.1 (2007) 33-49.
    “Catullus and Vergil” in M. B. Skinner, ed. Blackwell’s Companion to Catullus (Malden, Mass. and Oxford 2007) 377-98.
    
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 (2005).
    S. Bartman, Erotic Love Poems of Greece and Rome (New York 2005)
            Classical Bulletin 81.2 (2006) 136-37.
    R. A. Smith, The Primacy of Vision in Virgil’s Aeneid. (Austin 2005).
            Vergilius 52 (2006) 162-65.
    C. Keane, Figuring Genre in Roman Satire (Oxford 2006)
            New England Classical Journal 33.4 (2006) 324-26.

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




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