Nancy Felson Professor of Classics 231 Park Hall Phone: 706 542-2153 FAX: 706 542-8503 E-Mail: nfelson@uga.edu

Website for HONS 2010H: Reacting to the Past

Special Interests

• Greek Literature (Epic, Lyric, Hymns, Tragedy)
• Anthropology of Greece
• Theory (Semiotics, Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies, Myth)
• Latin Poetry (Vergil, Elegiac, Horace)

Academic History

• Ph.D. 1972 Columbia University
• M. A. 1965 Columbia University
• A.B. 1964 University of Cincinnati

Doctoral Dissertation:

"Thematic Structure and Figures of Speech in Pindar" (directed by Howard N. Porter)

Books and Edited Volumes

• Regarding Penelope: From Character to Poetics in Homer's Odyssey (Princeton University Press: 1994; paperback edition, University of Oklahoma Press: 1997).
• co-ed. with Thomas Falkner and David Konstan, Contextualizing Classics: Ideology, Performance, Dialogue (Rowman and Littlefield: 2000).
• ed. Semiotics and Classical Studies, Arethusa 16.1/2 (1983), 1-275.
• ed. Symbols in Ancient Greek Poetry and Myth, Classical World 74.2 (October 1980), 1-144.

Articles

• "Threptra and Invisible Hands': the Father/Son Relation in Iliad 24," in Mythos and Epos, ed. Carolyn Higbie and Martha Malamud (The Johns Hopkins University Press, Arethusa series, forthcoming)
• "Vicarious Transport in Pindar's Pythian Four," HSCP 99 (1999) 1-31.
• "Paradigmes de la paternité: pères, fils, et prouesses athlétiques / sexuelles dans l'Odyssée d'Homère." In F. Létoublon, ed. . . . (forthcoming).
• "Paradigms of Paternity: A Study of the Gentle Father in Homer's Odyssey," in A. Rengakos and J.N. Kazazis, eds., Euphrosyne: Studies in Ancient Epic and its Legacy in Honor of D. N. Maronitis (Stuttgart 2000) 89-98.
• "Alienated Couples in Euripidean Tragedy: A Bakhtinian Analysis," in P. A. Miller, C. Platter, et al., eds., Carnivalizing Difference: Bakhtin and the Other (Harwood Press 2000), 23-50.
• "Artful Manipulation: Od.10.203-60," in F. Létoublon, ed., Hommage Milman Parry (J. C. Gieben Press 1998), 283-91.
• "Signposts in Oral Epic: Metapragmatic and Metasemantic Signals," in C. Mihailescu, ed., Fictions Updated (Toronto University Press 1997) 175-86.
• "Bakhtinian Alterity, Homeric Rapport," Arethusa 26.2 (1993) 159-71.
• " Getting It' A Response to G. Arnott," in Niall W. Slater and Bernhard Zimmermann, eds., Intertextualität in der griechisch-römischen Komödie, special issue of Drama, Band 2 (1993) 33-38.
• "Behind the Poet's Back: Characters Who Scheme," in B. Dauenhauer, ed., Textual Fidelity and Textual Disregard (Peter Lang 1990) 121-38 and 175-79.
• "Classics in the Eighties: New Ways to Read Old Text," New England Classical Newsletter 16.1 (1988) 15-22.
• "Penelope's Perspective: Character from Plot," in J.M. Bremer, I.J.F. de Jong, and J. Kalff, eds., Recent Trends in Homeric Interpretation (Amsterdam 1988) 61-83.
• "Regarding Penelope," in S. L. Schein, ed., Reading the Odyssey: Selected Interpretive Essays (Princeton University Press 1996) 163-83.
• "A Model For the Analysis of Character in Ancient Greek Lyric: The Poet Figure in Pindaric Odes," in M. Herzfeld, ed., Semiotic Theory and Practice (de Gruyter, 1987) 1065-71.
• "The Epinician Speaker in Pindar's First Olympian: Toward a Model for Analyzing Character in Ancient Choral Lyric," Poetics Today 5.2 (Fall 1984) 377-97. with W. M. Sale.
• "Meleager and Narrative Theory," Arethusa 17.2 (1984) 211-22. with W. M. Sale.
• "Meleager and Odysseus: A Structural and Cultural Study of the Greek Hunting-Maturation Myth," Arethusa 16 (1983) 137-71.
• "Radical Semantic Change in Archilochus," Classical Journal 77.1 (Oct.-Nov. 1981) 1-8. with H. M. Deal.
• "Some Functions of the Demophoon Episode in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter," Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica n.s. 5 (1980) 7-21. Reprinted in H. Foley, ed., The Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Princeton University Press 1993) 190-97.
• "Pindar's Creation of Epinician Symbols," Classical World 74.2 (Oct. 1980) 83-103. with H. M. Deal.
• "One Formula, Many Meanings, and the Myth of the Aloades," Semiotica 29.1/2 (1980) 39-52.
• "Olympian 7: The Toast and the Future Prayer," Hermes 108.2 (1980) 248-52.
• "Eco's Semiotics: A Classicist's Perspective," Helios n.s. 6.2 (1978-79) 17-32.
• "Some Functions of the Enclosed Invective in Archilochus' Erotic Fragment," Classical Journal 74.2 (1978-79) 136-41
• "Narrative Structure in Pindar's Ninth Pythian Ode," Classical World 71.6 (March 1978) 353-69.
• "Why Classics and Semiotics?" Introduction to a special issue on "Semiotics and Classical Studies," Arethusa 16 (1983). 15-33.

Current Project

Deixis in Fiction and Performance, co-edited with E. Bakker, J. S. Clay, and J. Klein and now submitted for publication.

Panels and Conferences Organized

• Organizer (with Egbert Bakker, Jenny Strauss Clay and Jared Klein) of an International Conference on "Deixis in Fiction and Performance" (Delphi, Greece, June 2000)
• Organizer (with Jared Klein) of CAMWS Panel on Deixis and the Text (April 2000)
• Organizer of State of the Arts Conference on "Interdisciplinarity and the Classics" in honor of John Peradotto and Arethusa (March 1997)
• Organizer of Panel on "Classical Philology: The German Connection, American Comparative Literature Association Meeting, Athens, GA (March 1995)
• Organizer of Workshop on "Graduate Education: Constraints and Options in our Graduate Curricula," APA Meeting, New York (December 1987)
• Organizer of Colloquium on Character Theory, UGA (April 1984) (first UGA Humanities Center event)
• Organizer of Winter Forum on Narrative Poetics, UGA (January 1983); co-founder of Forum (1980)
• Organizer of Panel on "Semiotics and Classical Philology," APA Meeting, Philadelphia (December 1982)
• Organizer of Classics and Semiotics Colloquium, Vanderbilt University, at International Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies (June 1981), NEH Funded. Invited speakers included Classicists and Semioticians. Team taught month-long Colloqium on Classics & Semiotics.
• Organizer of Panel on "Personal and Conventional Symbols in Early Greek Poetry and Myth," APA Meeting, Atlanta (December 1977)

Grants and Fellowships

• UGA Humanities Center Grant (spring 2002) - for Deixis and Pindar project
• VPR, VPAA, IAPDF, and Greek Ministry of Culture Grants for Deixis at Delphi Conference (June 2000)
• VPAA State of the Arts Grant (March 1997 conference) Center for Hellenic Studies Summer Scholar Grant (summer 1996)
• Second Discipline Award (1995-96) - to study anthropology at Emory University & UGA
• UGA Humanities Center Grant (1991) - for Olympia project
• UGA Senior Faculty Research Grant (1991) - for Olympia project
• Women's Studies Grant for Curriculum Development (spring 1990)
• UGA Senior Faculty Research Grant (1988-89) - for Penelope project
• Smith College Grant for Research (1986-87)
• Junior Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies (1981-82)
• NEH Research Conference Grant to organize Colloquium on Classics & Semiotics at the Second International Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies, Nashville (June 1981)
• Andrew Mellon Faculty Development Grant to conduct a seminar on Applications of Semiotics to Ancient Greek Texts at the Second International Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies, Nashville (June 1981)
• UGA Summer Research Fellowships (1980, 1982)
• NEH Fellowship to participate in a seminar on Modern Theories of Mythology at State University of New York, Buffalo (summer 1976)

Other Professional Positions

• Visiting Scholar, Smith College, Fall 1987
• Visiting Professor, Herbert H. Lehman College of CUNY, 1986-87