Janet Downie

Kurzbiografie

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Classics, The University of Chicago. 2003-2008.
Dissertation: Professing Illness: Healing Narrative and Rhetorical Self-Presentation in Aelius Aristides’ Hieroi Logoi. Advising Committee: Christopher A. Faraone (Chair); Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer; Elizabeth Asmis.
M.A., Classics, The University of Chicago. 2001-2003.
M.A., Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, University of London, U.K. 1999-2000.
B.A., English Literature (Honours); Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Victoria, Canada. 1993-1998.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2018-. Associate Professor, Department of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
2016-. Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
2014-2018. Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
2008-2014. Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Princeton University.
2009-2014. Associated Faculty, Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University.
2009-2014. Faculty Fellow and Undergraduate Adviser, Mathey College, Princeton University.
2002-2008. Instructor, The College, University of Chicago.
2002-2005. Graduate Teaching Assistant, The College, University of Chicago.

HONORS AND AWARDS

2018. Arts and Humanities Research Grant, UNC-Chapel Hill.
2017. Junior Faculty Development Award, UNC-Chapel Hill.
2012-2013. Solmsen Fellowship, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2012-2013. Honorific Fellowship Supplement, Princeton University.
2011-2014. William G. Bowen Presidential University Preceptor, Princeton University.
2010-2011. Visitor, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ.
2010-2011. Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Studies Sabbatical Research Grant, Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University.
2009. Stanley J. Seeger Faculty Fellowship (for summer research travel) Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University.
2007. Ephron Teaching Prize for Innovative Course Design, University of Chicago.
2004-2007. Hanna Holborn Gray Advanced Fellowship in the Humanities, University of Chicago.
2001-2004. Century Fellowship for Graduate Studies, University of Chicago.
ORGANIZED CONFERENCE PANEL
“From Second Sophistic to Imperial Literature.” Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Midwest and South. April 5-8, 2017, Kitchener, Canada.

COLLOQUIA LEADERSHIP

“Workshop on the Second Sophistic,” April 13, 2019, UNC-Chapel Hill (collaborator and discussant).
“The Second Sophistic Colloquium” (TSSC), 29-31 March 2019, Notre-Dame University (second annual meeting; collaborator and discussant).
“The Second Sophistic Colloquium” (TSSC), 20-22 April 2018, UNC-Chapel Hill (first annual meeting; main organizer).

FIELDWORK AND FIELD-STUDY

Trench Assistant. Azoria Project, Crete. Directors: Donald Haggis and Margaret Mook (UNC and Iowa State University). Summer 2016.
Visiting Volunteer. Horvat Omrit Settlement Excavation Project, Israel. Director: Jennifer Gates-Foster (UNC). Summer 2015.
Participant. Traveling Seminar: Western Turkey. Director: Emanuel Mayer (University of Chicago). Summer 2007.

PEDAGOGICAL WORKSHOP

Living Latin and Greek in New York City, Paideia Institute, February 16-17 2019 (participant).

MODERN LANGUAGE STUDY

Modern Greek – Intensive Course, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, July 2017 (C1, Advanced)
Modern Greek – Intensive Course, National and Kapodistrian University at Athens, June 2017 (C1, Advanced)

Kurzbibliografie

Book:

At the Limits of Art: A Literary Study of Aelius Aristides’ Hieroi Logoi. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. (Reviewed: R. Cribiore, Rhetorica 34.1 [2016]: 106-108. G. Petridou, Mnemosyne 69.6 [2016]: 1074-77. A. Petsalis-Diomidis, Journal of Hellenic Studies 135 [2015]: 205-6. D. Fields, Classical World 108.1 [2014]: 135-137. I. Israelowich, sehepunkte 14 [2014], Nr. 1 [15.01.2014])

Journal Articles (Blind Refereed):

“The Geography of Empire in Dionysius’ Periegesis: A View from the Aegean.” Classical World 110.2 (2017): 163-86.
“Palamedes and the Wisdom of India in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana.” Mouseion. Volume 13.1 (2016): 65-84.
“Narrative and Divination: Artemidorus and Aelius Aristides.” Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 15.1 (2013): 97-116.
“A Pindaric Charioteer: Aelius Aristides and his Divine Literary Editor (Oration 50.45).” Classical Quarterly 59.1 (2009): 263-69.

Book Chapters (*indicates Blind Refereed):

“Belief and Doubt in Aelius Aristides’ Isthmian Oration: To Poseidon.” Forthcoming in Sceptic and Believer, edited by B. Edelmann-Singer, Tobias Niklas, and Janet Spittler. WUNT (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament), Vol. 1. 30 manuscript pages.
“Literarischer Götterpreis zu Zeiten Lukians: Die Götterhymnen des Aelius Aristides.” (“Divine Praise in the Time of Lucian: Aelius Aristides’ Prose Hymns”). Forthcoming in Lukian, Dialogi Deorum, edited by F. Berdozzo and H.-G. Nesselrath. SAPERE (Scripta Antiquitatis Posterioris ad Ethicam REligionemque pertinentia). Mohr Siebeck. 19 typeset pages.
*“The Romance of Imperial Travel in Aelius Aristides’ Smyrnaean Orations.” In Journeys in the Roman East: Imagined and Real, edited by Maren Niehoff, 53-76. Culture, Religion and Politics in the Greco-Roman Period. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017.
* “The Experience and Description of Pain in Aelius Aristides’ Hieroi Logoi.” In The Comparable Body: Imagination and Analogy in Ancient Anatomy and Physiology, edited by J. Z. Wee, 247-74. Studies in Ancient Medicine. Leiden: Brill, 2017.
“Galen’s Intellectual Self-Portrait in De Indolentia.” In Galen’s De Indolentia: Selected Essays, edited by Clare K. Rothschild and Trevor W. Thompson, 143-55. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. 2014.
“Dream Hermeneutics in Aelius Aristides’ Hieroi Logoi.” In Dreams, Healing and Medicine in Greece: From Antiquity to the Present, edited by S. Oberhelman, 109-127. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013.
“Portrait d’un Rhéteur: Aelius Aristide comme initié mystique et athlète dans les Discours Sacrés.” In Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and its Times/Regards sur la Seconde Sophistique et son époque, edited by T. Schmidt and P. Fleury, 76-86. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.
“Proper Pleasures: Bathing and Oratory in Aelius Aristides’ Hieroi Logoi.” In Aelius Aristides between Greece, Rome, and the Gods: Proceedings of a Symposium at the Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University, April 14-15, 2007, edited by W. V. Harris and B. Holmes, 115-30. Leiden: Brill, 2008.

Reviews:

Review of C. P. Dickenson and O. M. van Nijf, O. M. (edd.), Public space in the post-classical city (2013). Bryn Mawr Classical Review. 2014.
Review of H. King and V. Dasen, La médecine dans l’Antiquité grecque et romaine (2008). Aestimatio 6 (2009): 162-66.

Work in Progress:

The Hellenic Landscapes of Imperial Asia Minor. (book in progress)
The Romance Between Greece and Rome. (book in progress)
“Asia Minor as Thirdspace in Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius of Tyana.” (article in progress)
“The Romance Between Greece and Rome in Aelius Aristides’ Corinthian Oration, To Poseidon.” (article in progress)
“Likeness and Recognition in Lucian’s Essays in Portraiture and Essays in Portraiture Defended.” (article in progress)

Refereed Conference Presentations:

April 5-8, 2017, “The Romance Between Greece and Rome in Aelius Aristides’ Orations on Smyrna and Corinth.” Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Midwest and South, Kitchener, Canada.
April 10-13, 2015, “The Hellenic Geography of Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius of Tyana.” Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the UK, Bristol.
January 3-6, 2014, “The Political Geography of Dionysius’ Periegesis and Arrian’s Periplus of the Black Sea.” Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, Chicago.
March 16-18, 2012, “Homeric Afterlives: Tombs of the Heroes in Imperial-era Asia Minor.” Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Canadian West, Victoria.
January 6-9, 2010, “The God and the Emperor: Aelius Aristides’ Case for Civic Immunity in the Hieroi Logoi.” Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, Anaheim.
May 12-14, 2009, “Myth and Allegiance in Philostratus’ Heroikos.” Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of Canada, Vancouver.
May 12-14, 2008, “Dream Language: Aelius Aristides’ Hieroi Logoi as a Rhetorical Model.” Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of Canada, Montréal.
January 3-6, 2008, “The Therapeutic Dynamic in Aelius Aristides’ Sacred Tales.” Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, Chicago.
May 24-26, 2006, “An Orator’s Askesis: Vocal Exercise in Aelius Aristides’ Sacred Tales.” Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of Canada, Toronto.
April 5-8, 2006, “Dreams of Victory: An Epinician Moment in Aelius Aristides’ Sacred Tales.” Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Mid-West and South, Gainesville, Florida.
January 6-9, 2005, “Gendering Power: Hekate Mounogenes in Hesiod’s Theogony.” Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, Boston.

Invited Lectures and Presentations:

April 13, 2019, “Likeness and Recognition in Lucian’s Essays in Portraiture and Essays in Portraiture Defended.” Workshop on the Second Sophistic, UNC-Chapel Hill.
April 20-22, 2018, “Lucian’s Pantheia and the Marriage of Croesus and Cyrus.” The Second Sophistic Colloquium (TSSC), UNC-Chapel Hill.
October 18-20, 2017, “Truth, Credibility and Coherence in Aelius Aristides’ Prose Hymns.” Invited paper for international conference, ‘Test Everything’: Skeptic and Believer in Ancient Mediterranean Religions. Regensburg University, Germany.
January 27-28, 2017, “Literarischer Götterpreis zu Zeiten Lukians: Die Götterhymnen des Aelius Aristides.” (“Divine Praise in the Time of Lucian: Aelius Aristides’ Prose Hymns”). SAPERE Seminar on Lucian’s Dialogues of the Gods. Göttingen University, Germany.
May 23, 2016, “Cartographic Thinking in Some Imperial Greek Hymns.” University of Heidelberg, Germany.
April 6, 2016, “Cartographic Thinking in Some Imperial Greek Hymns.” UNC Classics Tea Talk.
November 19, 2015, “The City as Material Object in Aelius Aristides’ Smyrna Orations.” Furst Forum, UNC-Chapel Hill.
June 14-17, 2015, “The Visible and Invisible City in Aelius Aristides’ Smyrnaean Orations.” Conference on Journeys in the Roman East, Imaginary and Real. Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
October 3, 2013, “The Living City: Heroic Space in Imperial Aphrodisias, Perge, and Ilium.” University of Pennsylvania.
May 8, 2013, “Four Imperial Tourists at Ilium: Heroic tumuli as lieux de mémoire.” University of Chicago.
March 7, 2013, “Animating the Memorial Topography of Hellenism: The Heroes of Philostratus.” Columbia Society of Fellows.
October 22, 2012, “The Heroic Landscapes of Imperial Asia Minor.” Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
November 19-22, 2011, “Galen’s On the Avoidance of Grief as Professional Autobiography.” Invited paper for the Corpus Hellenisticum panel on Galen’s De Indolentia, Annual Meeting of the Society for Biblical Literature, San Francisco.
March 29, 2011, “Agroikos sophia: The Mythic Landscape of Philostratus’ Heroicus.” Ancient Studies Seminar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
October 29-30, 2010, “Philostratus’ Heroicus: Homeric Myth in a Roman Landscape.” Symposium on Ancient Myth in Private Lives, University of Chicago.
February 26-27, 2010, “The Mystic and the Rhetor: Face to Face with the God in Aelius Aristides’ Hieroi Logoi?” Langford Conference, Florida State University.
December 11, 2009, “Philostratus’ Heroicus: Paideia in the Local Landscape.” Bryn Mawr College.
April 3-6, 2009, “Aelius Aristides: Inside and Outside the Pergamene Asclepieum.” Invited Paper for Healing Sanctuaries panel, Annual Conference of the Classical Association (UK), Glasgow.
April 13-14, 2007, “Proper Pleasures: Bathing and Oratory in Aelius Aristides’ First Sacred Tale.” Symposium on Aelius Aristides, Columbia University.
September 28-30, 2007, “Portrait d’un rhéteur: Aelius Aristide comme initié mystique et athlète dans les Discours sacrés.” Colloque: Regards sur la Seconde Sophistique et son époque, Université Laval, Québec.

Janet Downie

Kurzbiografie

EDUCATION

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

HONORS AND AWARDS

COLLOQUIA LEADERSHIP

FIELDWORK AND FIELD-STUDY

PEDAGOGICAL WORKSHOP

MODERN LANGUAGE STUDY

Kurzbibliografie

Book:

Journal Articles (Blind Refereed):

Book Chapters (*indicates Blind Refereed):

Reviews:

Work in Progress:

Refereed Conference Presentations:

Invited Lectures and Presentations:

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