Matthew Semanoff, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Classics
Education
2002 Ph.D., Department of Classics, University of Wisconsin – Madison Dissertation: Pedagogical Poetry: Teachers and Students in Didactic Verse Director: P. A. Rosenmeyer
1998 M.A., Department of Classics, University of Wisconsin – Madison Thesis: The Development of the Epic Cycle: A Study in Narrative Continuity Director: B. B. Powell
1995 B.A. magna cum laude, Classical Languages, Carleton College, Northfield, MN Thesis: Sacrifices in Aristophanic Comedy Director: C. L. Zimmerman
Research Interests
Greek and Latin Didactic Poetry, Archaic Poetry, Hellenistic Poetry, Ancient Literary Criticism
Academic Honors and Fellowships
Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Carleton College, 2002-2004
Lemoine-Adams Merit Fellowship, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 2001
Phi Beta Kappa, 1995
Papers and Presentations
“Astronomical Ecphrasis: Aratus’ Description of the Night-Sky.” CAMWS, April 2006
“Lucretius as Teacher and Student,” CAMWS, April 2005
“Undermining Authority: Pedagogy in Aratus’ Phaenomena,” Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry: "Beyond the Canon", 25-27 August 2004
“The Rhetoric of Expertise in Aratus’ Phaenomena,” CAMWS, April 2004
“Vati parete perito: Triangulating the Roles of the Narrator in Ovid’s Ars Amatoria,” CAMWS, April 2003
“Quid rabidae tradis ovile lupae? Deception, Manipulation, and Pedagogy in Ars Amatoria 3,” Carleton College, April 2002
“Classifying Hesiod: Aristotle, Genre, and the Works and Days,” CAMWS, April 2001
“The Façade of the Face to Face: the Function of Names in Aristophanic Comedy,” APA Jan. 2001
“The Status of Linguistic Rights in Nepal,” submitted to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on the occasion of the 14th States’ Reports on behalf of INHURED International, Aug. 2000 “Callimachus’ Mirrored Motif: Voyeurism in Hymns 5 and 6,” Graduate Symposium on Hellenistic Culture and Literature, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Feb. 1999
Teaching Experience
University of Montana
LAT 402: Advanced Prose Composition, Spring 2006
GRK 300L: Major Authors (Aristophanes’ Clouds), Fall 2005
LS 151: Introduction to Humanities, Fall 2005, 2004
MCLG 251: The Epic, Fall 2005, 2004
GRK 212: Hexameter Poetry, Spring 2005
LAT 300: Major Authors (Tacitus and Petronius), Spring 2005
MCLG 252: Tragedy, Spring 2006, 2005
LAT 101. : Elementary Latin, Fall 2004
Carleton College
Latin 347: Themes in Latin Love Elegy, Spring 2004
Latin 204: The Poetry of Catullus and Vergil, Winter 2004, 2003
Greek 101: Elementary Greek, Fall 2003
Greek 102: Intermediate Greek, Winter 2003
Latin 349: Ovid ’ s Ars Amatoria, Fall 2002
University of Wisconsin – Madison
Classics 322: Civilization of Ancient Rome, Spring 2001
ILS 203: Western Culture: Literature and the Arts I, Fall 2000, Fall 1998
English 100: Freshman Composition, Spring 2000, Fall 1999
Classics 322: Civilization of Ancient Rome, Spring 1999
Classics 370: Classical Mythology, Spring 1998, Spring 1997
Latin 203: Intermediate Latin, Fall 1997
Latin 103: Elementary Latin, Fall 1996