Allen J. Romano
Department of Classics
The Florida State University
205 Dodd Hall
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1510
aromano@fsu.edu
SPECIAL RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS: Greek literature, especially Greek drama and
Hellenistic poetry; Greek and Roman mythography; Digital Humanities; Literature and the
Cognitive Sciences
EDUCATION
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA: Ph.D. in Classics (2004). Dissertation: “First Rites: Aitia in Ancient
Greek Poetry” Readers: Richard P. Martin, Susan Stephens, Alessandro Barchiesi
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA: BA summa cum laude in Classics (Greek and Latin
concentrations) and Comparative Literature (1998)
EMPLOYMENT
Florida State University, Assistant Professor of Classics (2007-present)
University of Chicago, Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow (2005-2007)
University of Chicago, Lecturer (2004-2005)
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Predictions of the Present: Etiological Myths in Ancient Greek Tragedy (in progress)
Origins in Antiquity (in progress)
Articles:
In preparation or under review: articles on Euripides’ Hippolytus Veiled, Herodas’ Mimiambi, Euripides’
Trojan Women, sound effects in Greek poetry and drama, Athenaeus’ account of the kylikranes (“cupheads”), Callimachus’ Iambi, mania in Hellenistic poetry
“Classics and Digital Humanities” Expositions: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities (forthcoming)
“Tragic Pasts and Euripidean Explainers” in History without Historians (Proceedings of the 6th Leventis
Conference), ed. J. Marincola (forthcoming)
Review of B. Boyd, On the Origin of Stories, AJP (forthcoming)
Review of J. Grethlein, The Greeks and their Past. Poetry, Oratory and History in the Fifth
Century BCE CR 62.1 (forthcoming)
“Callimachus and Contemporary Criticism” in The Brill Companion to Callimachus, Susan Stephens,
Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Luigi Lehnus, eds. (2011)
“The Invention of Marriage: Hermaphroditus and Salmacis at Halicarnassus” CQ 59.2 (2009)
Review of K. Gutzwiller, A Guide to Hellenistic Literature , NECJ (2008)
“Reading the Signs: The Arrangement of the New Posidippus Roll (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309, IV.7-VI.8)”
ZPE 146: 13-24. (with D. Lavigne) (2004)
Review of Speaking Volumes: Orality and Literacy in the Greek and Roman World (J. Watson, ed.)
BMCR 2002.10.27
Digital Projects:
Xenophon’s Cyropaedia: Collaborative online commentary (2011-); currently in development (with N.
Sandridge, D. Carlisle, S. Ferrario)
Text Mining the Hero in Tragedy and Epic (with H. Dik)
TALKS
“Text Mining Ancient Greek Poetry: Prospects and Perspective” FSU, History of Text Technology
(HoTT Colloquium), April 11, 2011
“Classics and Digital Humanities” at “The Future of Classics” Center for Hellenic Studies, April 2, 2011
“Predictions of the Present”, Center for Hellenic Studies, March 24, 2011
“Send in the Gods: Typical Euripides in the Untypical Orestes” University of Pennsylvania, February 24,
2011
“What's So Funny About Euripides?” April 8, Ohio State University
“Iambic Parody of the Sacred: Genre and Religion in Herodas”, CAMWS Panel: “The Outskirts of
Iambos” (co-organizer), March 2010
“Acting the God”, at When the God Appears: Narratives of Divine Visitation in Ancient Greece and
Rome (co-organizer), February 2010
“Critic's Ear and Epigram's Voice”, keynote at Graduate Student Symposium “Genre and Voice in
Hellenistic Epigram”, Texas Tech University (December 9, 2009)
“Tragic Pasts and Euripidean Explainers” at 6th Leventis Conference, “History without Historians”,
Edinburgh (November 2009)
“Sacrifice Corrupted: Misunderstandings in Tragic Metaphor”, FSU, April 2009
“Lyric Etiology”, University of Texas, San Antonio (March 2009)
“Cup-heads and Comic Etiology”, American Philological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA,
Jan. 9-11, 2009
“Sophoclean Etiology” at Space & Time in Ancient Theatre, Second International Conference on Hellenic
Culture and Civilization, Alexandroupolis, May 14-18, 2008
“Euphonic Criticism and the Euripidean Ear”, CAMWS, Cincinnati, April 12, 2007
“Explanatory Myth and the Fallacy of Poetic Panhellenism” at Regionalism and Globalism in Antiquity,
Vancouver, March 16-17, 2007
“Myths and Innovations” at Euripides: The First Hellenistic Poet?, University of Chicago, Nov. 11-12,
2006
“Greek Explanatory Myth and Euripides' Hippolytus” Franke Humanities Center, University of Chicago,
April 3, 2006
“Aeschylus' Foundation Drama” University of California - Irvine, Feb. 13, 2006
Panel Discussion, “Sophocles' Electra: Staging Agonism and Revenge” University of Chicago, May 25,
2005
“Attic Tragedy and Ritual Exegesis” University of Chicago, Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop, Spring 2005
“Hermaphroditus Invents Marriage: Ancient Greek Culture through Origin Myth” University of Chicago,
Winter 2005
“Origin Myths and the Problem of Panhellenism” Stanford Graduate Colloquium, 2003
“Myths, Riddles, and Re-performances of Sappho 31” at Picking up the Pieces, Conference on Ancient
Fragments, Brown University, 2001
“Hellenistic Poetry” Berkeley/Stanford Hellenistic Studies Conference, Stanford University, 1999
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Center for Hellenic Studies Junior Fellowship (2010-11)
FSU Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award (2009-2010); Nominated for Undergraduate Teaching
Award (2008; ineligible: minimum 2+ years at FSU required)
FSU Committee on Faculty Research Support (COFRS) Regular Summer Award (Summer 2009)
FSU Faculty Research Library Materials Grant (2009-10, 2008-9)
FSU First Year Assistant Professor (FYAP) Summer Grant (Summer 2008)
Stanford University: Whiting Dissertation Fellowship in the Humanities (2002-3); Classics Department
Fellowships (1998-2002); Classics Department Travel Grant (2001); Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in
Humanistic Studies (1998-9)
University of Pennsylvania: Senior Classics Prize (1998); Ancient Studies Senior Thesis Prize (1998);
Phi Beta Kappa (1997); George Allen Memorial Prize in Greek; George Allen Memorial Prize in Latin
(1997); University Scholar, Benjamin Franklin Scholar, Dean’s List (1994-8)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
The Florida State University, Assistant Professor (2007-present)
Graduate Greek: Aristophanes Thesmophoriasuzae and Frogs (Fall 2011), Elegy and Iambos
(Fall 2009), Homer (Spring 2009), Last Plays: Euripides’ Bacchae and Sophocles’ Oedipus at
Colonus (Spring 2008)
Graduate Latin: Plautus and Terence (Fall 2007)
Intermediate/Advanced Greek: Euripides’ Medea (Fall 2008)
Elementary Greek: Beginning Greek II (Fall 2009, Fall 2008), Intermediate Greek (Fall 2007)
Classical Civilization: Greek Tragedy (Fall 2011, Spring 2010, Spring 2008). Classical
Mythology (Spring 2010, Fall 2008)
Independent Studies: Research Methods in Ancient Mythology (2008-9)
University of Chicago, Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow (2005-7) and Lecturer (2004-5)
Graduate and Advanced Greek: Tragedy and Parody: Euripides' Helen and Aristophanes'
Thesmophoriazusae (Spring 2007), Euripides' Cyclops and Greek Satyr Drama (Fall 2006),
Euripides and the Performance of Athenian Myth (Winter 2005)
Elementary and Intermediate Greek: Introduction to Attic Greek II (Winter 2005), Plato's Meno
(Fall 2004)
Classical Civilizations: Greek Poetics and the Gendered Voice (Winter 2006), Violence, Ritual,
and Religion in Greek Tragedy (Fall 2005), Technologies of Memory in the Ancient World (Fall
2004)
San Francisco State University, Adjunct (Spring 2004)
Graduate Greek: Greek Lyric Poetry
Stanford University, Instructor of Record (1998-2004)
Advanced Greek: Hellenistic Poetry (Spring 2001)
Elementary Greek: Beginning Greek 1, 2, and 3 (Fall 2003, Winter 2003, Spring 2004)
Classical Civilizations: Greek Mythology (Summer 2003)
Stanford University, Teaching Assistant (1998-2004)
Classical Civilizations: The Logic of History (Winter 2000), History and Culture of Ancient
Egypt (Spring 2000), Gender, Violence, and the Body in Ancient Religion (Fall 1999)
Stanford University Alumni Association and the Alliance for Life-Long Learning
online: Encountering Homer’s Odyssey (Fall 2001-Spring 2002)
STUDENT COMMITTEES
Thesis and Paper supervisor and committees
The Florida State University
Kevin Oliver, Ph.D. dissertation committee (current)
Charles Blume, Ph.D. dissertation committee (current)
Donna Nagle, Ph.D. dissertation committee (current)
Thomas Paterniti, Ph.D. Major Professor (2008-2010)
Robert Amstutz, MA paper supervisor, The Hesiodic Shield (2009/10)
Ashlie Canipe, MA paper supervisor: Pain in Tragedy (2009/10)
Katherine Norton, MA paper supervisor: Plautus and Soldiers (2009/10)
Mark Tassone, MA paper supervisor: Plautine Prostitutes
Clare Ryan, MA paper committee: Greek Theater in Roman Period (2009/10)
Rebecca Morgan, Humanities BA Honors Thesis committee, Roman Love Elegy (2011/12)
Chad Carver, BA Honors thesis supervisor, “The Sword of Hector and the Belt of Ajax”
(2010/11)
Karen Meyer, BA thesis supervisor: Myths of Athena (2009/10)
Kyle Despiegler (Dept. of Theater), BA thesis committee: Prometheus Unbound (2009/10)
University of Chicago
Richard Whaling, BA thesis supervisor, Herodas and Hellenistic Poetry (2006/7)
Cara Clifford, BA thesis supervisor, Aeschylus' Persians (2006/7)
Richard Carli, BA thesis supervisor, “Conflict Between Greeks in Xenophon's Anabasis”
(2005/6)
Harry Schmidt, BA thesis committee, “Deception, Revenge, and the Curse of the House of
Atreus” (2005/6)
Anna Rich, BA thesis committee,“The Subjugation of Antigone” (2005/6)
Cate Tolzmann, BA thesis supervisor, Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis (2004/5)
Exam committees
The Florida State University
Charlie Blume, Special Author Exam Supervisor, Hesiod (2011/12)
Kevin Oliver, Special Author Exam committee, Apollonius (2011/12)
University of Chicago
Teresa Lemieux, Special Field Exam Committee: Sophocles Electra (2005/6)
Emily Justino, Special Field Exam Committee, Sophocles Trachiniae (2005/6)
DEPARTMENTAL, COLLEGE, AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Florida State University
Director of Graduate Admissions (2011/12)
Admissions Committee (2011/12)
Executive Committee (2008/9)
Philology Committee (2007/8, 2008/9, 2009/10, 2011/12; Chair, Spring 2010)
Conference Committee (2008/9, 2009/10, 2011/12; Chair: 2009-10)
Langford Conference Organizer (Co-chair): “When the Gods Appear: Narratives of Divine
Visitation in Ancient Greece and Rome”(2010)
Langford Conference Organizer: “Playing Along with Plautus” (2009)
Curriculum Committee (2007/8, 2008/9, 2009/10)
Doctoral and MA Exams Committee (2007/8, 2008/9, 2009/10, 2011/12)
Graduate Reading Exams Coordinator (2007/8, 2008/9, 2009/10, 2011/12)
Secretary to Faculty Meetings (2007/8, 2008/9, 2009/10)
Graduate Proseminar: Greek Poetry and Drama (2007/8, 2008/9, 2009/10, 2011/12)
Department Website Coordinator (2008/9, 2009/10)
Department Website Redesign (Summer 2011)
Library Officer (2007/8, 2008/9, 2009/10)
Eta Sigma Phi Advisor (2007/8, 2008/9, 2009/10)
Dissertation Research Grant Selection Committee (Office of Graduate Studies) (2008/9, 2009/10)
Academic Honor Policy Hearing Panel (2007-8, 2008-9)
COFRS reader (2010)
University of Chicago
Undergraduate Convivium Committee (2005/6, 2006/7)
Graduate Methods Seminar: Academic Technology and Electronic Text (2004/5, 2005/6, 2006/7)
Conference organizer: “Euripides: The First Hellenistic Poet?” Nov. 11-12, 2006
Stanford University
Grant to write Classics Department Graduate Teaching Handbook (2003/4)
Graduate Representative to the Faculty (2001/2)
Graduate Representative for Graduate Admissions (2000/1)
Graduate Colloquium Committee (1999/2000)
Web design and production: Stanford Department of Classics Website (1999-2002)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
CAMWS Book Award Committee (2009-present)
Anonymous Referee: Indiana University Press, Classical Philology (x3), American Journal of Philology
Languages
Greek and Latin: advanced. French, German, and Italian: intermediate. Coptic, Middle Egyptian,
Akkadian: basic