Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies

BENJAMIN WEAVER

Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies

66 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LU,

Interests

Greek Religion, Papyrology, Textual Criticism, Literary Theory

Current Employment

Faculty Research Associate, AHRB Imaging Papyri Project, Oxford, 2003 – present. Co-directed digitization and on-line publication of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri; designing new software Oxyrhynchus interface, including Unicode full-text search and display tools; lead software developer of the Leverhulme Fragment Retrieval System: a web application enabling search-and-display of papyrus images and text; conjectural reconstructions of fragments; wrote and project grants, research of new MSI (multi-spectral imaging) technologies.

Co-Administrator, the Herculaneum Society, Oxford. Organised Society events and logistics, fund-raising, administered Society finances for membership of 200 throughout UK, Europe and US.

Classical Studies

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

Researcher, AHRB Imaging Papyri Project, University of Oxford, 2003-present

Reader, Center For Hellenic Studies, 2001-3

Affiliated Scholar, Kenyon College, 1999-2000

Adjunct Professor, Department of Humanities, Ohio Wesleyan University, 1998

University Post-Doctoral Fellowship, The Ohio State University, 1996-7

Assistant to A. B. Lord, Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature, Harvard University, 1989-90

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Classics, Yale University, 1997, (M. Phil., 1994)

Graduate School, Yale University, Dept. of Classics, 1990-96

Special Student in Classics and Comparative Literature, Harvard University, 1987-90

Certificate, Mandarin Chinese, Taipei Language Institute, 1986

B.A., English Literature, Tufts University, 1984

DISSERTATION

"Sparagmos: Dismemberment as Myth and Metaphor in Ancient Greek Literature"

(Heinrich von Staden, Director)

AWARDS RECEIVED

Whiting Dissertation Fellowship in the Humanities, Yale University, 1995-6

Berkeley, Biddle, and Woolsey Travel Scholarship, Yale University, 1995

Yale University Fellowship, 1990-4

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS

Book: Sparagmos: Dismemberment and Laceration as Myth and Metaphor in Greek

Literature. under consideration by publisher).

"Mimesis in Maenadic Cult" (APA Annual Meeting (Chicago), December, 1997)

"A Further Allusion in the Eumenides to the Panathenaia" Classical Quarterly 46.2 (1996)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Myth, Legend, and Folklore, Dept. of Humanities, Ohio Wesleyan University, Spring ‘98

10 courses, Greek and Latin language, literature, and cultural history at Yale, 1992-6.

LANGUAGES

Reading German, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek and Latin, Mandarin Chinese (spoken)

Information Technology Experience

Senior Database Programmer, RS Information Systems, Washington D.C., 12/03 – 6/04. Developed, and tested a digital library of archived meteorological images for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Software Engineer, Spirent Communications, Washington D.C., 12/00 – 6/04. Server-side, GUI component development, configuration management for a large-scale, object-oriented, distributed client-server Network Management System.

IT Skills: Java, C++, UML, SQL, PSQL (Oracle, Sybase, PostGreSQL, MS SQL Server), XML, XSD, XSLT, PERL, HTML, UML, Kornshell and Bash scripting, sed, awk; Java Sun Cert. Progr. 5/9/00.