Maxine Lewis

Lecturer

Department of Classics and Ancient History

3 Wynyard St (09) 923 3043

University of Auckland

1. AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Latin literature, esp. Catullus

Greek and Roman gender and sexuality

Roman history and society

Greek poetry, esp. Apollonius, Callimachus, and the epigrammatists

Cultural and literary critical theory

2. EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

2006-2011PhD in Classics, University of Sydney

Thesis:Catullus’ Poetics of Place: Structures of Geographical Reference in the Corpus

Supervisors: Associate Professor Lindsay Watson

Examiners: Professor Julia Haig Gaisser, Associate Professor David Wray, Dr Robert Cowan

2008Visiting Scholar, University of Arizona, under supervision of Professor Marilyn B. Skinner

2001-2005BA, First class Honours, Faculty Medal, Classics and Ancient History, University of Newcastle

3. PUBLICATIONS

Book

Manuscript Catullus’ Poetics of Place, for Oxford University Press

Articles - In Print

‘Audience, Communication and Textuality in Catullus Carmen 67’ Antichthon 43 (2009) 34-49

Review of Alan Shapiro (trans.), Euripides: Trojan Women. Greek Tragedy in New Translations (New York 2008) Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.04.61

Submitted

Invited review of Daniel H. Garrison, The Student’s Catullus Fourth Edition (U.S.A. 2012), Bryn Mawr Classical Review

‘Colonizer and Colonized? Catullan identity, imperial geography, and post-Colonial Theory’

Submitted to Arethusa July 2011

4. TEACHING

2012 Lecturer at The University of Auckland, on-going.

Year / Course / Level / Institution / Responsibilities / Enrolment
2012 / Love and Death in Greek and Roman Literature / 1st year / University of Auckland / Lecturer / 137
2012 / Latin Intermediate Language Acquisition / 2nd year / University of Auckland / Lecturer / 12
2012 / Catullus / Honours/Masters / University of Auckland / Lecturer / 2

2007-2011I taught Latin, ancient history and classical civilisation at the Universities of Sydney, Newcastle and Arizona, in the following subjects:

Year / Course / Level / Institution / Responsibilities / Enrolment
2011 / Foundations for Ancient Rome / 1st year / University of Sydney / Course administrator, tutor, marker / 350
2011 / Greek and Roman Epic / 2nd year / University of Sydney / Tutor, marker / 120
2011 / Women in Ancient Literature / 3rd year / University of Newcastle / Course Coordinator,
sole instructor, administrator / 34
2011 / Introductory Latin / 1st year / University of Sydney / Tutor, marker / 49
2010 / Foundations for Ancient Rome / 1st year / University of Sydney / Course administrator, tutor, marker / 319
2010 / Sexuality in Greece and Rome / 3rd year / University of Newcastle / Lecturer, tutor / 32
2010 / Intermediate Latin / 2nd year / University of Sydney / Lecturer / 25
2009 / Greece to the Persian Wars / 1st year / University of Newcastle / Sole tutor, marker / 28
2008 / Women and Gender in Antiquity / 3rd year / University of Arizona / Guest lecturer / 57
2008 / Latin Literature in Translation / 2nd year / University of Arizona / Guest lecturer / 47
2007 / Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome / 2nd year / University of Sydney / Sole tutor, marker / 72
2007 / Ancient Greek Religion / 2nd year / University of Sydney / Tutor, marker / 136

5. DEPARTMENT PAPERS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2012U.K. Classical Association Annual Meeting (Exeter)

‘Queering Catullus in the classroom: the ethics of teaching poem 63’

2011ASCS 32 Australasian Society for Classical Studies (Auckland)

‘Catullus and post-colonial theory: landscape, identity and Otherness’

2010U.K. Classical Association Annual Meeting (Cardiff)

‘Geography and Time in Catullus c.64’

Arethusa Seminar Series, State University of New York (Buffalo)

‘Colonizer and Colonized? Catullan identity, Catullan geography, and Post-Colonial Theory’

University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)

‘Nunc Celtiber es’ ethnicity and geographical identity in Catullus’ poem 39’

2009ASCS 30 Australasian Society for Classical Studies (Sydney)

‘Catullus and the epigrammatic tradition’

University of Sydney Classics and Ancient History department seminar

‘Greek models of Catullan intertextuality’

2008University of Arizona, Department of Classics graduate colloquium

‘Theocritus and Catullus: A Triangular Allusion’

2007Roman Byways: An International Conference in Memory of Charles Tesoriero, University of Sydney

‘Catullus 67: Audience and Meaning’

6. SCHOLARSHIPS & GRANTS

Award / Value / Awarding body / Year
Professor Richard Waterhouse Travel Grant / $4,000 / University of Sydney / 2010
International Student Bursary / £250 / U.K. Classical Association / 2010
University Postgraduate Award / $20,500 / annum / University of Sydney / 2006-2010
Postgraduate Research Support Scheme / $500 / University of Sydney / 2009
Faculty of Arts Travel Grant / $1,000 / University of Sydney / 2007
Andrew Wright Travel Grant / $2,500 / University of Sydney / 2007
Postgraduate Research Support Scheme / $1500 / University of Sydney / 2006
Faculty Medal (Honours) / University of Newcastle / 2004
Summer Vacation Research Scholarship / $1,000 / University of Newcastle / 2004
Williams Classics Undergraduate Scholarship / $500 / University of Newcastle / 2003

7. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH

2012Plenary speaker at NZACT Mini-Conference “Virgil: Master of Allusion”

Facilitator of “Teaching Virgil” workshop for University of Auckland EDCURR course

Guest lecturer at Sydney Latin Summer School “The poetry of Catullus”

Teacher at Sydney Latin Summer School (section 3b)

2011Invited peer-reviewer, University of Wisconsin Press

2010 University of Sydney Classics and Ancient History department representative. Sent to the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) to research cross-department post-graduate exchange

Volunteer assistant at Appian and the Romans, a Conference at the University of Sydney

Classics Outreach presenter and student mentor at Wyong Public School (NSW, Australia)

2009 University of Sydney Classics and Ancient History Postgraduate Representative and departmental seminar convener

Volunteer assistant at ASCS 30, Sydney

2008 Volunteer assistant at the Annual Meeting of CAMWS the Classical Association of Mid- West- and South (Tucson, Arizona)

2007 ARC (Australian Research Council)projectresearch assistant to Dr Lindsay Watson

Completed Faculty of Arts Tutors’ Development Program

8. LANGUAGES

Latin, Ancient Greek, German

- 1 -