Cynthia White

Associate Professor Cynthia White
Latin Program Director

Department of Classics
Learning Services Building, Room 218
1512 E. First St.
PO Box 210105
Tucson, AZ 85721-0105

Telephone: 520-626-8296

Fax: 520-621-3678

Vere maior fuit Roma maioresque sunt reliquie quam rebar. iam non orbem ab hac Urbe domitum, sed tam sero domitum miror.

-Petrarch, Fam. 2.14

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Greek and Latin Epithalamia

Medieval Latin

Augustan Poetry

Latin Pedagogy

Patristic Literature

COURSES TO BE TAUGHT Fall 2008

LAT 201: Intermediate Latin

CLAS 596a (seminar): The Marvels of Rome

SPRING BREAK TOUR IN ITALY

Each spring I organize a tour of Italy or Sicily that is open to classics students and alumni and to the wider UofA community. Applications are due October 7. Cost is generally $2,500.00 (slightly more for anyone over 21) and includes all transportation, hotels, meals, and entrances to sites and museums. For information about the 2007 trip

PUBLICATIONS

The Northumberland Bestiary: An Edition with Translation and Commentary (Belgium: Brepols, forthcoming): a scholarly edition of the 13th C. MS with translation and commentary.

The Emergence of Christianity in the Greco-Roman World (Greenwood Press, 2007)

“Inductive Texts and the Latin Major,” CJ 101 (2005): 67-76.

“The Northumberland Bestiary and the Art of Preaching,” Reinardus 18 (2005): 167-92.

"The Vision of Augustus: Pilgrims' Guide or Papal Pulpit?," Classica et Mediaevalia 55 (2005).

Homilies of Joshua by Origen, co-translator with Barbara Bruce FOTC 105 (The Catholic University Press of America, 2002).

"Music in the Latin Classroom," AP Latin Teacher's Guide (ETS, 2001).

"De Raptu Proserpinae in the Church Fathers: The Sacrum Myterium of Marriage," in Festschrift for Thomas P. Halton (Catholic University of America Press, Washington, D.C., 1998), pp 244-269.

"Docere Docentes: Training New Teachers in an Ancient Discipline," in Richard A. LaFleur, ed., Latin for the 21st Century: From Concept to Classroom (Glenview, IL: Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley, 1997), chap. 18.

"Agnes" "Catherine of Alexandria" "Cecilia" "Eustochium" "Gervasius and Protasius" "Ursula," in E. Ferguson, ed., Encyclopedia of Early Christianity, 2 volumes (Garland Publishing, Inc., 1997).

"Roman Baths," in Gregory A. Staley, ed., Speculum Romanum (American Classical League, Miami, Ohio, 1984), pp 35-54.

M.A. THESIS COMMITTEES SERVED/DIRECTED

Jacobson, Sarah, Illa mihi sedes: the Domus in c. 68 of Catullus (2007)

Schrepfer-Tarter, Amy, Vocabulary Learning Modules in the Secondary Latin Classroom (2007)

Cohen, Holly, Spes Surgentis Iuli: Ascanius in the Carthage Episode (2005)

Smith, Damon, An Interpretation of the Greek Infancy Gospel of Thomas (2004)

McCarthy, Ryan, Urbs Oritur: The Parilia Meets Politics in the Age of Augustus (2004)

Jorgensen, Amanda, Ovid's Myrrha Episode: Intratext, Intertext, Context (2004)

DeLeeuw, Jason, The Geography and Ethnography of Ancient Iberia in Greek and Roman Authors before the Arab Invasion (2003)

Ivanyi, Cord, Nihil sub Sole Novum: A Consideration of What the Past Says about the Present in American Education (2003)

Showalter, Jesse, The Apple's Role: Acontius and Cydippe in Latin Love Elegy (2003)

V. Jones, Creativity and Healing in Antiquity: An Analysis of Texts Centered on the Figure of Asclepius (2001).

E. Corbett, Ambrose: An Exhortation to Virginity (2000).

J. Kemper, Nicholas Jenson's 1478 Edition of Plutarch's Virorum Illustrium Vitae (1999).

B. Hill, Orpheus, Lyre, Zodiac: Pagan Iconography for Late Antiquity (1998).

D. Carlson, Magical and Theatrical Elements in Two Terracotta Figurines from Utica, Tunisia (1995).

K. Miller, Sulpicia's Love Elegies (1994).

Associate Professor Cynthia White Latin Program Director

Associate Professor Cynthia White
Latin Program Director