Karen Bassi Home  Directory Karen Bassi
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Karen Bassi
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Professor, Department Chair |
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Cowell 228 |
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(831) 459-2586 Office
(831) 459-2609 Message |
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bassi@ucsc.edu |
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| Research Focus | |
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Greek and Latin literatures; gender; literary and cultural theory; pre- and early modern studies; historiography; visual and performance studies |
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FALL 2009: Tu 1:30-3 & by appt |
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LTGR 102 - Greek Poetry: Homer
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My teaching and research areas are principally in Greek antiquity, from the Archaic to the Classical periods. I am interested in social and temporal relations and questions pertaining to the meaning of the past, both in its ancient forms and in contemporary disciplines; this is the topic of a book am currently completing for the University of Chicago Press. Other current interests include the causes and justifications of war in the ancient historians and the relationship between gender and the emotions in Greek epic and tragedy. |
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Acting Like Men, Gender, Drama and Nostalgia in Ancient Greece (University of Michigan Press, 1998).
When Worlds Elide: Political Theory, Cultural Studies, and the Effects of Hellenism Coedited
with Peter Euben. Special volume of Parallax titled De-Classifying Hellenism, Cultural Studies and the Classics, with Peter Euben (Routledge, 2003).
"Things of the Past: Objects and Time in Greek Narrative." Arethusa 38 (Winter 2005) 1-32.
"Visuality and Temporality: Reading the Tragic Script." In The Soul of Tragedy, edited by V. Pedrick and S. Oberhelman (The University of Chicago Press, 2005) 251-270.
"The Semantics of Manliness in Ancient Greece." In Andreia, Studies in Manliness and Courage in Classical Antiquity, edited by Ineke Sluiter and Ralph Rosen (Brill 2003) 25-58.
"The Somatics of the Past: Helen and the Body of Tragedy." In Acting on the Past, Historical Performance Across the Disciplines, edited by Mark Franko and Annette Richards (Wesleyan University Press, 2000) 13-34. |
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