Daniel Selden
| Title | Professor, Director, Satyajit Ray Film and Study Center |
| Division | Humanities Division |
| Department | Literature Department |
| Affiliations | Jewish Studies, Classical Studies |
| Phone | 831-459-2175 (Office), 831-459-1924 (Message) |
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| Web Site | Academia.edu |
| Office | Humanities 1 639 |
| Office Hours | Wednesday 1:45-3:00 PM |
| Campus Mail Stop | Humanities Academic Services |
| Humanities 1, 639 Santa Cruz, California 95064 USA |
Research Interests
Middle Egyptian LiteraturePtolemaic Literature
The Alexander Romance
Literatures of the Roman Empire
The Politics of Opera
Second Temple Judaism
Early Christianity
Tributary Empires
Indo-European Poetry
Zoroastrianism
Biography, Education and Training
Ph.D. Yale University (Comparative Literature)B.A. Yale University (Art History; Italian Literature)
Honors, Awards and Grants
John Dizikes Teaching AwardPresident’s Fellowship, University of California
J. Paul Getty Center, Fellow
Classical Reception Studies Network, UK (grant)
Course Development Fellowship, Committee on Teaching
Postdoktorandenstipendium, Fachgruppe Literaturwissenschaft,Konstanz
Regents’ Junior Faculty Fellowship, University of California
National Endowment for the Humanities Travel Grant
American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship
Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities
Courses Taught
Middle EgyptianFilm Theory and Analysis
Ancient Magic
Hellenistic Jewish Literature
Hebrew Bible and Early Rabbinica
Greco-Roman Fiction
The Politics of Opera
The Archeology of Power
Autobiography
Andy Warhol
Indo-European Poetics