Dee L.
Clayman
ADDRESS: Ph.D.
Program in Classical Studies
TEL: 212-817-8151
The Graduate Center, CUNY
FAX: 212-817-1595
365 Fifth Avenue
dclayman@gc.cuny.edu
EDUCATION: University of Pennsylvania
Wellesley College
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Wellesley, MA 12181
Ph.D. Classical Studies
A.B. with Honors in Greek
Dissertation: Interpretations of
Callimachus’ Iambi
TEACHING POSITIONS:
The Graduate Center, City University of New York: Professor of Classics
and Executive Officer of the Ph. D. Program in Classics, 1995-present.
Brooklyn College, CUNY: Professor of Classics, 1982-present; Associate
Professor, 1978-1981; Assistant Professor, 1972-1977.
ADMINISTRATIVE
POSITIONS:
President-Elect, American Philological Association,
2009-present;
Director and General Editor of the Database of Classical Bibliography,
1986-2009
Vice President, Education Division, American Philological Association,
1990-1993
Chair of the Classics Department, Brooklyn College,
1982-1985
Founding Director of the Ford Colloquium, Brooklyn College,
1986-1988
RESEARCH AWARDS: total c.
$2,800,000.
American Council of Learned Societies, Grant in Aid, 7/78
American Philological Association, 20 annual grants
American Philosophical Society, Grant in Aid, 12/75
National Endowment for the Humanities, Div. of Education, 10/83
National Endowment for the Humanities, Div. of Access and Preservation or Div. of Research, 4/05; 6/03, 6/01, 6/99, 6/97, 6/95, 6/93, 6/91, 6/89
The Barrington Foundation, 11/98, 11/99, 11/00
City University Faculty Research Awards, 7/95, 7/94, 7/93, 7/92, 7/90, 7/89
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, 9/06,7/02, 7/99, 3/98, 3/96, 4/95
The Dorot Foundation, 11/92
Getty Grant Program, J. Paul Getty Trust, 6/05, 3/90
The Florence J. Gould Foundation, 1/00, 10/95, 9/93, 9/91, 11/90
The Institute for Mediterranean Studies, 6/93
Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 4/07, 9/06, 2/05, 5/03, 5/00, 10/90
The Costas and Mary Maliotis Foundation, 6/94, 6/95
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 7/93, 6/05
The Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, 11/03
The Lucile and David Packard Foundation, 7/86
The Seth Sprague Foundation, 7/93, 1/95
Various private donors to the DCB
HONORS:
Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowships, 7/06,
7/07
“Membre actif,” Société internationale pour bibliographie
classique, first elected 11/03
Senior Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies,
1/02
Medal for Distinguished Service, American Philological Association,
12/99.
ONLINE PUBLICATIONS:
Editor-in-chief, Oxford
Bibliographies Online: Classics, 2008-present. Coming online in
February, 2010.
L’Année philologique, with Eric
Rebillard at www.Année-philologique.com (2002-present).
CD-ROMS: Database of Classical
Bibliography.v1, American Philological Association (1995); DCB.v2 (1997).
BOOKS:
Callimachus' Iambi, Mnemosyne
Supplementa 59 (Leiden: Brill 1980). Reviewed in: Classical Review 31 (1981) 287-288
Cairns; Greece and Rome 28
(1981) 94 Arnott; Classical Philology
78 (1983) 171 - 173 Phinney.
Timon of Phlius: Pyrrhonism into Poetry. (Berlin & NY: Walter De Gruyter 2009). Abstract: http://www.degruyter.com/cont/fb/at/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110220803-1
.
Queen Berenike II, under
contract with the Oxford University Press.
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS:
"The New Sappho in a Hellenistic Poetry Book,” in M. Skinner and E. Green
(eds.), The New Sappho On Old Age: Textual and Philosophical Issues,
131-146. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press 2009). Information on the volume is here: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/GRENEW.html.
"Philosophy and Philosophers in Greek Epigram," in Brill’s Companion to Greek Epigram, P.
Bing and J. Bruss (eds.) (Leiden 2007) 497-517.
“The Skepticism of Apollonius’ Argonautica,” in Apollonius Rhodius, A. Harder, et al.
(eds.) Hellenistica Groningana 4 (Leuven 2000) 33-53.
"The Database of Classical Bibliography: Methodology and Design," Electronic Antiquity 1.2 (1993). Full text: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ElAnt/V1N2/database.html.
"A Methodology for a Database of Classical Bibliography," in Thesaurus Bibliographiae Graecae et
Latinae, F. Tremblay and P. Senay (eds.), Cahier des Études anciennes 27 (1993) 77-104.
"The Database of Classical Bibliography," Accessing Antiquity: The Computerization of
Classical Studies, J. Solomon (ed.), (Tuscon and London: University of
Arizona Press, 1993) 108-132.
"Corinna and Pindar," in NOMODEIKTES: Greek Studies in Honor of
Martin Ostwald, R. Rosen & J. Farrell (eds.), (Ann Arbor: University
of Michigan Press 1993) 633-642.
"Trends and Issues in Quantitative Stylistics," Transactions and Proceedings of the
American Philological Association 122 (1992) 385-390.
"Automatic parsing of Classical Bibliography," Mélanges Rodrigue LaRue, F. Tremblay
(ed.), Cahier des Études anciennes 25
(1991) 111-118.
"The Quantitative Analysis of Text: Why has it Failed?" Sciences Historiques, Sciences du Passe et
Nouvelles Technologies d'Information: Bilan et Évaluation, S. Cacaly and G. Losfeld (eds.), CREDO,
Universitè‚ Charles de Gaulle - Lille III (Villeneuve d'Ascq 1990) 37-47.
"Callimachus' Iambi and Aitia," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und
Epigraphik 74 (1988) 277-286. "Sigmatism in Greek Poetry," Transactions and Proceedings of the
American Philological Association
117 (1987) 69-84.
"Time Series Analysis of Word Length in Oedipus the King," Favonius, Supplementary Volume I (1987)
65 - 79. Full text online at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1487312.
"Hellenistic Poetry at Alexandria: The Epigrammatists, Callimachus and
Apollonius of Rhodes," Ancient Writers:
Greece and Rome, vol. 1, T.J. Luce ed. (New York: Scribners 1983), 449 -
482.
"Sentence Length in Greek Hexameter Poetry," Hexameter Studies, R. Grotjahn (ed.),
Quantitative Linguistics 11 (Bochum: Brockmeyer 1981) 107-136.
"The Meaning of Corinna's Weroia," Classical Quarterly 28 (1978) 369-397.
"Callimachus' Fourth Iamb," Classical Journal 74 (1978) 142-148.
"Enjambement in Greek Hexameter Poetry," with T. Van Nortwick, Transactions and Proceedings of the
American Philological Association 107 (1978) 85-92.
"The Origins of Greek Literary Criticism and the Aitia Prologue," Weiner Studien (1977) 27-34.
"Callimachus' Thirteenth Iamb: The Last Word," Hermes 104 (1976) 29-35.
"Horace's Epodes VIII and XII: More than Clever Obscenity?" Classical World 69 (1975) 55-61.
"Timon Phliasus" in Vol. VI of La
Dictionnaire des Philosophes Antiques,
"Hellenistic Poetry," "Callimachus," and "Timon of Phlius," in the Oxford Bibliography Online: Classics, Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York. Forthcoming in February, 2010.
"A New Historical Context for 'Acontius and Cydippe' (Call. fr. 67-75 Pf.)," forthcoming in A. Harder, et al. (ed.). Hellenistic Literature in Context. Leuven: Peeters.
SELECTED REVIEWS:
Review of B. Acosta-Hughes, Polyeidiea: The Iambi of Callimachus and the Archaic
Iambic Tradition (Berkeley & Los Angeles 2002) in Classical World 98 (2004) 112-113.
Review of S. Consigny, Gorgias:
Sophist and Artist (
Review of O. Taplin (ed.), Literature in the Greek World (Oxford
2000) in Journal of Hellenic Studies
123 (2003) 216-17.
Review of A Kerkhecker, Callimachus' Book of Iambi (Oxford 1999)
in Classical World 95,2 (2002)
194-195.
Reviews of Antonios Rengakos, Apollonios Rhodios und die antike Homererklarung, Zetemata 92 (Munchen
1994) and Mary De Forest, Apollonius' Argonautica: a Callimachean
Epic, Mnem. Supp. 142 (
Review of A. B. Lord, Epic Singers and Oral Tradition (Ithaca: Cornell
University Press 1991), Classical
Outlook 71,2 (1994) 68.
Review of P. Fortassier, L' hiatus
expressif dans l'Iliad et dans l'Odyssée, Bibliothéque de l'Information
grammaticale, (Louvain 1989), American Journal of Philology 113,1
(1992) 90-93.
Review of J. Ferguson, Callimachus (
Review of M. Lefkowitz, Lives of the Greek Poets (Baltimore
1981), American Journal of Philology
104 (1983) 96-97.
Review of F. Williams, Callimachus' Hymn to Apollo (
REPRESENTATIVE PAPERS
READ:
"Verbal Images and the 'Straight Canon of Truth' in the Indalmoi of Timon of Phlius," at the
biannual congress of la Fédération Internationale des Associations d’Études
Classiques, Berlin, August 24-29, 2009.
“The Lady of the Lock: Berenice II,” The Earle Lecture, Hunter College,
May 1, 2009.
“The New Sappho in a Hellenistic Poetry Book,” American Philological
Association, San Diego, Jan. 4, 2007.
“Philosophers and Philosophy in Greek Epigram, “Yale University, Sept.
30. 2005; Brown University, Feb. 13, 2006
“Ancient Modernisms: Make it Old!” Wabash University Center, Prato,
Italy, July 23, 2004.
“Poetry and Pyrrhonism in the Hellenistic Age,” Columbia University
Seminar in Classical Civilization, March 23, 2004.
“Timon of Phlius and his Skeptical Aesthetics,” University of Cincinnati,
October 1, 2003.
“Fundamentals of the Bucolic,” Yale University, April
2003.
“The Skepticism of Apollonius’ Argonautica,” Fourth Annual Conference
on Hellenistic Literature, Groningen, Sept. 4, 1998.
"Text as Data," American Philological Association, New York, Dec. 28,
1996.
"A Retrospective Database of the Année philologique," Christ Church
College, Oxford, April 5, 1992.
"The Quantitative Analysis of Text: Why Has it failed?," Universitè‚ de
Lille III, March 16, 1989.
"Callimachus' Iambi and Aitia", American Philological
Association, San Antonio, Dec. 28, 1986.
"Time-series Analysis of Word Length in Sophocles' Oedipus the King," UCLA Conference on
Classics and Computing, Los Angeles, July 19, 1986.
"The Quantitative Analysis of Greek Poetic Style," the American
Philological Association, Cincinnati, Dec. 28, 1983.
"Sentence Length in Greek Poetry," the American Philological Association,
San Francisco, Dec. 28, 1981.
"Sigmatism in Greek Comedy, Tragedy and Epic," the American Philological
Association, Boston, Dec. 30, 1979.
"The Influence of Archilochus and Hipponax on Callimachus," Columbia
University, Nov. 28, 1978.
"A Stylometric Analysis of Greek Hexameter Poetry," the American
Philological Association, Atlanta, Dec. 28, 1977.
"Hellenistic Corinna," the American Philological Association, New York,
Dec. 28, 1976.
"Statistics on Enjambement in Greek Hexameter Poetry," the American
Philological Association, Washington D.C. Dec. 30, 1975.
"The Telchines as Epigrammatists," the American Philological Association,
Chicago, Dec. 30, 1974.
LECTURES ON THE
CALENDAR:
The Robert Carrubba Memorial Lecture, Fordham University, April
2010.
“A New Historical Context for Acontius and Cydippe (Call. fr. 67-75
Pf.),” University of Groningen, The Netherlands, August 25,
2010.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (In
addition to administrative positions listed above):
Member, Capital Campaign Committee of the American Philological
Association, 9/06 – present; member of the Executive Committee of
the Campaign Committee, 9/06 – present.
Member, Committee on Professional Matters, American Philological
Association, 1/08 – 1/09; member ex officio, 1/09-1/10.
Member, Board of Directors of the American Philological Association,
1/03-1/06; member of the Executive Committee of the Board, 1/03
– 1/06.
Member, ex officio, American Philological Association, Committee on
Research, 12/95 – present.
Member, ex officio, Board of the Advisors of the American Office of the
Année Philologique, 1/00-present.
Chair, American Philological Association, Non-print Publications Board,
1/00 – 1/04.
Member, ex officio, American Philological Association, Committee on
Publications, 1/00 - 1/04.
Local Chair, 128th Annual Meeting of the American Philological
Association, New York, Dec. 27-30, 1996.
Member representing the American Philological Association on the
Governing Board of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, 10/90 - 12/99; 1/03
– present.
Member, Advisory Board of the American Center of the Lexicon
Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, 11/86 – 96.
Member, Advisory Board of Computers and the Classics, newsletter of the
American Philological Association, 1984 – 94.
Member, APA ad hoc Committee on the Campus Advisory Service, 1/93 -
1/94.
Site visitor, for the National Endowment for the Humanities, Preservation
and Access, 6/94.
Chair, Committee on Computer Activities of the American Philological
Association, 1/86 - 12/89, and moderator of its Panels on Computers and
the Classics, San Antonio, 12/30/86, New York, 12/30/87, Baltimore,
1/7/89.
Member, APA Committee on Education (ex officio), 1/86 - 1/89, 1/90 -
1/93.
Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Challenge
Grants, 7/07; Division of Research, 1/92; Division of Education, 5/85,
6/94.
Member, Executive Committee, Northeast Association for Computers and the
Humanities, Fall 1984 – 1987.
Referee, Classical World,
11/09; Classical Philology, 10/09;
APA Monograph series, 6/08; Wiley-Blackwells, 3/06; Classical Philology, 9/03; 11/99;
University of Chicago Press, 9/98; Illinois Classical Studies, 7/98; Classical Journal, 1/97; Classical Philology 1/89; Arethusa 2/89; American Journal of Philology, 2/86,
6/85, 10/84, 3/82; Classical
Outlook, 9/90; Computers and the
Humanities, 9/84; Editorial Board for Monographs, American Philological
Association, 4/90, 10/89, 1/82; Princeton University Press, 5/90; Oxford
University Press, 11/90; Transactions and
Proceedings of the American Philological Association, 12/88, 12/89;
3/91; 2/92; Program Committee, Classical Association of the Atlantic States,
1980; Women's Studies,
2/80.
Referee, tenure and/or promotion: Univ. of Michigan, 6/08; Cornell
University, 8/06; Emory University, 9/06; University of California,
Irvine, 12/01; Rutgers University, 9/00;Tufts University, 6/98, 6/94;
University of Minnesota 11/90; Harvard University, 5/89; Emory University,
5/89; University of Pennsylvania, 10/86; University of Iowa,
4/81.
External evaluator, Depts. of Classics, Columbia University and Barnard
College, 10/98.
Referee, National Endowment for the Humanities: Research Materials
Program, 1/80, 12/80, 1/81, 10/82, 12/83, 10/86, 11/89, 11/98; Challenge
Grants Program, 7/07; Education Programs, 6/86; Youthgrants,
4/78.
Proposal Evaluator, Getty Grant Program, 11/98; United States Department
of Education, Fund for the Improvement of
Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), 3/18-20/86.
Curriculum Consultant, The Honors Program, University of Southern Maine,
6/86.
Member, Advisory Council of the School of Classical Studies of American
Academy in Rome, 1/83 - 12/86.
SERVICE TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
AND UNIVERSITY CENTER:
Executive Officer, PhD Program in Classics, 9/95 -
present
Member and Deputy Chair, Committee on the Protection of Human Subjects (=
IRB), 9/94 - present, Acting Chair, 1998-99; 2003-04;
2005-06.
Chair, Fulbright Review Committee, 2003 – 2008.
Member, Steering Committee for the Middle States Review, 2008 -
present.
Academic Review Committee, 2008-present.
Member, Student Disciplinary Committee, 2005- 2008.
Member, Committee on Curriculum and Degrees, 9/00 –
06.
Member, Committee on Centers and Institutes, 9/99 -
present.
Member, Graduate School Budget Committee, 10/98 -
00.
Member, Executive Committee, PhD Program in Classics, 9/92 - 8/95; member
and chair (ex officio) 9/95 – present.
Member, Curriculum and Examination Committee, PhD Program in Classics,
9/92 - 8/95; member and chair (ex officio) 9/95 – present.
Faculty Representative, The Graduate Council, 9/90 - 8/91; member (ex
officio) 9/95 - present.
Member, Search Committee for VP for Research,
9/98-1/99.
Member, Graduate General Examination Committee, 9/91 -
9/94.
Member, Doctoral Faculty Policy Committee, 9/89 -
8/91.
Chair, Classics Review Panel, PSC/CUNY Research Award Program,
9/79.
SERVICE TO BROOKLYN
COLLEGE
Chair, Classics Department, 7/82 - 6/85; Acting Chair, 2/82 - 6/82;
Deputy Chair, 9/79 - 1/82.
Chair, Appointments Committee, Classics Department, 7/82 - 6/85; Member,
9/79 - 6/82; 9/92 - 6/93; 9/05 - present.
Member, Joint Taskforce on the Future of the Core Curriculum, 9/93 -
9/94.
Chair, Humanities Tenure Subcommittee, 2/89.
Member, Faculty Council Committee on the Core Curriculum, 9/86 -
8/88.
Member, Presidential Advisory Committee on Undergraduate Scholarship
Policy, 2/87 - 1/89.
Member, Provost's Task Force on Computer Policy, 9/87 -
8/88.
Member, Presidential Advisory Committee on Planning, 9/84 -
8/85.
Member, Core Curriculum Editorial Board and Core Curriculum Editorial
Committee, 9/83 - 8/85.
Member, Council on Administrative Policy, Brooklyn College, 9/82 -
8/85.
Member, College Personnel and Budget Committee, Brooklyn College, 9/82 -
8/85.
Member, Faculty Council, Brooklyn College, 9/82 -
8/85.
Member, University Committee on Research, CUNY, 9/81 -
8/84.
Member, Ad Hoc Committee for the Development of a College-wide Honors
Program, 9/80 - 8/82.
Member, Advisory Committee for the BA/MD Program of Brooklyn College and
Downstate Medical School, 9/80 - 8/88.
Member, School of Humanities Tenure Sub-committee,
2/80.