Dee L. Clayman
, Professor of Classics and Executive Officer, Ph. D. Program in Classics, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Ave. New York, NY 10016. 212-817-8151; dclayman@gc.cuny.edu.Education:
Wellesley College, A.B. 1967; University of Pennsylvania, A.M. 1969; Ph.D. (Classical Studies) 1972.Other Academic and Professional Positions:
General Editor, Database of Classical Bibliography, 1987-present; Director, American Philological Association, 2003-2006; Vice-President, Education Division of the American Philological Association, 1990-1993. Brooklyn College, City University of New York: Assistant Professor (1972-1977); Associate Professor (1978-1981); Professor (1982-present); Acting Chair (1981-82); Chair (1982-1985); Director of the Ford Colloquium (1986-1988).Awards and Honors
: Membre Actif, Societe internationale pour bibliographie classique, elected 11/2003; Senior Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 2001-02; Distinguished Service Award, American Philological Association, 1999. Research grants: National Endowment for the Humanities (2005, 2003, 2001, 1999, 1997, 1995, 1993, 1991, 1989); Loeb Classical Library Foundation (2007, 2006); Samuel H. Kress Foundation (2007, 2006, 2005, 2003, 2002, 2000, 1989); Getty Grant Program of the J. Paul Getty Trust (2005, 1990); Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2005, 1993); Barrington Foundation (2000, 1999, 1998); Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation (2002, 1999, 1998, 1996, 1995); Florence J. Gould Foundation (2000, 1995, 1993, 1991, 1990); Costas and Mary Maliotis Foundation (1994, 1995); Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (2003); Seth Sprague Foundation (1993, 1995); Institute for Mediterranean Studies (1993); Dorot Foundation (1992); Lucile and David Packard Foundation (1986). Grant in Aid, American Council of Learned Societies (1978); American Philosophical Society (1975).Publications:
Database of Classical Bibliography, v1. (American Philological Association, 1995); v.2 (1997); www.annee-philologique.com with Eric Rebillard (2002-present). Callimachus' Iambi, Mnemosyne Supplementa 59 (Leiden: Brill 1980). Articles and reviews: "Horace's Epodes VIII and XII: More than Clever Obscenity?" Classical World 69 (1975) 55-61. "Callimachus' Thirteenth Iamb: The Last Word," Hermes 104 (1976) 29-35. "The Origins of Greek Literary Criticism and the Aitia Prologue," Weiner Studien (1977) 27-34. Review of M. Kaimio, Characterization of Sound in Greek Literature (Helsinki 1977), Classical World 72 (1978) 115. With Thomas Van Nortwick, "Enjambement in Greek Hexameter Poetry," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 107 (1978) 85-92. "Callimachus' Fourth Iamb," Classical Journal, 74 (1978) 142-148. "The Meaning of Corinna's Weroia," Classical Quarterly 28 (1978) 369-397. Review of F. Williams, Callimachus' Hymn to Apollo (Oxford 1978), Classical World 73 (1979) 195. "Sentence Length in Greek Hexameter Poetry," Hexameter Studies, R. Grotjahn, ed., Quantitative Linguistics 11 (Bochum: Brockmeyer 1981) 107-136. "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. Review of M. Lefkowitz, Lives of the Greek Poets (Baltimore 1981), American Journal of Philology 104 (1983) 96-97. Review of J. Ferguson, Callimachus ( Boston 1980), Classical Outlook 60 (1983). "Time Series Analysis of Word Length in Oedipus the King," Favonius, Supplementary Volume I (1987) 65 - 79. "Sigmatism in Greek Poetry," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 117 (1987) 69-84. "Callimachus' Iambi and Aitia," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 74 (1988) 277-286. Review of M. Kelly, Jousts of Aphrodite (London 1987), Classical World 83 (1989) 72. Review of Callimachus: Hymns, Epigrams, Select Fragments, Lombardo and D. Raynor, trans., (Baltimore, 1988), New England Classical Newsletter (May, 1989) 6-7. "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. "Automatic parsing of Classical Bibliography," Mélanges Rodrigue LaRue, F. Tremblay, ed., Cahier des Études anciennes 25 (1991) 111-118. "Trends and Issues in Quantitative Stylistics," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 122 (1992) 385-390. 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. "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. "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. "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: Methodology and Design," Electronic Antiquity 1.2 (1993), no pages, distributed on the Internet. Review of A. B. Lord, Epic Singers and Oral Tradition (Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1991), Classical Outlook 71,2 (1994) 68. Reviews of Antonios Rengakos, Apollonios Rhodios und die antike Homererklärung, Zetemata 92 (München 1994) and Mary De Forest, Apollonius' Argonautica: a Callimachean Epic, Mnem. Supp. 142 (Leiden 1994), Classical World 90,6 (1997) 467-68. "The Skepticism of Apollonius' Argonautica", Apollonius Rhodius, M. A. Harder et al. (eds.), Hellenistica Groningana 4, (Leuven 2000) 33-53. Review of A. Kerkhecker, Callimachus' Book of Iambi (Oxford 1999) in Classical World 95 (2002) 193-194. Review of O. Taplin (ed.) Literature in the Greek World (Oxford 2000) in Journal of Hellenic Studies 123 (2003) 216-17. Review of S. Consigny, Gorgias: Sophist and Artist, (Columbia SC 2001) in Classical Review 53 (2003) 293-95. Review of B. Acosta-Hughes, Polyeideia: The Iambi of Callimachus and the Archaic Iambic Tradition (Berkeley & London 2002) in Classical World (2004) 112-113. "Philosophy and Philosophers in Greek Epigram," in Brill's Companion to Greek Epigram, P. Bing and J. Bruss (eds.). Leiden 2007, 497-517. FORTHCOMING: "Timon de Phliunte" in vol. VI of the Dictionnaire des Philosophes Antiques, Richard Goulet, (ed.), CNRS, Paris. "The New Sappho in a Hellenistic Poetry Book," in a special edition of Arethusa,, M. Skinner and E. Green, (eds.).Representative Papers Read
: "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!" Monash University Center, Prato, Italy, July 25, 2004. "Poetry and Pyrrhonism in the Hellenistic Age," Columbia Seminar in Classical Civilization, Mar. 25, 2004. "Timon of Phlius and his Skeptical Aesthetics," University of Cincinnati, Oct. 1, 2003. "Fundamentals of Bucolica," Theocritus seminar, Yale University, Apr. 1, 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.Current Research:
A book on Timon of Phlius and skeptical aesthetics in Hellenistic literature. A biography of Berenice II, wife of Ptolemy III Euergetes featuring the poetry of Callimachus, Posidippus and Apollonius Rhodius.Additional Selected Professional Activities
: Director, American Philological Association, 1/03 - 2006; Member, ex officio, American Philological Association, Committee on Research 12/95 - present. Member, ex officio, Board of Advisors of the American Office of the Année Philologique, 1/00 - present. Chair, Board of Non-print Publications, American Philological Association, 1/00 – 1/04. Member representing the American Philological Association on the Governing Board of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, 10/90 - 12/99; 1/03-present. Local Chair, 128th Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, New York, Dec. 27-30, 1996. 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 - present. Member, APA ad hoc Committee on the Campus Advisory Service, 1/93 - 1/94. 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. Member, Executive Committee, Northeast Association for Computers and the Humanities, Fall 1984 - 1987. Referee for various academic presses and journals, tenure and promotion decisions at various universities, site visitor for the National Endowment for the Humanities and other foundations.