 Christopher
Nappa
Associate Professor
tel: 612-624-6339
email: cnappa@umn.edu
Education
B. A., University of Texas, Austin (1990)
M. A., University of Virginia (1992)
American School of Classical Studies at Athens (1995-96)
Ph. D., University of Virginia (1996)
Curriculum
Vitae
Statement of Interests
My research focuses on intersections between Latin poetry and Roman society, mostly during the late Republic and early Principate, though reaching as late as the Antonine period. I'm also interested in intertextuality, the history of satire, and ancient concepts of gender and sexuality. At the moment, I'm writing a book on the satirist Juvenal, but I continue to stay in touch with earlier authors (especially Catullus, Vergil, and Propertius) as well. My teaching ranges broadly over classical antiquity. In addition to Latin and Greek, I teach courses on classical mythology, Augustan and imperial Rome, and Roman private life. For more about me, see my personal web site (http://www.tc.umn.edu/~cnappa).
Books
Reading after Actium: Vergil's Georgics, Octavian, and Rome. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2005.
Aspects of Catullus Social Fiction. Studien zur klassischen
Philologie 125. Frankfurt am Main. 2001.
Selected Articles
"Fire and Human Error in Vergil's Second Georgic." American
Journal of Philology 124.1: (2003) 39-56.
"Experiens laborum: Ovid Reads the Georgics."
Vergilius 48 (2002) 71-87.
"Num te leaena: Catullus Poem 60." Phoenix 57 (2003) 57-66.
"Cold-blooded Virgil: Bilingual Wordplay at Georgics
2.483-9." Classical Quarterly 52.2 (2002) 617-20.
"Catullus, c. 59: Rufa among the Graves." Classical Philology
94.3 (1999) 329-35.
"Callimachus' Aetia and Aeneas' Sicily." Classical Quarterly 54.2 (2004) 640-46.
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