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Faculty
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Katerina Zacharia, PhD
Katerina Zacharia is an Associate Professor and Chair of Classics & Archaeology at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. She holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology and Philosophy from the University of Athens, and M.A. and Ph.D. in Classics from University College London. Her main interests and publications are in Greek literature, especially tragedy, comedy, and epic, and its reception, esp. film; the social and political history of archaic and classical Greece; and Greek ethnicity. She is the author of Converging Truths: Euripides' Ion and the Athenian Quest for Self-Definition (Leiden: Brill 2003), and editor and major contributor for Hellenisms: Culture, Identity and Ethnicity from Antiquity to Modernity (Aldershot: Ashgate Variorum 2008).
Courses Offered:
Greek (all levels)
Latin 201; Catullus; Virgil; Plautus
CLCV 200: Classical Epic
CLCV 210: Greek Tragedy
CLCV 220: Ancient Comedy
CLCV 353: Religions of the Greeks and Romans
CLCV 454: Greek Cinema
CLCV 455: Ancient World on Film
CLCV 467: Greece: Past to Present
Note: Current as of November 2009
William Fulco, SJ, PhD
William Fulco, S.J., is the National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Loyola Marymount University. In addition to his Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures from Yale University, he holds graduate degrees in Classics, Philosophy and Theology. His interests encompass ancient languages, archaeology and Biblical studies, all of which he teaches at LMU. He has published widely in reconstructive Afroasiatic linguistics, Canaanite religion and mythology, Old Testament studies, and Classical Numismatics. He curates the Jesuit archaeology museum in Jerusalem, and oversees the Archaeology Center and Library at LMU which he established in 1998.
Courses Offered:
ARCH 201 & 301: Hebrew
ARCH 303: Ancient Near Eastern Languages
ARCH 363: (= THST 398) Archaeology and the Bible
ARCH 401: Near Eastern Archaeology
ARCH 403: Classical Numismatrics
ARCH 404: Egyptology
ARCH 410: Archaeology Field Experience
ARCH 411: Archaeology Lab
Note: Current as of November 2009
Matthew Dillon, PhD
Prof. Matt Dillon received his BA in Classics from Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 1974, and his Ph.D. from Yale in 1984. After three years at Smith College, he joined the LMU faculty in 1987. His research interests have grown from early publications on Greek tragedy and comedy to include connections between eastern and western traditions, the pronunciation of ancient Greek and Latin, and, most recently, survey archaeology in Rough Cilicia (southern Turkey). In addition, he is working on a new Latin textbook entitled In Africa: Roots of Language and Civilization. He received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the American Philological Association in 2007. He has also worked in the film and television industry as an advisor and dialogue translator for the Da Vinci Code and the upcoming series Caprica.
Courses Offered:
All Levels of Greek and Latin
CLCV 200: Classical Epic
CLCV 210: Greek Tragedy
CLCV 220: Ancient Comedy
CLCV 230: Ancient Historians
CLCV 301: Greek Civilization
CLCV 451: Classical Mythology
Note: Current as of November 2009
Ethan Adams, PhD
Ethan Adams is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics and Archaeology at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. He holds his B.A. in Classics from Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Washington, Seattle. His main interests are in Roman literature, especially poetry, and he wrote his dissertation on the nature of the gods in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. He is also interested in Roman topography, and has taught in Rome several times. He and Matthew Fox of Rutgers University have recently completed a translation of Lucan’s Pharsalia (Penguin Classics, forthcoming 2010), and he is currently working several articles and a monograph on Lucan's poetics.
Courses offered:
LATN (all levels)
GREK 101, 102, & 201
CLCV 200: Classical Epic
CLCV 210: Greek Tragedy
CLCV 230: Ancient Historians
CLCV 302: Roman Civilization
CLCV 451: Classical Mythology
CLCV 452: Sex & Gender in Classical Antiquity
ARCH 398: The Archaeology of Rome
Note: Current as of November 2009
Affiliated Faculty:
Wafik Nasry, SJ, PhD
Born in Cairo, Egypt, Fr. Nasry is a member of the California Province of the Society of Jesus. He holds undergraduate degrees in English and Philosophy from St. John’s College Seminary. His graduate degrees include a M.Div. from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, a Licentiate in Arabic and Islamic Studies, from the Pontificio Istituto di Studi Arabi e d’Islamistica, as well as a Licentiate in Missiology, from the Pontificia Università Gregoriana. His Ph.D. in Arabic and Islamic Studies was earned at the Pontificio Istituto di Studi Arabi e d’Islamistica. Currently, he teaches in the departments of Classics and Theology at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. His interests include the study of languages; the influence of religious beliefs on individual and group behavior and cultures—especially, in socio-political-economic areas; Christian-Muslim inter-religious dialogue; and the study of Ancient Arab-Christian manuscripts.
Courses Offered:
ARCH 204: Beginning and Intermediate Classical Arabic
ARCH 304: Rapid Reading in Arabic
Note: Current as of November 2009 |