Education
1984: Ph.D., Classical Languages and Literature Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

1981: M. Phil., Yale University

1979: M.A., Yale University

1974-1975: Göttingen University, West Germany

1970-1974: B.A., Summa Cum Laude, Classics, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut

Dissertation
1984: "Aristophanes’ Ploutos: Comedy in Transition" Yale University
           Director: Prof. C.J. Herington

Faculty Appointments
2002: Full Professor, Classics and Archaeology, Loyola Marymount University, CA

1990: Associate Professor, Classics, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA

1987-1990: Assistant Professor, Classics, Loyola Marymount University

1987: Instructor, NEH Summer Institute in Classical Studies, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

1984-1987: Assistant Professor, Classical Languages and Literatures, Smith College, Northampton, MA

1986: Scholar in Residence, Summer Institute for Classical Studies, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

1984 -1985: Assistant Professor, Summer Institute for Classical Studies, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York

Academic Awards / Grants
2007: Award for Excellence in Teaching, American Philological Association

2006: LMU Summer Research Grant: Mater Dolorosa in Rough Cilicia

2005: LMU Technology Grant: Build a Website for Ancient Historians Course

2002-2004: Marymount Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies, Loyola Marymount University

2002: LMU Summer Research Grant: Luwian Response to Greco-Roman Hegemony

1999: LMU Summer Research Grant: Erasmian Pronunciation of Greek

1996: LMU Summer Research Grant: Socrates and the Buddha II

1995: LMU Summer Research Grant: Socrates and the Buddha I
Academic Awards/Grants, cont.

1993: Visiting Research Fellow, Yale University, Oct.-Nov.

1991: LMU Summer Research Grant: Religion in Aristophanes II

1990: LMU Summer Research Grant: Religion in Aristophanes I

1974 -1975: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Stipend

Publications
"Cilicia"; article for forthcoming Oxford Encyclopedia of the Classical World, Oxford University Press, 2010

"Life in the Truck Lane: Urban Development in Western Rough Cilicia", N. Rauh, R. Townsend, M. Hoff, M. Dillon, M. Doyle, C. Ward, R. Rothaus, H. Caner, U. Akkemik, L. Wandsnider, S. Ozaner, C. Dore, forthcoming in the JOAI (The Annual of the Austrian Archaeological Institute), 100 page ms., Spring 2010

L. Zoroglu, M. Dillon, D. Yakinlar, N. Rauh, Anamur Arkeoloji Muzesindeki Amfora Arastirmalarin Raporu, Arastirma Sonuclari Toplantisi (May 2008) = T.C. Kultur Bakanligi, Anitlar ve Muzeler Genel Mudurlugu, Ankara, 2 Cilt 2009, 33-50 (Amphora Catalog of the Anamur Museum, in Turkish)

"OCHLOS NAUTIKOS: Leisure Culture and Underclass Discontent in the Roman Maritime World", in The Maritime World of Ancient Rome (Supplements to the Memoires of the American Academy in Rome), U. Of Michigan Press 2007, Nicholas K. Rauh, Matthew J. Dillon, and T. Davina McClain.

"Viticulture, Oleoculture, and Economic Development in Roman Rough Cilicia," Munster Beitrage fur Antike Handelsgeschichte 25, 2006, 49-98, N.K. Rauh, Matthew J. Dillon, Christopher Dore, Richard Rothaus and Mette Korsholm.

In Africa: Roots of Language and Civilization (2006, 2nd edition planned 2009) Marymount Press; principal author (text for College Bound Latin Program; see Outreach, below). 

"Cultural Research Report: Juliosebaste" (in Turkish), 20. Arastima Sonuclari Toplantisi 1. Cilt: Rough Cilicia Survey Project: 2001 Season Report, Ankara 2003, 215-216.
"The Erasmian Pronunciation of Greek: A New Perspective" Classical World 94.2 (2001), 1-12.

"Dialogues with Death: The Last Days of Socrates and the Buddha", Philosophy East & West 50.4 (2000), 525-558.

"By Gods, Tongues and Dogs: Oaths in Aristophanes", Greece & Rome, 42.2 (1995), 135-151.

"Tragic Laughter" Classical World 84.5 (1991), 345-355.

"Topicality in Aristophanes’ Ploutos," California Studies in Classical Antiquity 6 (Oct. 1987), 155-183.

"The Lysistrata as a Post-Dekeleian Peace Play," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 117 (1987), 97-104.

(Translation): Die Tragische Dichtung der Hellenen, by Albin Lesky, 497 pp., Yale University Press, 1983 (English title: Greek Tragic Poetry)

"The Ideology of Aristophanes’ Wealth," David Konstan and Matthew Dillon, American Journal of Philology, 102 (1981), 371-394.

Electronic Publications
2008: Recitations from Vergil, Horace, Catullus and Terence, LATINUM (http://latinum.mypodcast.com/200727_archive.html)

2004: Gnatho's Monologue from Terence's Eunuchus (www.rhapsodes.fll.vt.edu: website of the Society for the Oral Reading of Greek and Latin Literature)

2001: Juliosebaste: Discovery of a Lost Roman City (co-author; website in progress), Purdue University
     (http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/~rauhn/index)

1999: Selected Odes of Horace (audio): Horace's Villa, University of California, Los Angeles
     (http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/horaces-villa)

1995: Translation: Aristophanes' Frogs, for the Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University
     (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu)

Book Reviews
2004: "Ancient Languages in Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ" Amphora 3.2 (Fall 2004),14f.

2000: Plutarch’s Advice to the Bride and Groom and a Consolation to his Wife, ed. S.B. Pomeroy (Oxford 1999): reviewed in Ancient History Bulletin, vol. 14.1-2 (2000), 64.

1998
a) Atlas of Classical History, M. Grant (Oxford 1994)
b) Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece, W. Percy (Univ. of Ill. 1996) reviewed in Ancient History Bulletin, vol.12 (1998), 139f., 143f.

1988: Aristophanes' Old-and-New Comedy, K. Reckford (Univ. of North Carolina Press1987), Favonius 2 (1988), 79-81.

Scholarly Presentations
ANNUAL MEETINGS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION:
(2010) Anaheim, CA: Intentional Soundplay in Homer and Vergil
2004 San Francisco, CA: "Prosopopoeia in Cicero"
2003 New Orleans, LA: "Ictus, Accent and Rhythm in Classical Poetry" (chair of session)
2002 Philadelphia, PA: "Juliosebaste: A Greco-Roman-Luwian Settlement in Rough Cilicia"
1999 Dallas, TX: "The Changing Pronunciation of Ancient Greek" (chair of session)
1996 New York, NY: "Vox Flebilis: Sound and Fury in Senecan Drama" (co-chair)
1995 San Diego, CA: "The Sounds of Sappho" (chair of session)
1994 Atlanta, GA: "The Margites: A Lost Greek Trickster Type"
1993 Washington DC: "Recitative Rhythms in Aristophanes’ Animal Choruses"
1990 San Francisco: "Gnatho’s Monologue: Terence’s Eunuchus , 232ff."
1989 Baltimore, MD: "The Prologue of Aristophanes’ Ploutos"
1987 New York, NY: "Tragic Laughter"
1986 San Antonio, TX: "XOPOY in Aristophanes" (by title)
1985 Washington DC: "The Lysistrata as a Post-Dekeleian Peace Play"
1983 Cincinnati, OH: "The Ironic Interpretation of Aristophanes’ Ploutos

OTHER VENUES

2007 "Mater Luvia: Tracking an Archetype," Rough Cilicia: New Archaeological and Historical Perspectives, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Oct. 2007

2005 "The Mater Dolorosa of Rough Cilicia," Indiana Classical Conference

2004 "Myth and History in Bronze Age Sparta," Paideia Conference in Sparta, Greece

2002
a) "The Erasmian Pronunciation of Greek: A Re-Evaluation," Thomas L. Conklin Memorial Lecture, Wayne State University, MI
b) "The Erasmian Pronunciation of Greek", Conference on Erasmian Pronunciation, Litochoro, Greece

2001
a) "The Rough Cilicia Archaological Survey Project" (participant in poster session) American Institute of Archaeology: Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA
b) "Juliosebaste: The Discovery of a Lost Roman City," University of California, Santa Barbara

2000
a) "Quo Vadis? The Future of Classics" (moderator), California Classical Association: LMU
b) "Juliosebaste: The Discovery of a Lost Roman City," Purdue University, IN

1999
a) "Who Killed Homer?" California Classical Association: Cal State, Long Beach
b) "Hercules: Myth and History," Young Professionals Institute, Cal Tech

1996: "Socrates and the Buddha: Common Ground," Purdue University, IN
1990: "Aristophanes and the Common Man," Friends of Ancient History: UCLA
1988: "Tragic Laughter," California Classical Association-Southern Section: Harvard-Westlake School

ANCIENT POETRY RECITATIONS
Smith College, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, University of California, Los Angeles; Marlboro High School, Palos Verdes High School, Polytechnic High School, etc.

OUTREACH PROGRAM
2006 Introductory Latin for College Bound (non-profit organization helping minority students to attend colleges and universities) Session 1: January-April; Session 2: July-August 

Archaeology Field Experience
1999-2003: Rough Cilicia Archaeological Survey Project (southern Turkey)


Administrative Positions
2006-2007: Assistant to Chief Academic Officer, LMU
2004-2007: Chair, LMU Department of Classics and Archaeology
2003-2004: Acting Chair, LMU Department of Classics and Archaeology
2002-: Vice President, California Classical Association (South)
2001: Undergraduate Director, Rough Cilicia Archaeological Survey Project
1999: Vice President, Society for the Oral Reading of Greek and Latin Literature (executive member since 1988)
1996-1997: Acting Chair, Dept. of Classics, LMU
                   Acting Director, Honors Program, LMU
1996-1997: President of the Faculty Senate, LMU
1994-1995: President of the Faculty Senate, LMU
1991-1992: Secretary of the Faculty Senate, LMU
1990-1997; 2001: Member, Faculty Senate
1989-1991: Chair, Title IX Subcommittee of the Committee on the Status of Women, LMU
1990-1992: President, California Classical Association, Southern Section
1989-1995: Editor, CCA-SS Newsletter, Quid Novi?
1988-1990: Acting Chair, Dept. of Classics, Loyola Marymount University

Languages
Spoken: German (excellent); Italian, Spanish (good); French, Modern Greek (fair); Turkish (rudimentary)
Reading Knowledge: Latin, Ancient Greek (excellent); Sanskrit, Pali (rudimentary)