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Salvador Bartera

Academic History

  • Ph.D., Classics, University of Virginia, 2008
  • Laurea, University of Urbino, 2002

Academic employment:

  • Lecturer, Department of Classics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2006-
  • Lecturer (Italian and Latin), Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2005-2006
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Classics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 2003-2005
  • Instructor (Italian), School of Continuing and Professional Studies, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 2003-2004
  • Instructor (Italian), Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1998-1999, 2000-2001, 2002
  • Lecturer (Italian), University of Urbino, Fall 1999

Reviews:

  • D. Sailor, Writing and Empire in Tacitus (Cambridge University Press, 2008). CJ (forthcoming)
  • A. Kamm, The Romans: An Introduction (London & New York, 2nd ed. 2008). BMCR 2009.04.14
  • R. Ash, Tacitus Histories Book II (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Exemplaria Classica 12 (2008): 407-14
  • "A proposito di due recenti studi tacitiani." [R. Ash, Tacitus (London, 2006) + F. Santoro L'hoir, Tragedy, Rhetoric and the Historiography of Tacitus' Annales (University of Michigan Press, 2006)]. RFIC 135 (2007): 249-55
  • R. Ash, Tacitus (London, 2006). Classical Outlook 84.4 (Summer 2007): 180
  • D.H. Garrison, The Student's Catullus (University of Oklahoma Press, 3rd ed. 2004). BMCR 2005.09

Presentations:

  • "The Lost World of Pompeii." Latin Day, University of Tennessee, November 2009
  • "The Annals of Tacitus and the Literature of the exitus illustrium virorum." North Carolina State University (invited lecture), February 2009
  • "The Emperor Nero." Latin Day, University of Tennessee, November 2008
  • "The Death of Petronius in the Annals of Tacitus." Latin Day, University of Tennessee, November 2007
  • "An Extraneous Interlude?. How Tacitus Begins Annals 16." CAMWS 2007 (Cincinnati, OH)
  • "Un commento al Libro 16 degli Annali di Tacito: Problemi e metodologia." Seminar, University of Urbino, May 2006
  • "Classical Reception in the Jesuit Theater: the Flavia of Stefonio." CAMWS 2006 (Gainesville, FL)
  • "The Jesuit Theater: the Flavia of Bernardino Stefonio." Charlottesville, University of Virginia, 2005 (= GEMCS 2003, UC Irvine)
  • "The Weni Widi Wici Project: A Critical Approach to Internet Resources for Classicists." Ancient Studies-New Technologies III. James Madison University, December 2004

Research interests:

  • Latin literature (esp. historical prose); Latin prose composition; Reception

Academic Honors, Fellowships and Research Awards :

  • Research Scholarship, Fondation Hardt, Switzerland, 2008
  • GSAS Summer Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2007
  • Graduate Travel Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2006
  • Husky Travel Fund, University of Virginia, 2003 and 2004
  • Presidential Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2002-2003
  • ERSU Fellowship for Study Abroad, University of Urbino, 1998-1999

Contact Information

Salvador Bartera
Lecturer 
Department of Classics 
1101 McClung Tower 
The University of Tennessee 
Knoxville, TN 37996-0413

Phone: (865) 974-5383 
Fax: (865) 974-7173
Salvadorb2@aol.com