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Robert J. Sklenar

Academic History

  • Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1996
  • J.D., University of Michigan, 1991
  • M.A., Princeton University, 1988
  • B.A., University of Michigan 1985  

Academic employment:

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2003-
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, Tulane University, 2002-2003
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics, Swarthmore College, 1997-2000, 2001-2002 (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow 1997-1999)
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin, University of Michigan, 2000-2001
  • Instructor in Latin, The Emerson School, 1996-1997

Academic Honors, Fellowships and Research Awards :

  • Phi Beta Kappa, Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, Mellon Dissertation Grant.

Publications:

Book

  • The Taste for Nothingness: A Study of Virtus and Related Themes in Lucan's Bellum Civile. University of Michigan Press, 2003.

Articles

  • “Anti-Petronian Elements in The Great Gatsby,” The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review (forthcoming).
  • “Seneca, Oedipus 980-994: How Stoic a Chorus?” CJ 103.2 (2007-08) 183-195.
  • “How to Dress (for) an Epyllion: The Fabrics of Catullus 64,” Hermes 134 (2006) 385-397.
  • “Ausonius’s Elegiac Wife: Epigram 20 and the Traditions of Latin Love Poetry,” CJ 101 (2005) 51-62.
  • “Sources and Individuality in Two Passages of Livy,” Historia 53 (2004) 302-310
  • "The Cosm(et)ology of Claudian's 'In Sepulchrum Speciosae'," HSCP 101 (2003) 483-487.
  • "Jaroslov Vrchlicky's 'Akme' and Catullus 45," CW 94 (2001) 173-177.
  • "Nihilistic Cosmology and Catonian Ethics in Lucan's Bellum Civile," AJP 120 (1999) 281-296.
  • "La Republique des Signes: Caesar, Cato, and the Language of Sallustian Morality," TAPA 128 (1998) 205-220.
  • "The Centrality of the Civic Image in Droste's Mondesaufgang," Droste-Jahrbuch 3 (1997) 127-134.
  • "Catullus 36: Beyond Literary Polemics," RBPh 74 (1996) 57-59.
  • "Papinian on the Interdict unde vi," RIDA 41 (1994) 379-389.
  • "SEG XXXII 1243, 13-15," RhM 136 (1993) 93-94.
  • "Rullus' Colonies: Cicero, De Lege Agraria 1.16-17 and 2.73-75," Eos 80 (1992) 81-82.
  • "Multiple Structural Divisions in Horace, Odes 1.38," PP 46 (1991) 444-448.
  • "Horace, Odes 1.3," AC 60 (1991) 266-269.
  • "The Death of Priam: 'Aeneid' 2.506-558," Hermes 118 (1990) 67-75.

Translations

  • “Aeneas and the Sibyl (Aeneid 6.268-272),” CO 85 (2008) 81.
  • “Caroli Baudelaire Elegia de hoste,” CO 84 (2006) 22. (Baudelaire’s “L’Ennemi” translated into Latin elegiac couplets)
  • "The Watchman's Monologue (Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1-39)," Small Craft Warnigs, Spring 2000, 69-70.
  • "Propertius 1.21 (Gallus' Farewell)," The Formalist Vol. 11, No. 1 (2000), 119.
  • "Charles Baudelaire: To The Reader," Small Craft Warnings, Winter 2000, 71-72.
  • "Karel Hlavacek: Impromptu," Small Craft Warnings, Spring 1999, 55.
  • "Rainer Maria Rilke: Autumn Day," The Formalist, Vol. 4, No. 1 (1993), 14.
  • "Charles Baudelaire: Meditation," The Formalist, Vol. 3, No. 1 (1992), 101.

Contact Information

Robert J. Sklenar
Assistant Professor 
Department of Classics 
1110 McClung Tower 
The University of Tennessee 
Knoxville, TN 37996-0413

Phone: (865) 974-6950 
Fax: (865) 974-7173
rsklenar@utk.edu