CHRISTOPHER P. CRAIG
Lindsay Young Professor of Classics
Director of College Scholars

Department of Classics
The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0413 USA
(865) 974-2723 
FAX (865) 974-7173
ccraig@utk.edu
http://web.utk.edu/~cpcraig

ACADEMIC HISTORY

  • Oberlin College, 1970-1974, A.B.
  • (Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome, Fall, l972)
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1974-1979, Ph.D.   Dissertation: The Role of Rational Argumentation in Selected Judicial Speeches of Cicero

EMPLOYMENT

  • University of Tennessee: Assistant Professor - Professor, 1980-present.
  • University of California, Los Angeles: Instructor, 1979-80
  • University of North Carolina, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Teaching Fellow in Classics, 1978-79
  • Vergilian Society of America: Director of sessions in Naples and Rome, 1985,87,89,93 (summers)
  • Tennessee Governor's Academy for Teachers of Foreign Languages: Coordinator of Latin, 1988, 1992-94 (summers); Latin Faculty, 1990 (summers)
  • Stokely Institute for Liberal Arts Education, Instructor, 1983, 84 (summers)

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

  • American Philological Association
  • Archaeological Institute of America
  • Classical Association of the Middle West and South
  • American Classical League
  • Vergilian Society of America
  • Tennessee Foreign Language Teachers' Association
  • Tennessee Classical Association
  • International Society for the History of Rhetoric
  • American Society for the History of Rhetoric
  • National Communication Association

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Classical Rhetoric and Oratory; Cicero 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Book:

  • Form as Argument in Cicero's Speeches. xii and 254 pages. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993. Number 31 in the American Philological Association's series, American Classical Studies.

Selected Articles and Book Chapters:

  •  "The Accusator as Amicus: a Uniquely Roman Tactic of Ethical Argumentation," Transactions of the American Philological Association 111 (1981): 31-37.
  • "The Central Argument of Cicero's Speech for Ligarius," The Classical Journal 79 (l984): l93-l99.
  • "The Structural Pedigree of Cicero's Speeches pro Archia, pro Milone, and pro Quinctio," Classical Philology 80 (1985): 136-137.
  • "Dilemma in Cicero's Divinatio in Caecilium," The American Journal of Philology l06 (l985): 442-446.
  • "Cicero's Understanding with the Jury in the Speech for Murena," Transactions of the American Philological Association 116 (1986): 229-239.
  • "Reason, Resonance and Dilemma in Cicero's Speech for Caelius," Rhetorica 7 (1989): 313-328.
  • "Cicero's Strategy of Embarrassment in the Speech for Plancius," The American Journal of Philology 111 (1990): 75-81.
  • "Three Simple Questions for Teaching Cicero's First Catilinarian Oration," Classical Journal 88 (1993) 255-267 [reprint in Hayes, J., and G. Lawall, edd., Teacher's Guide to Cicero, Amherst, MA: CANE instructional materials, 1994, 265-277].
  • "Teaching Cicero's Speech for Caelius: What Enquiring Minds Want to Know," Classical Journal 90 (1995): 427-442.
  • "Shifting Charge and Shifty Argument in Cicero's Speech for Sestius" in C. W. Wooten, ed., The Orator in Action and Theory in Greece and Rome: Essays in Honor of George A. Kennedy, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2001. pp. 111-122.
  • "Ciceronian Studies: The Current State and Directions for the Future" and accompanying bibliography in J. May, ed. Brill’s Companion to Cicero, Oratory and Rhetoric Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2002. pp. 503-599.
  • “Quintilian on Not Saying What One Means,” Papers on Rhetoric VI (2004):  101-115.
  • "Audience Expectations, Invective, and Proof in Cicero's Judicial Speeches" in J.G.F. Powell and J. Paterson, edd. Cicero the Advocate, Oxford University Press, 2004. pp. 187-213.
  • “Cicero as Orator” in W. Dominik and J. Hall, edd., A Companion to Roman Rhetoric, London and New York: Blackwell, 2006. pp. 264-284.
  • “Self-restraint, Invective, and Credibility in Cicero’s First Catilinarian Oration,” American Journal of Philology 128.3 (2007): 335-340.

SELECTED INVITED LECTURES

  • "Cicero and the Fine Art of Sincerity" annual fall Phi Beta Kappa Lecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, October, 1992.
  • "The Rewards of Cynicism in Ciceronian Oratory" University of Chicago, April, 1993.
  • "The Ethics of Ciceronian Persuasion," Classical Association of Virginia, Charlottesville, September, 1996.
  • "Cicero the Lawyer: Where the Truth Lies" presidential address, Classical Association of the Middle West and South Southern Section, Savannah, October, 1996.
  • "Cicero's Speech for Sestius: Rational Argument and Ethical Judgment" plenary lecture at the invitation of the president of the American Society for the History of Rhetoric, San Diego, November, 1996.
  • "The Dangerous Method of Cicero's Speeches." The J. Reuben Clark Memorial Lecture in Classics and the Classical Tradition, Brigham Young University, March, 1997.
  • "Lawyer's Tricks and Readers' Ethics."  University of Alabama, March, 1999.
  • "Of Catiline and CAMWS," presidential address, Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Provo, UT, April, 2001.
  • “Audience Expectations, Invective and Proof in Ciceronian Oratory.”  Indiana University and the University of Texas at Austin, October, 2003.
  • “Philosophy at the Bar,” annual spring Phi Beta Kappa Lecture, University of Tennessee. Knoxville, April, 2005.
  • “Honesty and Politics in Cicero’s Rome,” the Hummel Memorial Lecture, Virginia Tech, October, 2005.
  • “The Courtroom Speech as Literary Genre,” University of Athens, May, 2008.

OTHER SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY

  • Referee of Ciceroniana for The American Journal of Philology, Classical Antiquity, Classical Journal, Classical Outlook, Classical Philology, Classical World, Helios, Illinois Classical Studies, Rhetorica, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Transactions of the American Philological Association, Oxford University Press, University of Michigan Press, University of Texas Press, and others.
  • Editorial Boards of Rhetorica, Advances in the History of Rhetoric, and Papers on Rhetoric
  • Co-founder and co-chair of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, University Studies Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquy on Rhetoric.
  • Many book reviews, many papers delivered at regional, national, and international scholarly meetings.
  • Recipient of University of Tennessee, Knoxville, University Studies Award for Fostering Interdisciplinary Scholarship, 1994.

SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • Latin language and literature at introductory, intermediate, advanced, and graduate levels, including courses in Roman Comedy, Roman Lyric, Vergil, Lucretius, Cicero, Ovid, Livy, and Roman Prose Stylistics.
  • Greek language and literature at introductory and intermediate levels.
  • Greek and Roman literature in translation, classical motifs in Western literature, Classical Civilization, Classical Mythology.
  • Etymology, both general and medical.

Overseas:

  •  Courses on Roman archaeology, art, and architecture in relation to Latin literature taught on site in Rome and in the area of Pompeii for the Vergilian Society.

Interdisciplinary:

  •  "The Liberal Arts Begin," a freshman honors course on the origins and purposes of liberal arts education, the relationship of education to culture, and the kinds of demands which students can reasonably make of the undergraduate learning experience.
  • "Historical Perspectives upon the Liberal Arts" (for the Fellows program of the James R. Stokely Institute for Liberal Arts Education), a course on key moments in our intellectual tradition, including consideration of works of Sophocles, Plato, Descartes, Milton, Darwin, and Freud.
  • As co-founder and co-chair of the University Studies Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquy on Rhetoric, have organized discussion groups and started a series of annual symposia, now in its tenth year, in which internationally known scholars present their research on rhetorical topics to the UT community.

Teaching Awards:

  • Recipient of the UT National Alumni Association's Outstanding Teacher Award, l986.
  • Recipient of Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association's Elliott Award for Excellence in Foreign Language Education, 1997.
  • First recipient of the University of Tennessee College of Arts and Science's Cunningham Outstanding Teacher Award, 1999.
  • University of Tennessee Citation for Excellence in Advising, 2000.

SELECTED SERVICE ACTIVITIES

  • Liaison with Secondary School Latin Programs in Tennessee, l980-. (This has entailed giving addresses to more than two hundred different groups of students in Tennessee high schools, and talking with individual students, teachers, guidance counsel ors, and principals about the importance of the Classics in high school and college.)
  • Author of tests for Tennessee Junior Classical League state-wide academic competitions, l982-.
  • Public lectures for East Tennessee Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, Central States Conference for Teachers of Foreign Languages, Knoxville Alliance Française, and other academic and civic groups, 1985-.
  • President, Tennessee Classical Association, l985-7.
  • In-service presentations for Latin teachers in Knoxville City Schools, l980-.
  • Latin Foreign Language Placement Coordinator, 1989-.
  • Departmental Major Advisor, 1996-.
  • College Scholars Mentor, l983-.
  • Liberal Arts/Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee, 1988-91, 1994-97.
  • Liberal Arts/Arts and Sciences Advisory Council, 1991-93, 2001-.
  • College Speakers' Bureau, 1994-.
  • Member of the College of Education, Health, and Human Services admissions committee for teacher certification in Foreign Languages, l985-.
  • University Studies Committee, 1991-.
  • Faculty Senate, 1992-95, 2003-06.
  • Faculty Senate Library Committee, 1992-95. (Chair, 1993-95.)
  • Teaching Council, 1994-96,2004 -.
  • President, East Tennessee Society, Archaeological Institute of America, 1992-3.
  • Trustee of the Vergilian Society of America, 1990-93.
  • Member of the Executive Committee of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 1992-96.
  • President, Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Southern Section, 1994-96.
  • President, Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 2000-2001.
  • Chair, Faculty Affairs Committee, 2003-04.
  • College of Arts and Sciences Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2005-2008 (Chair, 2007-08).

 

Service Awards:

  • Classical Association of the Middle West and South “Ovatio” for service to the discipline and profession, 2003.
  • University of Tennessee College of Arts and Sciences Award for Academic Outreach (service to the larger community), 2004.

 

Classics Department
University of Tennessee, Knoxville