R. BRACHT BRANHAM

Emory University - Department of Classics
550 Asbury Circle Candler Library RM 222E
(404) 727-7592; FAX - 404-727-0223
email: langrbb@emory.edu

EDUCATION
1978-83 University of California, Berkeley. Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (Greek, Latin, English).
1979-80 University of Freiburg, West Germany. D.A.A.D. Scholar in Classical Philology.
1976-78 Cambridge University, England. B.A. in Classics (M.A. Cantab. 1981).
1972-76 University of California, Berkeley. B.A. in Classics.

POSITIONS
Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, Emory University (2002-present).
Visiting Professor, Department of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz (Fall 2004/2005).
Visiting Scholar in Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley (1999-2000).
Visiting Scholar in Classics, Stanford University (1993-94).
Associate Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, Emory University (1992-2002).
Assistant Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, Emory University (1985-1992).
Assistant Professor, Program in Western Civilization, University of California, Berkeley (1984-85).
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Classics, University of California, Santa Barbara (1983-84).

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Director, Interdisciplinary Program in Classical Studies (1997-2001).
Conference Organizer, Bakhtin and the Classics (Emory: March 1998).
Organizer (with Page du Bois) APA Panel: "Classics and Comparative Literature: Agenda for the 90's" (Atlanta 1994).

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (Fall 1996).
Humanities Forum Fellow, The Humanities Center, Stanford University (1993-94).
Fellowship, The National Humanities Center (Declined for 1993-94).
WILSON PRIZE (for the best first book published by Harvard University Press; 1989).
The National Academy of Sciences, Scholarly Exchange to the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations, Changchun, China (Spring 1990).
Emory University Research Committee, Fellowship (Fall 1989); (Fall 1999); (Spring 2005).
Grant, Folger Institute Seminar, Center for Shakespeare Studies. Peter Stallybrass, "Shakespeare, the Body, and the Material Text" (Spring 1992).
Junior Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies (1986-7); (Declined for 1985-86).
German Academic Exchange Scholar (D.A.A.D.: Deutscher AkademischerAustauschdienst) in Classical Philology at the University of Freiburg, West Germany (1979-80).

TEACHING RELATED STIPENDS
Center for Teaching and Curriculum stipend to develop the interdisciplinary course: "The Classical Tradition: Rhetorical Theories and Practices, Ancient to Modern" with Jeff Walker, Department of English (2001).
Language Across the Curriculum stipend to develop the interdisciplinary course: "Socrates on Trial" with
Steve Strange, Department of Philosophy (2001).
Massee-Martin/NEH Teaching Partner Grant (Spring 2001).
Emory Program in Writing Across the Curriculum (1992).

CURRENT PROJECTS
Reading the Signs of the Zodiac:  Bakhtin, Petronius and the Invention of the Novel (Oxford, Under Contract).

PUBLICATIONS
Books:
The Bakhtin Circle and Ancient Narrative, ed. and intro. (Groningen: Barkhuis 2005).
Bakhtin and the Classics, ed. and intro. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press 2002).
Petronius’ Satyrica (with D. Kinney). English translation with introduction and commentary (Berkeley: University of California Press 1996; J.M. Dent in the UK; paperback by Everyman and University of California Press 1997).
The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy, co-editor Goulet-Cazé (Berkeley: University of California Press 1996). Second Printing 1998. U. S. paperback edition (Berkeley 2000). Spanish Edition: Los cinicos: El movimiento cinico en la Antigüedad y su legado (Barcelona: Seix Barral 2000).
Unruly Eloquence: Lucian and the Comedy of Traditions (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press 1989).

Articles and Reviews:
Chapter on Satire: “Philosophy as Satire/Satire as Philosophy,” Oxford Handbook to Philosophy and Literature
(Oxford University Press 2009).
“Cynicism,” The Classical Tradition, ed. Grafton et al. (Harvard University Press 2010).
“Satire,” The Classical Tradition, ed. Grafton et al. (Harvard University Press 2010
“Citizen Diogenes,” in Exile in Antiquity, ed. F. Gaertner (Leipzig 2006).
“The Poetics of Genre: Bakhtin Menippus Petronius,” in The Bakhtin Circle and Ancient Narrative (Gronigen 2005).
“School for Scandal: The Cynic Origins of Stoicism.” Review of M. O. Goulet-Cazé, Les ‘Kynika’ du Stoicisme (Stuttgart 2003); Ancient Philosophy (Fall 2006).
“Nietzsche’s Cynicism: Uppercase or Lowercase?”, Nietzscheforschung vol. 10 (2003).
“Thinking Circles Around Bakhtin”. Review of C. Brandist, The Bakhtin Circle: Philosophy, Culture and Politics (London 2002). The Russian Review (Fall 2003).
"A Truer Story of the Novel?" in Bakhtin and the Classics (Evanston 2002).
"Representing Time in Ancient Fiction,” Ancient Narrative (Fall 2001).
"Petronius Poeta?", Review of C. Connors, Petronius the Poet (Cambridge 1998): Classical Philology (Fall 2001).
"Cynics," Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy Editor, David Sedley (1998).
"Diogenes of Sinope,"Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy Editor, David Sedley (1998).
"Lucian," The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy Editor, David Sedley (1998).
"Classics and Comparative Literature: Agenda for the 90’s,” ed. and intro., Classical Philology (Spring 1997).
"Defacing the Currency: Diogenes' Rhetoric and the Invention of Cynicism," The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy, ed. R. B. Branham and M.-O. Goulet-Cazé (University of California Press 1996).
"Lucian," Dictionary of Literary Biography, ed., W. Briggs (1996).
"Lucian," Encyclopedia of Ancient Philosophy, ed., D. Zeyl (1996).
"Inventing the Novel," Bakhtin in Contexts: Across Disciplines, Across Cultures, ed. , A. Mandelker (Northwestern University Press 1995). Revised and Rpt. In Critical Essays on Mikhail Bakhtin, ed. C. Emerson (New York 1999).
"Defacing the Currency: Diogenes Rhetoric and the Invention of Cynicism," Arethusa 27.3 (Fall 1994).
"Authorizing Humor: Lucian’s Demonax and Cynic Rhetoric,” Semeia 64 (1994).
"Defensible Borders: Retailing Rhetoric," Review of Bryan Vickers, In Defense of Rhetoric (Oxford 1988); Renato Barilli: Rhetoric, trans. G. Menozzi, Theory and History of Literature vol. 63 (Minneapolis 1989); W. Nash, Rhetoric: The Wit of Persuasion (London 1989): Arion (Winter 1990).
"Hellenomania." Review of Martin Bernal, Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization vol. 1: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1935 (Rutgers University Press 1987): Liverpool Classical Monthly (1989).
"Comic Traditions in Magna Graecia," Syracuse: The Fairest Greek City, ed. B. Wescoat (Rome 1989).
"The Wisdom of Lucian’s Tiresias," Journal of Hellenic Studies 109 (1989).
Review of C. P. Jones, Culture and Society in Lucian (Cambridge, Mass. 1989): Classical Journal 83 (1988).
"Utopian Laughter: Lucian and Thomas More," Moreana 86 (1985): Thomas More and the Classics.
"Introducing a Sophist: Lucian's Prologues," Transactions of the American Philological Association 115 (1985).
"The Comic as Critic: Revenging Epicurus," Classical Antiquity 3.2 (1984).

Invited Lectures:
“The Uses and Disadvantages of Classics for Life,” Department of Philosophy, University of Northern Arizona
(April 2010)
“Chronotopics: Experiments Ancient and Modern,” Bakhtin Theory of the Literary Chronotope, Ghent and Louvain
University, Brussels (June 2008)
“Nietzsche as Educator,” Dept. of Classics: U.C. Irvine (May 2008)
Chair and Commentator, Panel on Ancient Thought, James Wood Conference on Ancient Thought, Northern
Arizona University (March 2008)
“What Does Polyphony Sound Like?” Conference on the Ancient Novel. (U. of Crete: 2005).
  “Demonax Revisited: The Philosopher as Spoudogeloios,” Intl. Conference on Hellenism in Cyprus (U. of Cyprus: 2005).
"Cynicism and Exile,” Corpus Christi College Classics Seminar (Oxford: Fall 2001).
Respondent: Panel on Translation, Pacific Ancient and Modern Literature Association Conference
(UCLA: November 2000).
"Taking Liberties,” Conference on "Liberty Ancient and Modern,” University of California, San Diego (May 2000).
"Rethinking Time in the Novel,” Ancient and Modern Literature Conference: Portland (November 1999).
"Time in Ancient Fiction,” Corpus Christi College, Oxford (May 1999).
"Bakhtin and the Origins of Fiction,” Occidental College (1994).
"Defacing the Currency: Diogenes’ Rhetoric and the Invention of Cynicism" (Dept. of Literature: U. C. San Diego            [1994]; Dept. of Classics, Stanford University [1994]).
"Inventing the Novel," Dept. of Classics, Johns Hopkins University (1992).
"Cynic Rhetoric" Colloque Internationale:  Le Cynisme ancien et ses prolongements, Centre National de la Recherche   Scientifique (Paris 1991).
"Plato, Aristotle and Rhetoric" IHAC, (Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations) Changchun, China (1990).
"Romance and the Novel in Antiquity,” IHAC, Changchun, China (1990).
 "Bakhtin and the Origins of the Novel,” Dept. of Literature, University of California, San Diego (1990).
"Inventing the Novel,” Ancient Society Workshop, University of Chicago (1989).

Public Lectures:
  “Historicizing Polyphony,” International Conference on the Ancient Novel: Lisbon, Portugal (July 2008)
   Chair, “Ancient Novel/Modern Novel: Theory and Practice, Panel for the International Conference on the Ancient
   Novel: Lisbon, Portugal (July 2008)
   “Is a Global Theory of Humor Possible?”, International Society for Humor Studies (Copenhagen 2006)
   “On the Uses and Disadvantages of Classics for Life: Nietzsche as Educator” PAMLA (Pepperdine U. 2005).
  “Nietzsche on the Future of Classical Philology,” Intl. Conference on the Future of the Humanities (Prato, Italy 2004).
  Chair, Panel on "Bakhtin and Ancient Narrative,” International Conference on Narrative (Berkeley: March 2003).
"Nietzsche as Cynic," Annual Conference of the Nietzsche Society: "Nietzsche and the Classical Tradition" (Glasgow   October 2002).
"Representing Time in Ancient Fiction," International Conference on the Ancient Novel (Groningen 2000).
"A Truer Story of the Novel?", Bakhtin and the Classics Conference (Emory March 1998).
Chair of Panel: "Classics and Comparative Literature: Agenda for the 90’s"  (APA Convention 1994).
"Inventing the Novel," Intl. Assoc. of Philos. & Lit.:  Penser Le Changement (Montreal 1991).
"Inventing the Novel," Joint Session of the Dartmouth School of Criticism and Theory and the International Conference on the Ancient Novel (Dartmouth 1989).
"Authorizing Humor:  Lucian's Demonax and Cynic Rhetoric," (CMWS Convention: New Orleans 1988).
"Lucian's Symposium" (CMWS Convention: Boulder 1987).
Presiding Officer, Section on Satire and Comedy, (PAPC [Philological Assoc. of the Pacific Coast]): University of               California, Riverside 1986).
"Hellenism and Primitivism:  Lucian's 'Anacharsis'," (CMWS Convention: Tampa 1986).
"The Wisdom of Lucian's Tiresias," (Center for Hellenic Studies 1985).
"The Comic as Critic," (Ohio State University 1985).
"Introducing a Sophist," (APA Convention: Toronto 1984).

TEACHING:   Emory University

2009  Fall:  Greek 110: Intensive Elementary Greek
Greek 370: Lucian’s Satires
Spring:Greek 597R/Comp. Lit. 797: Directed Reading: Plato’s Phaedrus
2008 Fall:  Greek 597R/Comp. Lit. 797: Directed Reading: Plato’s Phaedru
Ancient Mediterranean Studies 203: “The Trial of Socrates”
2007 Spring Greek 597R: Directed Reading: Plato’s Protagoras
Comp. Lit. 751: The Philosophy and Literature of Cynicism: Ancient and Modern
2006 Fall: Latin 316S: Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis
Greek 597r/498r: Directed Reading: Plato’s Protagoras
Ancient Mediterranean Studies 203: “The Trial of Socrates
Spring: Greek 370: Lucian’s Satires
Comp. Lit. 751: Bahktin on Philosophy, Literature, and Criticism
2005 Fall: University of California, Santa Cruz
Latin: Seneca, Apocolocyntosis
Theater Arts: The Rhetoric of Theater
2004 Fall: University of California, Santa Cruz
Greek: Lucian and Greek Philosophy
Lit: Rhetoric/Literature/Performance
2003 Fall: Grad. Seminar in Comp. Lit. 752/ Philosophy 789
Metaphysics, Culture and History in Vico’s New Science
Classical Studies 203- The Classical Tradition: Rhetoric, Literature, and Performance
2003 Spring: Grad. Sem. in Comp. Lit. 751 – Menippean Satire: Theory and Practice
Grad. Sem. in Comp. Lit. 753 – The Teaching of Literature
2002  Fall: Classical Studies 203 – The Classical Tradition: Socrates on Trial
Greek 487S – Readings in Lucian and Menippean Satire
Spring: Classics 498R – Supervised Reading
Greek 311S – Aristotle's Poetics
Grad Sem. in Comp. Lit. 751 & Phil. 789 – Philosophy of the Cynics
2001 Fall: Classics 329/Comp. Lit 490/English 389 – Satire, Parody and the Comic
Greek 201 – Intermediate Greek: Plato
Spring:Grad. Sem. in Comp. Lit. 752 & Phil. 789 – Metaphysics and History: Vico's New Science
2000 Fall: Classics 102 – Classical Mythology
Greek 201 – Intermediate Greek: Plato
Latin 102 – Elementary Latin II
1998-99  Fall: Classics 190G – Freshman Seminar: "Homer and the Idea of the Classic"
Greek 311 – Aristotle’s Poetics
1998-99 Spring:Grad. Sem. in Comp. Lit. 753G – Rethinking Bakhtin
Latin 102 – Elementary
Greek 498R – Sophocles and Aristotle
1997-98 Fall: Classics 498 – Supervised Reading in Ancient Fiction
Greek 101 – Elementary
Greek 201 – Intermediate:  Plato’s Apology
Spring: Classics 498 – Supervised Reading in Ancient Fiction
Greek 102 – Elementary 
Grad. Sem. in Comp. Lit. 751H – Bakhtin and Theory of the Novel
1996-97 Spring: Greek 311: Plato’s Symposium
Grad. Sem. in Comp. Lit. 753T – Philosophy of the Cynics
1995-96 Fall: Latin 315 – Plautus
Classics 329L – Art & Decadence in the Age of Nero
Spring: Greek 202 – Homer
Grad. Sem. in Comp. Lit. 751H – Bakhtin on the Theory & Practice of Criticism
1994-95 Fall Greek 201 – Plato’s Protagoras
Grad. Sem. in Philosophy 789H – The Cynic Movement and Its Legacy
Spring: Latin 316 – Petronius
Latin 201 – Apuleius
1992-93 Fall: Greek 201 – Intermediate Greek: Prose: Plato
Grad. Sem. in Comp. Lit. 753 – The Body in Theory
Spring: Member Luce Seminar
1991-92 Fall: Literature 110 – Intro. to Literature Major
Classics 101 – Intro. to Classics
Spring: Latin 487 – Petronius and LucanGreek 312 – Euripides
Latin 498R – Supervised Reading
1990-91 Fall: Greek 101 – Elementary
Literature 201 – Intro. to Ancient & Medieval Lit.
Spring: Greek 102 – Elementary
Grad. Sem. in Comp. Lit. 751G – The Origins of the Novel
1988-89 Fall: Classics 101 – Intro. to Classical Lit.
Greek 101 – Elementary
Spring: Greek 102 – Elementary
Greek 487 – Longus
Latin 487 – Renaissance Neo-Latin
Grad. Sem. in Comp. Lit. 750 – Bakhtin on the Theory and Practice of Criticism
1987-88 Fall: Classics 101 – Intro. to Classical Lit.
Greek 311 – Plato
Greek 498R – Plato and Rhetoric
Spring: Latin 487 – Petronius
Grad. Sem. in Comp. Lit. 752W – Poetics of Satire and Parody               
1985-86 Fall: Latin 101 – Elementary
Grad. Sem. in Comp. Lit. 752T – Poetics of Comedy
Spring: Latin 411 – Plautus and Terence
Classics 201 – Shakespeare and the Classical Traditions of Comedy

TEACHING:  University of California, Berkeley

1984-85 Fall: Western Civilization I
  Spring: Western Civilization II
 University of California, Santa Barbara
  1983-84 Fall: Greek – Demosthenes
  Latin – Ovid
  Spring: Latin – Intensive
  Latin – Propertius

SERVICE: Emory University
2005-06 College: Core faculty in Comp. Lit. and Classical Studies; Prog. in Ancient Mediterranean Studies.
2004-05 College Core faculty in Comp. Lit. and Classical Studies; Prog. in Ancient Mediterranean Studies.
2003-04 College Core faculty in Comp. Lit. and Classical Studies; Prog. in Ancient Mediterranean Studies.
2001-02 Comp. Lit.: Admissions Committee
2000-01 College: Director, Interdisciplinary Program in Classical Studies
Comp. Lit.: Admissions Committee
1998-99 College: Director, Interdisciplinary Program in Classical Studies
Core faculty, Program in Comparative Literature
1997-98 College: Director, Interdisciplinary Program in Classical Studies
Organizer, "Bakhtin and the Classics" Conference (March 1998)
Comp. Lit: Admissions Committee
1996-97 College: Core faculty in Comp. Lit. and Classical Studies
1995-96 College: Core faculty in Comp. Lit. and Classical Studies
1994-95 College: Core faculty in Comp. Lit. and Classical Studies
Organizer, APA Panel: "Classics and Comp. Lit.: Agenda for the 90s"
1992-93 College: Member Luce Seminar, Spring semester
College: Freshman Seminar Leader, Fall semester
1991-92 I.L.A.: Steering Committee, History, Culture and Theory
College: Core faculty in Lit., Comp. Lit., Classical Studies and Classics
Committee on Academic Standards
1990-91 College: Core faculty in Lit., Comp. Lit., Classical Studies and Classics
Oxford Scholarship Committee
Classics: Curriculum Committee
1989-90 Classics: Search Committee
1988-89 College: Core faculty in Comp. Lit., Classical Studies and Classics
Oxbridge Scholarship Committee
Referee, Graduate Student Writing Competition
Classics: Library Representative
Search Committee
1987-88 College: Core faculty in Comp. Lit. and Classical Studies
Committee on the Undergraduate Major in Literature
Committee on Academic Standards
Freshman Seminar Leader
Classics: Search Committee
Library Representative
Curriculum Committee
Comp. Lit.: Steering Committee
Search Committee (Comp. Lit./English)
1986-87 Classics: Search Committee
1985-86 College: Core faculty in Comp. Lit., Classical Studies and Classics
Freshman Advisor

Committee Member B.A. Honors Thesis:
Lara O'Donnell, Comp. Lit. and Spanish (2001-2).
D. Crusade, "The Nature of Woman in Plato" (1991).
M. Jones, "Translation in Antiquity" (1989).

Committee Member Ph.D. Exams:
B. Lamb (Comp. Lit. Ph.D. Exams: 2004).
Julie Piering (Philosophy: Prospectus Exam, 1999).
H. D. (English: 1993).
S. Glaze (English: 1991).
C. Pavur (ILA: 1988).

Committee Member Ph.D. Dissertation:
E. Bozia, “Lucian’s Roman Audience”, Dept. of Classics, University of Florida (in progress).
James Brusuelas, “Lucian and Aristophanes,” Dept. of Classics, University of California, Irvine (in progress).
B. Lamb, “Modern Menippea”, Dept. of Comp. Lit., Emory University (in progress).
Julie Piering, "Practices of the Self: Michel Foucault and Socratic Ethics,” Dept. of Philosophy, Emory University
(Completed 2002).
S. Glaze, "Patronage and Otium in Two Renaissance Dialogues: A Comparative Approach," Dept. of English, Emory University (Completed 1995).
C. Pavur, "Nietzsche as Humanist," ILA (Completed 1990).
C. Ciorcan, "Aristotle's Comic Theory," Dept. of Philosophy (Completed 1990).