Curriculum Vitae James F. McGlew Department of Classics Rutgers University Ruth Adams Building 009 131 George St. New Brunswick, NJ 08901 jmcglew@rci.rutgers.edu Academic Positions Associate Professor of Classical Studies, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004- (Director of Graduate Study 2006-2009) Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Foreign Languages & Literatures, Iowa State University, 2001-2004 Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, Foreign Languages & Literatures, Iowa State University, 1995-2001. Assistant Professor of Classics, Allegheny College, 1986-94. Education Ph.D (1986) Social Thought, University of Chicago. M.A. (1983) Social Thought, University of Chicago. B.A. (1977) New Collegiate Division, University of Chicago, with Honors and Awards and Fellowships Loeb Classical Library Foundation, Salary Supplement and Support Grant, 2004-05. Humanities Council Summer Salary Grant, Iowa State University, Summers 1999, 2000, Outstanding Academic Book Award, Choice, 1995 for Tyranny and Political Culture in Ancient Greece. Faculty Improvement Leave, Iowa State University. Fall, 1998. 1
Ethel Wattis Kimball Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center, 1989-90. American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for Recent Recipients of the Ph.D., 1989-90. Books *Citizens on Stage: Comedy and Political Culture in the Athenian Democracy, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2002. *Tyranny and Political Culture in Ancient Greece, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993. (Paperback, Nov. 1996). Work in Progress Equality and the Athenian Democratic Imagination. Literature in the Classical Period, invited contribution to the Companion to Greek Literature. M. Hose and D. Schenker, edd; to be published by Wily-Blackwell. Edited Volume *Performing the Politics of European Comic Drama, special issue of European Studies Journal, co-edited with Susan Carlson, 2001-2. Articles/Book Chapters * The Comic Pericles, in Tyrants and Autocrats in the Classical World ed. S. Lewis, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2006:164-77. * Speak on my Behalf : Persuasion and Purification in Aristophanes Wasps, Arethusa 37 (2004): 11-36. * Identity and Ideology: The Farmer Chorus of Aristophanes= Peace, Syllecta Classica 12 (2001): 75-97. * Politics on the Margins: The Athenian Hetaireiai in 415 B.C., Historia 30 (1999) 1-22. * Beyond Irony: Aristophanes= Wealth and its Modern Interpreters, American Journal of Philology 188 (1997) 35-53. * Everybody Wants to Make a Speech : Cleon and Aristophanes on Politics and Fantasy, Arethusa 29 (1996) 339-361. 2
* Royal Power and the Achaean Assembly at Iliad 2.84-393, Classical Antiquity 8 (1989) 283-95. * Revolution and Freedom in Mommsen s Römische Geschichte, Phoenix 40 (1986) 424-45. * J.G. Droysen and the Aeschylean Hero, Classical Philology 79 (1984) 1-14. Invited Lectures "Befriending the Demos: Herodotus on Cleisthenes of Athens," Iowa State University, November 2008. Ajax and Odysseus: Pity and Equality in 5 th -century Athens," Rhetoric and Poetic Workshop, University of Chicago, November, 2005. Cultivating Pity in the Athenian Democracy, Edson Lecture, Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison, November Achilles Sweet Sorrow: Pity and the Athenian Democracy, Cambridge University, July Taking the Other Place: Comic Rejuvenation on the Borders of Politics and Religion, Ohio State University, February 2001. Aristophanes and Dissidence: Recent Views of Aristophanes= Assemblywomen, Institute of Classical Studies, London. June 2000. Aristophanes and Religion, University of Wales Classics Colloquium, June 2000. Comic Fantasy and Theatrical Politics: What to Make of Aristophanic Wisdom : Department of Classics. University of Iowa. November 1999. Why the Herms?: Men s Clubs and Oligarchic Politics in 415 B.C. Fordyce Mitchel Lecture. University of Missouri at Columbia. March 1996. Selected Recent and Forthcoming Conference Papers "Citizen Warriors in the Lysianic Funeral Oration, Midwestern Ancient Historians Annual Conference, Ohio State University, April 2010. Euphiletos Compliant Neighbors: Neighborliness and Citizenship in Late 5 th and early 4 th c. Athens, Midwestern Ancient Historians Annual Conference, University of 3
Michigan, April 2009. Cleisthenes Contribution to Athens, History & Classical Studies, Iowa State University, November, 2008. : Can Herodotus' Otanes Help Us Understand Cleisthenes? Midwestern Ancient Historians Annual Conference, Indiana University, April 2008. Plato and Aristophanes on Democratic Pity Citizenship and the Equality of Potential Misfortune, Midwestern Ancient Historians Annual Conference, Northwestern University, May 2006. The Comic Pericles, Tyrants, Kings, Dynasts and Generals: Modes of Autocracy in the Classical Period (500-323), University of Wales, Cardiff, July Persuasion and Purification in Aristophanes Wasps, APA Annual Meeting, January Unity and Disunity in the Chorus of Aristophanes Peace : APA Annual Meeting, December 1999. Recycling Oligarchs : CAMWS Annual Meeting. April 1998. Aristophanes Proboulos: Politics and Desire in the Lysistrata, CAMWS Annual Meeting, April 1997. Pericles and Cratinus: Comedy and the Discourse of the Polis, Halifax, October 1997. Laughing at Poverty: Comic Fantasy and the Ploutos. APA Annual Meeting, December 1995. Reviews Review of G. Hermann, Morality and Behaviour in Democratic Athens. A Social History in Phoenix 42 (2008) 383-84. Review of G. Fischer and S Moraw, Die andere Seite der Klassik. Gewalt in 5. und 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. in Classical Review, 57 (2007): 145-46. Review of M. Gagarin, Antiphon, the Athenian, in Polis 20 (2003): 179-81. Review of D. T. Steiner, Images in Mind, Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek 4
Literature and Thought in Classical Review. Vol. 53, April Review of S. Colvin, Dialect in Aristophanes: The Politics of Language in Ancient Greek Literature and X. Riu, Dionysism and Comedy, in Classical Outlook Vol. 78, Fall 2000. Review of P. Green, Classical Bearings: Interpreting Ancient History and Culture in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 99.1.13. Review of S. C. Todd, The Shape of Athenian Law in American Historical Review, April 1995. Review of A. M. Bowie, Aristophanes: Myth, Ritual and Comedy in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 94.10.10. Professional Service Co-organizer (with Victoria Wohl): "Representations of Civic Identity in Democratic Athens" (panel), APA Annual Meeting, January Advisory Board, Classical and Modern Literature 1999- Manuscript review for Cornell University Press, Blackwell, Oxford University Press, University of Texas Press, University of Michigan Press, Classical Antiquity, Classical Philoglogy, and Transactions of the American Philoigical Association. 5