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HIGHER EDUCATION
B.S., Columbia University (School of General Studies) 1966
M.A., Yale University 1968
Ph.D., Yale University 1975

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Trinity College, Hartford, CT, Fall 1966, Lecturer in Classics
Trinity College, Hartford, CT, Summer 1967, Summer 1968, Visiting Instructor in Classical Languages
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 1970-71, Teaching Intern in Classics (F/T)
Brooklyn College, CUNY, 1972-73, P/T Instructor in Classics; 1973-75, F/T Instructor in Classics; Summer 1975, Instructor in Classics and Women's Studies
Sarah Lawrence College, Summer 1975, Summer 1976, Visiting Instructor in Women's Studies
Columbia College, Columbia University 1975-77, Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin; Summer 1976, Summer 1977, Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin
Visiting Lecturer in Yale College, Guest Fellow in Morse College, Spring Term 1980
Wesleyan University, Assistant Professor of Classics, Fall 1978-1983; Associate Professor of Classics, 1983-1990; Professor of Classics 1990-present.

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL HONORS:
Yale University Fellow - 1968
Mary Cady Tew Prize for Excellence in Classics -Yale 1968
Samuel K. Bushnell Fellow - Yale l969-70
Elizabeth and A. Varvick Stout Fellow - Yale 1971-72
Biddle Travel Scholarship - Yale Summer 1973
Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C. 1977-78 (refused)
Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey - 1977-78 (accepted) ACLS Fellowship for Recent Ph.D.'s, April-August 1978 (accepted)
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminars for College Teachers, Princeton University, Summer 1979
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend Fellowship, Summer 1980
Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University, Faculty Fellow, Spring 1982
Elected Member, Board of Directors, American Philological Association, 1984-1987
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminars for College Teachers, Yale University, Summer 1987 Elected Member, Nominating Committee, American Philological Association, 1987-1990
Chairperson, Nominating Committee, American Philological Association, 1989-1990 (Presidential Appointment) National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Research Stipend, 1989
National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Fellowship, 1990­91
Nominee for Presidency, American Philological Association, 1991
Women's Classical Caucus of the American Philological Association, citation of merit as one of six founders of the Caucus, on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the WCC
Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, 1993

PUBLICATIONS:
Under Marylin A. Whitfield:
"Euripides, Alcestis 1092-1098," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 73 (1968) 105-108.

Under Marylin B. Arthur:
"The Choral Odes of the Bacchae of Euripides," Yale Classical Studies 22 (1972) 145-179.
"Early Greece: The Origins of the Western Attitude Toward Women," Arethusa 6.1 (Spring 1973) 7-58 (=Women in the Ancient World: The Arethusa Papers, ed. John Peradotto and J. P. Sullivan [Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1983] 7-58).
"Woman's Position in Antiquity: A Marxist-Feminist Interpretation," Comment 9 (1975) 2.
"Review Essay: Classics," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 2.2 (Winter 1976) 382-403.
"Review of Norman Holland, Poems in Persons," Literature and Psychology 26 (1976) 92-94.
"Politics and Pomegranates: An Interpretation of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Arethusa 10.1 (Spring 1977) 7-47.
"The Curse of Civilization: The Choral Odes of the Phoenissae of Euripides," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 81 (1977) 163-185.
"Classics and Psychoanalysis," Annotated Bibliography in American Philological Association Series: Brief Annotated Bibliographies on Classics and Other Disciplines (1977) 1-26 (=The Classical Journal) 73 (1977) 56-88.
"Liberated Women: The Classical Era," in Bridenthal and Koonz, edd., Becoming Visible: Women in European History (Houghton Mifflin, 1977) 60-89.
"The Tortoise and the Mirror: Erinna P.S.I. 1090," Classical World 74 (1980) 53-65.
"Review Essay: Anthropology and the Greeks by S. C. Humphreys," History and Theory 19 (1980) 338-353.
"The Divided World of Iliad VI," Women's Studies 8 (198l) 21-46 (=Reflections on Women in Antiquity, ed. Helene P. Foley [New York: Gordon and Breach, 1981] 19-44).
"Cultural Strategies in Hesiod's Theogony: Law, Family, Society," Arethusa 15, American Classical Studies in Honor of J.-P. Vernant (1982) 63-82.
"Women and the Family in Ancient Greece," The Yale Review 71.4, Special Issue on Concepts of Culture (Summer 1982) 532-547.
"The Dream of a World Without Women: Poetics and the Circles of Order in the Theogony Proemium," Arethusa 16, Semiotics and Classical Studies (1983) 97-116.
"Psycho-Mythology: The Case of H.D.," Bucknell Review 28.2 (1983) 65-79. "The Limits of Transcendence: Male and Female in Hesiod's Theogony," forthcoming in La Donna Antica, edd. Vegetti and Lanza - in Italian.
Review of Louis Gernet, The Anthropology of Ancient Greece, Modern Language Notes, Comparative Literature 98.5 (December 1983) 1374-1380. Review of W. Thomas MacCary, Childlike Achilles: Ontogeny and Phylogeny in the Iliad, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly 53.4 (1984) 621-626.
"Marxism and the Study of Classical Antiquity," with David Konstan, in The Left Academy: Marxist Scholarship on American Campuses, vol. II, edd. Bertell Ollman and Edward Vernoff [New York: Praeger Publishers, 1984] 55-77. Review of M. L. West, The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women, and Tyrrell, Amazons: A Study in Athenian Mythmaking, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 12.3 (Spring 1987) 589-93.
Review of A. D. Napier, Masks, Transformations, and Paradox, American Journal of Archaeology 91 (1987) 331-332.
Review of Pierre Grimal, Love in Ancient Rome, New England Classical Newsletter 15.3 (February 1988) 44-45.

Under Marylin A. Katz:
"Sexuality and the Body in Ancient Greece," Métis. Revue d'anthropologie du monde grec ancien 4.1 (1989) 155­79 (= Trends in History 4.4 [1990] 97­125).
"Problems of Sacrifice in Ancient Cultures," In The Bible in the Light of Cuneiform Literature. Scripture in Context III, edd. William Hallo, Bruce Jones, Gerald Mattingly (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1990) 89-201.
"Patriarchy and Inheritance in Greek and Biblical Antiquity: The Epiclerate and the Levirate." Proceedings of the Xth World Congress of Jewish Studies. (Jerusalem: Magnes Press,1990) 159-166.
Penelope's Renown: Meaning and Indeterminacy in Homer's Odyssey. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1991.
"Patriarchy, Ideology, and the Epikleros," Proceedings of the IXth Congress of the International Federation of the Societies of Classical Studies (forthcoming).
Review of Suzanne Dixon, The Roman Mother, New England Classical Newsletter & Journal 17 (October 1990) 41-43.
Review of Robert Garland, The Greek Way of Life, The Classical Outlook 69 (Winter 1991-92) 73.
"Bouphonia and Goring Ox: Homicide, Animal Sacrifice, and Judicial Process," invited contribution to refereed volume, Nomodeiktes: Greek Studies in Honor of Martin Ostwald (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992) 155-78.
Review article on Paul Veyne, Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths? An Essay on the Constitutive Imagination History and Theory 31 (1992) 65-81.
"Ox Slaughter and Goring Oxen: Homicide, Animal Sacrifice, and Judicial Process," Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 4.2 (Summer 1992) 249-278.
"Politics and Pomegranates," in Essays on the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, ed. Helene Foley (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993) 212-42.
"Ideology and 'the Status of Women' in Ancient Greece," History and Theory Beiheft 31: History and Feminist Theory (1992) 70-97.
"Homecoming and Hospitality: Recognition and the Construction of Identity in the Odyssey,"' in Epic and Epoch, ed. S. Oberhelman, Studies in Comparative Literature 25 (Texas Tech University Press, 1994), 49-75.
"The Character of Tragedy: Women and the Greek Imagination," Arethusa 27.1 (1994) 81-103. "Ideology and 'the Status of Women' in Ancient Greece," in Feminists Revision History, ed. Ann-Louise Shapiro (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1993) 120-145.
"Ideology and 'the Status of Women' in Ancient Greece," in Women in Antiquity: New Assessments, ed. Richard Hawley and Barbara Levick (London & New York: Routledge, 1995) 21-43.
Review: Commentaries on the Odyssey (Russo, Fernández-Galliano, and Heubeck, A Commentary on Homer's Odyssey, Vol. III: Books XVII-XXIV [Oxford, 1992] and Rutherford, Homer. Odyssey. Books XIX and XX [Cambridge, 1992]), The Classical Journal 91.1 (1995) 95-99.
"A Brief Response to Skinner ('Twice Silenced') and Yarnall ('Daring to Sing')," Thamyris 2.2 (1995) 255-58.
"Women, Children and Men," invited contribution to The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece, ed. Paul Cartledge (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press [UK], 1997.
"Women in Ancient Greece," invited contribution to Becoming Visible: Women in European History, revised edition, ed. Bridenthal, Koonz, Stuard, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, scheduled for publication in 1998.
"Did Women Attend the Theater in the Eighteenth Century?" Invited contribution to Classical Philology, scheduled for publication in 1998 or 1999.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
"Marxism and the Study of Women in Antiquity," APA Seminar on "Marxism and the Study of Antiquity," December 1972.
"Towards a Feminist Classics," Panel, Conference on Women in Antiquity, SUNY at Buffalo, April 1973.
"The Effects of the Study of Women's History on Conventional Conceptions of History," Panel, New England Association of Women Historians Meeting, New Haven, September 1973.
"Marxism and Ancient History," AHA Panel, December 1973.
"Images of Women in Ancient Times," Comment, Chair, The Second Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, October 1974.
"The Gates of War and Peace (Iliad VI)," oral presentation, APA, December 1974.
"Women in Myth and Religion," Women's Classical Caucus Panel, coordinator, APA, December 1974.
"New Conceptual Frameworks for Studying Women's History," Sarah Lawrence College Women's Studies Program Workshop-Symposium, March 1975.
"Demeter, Matriarchy, and the Feminine Psyche," presentation to symposium, "Applications of Modern Critical Theory to Classical Literature," Amherst, MA, April 1975.
"Maenads and Madness," Sarah Lawrence College Women's Studies Program, November 1975. "Science and Women," AHA Panel, December 1975, commentator for Horowitz, "Aristotle's Biology, A Source for Medieval and Renaissance Views on Women."
"Women in the Age of Iron," commentator, The Third Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, June 1976.
"Matriarchy in the Odyssey: basileia, basileuein, basileus," Wellesley College, October 1976.
"Plato's Women," with Robert Padgug, Rutgers University, oral presentation, APA, December 1976. "Women in Sparta," James Redfield, commentator, Princeton University Conference on "Kinship, Politics, and Economy in Classical Greece," April 1977.
"Personal and Conventional Symbols in Ancient Greek Poetry and Myth," APA Panel, December 1977.
"The Greek System of Criminal Justice," Attica (NY) State Prison, Elmira(NY) State Prison, Auburn (NY) State Prison, Fall 1978.
"Spartan Women," Chair and comment, The Fourth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, August 1978.
"H.D. and the Greeks," The Johns Hopkins University, October 1979.
"H.D., the Classics, and Frida Kahlo," Smith College, December 1979.
"Freud and Un-Freud," Discussion Panel (English): Critical Questions, Fifth Annual Colloquium on Contemporary Methods of Literary Analysis: English, French, Italian and Spanish; Colloquium Topic: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Feminism, Graduate Center, City University of New York, May 1979.
"Women and the Family in Ancient Greece," Yale University, April 1980.
"Psycho-Mythology: The Feminine Quest and the Quest for the Feminine," Faculty Interdisciplinary Seminar, sponsored by the Committee on the Arts and Humanities, University of Colorado at Boulder, April 1980.
Interdisciplinary Seminar with Sandra Gilbert, University of Colorado at Boulder, April 1980 (see last entry).
"Cultural Strategies in Hesiod's Theogony: Law, Family, Society," presented at the conference, Texts and Contexts in Ancient Greece: A Conference in Honor of Jean-Pierre Vernant, Princeton University, April 1980.
"Separate Domains: Men's and Women's Spheres in Hesiod's Works and Days," presented at the Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium: Women and Men in Greece: A Society in Transition, November 1980.
"Psycho-Mythology: The Case of H.D.," presented at the Division Meeting of the Modern Languages Association Annual Convention; Division Meeting Topic: "Psychoanalysis and Gender: Feminist Approaches," December 1980.
"Le rêve d'un mode sans femmes. La poétique et les cercles de l'ordre dans le Prologue de la Théogonie," presented at Le Centre de Recherches Comparées sur les Sociétés Anciennes, Paris, April 1981.
"Ideology and the 'Status of Women' in Ancient Greece," Wesleyan University History Department Faculty Seminar, "Marx and History," April 3, 1981.
"Male and Female in Hesiod's Erga," presented at the Fifth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, June 1981.
"Female as Referent: Male and Female in the Oedipus Trilogy," panel presentation for "Oedipus: Myth, Complex, and Tragedy (Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Classical Studies)," American Philological Association Annual Meetings, December 1981.
"Women and the Family in Ancient Greece," panel presentation for Symposium on "Women in the Classical Period," University of Rochester, February 1982.
"Order and Irrationality: The Political Unconscious in Athenian Drama," Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University, April 1982.
"The Character of the Unconscious: Medea's Second Thoughts," Oberlin College, April 1984. Commentator, "Playing the Other," Froma Zeitlin, Barnard University Symposium on Greek Tragedy, April 1984.
"Myth and Narrative in Hesiod's Theogony," Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, March 1985. "Problems in Jewish Feminism--by way of Ancient Greece," Wesleyan University, Havurah, December 1985.
Invited Session Chairman, Conference on "Bodies and Minds: Sexuality and Desire in the Ancient World," Princeton University, March 28-29, 1986.
"The Character of the Unconscious and the Unconscious of the Character," University of Southern California, University of California at San Diego, April 1986.
"Myth and Narrative in the Theogony and the Torah," University of California at Los Angeles, University of California at San Diego, April 1986.
Consulting--on incorporating Women's Studies into the University of Southern Maine Honors Program, "Ideas and Values: Inquiry and Analysis in Western Culture," July l986.
"The Character of Tragedy," University of Southern Maine, November 5, l986--invited lecture for NEH funded Humanities Honors Program.
"The Kleos of Penelope," Dartmouth College, January 1987 - for Humanities Program.
"Antigone's Character," Dartmouth College, January 1987 - for Greek and Tragedy students.
"Does the Unconscious Have a History? Reflections on Primitive Mentality and the Ancient Greeks," Kanzer Seminar in Psychoanalysis and the Humanities, Yale University, February 1987.
"The Character of Tragedy: Women in the Greek Imagination," Women's Studies Course Cluster Lecture, "Women Taking A/Part," Smith College, February 1987.
"The Concept of Character in Greek Tragedy," Brown University, March 1987.
Appointment as Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Classics, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, March 8-22, 1987.
Visiting Scholar, Skidmore College Summer Institute in Classical Studies for High School Teachers, sponsored by NEH, 1987.
Chairperson, Panel on "Public and Private Worlds in the Ancient Lesbian Poets," Seventh Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, June 1987.
"Sexuality and the Body in Ancient Greece," Symposium on "Mind, Body and the Literary Imagination," The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, The Johns Hopkins University, November 1, 1988.
"Myth and Narrative in the Theogony and the Torah," Haverford College, February 1988.
Comment on Weissler, "The Construction of Gender in Yiddish Devotional Literature," Yale University Judaic Studies Colloquium, April 1988.
"The House of Atreus Motif in Homer's Odyssey," Class Seminar, Greek, Princeton University, April 28, 1988.
"Problems in the Theory of Mythology," Bar Ilan University, Israel, May 17, 1988.
"Myth, Sacrifice, and the Human Order in Hesiod's Theogony," The Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel, May 19, 1988.
"The House of Atreus Motif in Homer's Odyssey," Hebrew University, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, May 23, 1988.
"Antigone and Female Adolescence," The Kingdom of Oedipus, Conference Sponsored by The Washington School of Psychiatry Advanced Psychotherapy Training Program, June 18-19, 1988. "Patriarchy, Ideology, and the Epikleros." Symposium on "The Lives of Women in Antiquity: Literary Models and Historical Realities." Bowdoin College, April 14-15, 1989.
"The Epiclerate and the Levirate." Xth World Congress of Jewish Studies. Jerusalem, Israel. August 1989.
"Patriarchy, Ideology, and the Epikleros." Invited Paper. IXth Congress of the International Federation of the Societies of Classical Studies. Pisa, Italy. August 1989.
"The Character of Tragedy." Duke University. November 1989.
"The Language of Healing and the Healing of Language in Greece and Rome." Conference on the Therapeutic Use of the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University and National Institutes of Mental Health, April 1990.
"The Prytaneion, the Goring Ox, and the Judicial Status of Animals in Ancient Law." 17th International Congress of Historical Sciences. Madrid, Spain. August 1990.
"Penelope, the Suitors, and the Ideology of Exclusivity in the End of the Odyssey," Yale University, October 1990.
"Women and Tragedy in Ancient Greece," Connecticut College, November 1990.
"The Character of Women in Tragedy: Clytemnestra, Antigone, Medea," Symposium on Rethinking the Classical Canon, The Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, Brooklyn College of CUNY, November 1990.
"The Ideology of Exclusivity in the end of the Odyssey," Conference on Epic and the Epoch, Texas A&M University, November 1990.
"Character, Subjectivity, and Women in Greek Tragedy," Panel on Feminist Theory and the Classics, APA Annual Meeting, December 1990, San Francisco.
"Character and Greek Tragedy," Colby College, March 1992.
"Animal Sacrifice and Animal Homicide in Antiquity," Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies Annual Meeting, Jerusalem, May 1992.
"Women and Ideology in Ancient Greece," invited plenary session address at Feminism and Classics, University of Cincinnati Symposium, November 1992.
"Ideology and the 'Status of Women' in Ancient Greece," invited address at Women in Antiquity: New Assessments. Conference arranged in connection with the Oxford Women in Antiquity Seminar and in celebration of the centenary of St. Hilda's College. Oxford, September 1993.
"Family, Ethnicity, and Community in Ancient Greece," invited address to Literature and History of the Persian Period Group of the Society of Biblical Literature, AAR/SBL annual meeting, November 1993.
"The Character of Penelope," organizer of Panel for APA Annual Meeting, December 1993. "Opening the Question," Panel presentation for "The Character of Penelope" (see just above), December 1993.
"Women and Democracy in Ancient Greece," Annual Humanities Lecture, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, April 1995.
"Women and Democracy in Ancient Athens," Cal Humanities Lecturecient G' Carl Schlam Memorial Lecture, Ohio State University, May 1995.
"Did Women Attend the Theater in the Eighteenth Century?" George Walsh Memorial Lecture, Univeristy of Chicago, November 1996.
"Women and Democracy in Ancient Athens," Interdisciplinarity and the Classics: A Conference in Honor of John J. Peradotto, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, March 1997.

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
American Philological Association, l967 - present
American Historical Association, 1976 - present
Women's Classical Caucus, 1972 - present (Steering Committee, 1972-74)
Columbia University Seminar on Women and Society, 1974 - present (Executive Committee 1975-77, Chairperson 1976-77)
Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Psychoanalysis and Literature, New York
Psychoanalytic Institute, 1975 - present
American Association of University Professors, 1979 - present
Modern Language Association, 1979 - present
Columbia University Seminar on Classical Civilization, 1983 - present
Gardiner Seminar (formerly Kanzer Seminar) on Psychoanalysis and the Humanities, Yale University, 1986 - present
Society for Biblical Literature, 1986 - present
Yale University Judaic Studies Faculty Seminar, 1986 - present

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Appointment to Editorial Board of History and Theory, sequential from July 1980 - present Appointment to the Center for the Humanities Advisory Board, Wesleyan University, 1980 - 1982 Invited Outside Honors Examiner for Greek Philosophers, Swarthmore College, May 1980 Appointment to Advisory Council of the Classics Department, Princeton University, 1982 - 1986 Program Committee, Member, American Philological Association, 1985-88 Appointment to Editorial board of Helios: A Journal Devoted to Critical and Methodological Studies of Classical Culture, Literature, and Society, 1988 - present
Berkshire Conference Program Committee, Eighth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, June, 1990
Appointment to Editorial Board, 1990-1993, Journal of the History of Sexuality, University of Chicago new publication
Invited outside evaluator for Michigan Faculty Fellowships, University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities (theme, Histories of Sexuality), February 1990

REFEREEING: JOURNALS
American Journal of Philology
American Philological Association Monograph Series
Arethusa
California Studies in Classical Antiquity
Classical Antiquity
Classical Journal
Classical Philology
Feminist Studies
Helios
Journal of the History of Sexuality
PMLA
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Transactions of the American Philological Association

REFEREEING: UNIVERSITY PRESSES AND OTHER
American Council of Learned Societies, Fellowship Program (1991, 1993)
Cornell University Press
Harvard University Press
Indiana University Press
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Johns Hopkins University Press
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship Program (1992)
Oxford University Press (U.S.A.)
Princeton University Press
Southern Illinois University Press
University of California Press
Yale University Press

UNIVERSITY SERVICE:
(Sabbaticals Spring 1981, Spring 1984 ,Spring 1988, Spring 1991, Fall 1994)
Committee of Twelve (precursor to FPC), 1979-1980
Faculty Planning Committee 1982-1983
Women's Studies Co-Coordinator, 1984-85
Center for Humanities Advisory Board, 1984-85
Mellon Committee, CFH, 1986
Kent Committee, CFH, 1987
Frosh Advisor, 1985-1986, 1988-89, 1992-1993, 1995-98
Regional Coordinator of Frosh Advisors, 1985-1986, 1988-89
Coordinator of Living/Learning Unit on Women and Reproductive Rights, 1992-93
Honors Committee, 1984-1985
Advisory Committee, 1981-82, 1985-1988
Department Chairperson, 1985-1987
Judaic Studies Advisory Board, 1986-present
Women's Studies Program, Coordinator, 1992-93
Department Chairperson, 1995-present
Merit Award Appeals Committee, 1995-96
Department Chairperson, 1995-98

Department of Classical Studies / Wesleyan University / bmulligan@wesleyan.edu