CURRICULUM VITAE

Glenn W. MOST

PERSONAL (Home)

Unterer Fauler Pelz 2
D-69117 Heidelberg (Germany)
tel: 0049 - 6221 - 22571

E-mail: gwmost@web.de

or

via S. Onofrio, 2
I-50124 Firenze (Italy)
tel: 0039 - 055- 2398046
fax: 0039 - 055- 211886

 

PERSONAL (Office)

Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
piazza dei Cavalieri 7
I-56126 Pisa (Italy)
tel: +39-050-509314
fax: +39-050-563513

E-mail g.most@sns.it

or

The University of Chicago
Committee on Social Thought
1130 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637 USA
tel: 001 - 773 - 702- 8496
fax: 001- 773 - 834-1968

E-mail: gmost@midway.uchicago.edu



EDUCATION:

1968-72:

Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass.

1972: B.A. summa cum laude in Classics (Latin)
1972-73: Corpus Christi College, Oxford University
1973-76: Department of Comparative Literature, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
1978: M. Phil.
1980: Ph.D.
thesis: "The Bait of Falsehood: Studies in the Rhetorical Strategy of Poetic Truth in the Romantic Period" (director: Paul de Man)
1976-78 Philologisches Seminar, Universität Tübingen
1980: D. Phil.
thesis: "Pindar's Truth: Unity and Occasionality in the Epinician Ode" (director: Richard Kannicht)

ACADEMIC HONORS:

1968-72:

National Merit Society Scholarship

1970: Detur Prize and J.O. Sargent Prize (Harvard)
1971: Phi Beta Kappa and J.O. Sargent Prize (Harvard)
1972: Latin Prize (Harvard)
1972-73: Knox Fellowship (Harvard)
1973-74: University Fellowship (Yale)
1974-75: Samuel Botwinik Fellowship (Yale)
1975ff.: Kent Fellowship, Danforth Foundation
1976-78: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
1982-83: Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, American Academy in Rome
1984-86: John Witherspoon Bicentennial Preceptorship (Princeton)
1988-89: Fellow (Wissenschaftliches Mitglied), Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
1993: Visiting Fellow, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan
1994-99: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Preis, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

EDITORIAL BOARDS:

1. Philosophia naturalis 26 (1989)
2. Arion N.S. 3.1:3 (1990)
3. Phoenix 45 (1991) - (Corresponding Member)
4. Internationale Zeitschrift für Philosophie 1 (1992)
5. Poetica 25 (1993)
6. md. Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 29 (1992)
7. Nietzsche-Studien 26 (1997)
8. Methodos 1 (2001)


POSITIONS HELD:
Yale University:
Teaching Assistant
  • Summer 1975: "Philosophy of the Creative Ima gination," Prof. E. Casey
  • Spring 1976: "Introduction to Literary Theory," Prof. H. von Stade
Universität Tübingen: wissenschaftlicher Hilfskraft
  • Winter 1977-Summer 1978: Grosses Latinum (Oberstufe)
Yale University:
Visiting Lecturer
  • Fall 1978: College Seminar, "Marxist Literary Theory and Criticism"
Universität Heidelberg:
wissenschaftlicher Angestellter
  • Summer 1979: Sprachübung, Latin I
  • Winter 1979-80: Proseminar, "Catullus" | Lektüre, "Horace, Satires"
  • Summer 1980: Sprachübung, Latin
Princeton University:
Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Classics
  • Fall 1980: Latin 104, "Catullus and his Circle" | Classics/Comp.Lit. 335: "Studies in the Classical Tradition: The European Epic"
  • Spring 1981: Greek 108, "The Mind of Archaic Greece" | Humanistic Studies 202, "The Origins of Modern Western Culture 1350| 1750" (preceptor) | Student|Initiated Seminar, "The Odes of Horace"
  • Fall 1981: Classics/English 322, "English Literature and the Classics"
  • Spring 1982: Classics/Comp.Lit. 334, "Modern Transformations of Classical Themes: The Romantic Lyric" | Classics 514, "Ancient Literary Theory"
  • Fall 1983: Classics/English 322, "English Lite| rature and the Classics"| Classics 514, "Authenticity and the Prometheus Bound"
  • Spring 1984: Classics/Comp. Lit. 335, "Studies in the Classical Tradition: Novel and Romance" | Greek 306, "Greek Rhetoric: Theory and Practice"
  • Fall 1984: Greek 213, "The Tragic Poetry of the Late Fifth Century" Humanities 205, "The Classical Roots of Western Literature" (preceptor) | Science in Human Affairs 291, "The Origins of Modern Science 1500| 1750" (preceptor)
  • Spring 1985: Latin 334, "Vergil's Eclogues and Georgics" | Classics/Comp.Lit. 334, "Modern Transformations of Classical Themes: The Romantic Lyric" Greek 305, "Aristophanes"
Università degli Studi di Siena:
Professore a Contratto
  • 1985|86: "Cicero, De Natura Deorum
University of Michigan:
Visiting Associate Professor of Classics
  • Fall 1986: Greek 101, "Elementary Greek" | Classical Civilization 463, "Greek Drama"
  • Winter 1987: Classical Civilization 303, "Early Sources for English Literature" | Greek/Latin/Comp.Lit. 791, "Ancient Allegorical Interpretation"| Greek 499, "Menander, Dyscolus
Universität Innsbruck:
Ordentlicher Universitäts| Professor für Klassische Philologie und Altertumskunde I
  • Winter 1987/88: Seminar,"Euripides, Hippolytus" | Konversatorium,"Seneca, Phaedra" Konversatorium, "Plato, Protagoras"
  • Summer 1988: Proseminar, "Theocritus" | Konversatorium, "Tibullus" | Lateinische Lektüre, Oberstufe
  • Winter 1988/89: Seminar, "Greek Myths in German Literature from Goethe to Christa Wolf"
  • Winter 1989/90: Seminar, "Aristophanes: Two Comedies: Acharnians, Peace" | Vorlesung, "Ennius, Annales" | Vorlesung, "Callimachus"
  • Summer 1990: Proseminar, "Hellenistic Epigrams" | Vorlesung, "Roman Literary History: Preclassicism" | Konversatorium, "Ovid, Heroides"
  • Winter 1990/91: Seminar, "Sophocles, Philoctetes" | Vorlesung, "Roman Literary History:
    Classicism" | Konversatorium, "Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3"
  • Summer 1991: Seminar, "Appendix Vergiliana" | Lektüre, "Valerius Flaccus" | Problemorientierte Lektüre, "Tragic Choral Odes"
Universität Heidelberg:
C-4 Universitäts - Professor für Gräzistik
  • Winter 1991/92: Vorlesung,"Tragic Choral Odes" | Lektüre,"Aeschylus, Choephori; Sophocles, Electra; Euripides, Electra" | Seminar, "Heliodorus, Aethiopica"
  • Summer 1992: Griechische Stilübung I | Seminar, "Frauen an die Macht: Aristophanes, Lysistrata and Ecclesiazusae"
  • Winter 1992/93: Vorlesung, "Ecphrasis" | Lektüre, "Ecphrasis" | Proseminar, "Aristotle, Poetics"
  • Summer 1993: Lektüre, "Plutarch, How the Young Man Should Read Poets" | Griechischer Klausurenkurs | Seminar, "Hesiod"
  • Summer 1994: Vorlesung, "Friedrich Nietzsche und die Klassische Philologie" | Lateinischer Proseminar, "Propertius"
    Griechische Stilübung III
  • Summer 1995: Seminar, "Euripides, Phoenissae" | Proseminar, "Bacchylides" | Griechische Stilübung III
  • Winter 1995/96: Vorlesung, "Das Tragische" | Proseminar, "Appendix Vergiliana: Culex, Ciris" | Lektüre, "Ilias 19|24"
  • Summer 1996: Lektüre, "Euripides, Orestes"
  • Winter 1996/97: Vorlesung, "Das Tragische, Teil II" | Proseminar, "Platon, Gorgias" | Griechische Stilübung III
  • Summer 1997: Hauptseminar, "Aristophanes, Ranae"
  • Winter 1997/98: Vorlesung, "Medea in der Weltliteratur" | Hauptseminar (with Prof. L. Giuliani), "Mythos in Text und Bild" | Lektüre, "Euripides, Medea"
  • Summer 1998: Hauptseminar, "Seneca, Medea"
  • Winter 1997/98: Hauptseminar (with Prof. D. Borchmeyer), "Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris, Goethe Iphigenia auf Tauris" | Lektüre, "Cicero, Cato Maior de senectute" | Griechische Stilübung III
  • Summer 1999: Hauptseminar, "Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae"
  • Winter 1999: Hauptseminar, "Terence, Adelphoe"
  • Summer 2000: Vorlesung, "Eros bei den Griechen" | Proseminar, "Longos, Daphnis und Chloe" | Lektüre, "Menander, Dyskolos"
  • Winter 2000/01: Hauptseminar, "Sophocles, Oedipus Coloneus"
  • Summer 2001: Hauptseminar, "Plato, Symposium"
University of Michigan:
Visiting Professor, Institute for the Humanities
  • March-April 1993: History 401/Classical Civilization 411/Institute for the Humanities 411/002: Minicourse: "Parody and Utopia in Aristophanes," with Prof. Sarah C. Humphreys
University of Chicago:
Lurcie Visiting Professor, Committee on Social Thought
  • Spring 1996: Seminar, "The Idea of the Tragic"
University of Chicago:
Professor, Committee on Social Thought
  • Spring 1997: Seminar, "Hamlets" | Seminar, "Seneca, Medea and Thyestes" | Seminar (with Prof. Ian Mueller), "Aristotle, Metaphysics Zeta"
  • Spring 1998: Seminar, "Proust, Swann's Way" | Seminar, "History of Classical Scholarship and Introduction to Methods in Classics" | Seminar (with Prof. Ian Mueller), "Aristotle, Metaphysics Zeta"
  • Spring 1999: Seminar, "Proust, Within a Budding Grove" | Seminar (with Prof. Mark Strand), "Shakespeare, Two Comedies: Midsummer Night's Dream and The Winter's Tale" | Seminar (with Prof. Charles Larmore), "Wordsworth, The Prelude"
  • Winter 2000: Seminar, "History of Classical Scholarship and Introduction to Methods in Classics" | Seminar (with Prof. Wendy Doniger), "Medea in World Literature"
  • Spring 2001: Seminar, "Sophocles, Oedipus in Colonus" | Seminar (with Prof. Wendy Doniger), "Ovid, Ars Amatoria, and Vatsyayana, The Kama Sutra" | Seminar (with Prof. Paul Friedrich): "Selections from Horace and Ovid" | Seminar (with Prof. Nathan Tarcov), "Shakespeare, Two Roman Plays: Coriolanus and Julius Caesar"
 

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