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Francesca D鈥橝lessandro Behr
Professor of Classics and Italian Studies

606 Agnes Arnold Hall
Phone: (713) 743-3043
Email: fbehr@central.uh.edu
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Education | Research Interest | Selected Publications | Affiliations and Links

You can find all my qualifications and some of my publications below. It is a great pleasure and honor to teach at the 91视频. I hope you will take one of my courses !!!!

Education

• Ph.D. (2000) State University of New York at Buffalo
  • Faculty of Arts and Letters
  • Department of Classics
    • Dissertation Title: 鈥淎postrophe, Irony and Death in Lucan鈥檚 Bellum Civile.鈥�
    • Dissertation Director: Martha Malamud Special Field: Women鈥檚 Studies
• M.A. (1997)
  • Special field: Greek Literature
  • Advisor: Prof. John Peradotto
  • Cumulative GPA: 3.9
• Undergraduate Studies Universit脿 degli studi di Roma 鈥淟a Sapienza鈥�
• (1988-1991) Faculty of Letters and Philosophy

Research Interest

• Epic, Gender Studies, Reception, Satire, Narratology, Comparative Literature.

Selected Publications

• Article: 鈥淟ucan鈥檚 Cato, Joseph Addison鈥檚 Cato and the Poetics of Passion鈥� in Companion to Lucan, ed. Paolo Asso, Brill 2011.
• Article: 鈥淎rchetypal Encounters: Circe and Odysseus in the Imagination of a Renaissance woman artist,鈥� in ed. H. Frendo, The European Mind: Narrative and Identity (Vol. I & II),  Malta: Malta University Press, 2010.
• Article 鈥淥pen Bodies and Closed Minds? Persius鈥� Saturae in the Light of Bakhtin and Voloshinov,鈥� Oxford readings in Persius and Juvenal in the series Oxford Readings in Classical Studies, edited by Maria Plaza (G枚teborg University 2009)
• Article: 鈥淐onsolation, Lamentation, Philosophy and Gender in Lucan鈥檚 Bellum Civile 8鈥� in The Philosophising Muse: the Influence of Greek Philosophy on Roman Poetry, ed. Myrto Garani (general editors of the series Stratis Kyriakidis and Philip Hardie), Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [forthcoming]
• Book: Feeling History: Lucan, Stoicism and the Aesthetics of Passion, Ohio State University Press, 2007.*

Affiliations and Links

• UH Women鈥檚 Studies
• American Philological Association
• Texas Classical Association