Lauren Donovan Ginsberg

Dissertation Fellowship

2012-13 Report

Positions

• Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Cincinnati

Publications 2012

1. “Tragic Rome? Roman Tragedy and Roman Historical Drama” for the Brill Companion to Roman Tragedy (G. Harrison, ed) (under contract — draft submitted in 2012).
2. “Wars More Than Civil: Memories of Pompey and Caesar in the Octavia” (accepted in October 2012 for publication by the American Journal of Philology 134.4, December 2013).
3. Staging Strife: The Art of the Octavia (monograph in progress — manuscript draft to be submitted for consideration in August 2013). This was the major project that was funded through the Memoria Romana Project and is a study of the way literary allusion and cultural memory intersect in a drama on the Julio–Claudians' fall from power.

Papers at Conferences 2012

1. “On the Model of Octavian: Remembering the Triumviral Period in Octavia’s Rome”, Ancient Literary and Visual Representations of the Roman Civil Wars of the 40s and 30s BCE, Margherita di Savoia, Italy.
2. “Great Expectations: Pompey Magnus in Caesar's Civil Wars” CAMWS annual meeting, Baton Rouge, LA.
3. “Remembering the Aeneid in Octavia's Rome” invited lecture at the University of Cincinnati in February 27th 2012
4. &ldquo:Magni resto nominis umbra: Wars More than Civil in the Pseudo-Senecan Octavia” APA annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA.