Anne Duncan
Assistant Professor

Contact Information:
Department of Classics and Religious Studies
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Office: 937 OldH
Mailing Address:
237 Andrews Hall
Lincoln, NE 68588-0337
(402) 472-6094
aduncan4@unlnotes.unl.edu

Degrees:

  • Ph.D. 2000, Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania
  • M.A. 1997, Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania
  • B.A. 1993, English Literature, Swarthmore College

Positions Held:

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Classics and Religious Studies, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2007-present
  • Junior Fellow, Center of Hellenic Studies, 2006-2007
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Languages & Literatures/Interdisciplinary Humanities Program, Arizona State University, 2001-2006
  • Lecturer, Department of Classics, University of Texas - Austin, 2000-2001

Publications:

  • Roman Spectacle (textbook under contract to Cambridge University Press, in progress)
  • A Theseus Outside Athens: Dionyisus I of Syracuse and Tragic Self-Presentation," part of collected conference proceedings Theatre Outside Athens, ed., Kathyrn Bosher, under contract at Cambridge University Press
  • Nothing to do with Athens? Tragedians at the courts of tyrants," part of collected conference proceedings Why Athens? A Reappraisal of Tragic Politics, ed., David Carter, under contract at Oxford University Press
  • Actor Kings and King-Actors: Staging Absolute Power in Greece and Rome (in progress)
  • Performance and Identity in the Classical World, Cambridge University Press (2006)
  • "Infamous Performers: Female Prostitutes and Actors in Rome" in Prostitutes & Courtesans in the Ancient World, edd. Cristopher A. Faraone and Laura K. McClure. University of Wisconsin Press: Madison, 2006
  • "Gendered Interpretations: Two Fourth-Century Performances of Sophocles' Electra." Helios 32.1 (2005) 55-79
  • "Helen of Troy Reloaded" (with Lisa Rengo George). Diotima 2005 (http://www.stoa.org/diotima/essays/helenReloaded.pdf)
  • "Spellbinding Performance: Poet as Witch in Theocritus' Second Idyll and Apollonius' Argonautica." Helios 28.1 (2001) 43-56
  • Agathon, Essentialism, and Gender Subversion in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae." European Studies Journal 17 & 18 (2000-2001) 25-40 (special double issue: "Performing the Politics of European Comic Drama")
  • "It Takes a Woman to Play a Real Man: Clara as Hero(ine) of Beaumont & Fletcher's Love's Cure." English Literary Renaissance 30.3 (2000) 396-407