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(Our Chairman [in Vice] struggles in the coils of bureaucracy)

Thomas E. Rinkevich

Department of Classics and Religious Studies
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
235 Andrews Hall
Lincoln, NE 68588-0337
(402) 472-4482
trinkevich1@unl.edu
natus Grandormi (Grand Rapids, Michigan)MMDCLXXXXIV AUC (1941, approximately)

 

Education:

Employment:

  • University of Nebraska
    • - 1967, Instructor, Classics Department
    • - 1973, Asst Prof
    • - 1996, Asso Prof

Chief Concerns:

  • Greek and Latin languages
    • Greek poetry
    • Latin poetry
  • Egyptian language
  • Ancient Near Eastern Literature

Cources Recently Taught:

Sometime acquaintance with:

  • Computer Languages:
    • SNOBOL/SPITBOL
    • ICON
    • ibyx
    • awk
    • Turbo C
    • BASIC
    • unix

Local membership:

  • Secret Seneca Society (sum Seneca.)
  • Lincoln Area Friends of Traditional Arts (LAFTA)
  • Lincoln Shape-Notes
  • Lincoln Latin (LL)

Professional memberships:

Recent leaves:

  • J. Wellington Wimpy Award (coveted and prestidigitatious) - Spring 1996

Recent publication:

  • A KWIC Concordance to Lucretius' De Rerum Natura
  • Structure of Attic Greek

Other Scholarship

  • Dissertation: Comic Structure in Theocritus 1-7. Ann Arbor. University Microfilms, 1973
  • Review - John Foster. Love Songs of the New Kingdom. Prairie Schooner 49 (1975), 173-175
  • Review - William K. Simpson, ed. Anthology of Ancient Egyptian Literature, Prairie Schooner 49 (1975) 166-169.
  • Paper - The Use of Dialect in Ancient Greek Literature (3rd Annual Conference on Comp. Lit., UMinnesota, 1975)
  • Paper - "Some Similarities Between Theocritean Pastoral and Egyptian Herder-Songs" (4th Annual Conference on Comp. Lit. UMinnesota, 1976)
  • Article - "Theocritus" Fifth Idyll: The Education of Lakon". Arethusa 10 (1977) 295-305
  • Paper - "Theokriots" Seventh Idyll: The Panic Button CAMWS 1977
  • Review - Herman Faenkel. Early Greek Poetry and Philosphy. Prairie Schooner 51 (1978)
  • Paper - "Morbidity, Sepsis, and Trauma in Theokritos 1-7" APA, 1980
  • Abstract - "Morbidity, Sepsis, and Trauma in Theokritos 1-7" Society for Ancient Medicine 8 (1981) 9-10
  • Paper - "Light: Pindar's Special Effect" CAMWS 1982
  • Paper - "Ovid's Metamorphoses as a Pythagorean Animal" CAMWS 1984
  • Review - David Halperin, Before Pastorial. Classical Bulletin 61 (1985) 23
  • Review - Harry Levin, Playboys and Killjoys: An Essay on the Theory and Practice of Comedy. Classical Bulletin 64 (1988) 63-64
  • Column - Define "Sin" in the true sense of the word. UNL Christian Journal 1 No. 2 (1989) (A discussion of the Greek word "hamartia".)
  • Paper - "Hesiod, Publius, and Willa: The Long Road to the New World" (Cather Centennial, UNL 1995, by invitation)
  • Paper - Forbes 2002 CAMWS Austin by invitation

Service:

  • University Honary Degrees Committee, 1975-1978, Chair 1977-1978
  • Summer Orientation Advisory Commitee, 1976
  • Dean's Commission on Undergraduate Advising, 1976
  • Ad Hoc Committe on M.A. in Humanities, 1976
  • African Area Studies, 1977
  • Acting Chair of Classics Department, 1977-1978
  • Religious Area Studies, 1978
  • United Way Departmental Representative, 1978-1990
  • Departmental Search Committee, Chair, 1985
  • United Way Departmental Representative, 1978-1990
  • Departmental Search Committee, Chair, 1985
  • Undergraduate Advisor of Classics, 1985 -
  • Fulbright Hays Advisor, 1985 -
  • Supervisor of Departmental Teaching Assistants, 1985 -
  • Acting Chair of Classics Department, spring 1987
  • University Judicial Appeals Committee, 1988-1990, 1991-1993
  • University Academic Standards Committee, 2005-2008
  • University Marshals Corps, 2008
  • Departmental Committee (Assessment, Barber Prize)

Awards:

  • Recognition for Administrative Service (Acting Chairperson), 1987
  • College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award, 1991
  • Recognition Award for Contributions to Students (UNL Parents Association and Teaching Council), 6 times

Motto:

  • mihi os, itaque fabor

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