Curriculum Vitae: Diane Arnson Svarlien

           

Dept. of Modern & Classical Languages

Georgetown College

400 East College Street

Georgetown, Kentucky 40324-1696

(502) 863-7955

 

 

arnsonsvarlien@gmail.com

 

or Diane_ArnsonSvarlien@georgetowncollege.edu

 

interests: Verse Translation; Greek Drama, Lyric, and Epic; Roman Poetry

 

EDUCATION:

 

Ph.D. in Classics, University of Texas at Austin, August 1991. Dissertation topic: “Hieron and the Poets.”

 

M.A. in Greek, University of Texas at Austin, May 1985. Thesis topic: The Homeric Hymn to Apollo.

 

B.A. with High Distinction in English and Classics, University of Virginia, January 1983.

 


CURRENT POSITION:

 

Georgetown College, Visiting Associate Professor, Fall 2001—present; Visiting Assistant Professor, 1994—2001.

 

PUBLICATIONS:

 

Translations:

 

Sappho, “Anaktoria” (Poem 16), forthcoming in R. Hadas, E. Keeley, et al., edd., The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present (Norton, forthcoming 2009).

 

Euripides, Medea, Alcestis, Hippolytus, Hackett Publishing (September 2007).

            http://www.hackettpublishing.com/detail.php?_d=ryaqQKx%2BU70CAOft78JBmCxx9euoCFY88VGqA225Ffk%3D

 

Medea reviewed in Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2008. 06. 18:

 

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2008/2008-06-18.html

 

Productions of Medea at Stella Adler Studio Conservatory, Oct.—Nov. 2008; Mary Baldwin College, April 2009; Radford University, April 2009.

 

Production of Alcestis at Skironio Museum in Greece, Randolph College Centennial Greek Play, June 2009.

 

Catullus 22, Agni 60 (Fall 2004). http://www.bu.edu/agni/

 

“The Moon has Gone Down” (Sappho 168b), Delos 12 (1999) 68.

 

Selections from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, in T. K. Hubbard, ed., Homosexuality in Greece and Rome (University of California Press, 2003). http://www.utexas.edu/courses/cc348hubbard/index.php

 

Tibullus 1.4, 1.8, and 1.9, in T. K. Hubbard, ed., Homosexuality in Greece and Rome (University of California Press, 2003).

 

Catullus 16, in Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World, March 1999. http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/cat16.shtml

 

“Cyclops” (Theocritus, Idyll 11), Arion 5.1 (1997) 161-63.         http://www.bu.edu/arion/Volume5/5.1/arion51.htm

            Republished in Diotima: http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/cyclops.shtml

                       

“Women” (Semonides, Poem 7), verse translation with commentary, Diotima, August 1995. http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/sem_7.shtml

 

Selections from Ovid’s Amores, in D. Rayor and W. Batstone, edd., Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry (Garland Press, 1995) 107-109, 114-133. Republished in Diotima: http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/amores_index.shtml  

 

The Odes of Bacchylides, in Perseus Project 2.0 (Yale University Press, 1994).

            http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0064

 

“Propertius I.10 and I.13,” Exchanges 3 (October 1992) 58-59.

 

The Odes of Pindar, in Perseus Project 1.0 (Yale University Press, 1991). http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0162

 

“Dream” (Propertius II.26A), Arion 1.1 (1990) 184. http://www.bu.edu/arion/Volume1/1.1/arion11.htm

            Republished in Diotima: http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/propertius2.26a.shtml

 

“Pyrrha” (Horace, Odes I.5) Arion 1.1 (1990) 185. http://www.bu.edu/arion/Volume1/1.1/arion11.htm

 

“Propertius IV.7,” Translation 22 (1989) 222-25. 

 

“Propertius III.8,” Poetry Miscellany 21 (1989) 48-49. 

                                                                                                                       

Articles:

“A Translator’s Notebook: The Third Stasimon of Euripides’ Hippolytus,” in E. Vandiver and R. Armstrong, edd., Remusings, in Classical and Modern Literature 27.1 (2007).

 

“Reversal of Imagery and Values in Bacchylides 3 and 5,” in Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica n.s. 50 (1995) 35-45.

 

“Bacchylides,” encyclopedia entry, in Perseus Project 2.0 (Yale University Press, 1994).

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0004&layout=&loc=bacchylides

 

“Callimachus and the Path of Song: oimon for oiton at Lav. Pall. 94,” Hermes 119 (1991) 473-77.

 

 “Epicharmus and Pindar at Hieron’s Court,” Kokalos 36-37 (1990-91) 103-110.

 

 

Book reviews:

Euripides 1-4 (edd. Slavitt and Bovie), Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides (edd. Blondell et al.), Euripides:  Iphigenia Among the Taurians, etc. (trans. J. Morwood), and Euripides: Electra and Other Plays (trans. John Davie), The Classical Outlook 78.2 (Winter 2001) 82-83.

 

Symposium of Plato translated by Tom Griffith, Ploutarchos 7.1 (1990) 29-30.

 

 

PAPERS DELIVERED:

 

“Translating Catullus 85,” seminar at National Junior Classical League convention, Lexington, Kentucky, August 2002; repeated at Kentucky JCL in Louisville, November 2002.

 

“On Translating Poetry,” lecture/reading at University of Kentucky, January 2001.

 

“A Translator’s Notebook: The Third Stasimon of Euripides’ Hippolytos,” at the annual meeting of the American Philological Association, Dallas, Texas, December 1999.

 

“Liminal Scenes and the Prosatyric Alcestis,” at annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April 1993.

 

“Reversal of Imagery and Values in Bacchylides 3 and 5,” at annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS), Austin, Texas, April 1992.

 

“The Historical Background to Pindar’s Pythian 1.50-52,” at annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April 1992.

 

“Propertius’ Leucadian Leap (II. 26A),” at annual meeting of CAMWS, Lexington, Kentucky, April 1989.

 

“Aeschylus’ Lion Cub (Agamemnon 681-781),” at annual meeting of CAMWS, Boulder, Colorado, April 1987.

 

“The Homeric Hymn to Apollo: Composition and Interpretation,” at annual meeting of CAMWS, Tampa, Florida, April 1986.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES And service:

 

Appointed Poetry Editor of Classical Outlook for translations and original Latin and Greek verse, September 2003. http://www.aclclassics.org/pub_classout.html

 

Appointed State Vice President of CAMWS, August 2003. http://www.camws.org

 

Director of Kentucky Institute for International Studies (KIIS) Greece program, 2007; Co-Director of Greece program, 2006; Co-director of Athens and Rome program, 2004-5. http://www.kiis.org

 

Translation Editor of Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World, 1995-2000. http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology

                                   

Participant in summer Oral Latin Conventicula at University of Kentucky, 1996—present. http://www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/aestivumeng.html

 

Compiled online annotated bibliography of Classics-related Children’s Books, 1996—present. http://www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/kidsklassics.html

 

Organizer of foreign film series and overseer of foreign films web site at Georgetown College, 1997—present. http://library.georgetowncollege.edu/foreignfilms.html

 

Appointed to editorial board of Versification, November 1996. http://www.arsversificandi.net/

 

 

AWARDS AND HONORS:

 

National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, 2010

 

Field Scholarship, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Summer 1988

 

Phi Beta Kappa, University of Virginia, 1983